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(33 comments) SHARE Monday, January 18, 2016 Too Many Secrets
Does it really matter who the next President is?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 21, 2015 Simple Truth: No Simple Solutions
Progressive solutions battle it out with Conservative denial, while we melt away.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 5, 2015 Religion OMG!
A reminder to those who believe in a great power, that in which we believe makes us servants to all the people, especially those who most need our love, and their equality.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, November 27, 2017 Welcome to Medialized America, Finally United in a Sex-crazed State
Our current battle of the sexes is reminiscent of the national chasm thrust upon Abraham Lincoln -- worst still, some young men are now possessed with an inheritance of entitlement to superiority.
SHARE Saturday, July 22, 2023 The Crucifixion of America
A Ah Ha Moment: The Land of the Free is being crucified on the cross of domestic Fascists projecting their sins on our democracy.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Donald Trump, an American Opioid
Is America now Mike Pence, Bannon, Priebus, Flynn, Devin Nunes, Mark Mulvaney, Paul Ryan, Manafort, Gowdy, and Carter Page?
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, March 27, 2020 Death by President
Choosing to know and understand the facts, is the beginning of our journey beyond immediate threats and Faustus solutions. We must envision, plan and choose what we are to be on the other side of fear, panic and hoarding.
(14 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 21, 2017 What I love about Donald J. Trump
What people who say, "just give him a chance" love about Trump, that the rest of us don't see.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Corporate PACs Projecting Poison on Planet & People
We choose either to be all the King's Horses and all the King's men who can't put America back together again, OR we unite in all-inclusive solutions, beginning with believing Climate Change is here!
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 24, 2019 For Pompeo, Giuliani, Nunes, Trump: America was Never First
Until we are as heroic as our Angels of Integrity: Justice Ginsberg, Marie Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill, and Lt Col Vindman, the GOP will continue to impeach America, preventing Americans from impeaching Donald Trump.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, April 20, 2015 The Lost Wars: Poverty, Drugs, Slavery
Having the wisdom to listen especially when choosing on what to declare war, let us retire provacative rhetoric and cease or war on each other.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 21, 2017 What We Lose in the Fire, We Find in the Ashes?
Denying Climate Change is futile; Starving a child's brain power is murderous; Ignoring our Seniors to death puts us in lock-step with all that is treacherous and unholy.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 23, 2019 Women, Children and Climate First
Arguing about it doesn't make Climate Change less a factual truth, that cannot be stopped. Those over 40 owe it to those under 40 to slow it down.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, May 25, 2015 Death of A Nation
Death comes in many forms, especially for those who cannot look it in the eye with recognition. Memorial Day is not for those who fear truth, but for those with the courage to embrace it.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 20, 2017 In Aftermath: Revelation or Denial
Abrupt Climate Changes is upon us with this question: What shall we do and be -- revelation or denial?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 17, 2011 United States Has Reached Its Debt Ceiling
Finally something the federal government and millions of Americans have in common:we've both reached our debt ceiling.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Trump's Gotta Behave
Unlike Martha Raddatz, not all of us can bear witness to a Trump epiphany, following Assad's horrific Siren Gas attack on his own people -- Sean Spicer's historical misinformation, notwithstanding.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 24, 2015 The Elephant in the Coffee Shop
Time to make the time to think before speaking. Conversation is the first step away from becoming a nation of herded non-thinkers in a police state.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 8, 2017 The Language of Denial: Alzheimer's, Climate, Trump and The Bomb
"There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish. The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have. Remember Scrooge, time is short, and suddenly, you're not there any more."
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 11, 2016 Imagine America from 9/11 to Standing Rock Solid
Imagine rising in 2016 to a vantage point from which we can choose to relive our past, mourn our present or visualize our potential.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, February 27, 2017 Not Just Trump
Trump is the product of a corrupt liaison between Wall Street and government at every level -- not the inception.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 20, 2017 Knowing What We're For: Bullies, The Beast or Beauty
Not a rhetorical question, but a serious plea to all, to leave a comment, prioritizing what you're for, over what you're against, if only for the time it takes to post a comment.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, August 3, 2018 What Could We Fix If We Weren't Trump Fixated?
If we weren't fixated on Trump mania, what American challenges could we, working together fix to prepare us for the post-Trump era.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 7, 2017 Trump's Kakistocracy America v We the People
While being brainwashed by, exploitation of religious beliefs, economic fears, individual prejudices and a K.I.S.S. Fourth Estate -- We're Missing the Enemy of the People.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, March 13, 2015 The Bridge from King to President, & Emails "Established by the State"
A call for a return to maturity and professionalism in broadcast media:
Prejudice, whether clothed in white hoods, red neck Frat Houses, blue uniforms, Media suits or Tea stained House of Representatives, WE hold this truth to be self-evident: There is no Exceptionalism in hate, media hyperbole, miss-representation of facts or oppression of those who do not look, act, think, speak or marry as WE.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 15, 2019 There'll Be No Better Angels Until We Make Ourselves Better...
