Wow!
Stevie Wonder on The Tonight Show with Jimmie Fallon!
Music in the Key of Life – the greatest! “Sir Duke.” Cool!
A man of few words says, “thank you, Stevie Wonder!”
Mister Doug
ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW
September 20, 2014
THE MISTER DOUG REPORT
September 19, 2014
Paranoia?
Were those who investigated Rick Scott’s improprieties which led to a pleading of the fifth “paranoid?” If so, perhaps someone should read the book by the late central NY psychiatrist, Thomas Szaz, The Manufacture of Madness.
Look. Here is the situation. I donate several small monthly amounts to various campaigns. It just happens the credit card I use for these automatic withdrawals was breached when someone apparently made a duplicate copy and went on a spending spree in what I believe to be Rick Scott’s home county. How did someone obtain my credit card number and then was able to duplicate the card? Was it hacking on my computer? I lack evidence for anything, except for one thing. The perps went on a spending spree in Lee County, spending almost $2000 before being stopped.
This act alone has disrupted what little bit of money I am able to give each month to Democrats. Is this just coincidence? I don’t think so. But then, call me paranoid because I lack any evidence while I run my mouth. What does one think the right wing is doing? Have evidence which backs them up when they use advertisements to lie, deceive, libel, provide half-baked truths, and innuendo?
Furthermore, my sources tell me that Rick Scott has yet to appoint an African-American to any of the educational boards of trustees in Florida. Is this true? Rick Scott, the coward from Lee County who bullies those who have much less power and money than he does, but gladly works with those who are wealthy. Subtle bullying in which he and others can live in denial is still the same thing – bullying by cowards.
The arena of “sweat and blood,” which Teddy Roosevelt describes, is one in which a wealthy man challenges big pigs like JP Morgan. You know. The guy whose name is affixed to Chase Bank, the ones who hold my mortgage and other accounts. Another account which was attacked by thieves within two weeks of the event described above.
So, with lack of evidence, I am paranoid. OK. So be it. Amen. Bullies and cowards like Rick Scott and the Koch brothers make accusations such as that.
While on this subject, let’s perhaps speculate why Charlie departed from the Republicans – something which should be of interest to both DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICANS alike. Perhaps it was because there are several occasions when Charlie got into that arena described by TR and fought those who were on his same level. Those people are in the Republican Party and perhaps did not like this. But then, my wisdom is just an abstract term, is it not?
Fact is, TR fought the “bosses” and wealthy “captains of industry” who had just as much money as he did. He got on the wrong side of the Republican pigs who led the party. Unfortunately, TR began to avoid the “arena” and made “friends” with those he fought. He caved in. So when his 5th cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat who picked up on the programs TR had originally proposed, TR’s Republican children turned against FDR. Turns out, it appears it was Eleanor who had the “balls” in the family. Thank you Eleanor – TR’s niece.
Had TR still been alive during this period, would he, too, have turned on FDR? I doubt it, but cannot say for certain, only answer the question, “what if?” Nevertheless, cowards always stick together, like two feathers on a bird and that is what the TR clan of Oyster Bay, Long Island, did.
Mister Doug
THE MISTER DOUG REPORT
September 18, 2014
Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt was a hero of mine. The same with his fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I am enjoying the PBS special about the Roosevelts, learning much more than I could have imagined about this family for which I have had admiration for many years.
I am learning some not-so-good stuff about TR, but that does not change my mind. It turns some of my admiration into heroic “fantasies.” The one thing, however, which still remains about TR is related to labor. TR was a wealthy man who fought with those in his own social class and defended the common man. This, too was brought out in this brilliant video series – another one by Ken Burns (being broadcast on PBS this week; it began on Sunday, Sept. 14).
I am also reminded why TR said the following: “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood…” Because TR took on the captains of industry and party bosses – those with comparable wealth to him – he can truly say he was in the “arena” with “dust and sweat and blood.” He had a hard fight with those in his own social class and they did not like TR very much. So what?
