The intent of this blog is to promote human equality, human progress, human peace and justice, and optimism. To accomplish this, to encourage the discussion of ideas after identifying and discovering problems, and then creating positive solutions for "we the people," in order to provide for the "general welfare" and "domestic tranquility" of America now and its "posterity" into the future. To encourage an emphasis on separation of religion and state for all, no matter if this is for those "of faith" in a Maker / Creator (Deists, God-loving people, Christians, various people of spirituality) and atheists or agnostics.
Ti-Ahwaga Community Players production of Cabaret, at the Ti-Ahwaga Performing Arts Center, Owego, NY, was a wonderful experience this past Saturday evening, 3 Feb. 2024, following a wonderful dinner with friends at Ernesto’s in Owego, NY.
Ryan Canavan, as Emcee or Master of Ceremony, did a great job in portraying this elusive character with the wonderful excitement, as it should be.
Same can be said about the British character, Sally Bowles, played by Ilana Rose Wallenstein, Sally Bowles. ”The character of Sally Bowles was based upon Jean Ross, a British cabaret singer with whom Isherwood lived as a room-mate in Weimar-era Berlin.” (Reference: Cabaret: 1972 film (n.d.). Wikipedia. Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_(1972_film).
Andrew Mextorf who played the American from Harrisburg, PA, Clifford Bradshaw, also portrayed this character in a top-notch personification. The character of Bradshaw is modeled after author, Christopher Isherwood’s “semi-autobiographical novel,” Goodbye to Berlin which is the basis of this musical. The novel “recounts [Isherwood’s] time in 1930s pre-Nazi Berlin.” (Reference: 50 years of Cabaret, 2016, Playbill, Website: https://www.playbill.com/article/50-years-of-cabaret-the-surprisingly-transformative-jo). In one sense, I kept thinking of Bradshaw not being Clifford, but Christopher.
In later productions, Joel Grey and Liza Minnelli played the leading roles (“Me no leica,” (2013, Oct. 5), RegenAxe [blog]. Website: https://regenaxe.com/2013/10/05/me-no-leica/).
By the time Adolf Hitler implemented the Enabling Act of 1933 which cemented his dictatorship, Isherwood, Ross, Spender, and others had fled Germany and returned to England.[24][16][17] Many of the Berlin cabaret denizens befriended by Isherwood would later flee abroad[25]: 164–166 or perish in concentration camps.[25]: 150, 297 [26]: 74–81 These factual events served as the genesis for Isherwood's 1937 novella Sally Bowles which was later adapted into the 1955 film I Am a Camera and the 1966 Cabaret musical.[23][27]
In a review of the musical, New York Times reviewer, Walter Kerr, wrote, “me no leica.” (“Me no leica,” (2013, Oct. 5), RegenAxe [blog]. Website: https://regenaxe.com/2013/10/05/me-no-leica/). I do not agree with such detractors who also claimed the book by Isherwood was titled, Goodbye Berlin, not Sally Bowles.
The remainder of this Ti-Awhaga cast was phenomenal. The dance numbers were well choreographed and synchronized very well. The movement in and out of the audience as if we are part of the Kit Kat Club being portrayed in the musical was also quite likable by this audience member. The lighting and stage design also worked well. The orchestra was also very interesting.
The one thing I would say, “me no leica” was the balance between the sound of the singers and the orchestra. The orchestra often overpowered the singers and it was difficult to hear them. It seemed as if there was a slight improvement following intermission, but to this member of the audience, I think the contrast could have been even better.
My final words are “me leica.” And certainly, I recommend others attend so as to learn from history what happens when a dictator was on the rise in Germany, in order to stop such a thing, at all costs, remembering, unlike the Germans that the opposition to the dictator was not bad at all, but slander, libel and lies were used in Nazi Germany, as the eventual German “Propaganda Minister,” Goebbels, used a method of glorifying individualism with hearsay and repeatedly telling lies until they became the truth.
All of this represent a prequel to a Holocaust. This was well represented for those who wish to learn from history and learn how to stop such a thing. Learn it from the Ti-Awhaga Community Players and their production of Cabaret.
