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Category Archives: Political rants
Gun Clubs for People Of Color
Greetings and Salutations; We are seeing more and more news reports of people of color being gunned down by the police. Common threads in these reports? There are a few: The victim was unarmed. The lethal force was applied … Continue reading
America….a LAND of Immigrants!
Greetings and Salutations; I was poking around on FaceBook earlier, and ran across this post. It should be required reading for ALL Americans, I think. It is by John Blumenthal Thank you Mr. Blumental for a brief but insightful analysis … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics
Tagged bigotry, Immigration, politics
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The Annual Whine about names
Greetings and Salutations; Well, Thanksgiving is coming up on us like a turkey-shaped train! This should be a pleasant time of year for us…with good feelings and thankfulness that we have made it through the challenges of the … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants
Tagged intolerance, politically correct, rants, thanksgiving
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the donald and the BSA
Greetings and Salutations; I have said before that it appears there is no depths to which this world will sink and America will run towards in its march to relevance in the world. This last Monday, we had another … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Snake Oil
Tagged Boy Scouts of America, failure, Jamboree, the donald
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Fifteen: Who are the Monsters?
Greetings and Salutations; This post, from Michael Adam Latz, showed up on my FaceBook feed this morning. It is so full of truth and foreboding that I decided to post it here, so, with luck, many more … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions
Tagged Auschwitz, Evil, holocaust, monsters, taking Action
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Fourteen – Revisiting Health Insurance. A “Better” Plan?
Greetings and Salutations; Well, back in January, I wrote a blog entry about the Paul Ryan plan to replace the ACA. That plan was, frankly, bat-shit crazy, in that it was essentially taking us back to the abusive days that ended … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Heath, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations
Tagged ACA Replacement, Health Insurance, HSA, Republican
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Thirteen – The Republican Party
Greetings and Salutations; This article “Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.” came across my desktop today. It was so relevant to the insanity in the Political World today that I thought I would send it out into … Continue reading
The Insanity Continues – What About Immigration?
Greetings and Salutations; Everywhere I turn there are interesting topics to explore! There is not a dearth of topics, there is a tsunami of interesting issues to explore! It has been a while since I touched on the … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Food, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Recipes
Tagged hoops, Immigration, laws, the donald, undocumented workers, work ethic
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International Holocaust Day – A Memorial and Contemplation
Greetings and Salutations; Today, January 27th, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today, we should spend a moment to cast our minds back to the atrocities that the Third Reich inflicted on a huge collection of people, focusing on the … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants
Tagged Holocaust Day, memorial, President Obama, Rememberance, the donald
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The Storm Is Not Coming…IT IS HERE!
Greetings and Salutations; We are approaching the end of the first full week of the president-elect’s administration. Perhaps to the surprise of some, he is doing exactly what he said he was going to do in the inflamed … Continue reading
A Time To Pause; A Time to Assess: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Greetings and Salutations; Today is January 16, 2017, a day that commemorates the life and actions of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. As he was a man of Peace, and contemplation, I thought it right to take a moment, … Continue reading
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Nine – About those Voters…
Greetings and Salutations; The fallout from the Election continues, as the day the donald will be sworn into Office approaches. Last night, President Obama gave a really great, farewell speech, in Chicago. A recording of it is available, and … Continue reading
Sifting Through the Ashes, Part 2-A, Instead of the Electoral College, what?
Greetings and Salutations; I have offered some opinions about the Electoral College, how it is supposed to work, and how it actually worked in the 2016 Election back at this Post. However, there is still more to be said, in … Continue reading
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Eight….OH! My! GOD!
Greetings and Salutations; This is a painfully long post, but it is important to me to have it here. I found a direct transcript of the Interview that the donald did with the New York Times. It is, … Continue reading
Posted in General Thoughts, Political rants, Ruminations
Tagged New York Times transcript, Trump, word salad
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Seven – What ABOUT Health Insurance?
Greetings and Salutations; Sigh…There is so much going on in the world that it is an unending resource for those of us that comment on society, and the current tidal change in our Political world. Just for a minute, … Continue reading
Posted in Advances in Healthcare, Ethics, General, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Snake Oil
Tagged ACA, HSA, repeal, Right-Wingers
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Six. – the donald VS The World – Summed Up In One Exchange.
Greetings and Salutations; The Golden Globe Awards were held last night. I did not watch them in whole, as I am not a great fan of awards shows. There are many reasons for this, which perhaps I will examine … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions
Tagged golden globe speech, Meryl Streep, Trump, tweets
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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Five
Greetings and Salutations; Well, just a quick update on the progress of the political train wreck that the 2016 Presidential Election turned into. The last chance of deflecting the disaster came and went a few days ago, when the House … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Political rants, Questionable decisions
Tagged 2016, Ashes, cognitive dissonance, part five, politics
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You Keep Saying That Word “Change”
Greetings and Salutations; Well, it is finally the last day of 2016….New Year’s Eve. I have to say that this year is one that I am just as glad to see the end of. Sadly, … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Snake Oil
Tagged change, Hillary Clinton, President Obama, swamp, the donald
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What to do now?
Greetings and Salutations; Well, the deed is done. The Electoral College has proved that it has abandoned all of the responsibilities that Hamilton placed on it, and become a useless rubber stamp for the Establishment. Because of this, Caesar … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Misc, Nuttiness, Political rants, Ruminations
Tagged dictatorship, failure, protests, resistance, Trump
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Hamilton Weeps…
Greetings and Salutations; Today, the Electoral College met, and, to the disappointment of many and surprise of few, proved it was not what Hamilton had intended for it to be, but, rather, was a rubber stamp in the process of … Continue reading
Posted in General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants
Tagged death, debacle, demagogue, Democracy, Electoral college
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