Take Rick Scott today. He might CLAIM he is in that “arena.” But who does he fight in that “arena?” Rick Scott fights the common man and woman for whom TR defended. Rick Scott fights with people with much less power and money because he is afraid to face the real power in the “arena.” I call that a coward and a bully who picks on those who do not have as much as he does.
Plantation owners in the South were the same way. Those who descended from plantation owners likely did not appreciate TR, either. But these descendants just adore Rick Scott because he can be the same type of bully.
If Rick Scott had any balls, he would recognize the situation for many of us. We chose teaching, not for the money, but for the satisfaction of helping, not bullying, human beings. We spent plenty of money on college and this was good for us. Many of us took out huge student loans and faithfully paid them back, as we listened to apparent would-be tea party people like Rick Scott as they trashed the government. These budding tea party people trashed the very government which provided them with the loans. These tea bags were determined to DELIBERATELY not pay back the loans. This helps to explain why so many tea baggers have so much money because, unlike conscientious people like me who paid every cent back while raising families, these guys had an opportunity to gain wealth. When I weigh this against prospects of Rick Scott and Republican tea baggers destroying my pension, it irritates me.
No pensions should be removed. “Trends” are not reasons for implementing actions. Good solutions which work for society are the reasons to take actions. Ideology is not a reason to take action. Self-indulgence and self-interests are also not reasons – as pointed out by TR. Rick Scott, filthy rick CEOs and the tea baggers use “trends, ideology, and self-interest” as reasons for destruction of pensions in America. These self-indulgent heathens claim lack of money and people buy into the lie. In fact, the real reason for scrapping pension plans is to, once again, give money to greedy folks – the CEOs (with their bonuses). Are many of these wealthy self-indulgent greedy selfish dolts the same ones who deliberately DID NOT pay back their student loans, thus causing great expense to taxpayers?
As Vanguard (creator of 401(K) plans) said, 401(K) plans are meant to supplement pension plans, not replace them. But have people such as Rick Scott heeded the warnings? These people are money-loving self-indulgent bullies and cowards to be decent human beings and actually care about our society.
As for public pension plans, people might not know that those of us enrolled in such plans, which are coming under attack by Rick Scott and the Republicans, have been investing in supplemental 403(B) plans. Unlike the 401(K) plans (which I was enrolled as a corporate man), the 403(B) plans do not provide matching funds from the employer. The “matching funds” are in the pension plan, which is not the same situation as the “business model” being crammed and shoved down the throats of educators today.
Rick Scott could care less as he bullies us. What a coward.
Mister Doug
THE MISTER DOUG REPORT
September 17, 2014
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, culture used the word, “I dig such and such.” There was a song, “I dig rock ‘n roll music…” In the spring of 1970, I ran for a position as an officer in the high school student council. My best friend was the campaign manager and chose the slogan, “I DIG DOUG.” He made campaign buttons, flyers, and posters with that slogan. The election was between four people. The guy who won advertised as a “radical” – openly and with no reservations at all.
Recently, I began reading a book by Charlie Crist entitled, The Party’s Over. If anyone ever wonders whether they had a “twin” somewhere else on this earth, as I had often wondered. I have now been wondering about the parallels between Charlie and I, in two different areas of the USA, but at almost the same time. Is this an indicator of figurative “twins?”
One parallel involved our 1970s student council races in our respective schools. In St. Petersburg, FL, Charlie won. I lost in an upstate New York high school.
“I DIG DOUG” was a statement of respect, but ended with the conclusion of a political race. A little over a decade ago, at Palm Beach Community College, a student worker decided it was not appropriate to call me by my first name. So, the student decided “Mister Doug” would be the best way to address me. This has caught on, to some extent.
Now it is time to begin a new “report” on this blog. It seems appropriate to call this “column,” THE MISTER DOUG REPORT.
THE MISTER DOUG REPORT is to be a column which diverts from the unspoken approach to this blog, in the past. That approach was a moderate-progressive version of the tirades of hate-monger, Rush Limbaugh. This blog column will be a more tempered approach. After all, moderates, progressives and liberals are much more intelligent.
Do you Think She is Pissed? Read this!