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.
Europe is safer than the USA. Regulates guns. Less DUI due to larger public transit system. Has same violent video games as USA
Discusses sexual identity. Has drag shows. Allows younger folk to drink alcohol so as to teach attitudes of consumption. Some areas regulate drugs illicit here. Allow abortions. Allow full frontal nudity, even in advertisements. Are not overwhelmed by brutish prudish puritanical control freaks. Don’t censor history and books by casting aspersions about politics upon people.
In the midst of this, it is safer in Europe than in America.
Don’t hate me for saying this, but learn from what I say and change creepy puritanical attitudes in America. I salute the red, white, and blue. I do a really sensational rendition of the National anthem, America the Beautiful, and My Country Tis of Thee. My ancestors believed in giving their wealth to America and being wealthy, to pay taxes.
We are the true Patriots of America, not the loud mouths of MAGA and others who spew hatred and censorship on anyone who disagrees with the puritanical way.
My commentary to the Editors of the Press & Sun-Bulletin:
After 40 years away from Northern Tioga County and the Southern Tier (of NY), I am noting how much this area suffers from defunding of police forces here. I recall when there was village police in Newark Valley and a NY State Troopers barracks in Berkshire. No more for either of them. Where is the closest troopers barracks to Northern Tioga County? I don’t even know. Oh, that’s right, don’t find out from the newspaper, just do a dumb thing called “Google it.” Or use your thumb on Facebook. As a member of my own “Citizens Watch,” I wish to make a complaint about how Facebook and social media, Google, and condensing of local investigative reporting and information in news PRINT has destroyed America. With such ideas for “Citizens Watch,” I can also provide evidence which supports what I say.
But without proper policing of the roads here, people go all kinds of speeds and tailgate. They think they can use the shoulder of the roads for speeding (as I have observed) so much that four pedestrians in Northern Tioga have died, just over the past year or so.
Tailgating on NY State Route 38-B is the worst. Going up and down hills and with signs about deer crossings, it is a very dangerous thing for those who want to BREAK THE LAW and speed to do just what they want to do. The only winter accidents I have seen with cars in the ditch were on Route 38-B. They go so damn fast, they sometimes pass on the shoulder of the road. They think, going up a hill, “slower vehicles i right lane” means all those going the speed limit, move aside so the jerks speeding at speed probably approaching 70 MPH or so can plow through – and kill someone. Yes, and one pedestrian has been killed on route 38-B.
Then, in one area of 38-B in Broome County, there is a hill where they put dotted lines going down the hill. WHAT? So someone who wants to break going down the hill, to maintain the speed limit, has to put up with jerks who pass going down the hill. Maintain the speed limit and these jerks are allowed to pass going down the hill at 70 MPH. Who the hell in the DOT put that damn dotted line there? So, if we simply let it go down the hill and gain a fast momentum, it makes the illegal driver keep having to speed up to pass. Makes so much sense.
Then there is the thought that we should get on the shoulder should there be a tail-gating ass behind us. No. There are so many of them, I would have to travel on the shoulder of the road and give in to so many jerks who are doing this. I refuse to give in and drive on the shoulder, so someone can speed. Thus, the idea of “Citizens Watch.”
There is more. Who in Broome County came up with the idea of 30 MPH in an area heading down to Oakdale Road (on a hill) where the population is less dense than where I live on a 55 MPH state route south of Newark Valley? The area where I live is almost as densely populated as a long stretch of NY State 79 heading west into Ithaca where the speed limits are 40 to 45 MPH. But drivers in front of my home are going such a fast clip that when we pull out of our driveway, we don’t see a vehicle around the bend down the road from us and those jerks are going so fast, they come upon us and then tailgate when we are going the speed limit.