Impeaching Trump is only the first step in fixing what we Liberals have allowed the fear that fuels hateful Conservatives to both globally damage America and domestically dehumanize all inhabiting our nation.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 1, 2019 Trump Racism, GOP Cowardice and Climate Denial v. The Impossible Dream
Inspired by the substantive debate Tuesday 7-30-19, particularly the champions of Equality and Justice for all: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Wish I could say the same for Wed 7-31-19 - But LOVED Focused Common Sense of Andrew Yang!
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 15, 2018 American Beauty and the Beasts
Every American discovering, admitting and vanquishing our beasts within, so we embrace more reason and wisdom in our voting.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 8, 2018 Trump's Tattered Brand Thrives By Focusing Our Ridicule
Our problems are not caused by one self-serving Trump. It's about all who stand-by while the followers of puppeteers of financial power used to diminish the value of all.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 3, 2019 The Reality Show that's America's New D-Day Normal
We must stop allowing Media to brainwash us into believing we are in a "New Normal" that is Trumped - when there is nothing new nor normal about Trumpism
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 16, 2015 Cuba & Iran -- Da Vinci & Finch -- Rees & Omar
Enjoy the fantasy of fiction. Even learn from it. But know the difference between what's on the screen and our true reality.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 4, 2018 It's Not About Trump -- It's About USa!
2018 is not for taking voters for granted, but realizing, it's not about Donald Trump and family. It's about us, and who we choose to be.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 8, 2016 Who Decides What We Know?
Who chooses what news stories we hear on television and radio from
Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Lester Holt, Rush Limbaugh, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow etc?
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, August 15, 2016 Same War -- Different Battles
First we have to vote in exsisting system to save a nation from the system - then we have to change, to change it.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 24, 2016 OMG! Trump is My Voice?!?
Worshipping the narcissistic is prelude to bequeathing Millennials just enough pieces of silver to guarantee their repeat business and votes against themselves.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, July 27, 2020 As Portland Goes, So Goes the Nation
Perhaps it's time for America to be on, The Left Side of History, or at least for protest signs and T-Shirts to be more emphatically inclusive: White male lives don't matter more than any Red, Black, Brown or Yellow life.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 6, 2018 Poor v. Rich and Right v. Wrong
Reinventing ourselves after Collins-Kavanaugh vote and Grassley's "women don't want to do the work," let's inaugurate a day of reckoning to spotlight why old men locked in secret rooms do the bidding of wealthy conservatism.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 11, 2022 Justice for All OR Our Dishonor Will Remain Forever
Conservative Republicans dishonor our American Dream with bloodshed, aided and abetted by our American in name only, Wall Street Corporatism.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 17, 2019 America: From Charlottesville to Trump's 'Go Back Where You Came From'
The problem is not just Trump, and while media smirks and each day that we fixate on him, we neither fix our nation nor our environment - and what produced Donald Trump affixes itself to our international identity and individual character
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 16, 2014 Sweet Land of Liberty, Cromnibus and Torture I sing!
Giving Voice to those who have been muted in an age of death by police shooting and torture by government, all sponsored by the Wizards of Wall Street who disappeared our global economy: The Too Big to Jail!
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, May 14, 2018 Did Our Backstory Foreshadow Trump-Pence?
We need own our past and define ourselves aligned with the Golden Rule to avoid crater being dug for America by Trump/Pence Administration.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, October 15, 2018 Reasons to Resuscitate and Keep America Alive
It's time we accept the facts of our history lessons and realizing they are incomplete at best, and change who we are, if we truly want America to change.
SHARE Saturday, April 8, 2023 It Takes All Kinds to Make the World Go Round
Like the world, it takes all kinds to make America, America: and now is the time for every American to decide what kind of American they are.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Pardon Us Bobby for What We Have Undone
This is a tribute to those who grasp what we're fighting for, and a mirror for those who promote what we're against to score points and ratings.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 24, 2021 Why so Many Hate Crimes Lately!?!
There are lessons to be learned from COVID, "Stand Back and Stand By" and January 6, 2021 - Best we start teaching them in Middle School.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 10, 2017 Trump Nuclear Bluster a Lose-Lose
Domestic Terrorism -- gun violence targeting women and children now intensified by military-styled automatic weapons raining down wholesale massacre
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 10, 2016 Black, White and Blue All Over Again
It's not just about what happened between our 240th Independence celebrations and Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights and Dallas murders.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 25, 2017 The Difference between Activity, Action and Expiration Dates: Trump
For too many Americans, ignoring from the sidelines is only comfort zone. However, when the contest between activity and action holds the rivalry of reason and denial in the balance of life and death.
SHARE Sunday, October 10, 2021 Perhaps it's Time We Reevaluate the gods We Worship
If we are addicted to Social Media Followers, Likes from people we don't know and Climate Change denial - we might be too preoccupied to grant full citizenship to some as essential.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, January 9, 2017 From Russia With Love: Donald Trump
Let's dust off our Peacefully Assemble muscles and apply them from the ground up: All Politics is Local.