October 10, 2013
Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared “Social Security ” to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. (Note: Simpson has not been in office since 1997 but I think there are a number of politicians that have the same thoughts.)
Here’s a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana … I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!
Oh sooo true!
Hey Alan, let’s get a few things straight!!!!!
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).
3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and “your ilk” pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your “shill commission” are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.
5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into
Medicare from Day One, and now “you morons” propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because “you idiots” mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you“incompetent bastards” spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.
To add insult to injury, you label us “greedy” for calling “bullshit” to your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU:
1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?
2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?
It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the “greedy” ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.
And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech.That’s right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.
And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch. NO, I did not stutter.P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits “entitlements”. WHAT AN INSULT!!!!I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years It’s my money-give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks.
I could not have said it better myself!!!
Words of Wisdom, as Seen on Facebook
October 5, 2013
Seen on Facebook…
Jimmy Carter: “If you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor — then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don’t.”
“Basically what Republicans are telling working Americans, the Middle Class, is that you will work for lower wages without healthcare and retirement. Or else we wreck the U.S. economy.”
“Why are Republicans fighting so hard to stop Obamacare? Consider this, in 2009, Orrin Hatch announced ‘that health reform must be stopped or else it will be so popular that no one will vote republican again.’ They fight because they know they are losing.”
Jon Stewart: “If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hardline, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world, but not with Republicans, maybe he’s not the problem!”
Republicans: “If we don’t get what we want, we won’t do anything, and it will be all your fault!”
Tea Party: “Obamacare will destroy our economy and if you don’t repeal it, we’ll destroy the economy!”
“Republicans say we have more government than we need. I say we have more Republicans than we need.”
President John F. Kennedy: “You can’t negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.”
Rep. Devin Nunes [R-Calif.] on fellow House Republicans willing to see government shut down over Obamacare: “”They’re lemmings with suicide vests.”
Carpet Baggers
October 4, 2013
President Abraham Lincoln said, “you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time.” As with the strategists in today’s tea party, the rebels in Abraham Lincoln’s days were “states’ rights” people. Lincoln was pro-Federal government. The people are being fooled by the Koch brothers, Karl Rove, and the Bush family today. They are vengeful people who are opposed to Lincoln’s stand for a strong central Federal government.
Think about it. Romney implemented legistlation similar the Affordable Care Act, but in Massachusetts. Yet Romney and the Republicans stood opposed to President Obama implementing a similar plan on a national level? Kentucky has a similar plan, but Mitch McConnell opposes Obamacare. On and on are examples of hypocrites. Why? Because they support states’ rights, wish to debunk the Federal government and make it impotent, and place a wealthy politburo run by the Koch brothers in charge of our economy. An impotent government, unlike the one implemented by the wealthy Roosevelt cousins which made this nation the greatest on earth – until Reagan and Bush – would be able to destroy the common man and woman. This would destroy us in many ways. Force us into slavery. Force us to pay colluded high prices for EVERYTHING – and be able to afford very little. Force us to accept a polluted atmosphere and soil – killing animals at will. Force us to live in an over-populated world with few who could afford health care.
Think about it. A “politburo” like that of the former Soviet Union. Rumors abounded in the 1980s that George H.W. Bush was a “double agent, CIA and KGB.” In the 1970s, Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller was appointed by Gerald Ford to convene a committee to investigate the CIA. Perhaps this got too close to the truth about Bush, so he staged the death of Nelson Rockefeller? The Bush family of Connecticut was once exposed as Nazi lovers during World War II. FDR froze their assets. To these unpatriotic and treasonous fools, they can justify vengeance and get many to agree. Why?
The Bush family was Carpetbaggers – scallywags, scoundrels – moving from Connecticut to Texas. That is due to their hatred of a liberal Republican governor in New York, Nelson Rockefeller, and a liberal Republican senator, Jacob Javitz, let alone those in Connecticut. They wish to use subtle and deliberate strategies to turn this nation into a fascist one.
