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.


Citizens Watch
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!
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