So, “Citizens Watch” and I am likely to be hated. You know what. I don’t give a damn. Because I speak for community, not self and “me, me, me.” I speak for being humane to one another and considering the CONSEQUENCES of behavior. Now there is something which seems weird to many. CONSEQUENCES? As a college professor at the Associates degree level, we often gave students some action and asked them to do library, DATABASES, and INTERNET research (not just the stupid Google alone) to determine cause, effect, consequences. Seems many people ;in the younger generations here have missed to boat in something Thomas J. Watson called, THINK – and THINK about the cause, effect, and consequences. If you teach the kids this, they WILL learn it.
I have more solutions to this problem than just Citizens Watch. But no one wants to hear them, do they? After all, “don’t talk to me about politics.” OH? Politics? Solutions? Politics is MEANT to DISCUSS, not ARGUE solutions and figure out cause, effect, and consequences.
Besides Citizens Watch:
1. Bring back more police protection on the roads. If oncoming traffic thinks it is so BRIGHT to flash lights as a warning to the speeders, then use helicopters AND SPEND THE MONEY ON THEM because it is far more justified than the stupid 60-year war on drugs which has yielded nothing (and rehab costs the government far less than a war on drugs, especially when considering marijuana is non-addictive! THINK about that before you shoot holes in what I say).
2. Bring back more public summer school for students to learn some of the non-academic things in life. Not only swimming and recreation, but also STUDENT DRIVER EDUCATION & SAFETY CLASSES. I recall such classes. I recall seeing the consequences of bad actions on the videos shown in the classes. Really might make our stomach turn, but boy did it teach something about consequences – such as the truck drive who was not able to maneuver a road, ended up in an accident in which the big huge pipes in his load, came crashing into the cab of the truck and squashed the man against the steering wheel. A very gruesome sight to see, but sure did teach something. And maybe while we are at it, teach hunting safety with guns and bows and arrows. We get the vehicular license for automobiles which recently killed four pedestrians here, how about teaching safety about guns and rifles? Teaching that they could be used to hunt, but not on people. It costs, right? Well how much has the money for public schools, like police, been cut in this nation? It is about time for us to take from the military-industrial complex and give to our kids, for the sake of future communities.
3. Officials in government use a little common sense regarding the roads and speed limits. Why is there 30 MPH in such a low density population, but in a higher density population, people can go 70 MPH and never get caught BREAKING THE LAW? Why is there no signal light and only a flashing light at the corner of NY-26 and NY-38B? Why is it the same at the corner of NY-38 and NY-79? STUPIDITY and no one does anything about it. Then there is the corner of NY-38 and NY-38B – NO LIGHT AT ALL. Two times, I have come close to getting struck there by those running the STOP sign. TWO TIMES – not only are people going to damn fast and have never learned the consequences of their actions, but no one seems to realize, as we learned in STUDENT DRIVER EDUCATION, that one comes to a COMPLETE STOP at a stop sign and TAKES THE TIME TO LOOK CAREFULLY IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. With all the stupidity out there, all the more reason to put a signal light at NY-38 and NY-38B.
Perhaps this all explains why there is so much pessimism here in the valley of Northern Tioga County? And with the downgrading of business in this valley, we are FORCED to drive over that NY-38B hill and face the damn tailgaters, because so little can be found here in this area anymore, unlike more than 40 years ago. And who is doing something about this for Northern Tioga County? The Central Southern Tier Foundation? Who? Who is helping to develop this area so it can become more self-sufficient and people don’t have to climb that hill into the next county? Had Amazon built a warehouse on the site of the old factory here in this village, would it have helped? Maybe some. But alas, Amazon chose elsewhere.
I am not a ranter. I am not a bloviator. I am a responsible member of the community who believes in humanity and coming together as community and concerned citizens. We need citizen concern about the things I discuss (plus more). So hate me as a ranter and a bloviator. Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. Gee! So many are acting like Scarlett O’Hara!
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.
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.
Tucker Carlson should resign and/or be fired from Fox because he is nothing but a LGBTQ bigot hiding his bigotry behind a smoke screen. Usually people like that are repressed gay and need to have their heads examined for being sicko. Expose people like Lindsay Graham, too, for who he really is. Wake up America and speak out against such nasty vicious people like Tucker Carlson. Wake up America and speak out for ALL human beings, not just for the fascist bigots who use corporate PACs to work to control this nation, as Hitler and the Nazis did in Germany. Wake up America and stop being frightened by these lousy sickos like Tucker Carlson. 🙂
While your assessment of a movement by rural folks to the right wing is a good assessment, I have to ask what people are going to do to stop this?Just sit by and let it fly?