Jebbie Bush and Rick Scott both come to Florida from out of state. They are both the worse governors in this state. Bob Graham and Lawton Chiles, native Floridians, were great governors. Bob Martinez, Democrat turned Republican, was also native Floridian and was far better than Jebbie and Rick. Too bad Madison Avenue stuck it’s unwelcome nose in Florida business – like scallywags. Then there is Charlie Crist, an apparent party jumper like Bob Martinez (except in the opposite direction). Charlie is also a native Floridian. His governorship was better than Jebbie and Rick.
Let us toss out the Carpetbaggers who with their snake oil and unregulated banks.
When will “all the people, all the time, come forward?” Why not all of us challenge these wealthy pigs who intend to destroy our lives. Take our stand against the wealthy pigs who wish to destroy our government. We are blessed to have had such a successful government which gave us successful lives. All the people show some respect and recognize the blessings and benefits.
I REPEAT.
Barack Obama and his campaign for ACA defeated Mitt Romney and his negative anti-ACA platform. Leave the American people alone, you wealthy pigs. Where are the sensible wealthy people to counter the stubbornly ignorant who forget the “little people” who helped them get where they are?
Reagan said facts are stupid, and Boehner, Cantor, and company are utilizing this false principle. In fact, many states which have implemented the ACA “exchanges,” have found health insurance prices to reduce some 20% to 35%. Go to hell – those who refuse to look at the facts. Actually, hell is too good for fat cat pigs.
Threats from tea party Republicans
October 2, 2013
If you wonder why I express such vehemence about the tea party efforts to shut down this government, consider these things and maybe you would better understand my anger and irritation.
1. A Republican Roman Catholic member of my own family said to me and a cousin who are both Democrats: “the best Democrat is a dead one.” This guy once owned a gun shop and works with weapons. Don’t let this bother me, right?
2. How many dumb ignoramuses have I heard make threats against President Barack Obama – most based on white racism? Many. They are dumb stupid fools. Yet, how about if I threaten to “f***” Eric Cantor and Boehner and others like them? What if I threatened these SOBs? Where is the justice in this government to protect our president? I hated George Bush, but I never once threatened him with a gun. F*** these ignoramuses who do.
3. I have been bullied throughout my life, from Grade 6 forward, by conservatives whose only approach to convince people is to bully and place fear into our lives. They work to conform us to their ways. This is called fascism. What happened to fascist Mussolini and his lover? They were murdered and their bodies paraded through Rome, hung upside down. That should be the fate of all fascists who force THEIR will upon us – as the tea party people are doing now.
New approach to “Stand your ground!” These tea party people are taking away, no STEALING money from those of us who have worked hard. The CEOs have stolen our pensions (see Ellen Schultz’s book, Retirement Heist). We need to “stand our ground” against these SOBs who pee on all of us by closing down the government and holding us ransom, unless we give in and abandon the ACA, otherwise known as Obamacare. The people have spoken in 2012 and the Supreme Court has ruled. It’s time these SOB loudmouths shut up and put up – or else we need to take to the streets and “stand our ground.” No “turning the other cheek” when we are being robbed. Jesus Christ is a model for the reaction to such deceptive low-life practices of money-worshipers who trash the common man and woman.
Tioga Herald 
THE MISTER DOUG REPORT PART 2
“Liar, liar, pants on fire!”
As kids, we would repeat this little chant when we knew one of our “playmates” was lying.
Rick Scott lies. Where is the evidence? Obamacare has NOT caused costs of medical care to go up. That is a bunch of baloney. For the insurance I pay, the cost has gone down, not up. For the insurance costs of some friends who were unable to purchase insurance prior to Obamacare – because it was too costly – the cost is now affordable enough to purchase.
Rick Scott, you lie.
“Liar, liar, pants on fire!” Go back to elementary school playgrounds where the kids could repeat this chant and millions of people would not get hurt.
Rick Scott is also a bully and a coward. Rather than challenge Karl Rove or the Koch brothers – people on his level, he bullies people who have less power and money. Bullying coward Rick Scott. Take your lying advertisements and go home, Rick Scott – all the way to Kansas.
Mister Doug
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