People in Tioga County have been controlled by the Republican Party. They complain and try to put the blame on Democrats. Why?
One person thought he was being really smooth by calling Democrats “dumocrats.”
Yet, if one asks people why the blame on Democrats, there is no real reason and one finds out people are finding a strong and pervasive groupthink. A groupthink which needs to be stopped.
When pessimism strikes about this area being impoverished, I have to ask why? After all, the responsibility lies with the local Republican Party and only fools would reach out to blame others in Albany. Let me tell you about the complaints many of us had in a Democrat-majority county in Florida about the Republicans in Tallahassee which have controlled that state with one party, like a communist state, for 20 years or more. Was that all this Republican-turned-Democrat did but to only do the blame game on the Repugnicans in Tallahassee? No. We came together at the local level to do what was needed to be done to solve our problems.
Ask someone why they don’t like Nancy Pelosi and they usually don’t have an answer because they are like a bunch of lemmings being led off a cliff.
To continue to vote for Republicans and not be able to differentiate right from wrong is horrific. Slander by Molinaro as he tried to use scare tactics to get people to vote against Josh Riley or else be so scared they don’t go in and vote at all. I observed that same thing happening in Florida, over and over and over again.
When people complain and then go and vote Republican, they are mentally ill. For they don’t get it. They don’t realize that to do the same thing over and over and over again, expecting different results, is a mental illness.
For me, I judge the candidates according to telling the truth and not just slandering opponents. I see this more in the Democratic Party. In fact, Josh Riley’s commercials merely told of his accomplishments. Molinaro refused to debate issues with Riley and put commercials forth with slandering of Riley. But when I see what is being put forth by a lousy leadership in the Republican Party, I cringe and look for something better. That ain’t the Republican Party with fools who are mentally ill voting for the same thing over and over again.
I was once a Republican. My family line was Republican, back to the years following the Civil War. But in Florida, I had the rug pulled out from beneath me, several times, by greedy, snotty, vicious Republicans. Note I call them Repugnicans. It was the Democrats who helped give me opportunities to move on. So when people stupidly put down Pelosi or call Democrats, “dumocrats,” I am insulted. Why? Because I have an appreciation for those who helped provide opportunities, not handouts, for me. In the cases when the rug was pulled out from beneath me, I often thought about how, when times are tough, the tough get going.
I see too many people in rural America who have no idea as to how to meet the challenges when the rugs get pulled out from beneath them. They don’t know how to be tough and get going in order to solve our problems by considering the best proven practices. And being tough does not mean a proclamation of being “god” and using a gun or violence. They just sit with a mindset for “that was how we always have done it.”
That mindset does not work, so get tough and find something else. Being reactionaries means just let the chips fall where they may, rather than being proactive for the future.
Examples of local people who were more proactive are two very fine gentlemen: George F. Johnson and Thomas J. Watson. These two plus many others, too.
A white racist bigot said to me, in opposition to what I write to light fires to get people moving to move forward, said to me: “get a grip.” I have a “grip.” That “grip” is on standing firm in my humanity convictions (i.e., human justice, human equality, human communities, etc.) and finding the best practices, not ideology, to solve our problems.
My writing is more important than a letter to the editor and restricted to a certain length. My writing falls in the op-ed or commentary “My Turn” category. My writings have been curtailed since Trump took over the Republican – no REPUGNICAN – Party. An example of fascism in America for which voters should be turning away from such turmoil and differentiate right from wrong.
I think people should be concerned enough to do something. It comes from hidden snipers online who are smart enough to re-set settings and change programming codes in my Microsoft 365 software.
The latest in Microsoft? One time rows of a worksheet can be sorted. Another time, the SAME PROCESS cannot be done and the “sort” capability grayed out. Why?
Apparently, Americans do not give a damn about their fellow human beings. After spreading the word about how there were other “networks” on my line and I could see them, rather than help me solve the problem, the number of outside and “hidden” networks increased. So, to be like Watergate burglars and push further, hoping I would not stand up for my humanistic convictions as to how we respect one another, walk in integrity, and have dignity for one another, it is humorous to just push more. Same with Democratic Party campaign signs being stolen by Repugnicans. Complain and they turn it up a notch, while everyone sits by, saying, “too bad, too bad” and SHUT UP.
Frederick Douglass did not shut up. Harriet Tubman did not shut up. Abraham Lincoln did not shut up. My 5tth cousin five times removed, Ezra Cornell, did not shut up. Teddy Roosevelt did not shut up, even to condemn his father TR, Sr., for not serving in the civil war. FDR did not shut up. MLK, Jr., did not shut up. JFK and RFK did not shut up. John Lewis did not shut up. Alcee Hastings did not shut up. Thurgood Marshall did not shut up. Nancy Pelosi did not shut up. Etc., etc., etc.
All of these examples are of people who stuck to their their humanistic convictions about human justice, human equality, and respect for fellow human beings. Many such people stuck to their convictions against supply-side economics, whether white supremacist fat pig slave owners in Dixie or fat pig sweat shop owners in the North or fat pig robber barons such as those which exist today who refuse to pay their fair share of taxes and work to destroy things which are good for the common folk.
The ones today consist of the fat pigs in big pharma, fat pigs of big oil, fat pigs of big health insurance companies, the fat pigs of lawyers who block the establishment of healthcare for all while they line their pockets by proclaiming their opposition to big fat pig insurance, the fat pigs of local news and information newspapers who deliberately line their pockets by reducing local content and laying off good librarians and investigative reporters, fat pigs of technology, energy, hospitals and clinics with their organizations formed from M&A into centralized organizations which destroy small business and public entities which created a greater sense of taking America for the greatness it had, not the greatness of vicious and bullying white supremacists and bigoted pigs… More….
This all produces centralized supply-side economics on the model of communist Cuba and communist China and communist North Korea. It’s also on the model of the former Soviet Union which still exists today, with Putin.
In this process of elimination of the market demand-side consumers, these fat pigs DEMAND of the consumers and tell consumers what makes them happy. While stupid consumers on the market DEMAND-side swallow this drivel and vote for fascist vicious Repugnicans who don’t know how to address the issues and smear their opponents with slander and lies, so they can get to Congress and be on the take of the big fat pigs of big pharma, big oil, big health conglomerates, etc.
Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper is still printed and available in stores, while the good newspapers like local ones and the New York Times (etc.) are NOT available to inform the common folk who take an interest in life. Meanwhile, Murdoch has been quoted as having a desire to “destroy local news and information” by destroying local ownership of local media.
This all has to stop by people not just talking about “moral convictions.” That is too ambiguous. Talk about standing firm for convictions tailored to human equality, human justice, human dignity, human respect, and human integrity for walking with one another in the human race. Talk about providing opportunities for fellow human beings, not just handouts. We the people, not we the big fat pigs of big corporations as represented by Alito and the bastards of the SCOTUS who FORCED Citizens United down our throats like big fat dictators telling us what it takes to be happy.
To challenge me in what I am saying here, i get crap of “get a life” or “get a grip” upon me, as if I am not happy with the blessings I have. People put these wonderful quotes on Facebook. The quotes are beautiful. But do they get to those who need an attitude adjustment among the common folk? If they did, we would have seen different results in this past election with people intelligent enough to differentiate right from wrong when Repugnicans smear the images of good people and are not able to address the issues because they fear being revealed for their hidden agenda from pocketing money from the big fat pigs of supply-side economics and their monopolizing corporations which destroy local business, healthcare for all, public education for all. We the people. How many times do I have to say this? Not for the least common denominator of “we the people.” We the people means to address ALL people the best that can be done. Small businesses, not monopolized big centrally controlled corporations, as has been proven, has been the best way for America to achieve this.
Even former General and President Ike Eisenhower warned us not to let the military-industrial complex develop. We did anyway as we allowed centralized big corporations of all kinds to develop. Likely, this was more than Ike could probably have imagined.
Hillary says “it takes a village.” That is correct. This notion challenges the notions that about how it only takes white supremacists, big fat pigs and others to make a nation great. And the big fat pigs don’t like Hillary for saying that. Well may they be damned and go to h-e-double-hockey-sticks with their stupidity backed up by those with puritanical mindsets based on traditionalism only.
Or, perhaps we need to take baseball bats to the knees of such lousy people (he says in a facetious manner).
You know the ones who get all wrapped up in proclaiming that rules necessary to wipe out prurient interests while we have big fat pigs, lords over media, handing weapons, violence, blood, guts, and gore into our eyes within the media, more frequently than nudity, sex, or other “prurient” interests. And when nudity is portrayed, we see fig leaves in the form of blurred images, in programs like Naked and Afraid, while we are SUBJECTED TO and have it THRUST IN OUR FACES very violent scenes with people getting knifed or gunned down, whether real or fictional programs.
With all of this, let me return to my original comments about what is on my mind. Changes to settings and programmed apps by vicious, terrible people hidden by wired and wireless communications. That is what this message is about. So go get a grip and make things worse, rather than work to improve all of what I outline here. I get a grip. My grip is on sticking to my humanist convictions of “we the people” as being more important than what is imposed on us by big fat pigs who have slaves of punishment serving them, whether hidden online or removing political signs out of fear that Democrats might be elected, not to address issues which are of concern to we the people and human beings overall. And such dolts who do what I describe here and never being able to take notice of how to differentiate between right and wrong when it comes to a civilized human society with an inclination towards survival of the fittest of the entire human race in our dominion over non-humans such as animals, insects, etc. We are all human beings, so let’s work to help one another and not take an interest in crap like rules of puritanical and prudish ways. Rules about how humans can get along with one another and coexist – these are the reasons for what I describe.
My commentary, not op-ed, to PBS Washington Week producers.
I am trying to understand why there seems to be such a strong “undercurrent” within the people whom I communicate. After watching PBS Washington Week and considering the money I see donated to PBS and NPR by big oil tycoons, the Koch brothers, I am now beginning to understand.
The PBS programs appear to be in the gutter, avoiding good investigative journalism and relying on analysis of political ideas and the ideas of those who don’t support the fascist, John Birch, KKK agenda in America today. You don’t discuss this fascist agenda, perhaps because money comes to PBS from fascists like the Koch brothers and big oil?
Gasoline prices. They are actually lower, figuring for inflation over a long period of time, and in comparison to the inflation aspect of consumer earnings. I have the evidence. It was published in NEWSPAPERS but not in the broadcast media. Comparisons in terns of inflation, from the early 1950s to the oil embargo of the 1970s, to today. I READ NEWSPAPERS and PRINT COPY of periodicals. I could do without the junk mail in print copy, but we are FORCED by big fat pigs of corporations to accept the lack of printed NEWS and INFORMATION.
Inflation. Really no worse than it has been many times in history. But keep limiting information to being the worst. I have seen worst. Give us a long term HISTORICAL evidence this is the worst. Do a comparison to what the inflation was like under various political party leaderships over the past. Nixon and his proposals for “price controls.” Don’t just tell us how a FEW voters think about this. That is disgusting.
Dealing with inflation. There is newspaper info. with ideas about how to deal with inflation. But of course the technology industry, propped up by big oil and the fascists, is pushing a liberal agenda to stop reading newspapers. Yes. I said liberal.
And then the liberal agenda pushes the envelope in trying to maintain that, somehow, reading newspapers in digital form is going to save trees. Really? What saves trees is to stop ripping down the rain forests for development and not replacing those trees, such as what has happened in a South American nation now run by a vicious fascist. PLUS. The consideration that the more technology, computers, and mobile phones there are, the more electricity is consumed which brings pressure on the electricity infrastructure and its grid to produce more.
Does anyone actually believe the fascist agenda with Trump, Rick the Prick Scott, DeSatan, and others is truly going to change the scenario I identify above?
Rick the Prick inherited from Democrats a really lousy setup of PUP insurance for hurricane coverage in Florida. Did Rick the Prick make a change? Nah! He never made any change in this. What DID Rick the Prick do instead? Fought Obamacare because it goes against the egotistical narcissistic ways of Rick the Prick who made money from PRIVATIZATION of hospitals, where he plead the 5th numerous times when he was charged with stealing from Medicare. |
When Florida voters approved of a fast-speed rail system so as to save money over the long term and cut down on carbon emissions, why did Rick the Prick override the voters? Because he had his marching orders from the Koch brothers and others who insisted they wanted to continue to sell oil and to hell with other means of getting around it.
Those of us consumers and voters were screwed by Rick the Prick when he did this. Some of us invest in corporations which wish to do BOTH oil and alternative fuels. The Koch brothers ONLY want oil. So, in the name of the Koch brothers, Rick the Prick took his marching orders from vicious egotistical bastards who just MIGHT be giving support to PBS. And we the consumers who invested in real residential real estate along the route of that rail system were screwed as well.
Developers along that proposed rail route were screwed as well, while corrupt developers in Palm Beach, with house flippers, made out well with their corrupt practices while working with the banks. Who does real estate in Palm Beach County? Care to guess? The guy at Mar-a-Lago.
And the answer to this is, by the ideas of the fascists, to use coal and pollute more. Electricity in a Florida utility, I am told, is now concentrated with coal and gas while a less-polluting nuclear plant has been shut down. Not to endorse the ideas of nuclear, but there has been R&D work to improve the safety of producing nuclear. Where? in Europe, where the build rail systems.
The undertow of groupthink talk here is to put down electric vehicles, as if they are going to do bad things to the electric grid. What about the bad things being done to the grid when people are buried more in technology and not paying attention to their fellow human beings?
What is being described here is being done in the midst of this consumer groupthink undertow of information to push the idea that the local newspaper stop printing on paper. The anti-electric vehicle (anti-solar, anti-wind power, anti-hydro power) and pro-non-printing on paper is inconsistent in claiming, “the environment will be better.” According to this talk, solar is awful. Wind power is awful. But keep putting those newspapers out in digital form where consumers have to fight with the technology and pay higher costs just to get their newspapers and INFORMATION.
But no. The cost aspect is thrown at me by those who wish to defend what THEY want and never consider an overall COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS over the long term.
Liberals are just as bad in pushing the envelope too far. There are alternative biomass fuels which can LOWER carbon emissions in vehicles. But no That lack of PERFECTION and they reject those and dig in their heals ONLY for solar or wind power, etc. Methanol. Still has carbon emissions. But compare such fuels to gasoline emissions? Is it better? I believe it is. But only a theory on my part. We need the evidence from the media doing its job, not simply giving us analytical views of politics.
In a PURPLE America where we got along, the production of methanol fuels could be bolstered by people working with Iowa farmers, not the coal producers. Or by orange growers in Florida with “co-electric projects.” Corn and other agricultural products can be grown in the back yards of the Keystone project people in Pennsylvania. For the production of fuels with LOWER carbon emissions. Not zero carbon emissions, perhaps. LOWER carbon emissions than what we get with gasoline. Hybrid vehicles as a choice for consumers as we ease into electric vehicles. But no. Liberals are opposed to this just as much as the big fat pig fascist oligarchs of oil are opposed to electric vehicles, solar, wind, and other energy sources. Such fascists get supposedly good-thinking “red” Americans to stupidly line up behind them.
Even if someone like me did not care for George W. Bush, he pushed the idea of reduced carbon emission vehicles. I liked that. In one of his state of the union addresses, he pushed for the use of switch gas for biomass fuels. Why? Because, as he proposed this, he outlined how the fermentation process can be reduced. So where are the switch grass farms today, some 20 years later? We have the agricultural lands, but where are these farms and the corn farms today, for these purposes? Stifled by liberals who insist “we don’t have a perfect fuel, so let’s not do this because we wish to concentrate on ONLY the perfect energy sources with NO emissions.” Stupidity here , too, among the liberal groupthink. HOWEVER.
Where is the money today? In the hands of the liberals who are yelling and screaming their dissent? Or in the hands of the wealthiest at the top who insist there IS no climate change, so let us continue to use oil. For the future of our children and generations into the future, we need to stop this BS approach and work together. We need those of us who have invested in a more moderate approach to get us through these years and into the future. A STRATEGIC PLAN is missing because there is too much tugging of one way or the other just to see who comes out the winner. The WINNER needs to be our entire community of people in the great USA, into the future. What is the STRATEGIC PLAN to accomplish this goal? With the fighting and the turmoil, I have a problem detecting it.
It’s a PURPLE STRATEGIC PLAN, not a RED PLAN (fascists) or BLUE PLAN (liberals) which will determine our way forward, based on what we can learn from the past, not RE-LIVE the past, as the stupidity of MAGA, QAnon, and others propose.
The reason the Koch brothers and other big fat pigs in the oligarchs push for Trump, Rick the Prick Scott, and DeSatan is really simple to see. So why is the media not projecting this? Is PBS getting support from the Koch brothers, so ignores this simple thing?
Governor Lawton Chiles, of Florida (and a person people hoped would be president in 2000), filed a lawsuit which brought down big tobacco in the USA. He filed this lawsuit with several other states, due to the cost the states had to endure in helping their citizens with lung cancer due to smoking tobacco. The costs were staggering, according to a report by journalist and lung cancer suffering Peter Jennings. Chiles won the lawsuit.
The vicious fat pigs of North Carolina relented by taking over the electric utility where Chiles had served on the board of directors. With thousands of other Florida employees, I lost my job due to the strategic plans of those fat pigs. A plan implemented slowly and over time and gives us much of what we have today
I am just supposed to shut up about this, due to the benefits I had following the layoff. But I won’t. Because much of what the fat pigs like Jeb Bush, Rick the Prick and DeSatan did in the interim between layoff and retirement was to screw me even more. I speak of this, in site of the wonderful career I had. I could have had more in retirement. That is a statement made because their are stupid asses who vote for the fascist Republicans who wish to bring down the Medicare and Social Security systems for which I rely on after Rick the Prick Scott and others destroyed some of my retirement investments in Florida, among other things.
These oligarchic fools don’t have the right to do that just because they have money and they need to be called on it. Where is the media to do this laying these people on the carpet? By the first words in the Constitution, WE THE PEOPLE, these fools don’t have a right to do this. Just by those simple words alone. They believe that what is good for the oligarchs is good for the nation. BS on that.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Power which takes into consideration more than a minority of people called white people is a corrupt power and tries to move towards the “absolute power which corrupts absolutely.” Koch brothers, John Birch, KKK are all corrupt and their absolute power corrupts we the people absolutely.
I have heard by hearsay from a person married to a white apartheid-loving anti-Mandela person from South Africa, that the tobacco companies have moved operations to South Africa. So, that makes that lawsuit by Lawton Chiles so bad that they had to murder Lawton Chiles and make it look like something else? Rather than build better “American mousetraps” (as has been a good example of America), we embolden white supremacists out of their closet of hiding their racism and cry foul when things are not as foul as these people make things to appear?
The only speculation I can make is that we have a lousy media today taking their cue from the money of the Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch, and other oligarchic robber barons of the 21st Century. A media which does not follow what Peter Jennings did with his reports about big tobacco and the lawsuits which benefited society overall (according to the Peter Jennings reports). A media which will identify and bring out of the closet the vicious fascists today, rather than just reporting everything as if we as normal today as the era of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, etc.
What does the media propose to do? What analysis based on strategic plans for the sake of WE THE PEOPLE does the media intend to present? Anything? Because I don’t see it and have to wonder why? I say, WHY NOT?
Tioga Herald 
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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