SHARE Tuesday, September 27, 2022 Evolution or Revolution?!?
Remembering to Celebrate Women, we learn to choose between Evolution and Revolution
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, June 12, 2017 Lies, Leaks, Laughter and Legal Loving
That on which we obsess becomes our reality. So let us fixate on finding the love that trumps hate.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, March 12, 2018 Swinging American Pendulum out of Trump Pit
The mistakes, and lies, we ignore to death when believing more in male supremacy of trumped, than we do in female history and transparent vote counting.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 7, 2021 What if it IS The End of the World?
What if COVID-19 is testing our ability to face catastrophe? What's our Take Away?
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Trump is Not the State of Our Union
The State of our Union will be determined by what we've become by the time Trump and Pence have gone.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 17, 2016 Nothing Comes from Nothing
Anyone can have Faith, Hope and Charity in their hearts and minds when guns, bombs and trucks aren't killing people, but the real proof of strength of character is holding on when life is tragic. Real change, like healing requires patience and perseverance -- not bailing when it doesn't go your way.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 10, 2016 See How They Run from Bully Trump to Back-Peddling Ben Stein
GOP TrickleDown, Conservatism, Corporatism and Trumpism are poor answers for Middle Class prosperity and genuine humanity. We are either humane Global Citizens or Voices Crying out from the wilderness of neo-cons.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 6, 2017 The Best Years of Our Lives
What we owe Millennials: debt free education, equal employment opportunity, income parity and a life sustaining environment, for only the passionately compassionate can successfully resist immoral Goliaths.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, July 20, 2020 Let's Make Good Trouble Get in the Way of our Bad President
Be the Good Trouble that Gets in the Way: It's a post FDR's 1945 death GOP, free at last, aided and abetted by Mitch McConnell's 1984 election, now looking the other way when, with impunity, Trump's private police kidnaps American citizens off American streets.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 8, 2018 Shameful Survival Strategy: Short-Sightedness Surging Self-Destruction
We must never forget what moneyed conservatives have done to America, but we must in the final analysis forgive evangelical Christians who, in choosing Trump as their new Christ, lost the battle to save America from itself.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 31, 2016 Hope in Sanctions -- Obama v Trump -- Mothers & Daughters
Inspired by the love of Debbie Reynolds, we discover we're as courageous as The Rockettes, J. K. Rowling, Senator Elizabeth Warren, President Barack Obama -- standing tall like Standing Rock on a foundation of solid victories
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 28, 2021 COVID for Dummies Before The Last Days
How do we garner the common sense that a life saver for 60% of us is probably a safe bet to keep the other 40% alive.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Be a Global Citizen: Take the Knee
"Get that SOB out of here," is repugnant to American ideals, but a bent knee, or two, for the right of the people peaceably to assemble, to snatch peace on earth from the jaws of Demagogues, would be exceptional.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 5, 2020 Trump's COVID-19? Weapon, Miracle, Hoax or just a Parade Passing By
Will we vote to be remembered for our majestic monuments to slave owners, catatonic enslavement to Black Friday purchased devices or for our artistic humanity and indiscriminate human kindness?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 24, 2017 To Those Who Live in and are Weighted Down by the Dead Past
The lesson that inspired the Women's March, which inspired America to inspire Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Nixon 18 minutes -- Trump 18 Days -- Moore 14 to 16
If we elect a child molester to consolidate political power, isn't it easy to pardon colluding with a foreign power and rekindling Moore's good ol' days?
SHARE Tuesday, February 14, 2023 American Races by Numbers
We the People are responsible for the gun violence profiteers we elect and the financial puppeteers we allow to control them.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 14, 2012 Raw $ewage Politics
Voter suppression is just the roof of the outhouse. Wait tip see what GOP money bags are brewing in the cellar.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 20, 2018 America: What Stinks and What Doesn't
In political victory we must find the wisdom of unity, the pragmatism that welcomes enlightenment and the commonsense that knows, if we don't save the planet, how can we help each other.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, June 18, 2018 The Children's Hour -- A Showdown with Trump
How a nation, both its government and citizenry treat its most vulnerable is the measure of its character, sense of history and morality.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 22, 2018 The Company Trump Keeps
What we do, we must do in 2018, legally, peacefully and truthfully.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 4, 2017 Despite Trump, there's a better World A-Coming
Life with Trump, we still need Sam Cooke and Woody Guthrie to apologize to Adam Jones -- but I know, a change is gonna come, oh yes, it is.-- Are we prepared?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 31, 2016 In the Good Ol' Days before Hillary's Emails
Russian hackers, computer technology and greed are not waiting -- only transitioning, while we're still arguing over emails and which came first, trumped conservative chickens or the egg laid by the FBI.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 28, 2019 After Mueller Barred - What's Next America?
Mueller wrote, "while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 17, 2016 Finding America in a Trumped Silver Lining
Although our 2016 electoral process, is Citizens United infected, voter ID tarnished and machine negotiated, We the People can still vote like visionaries.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 12, 2018 Will We Choke on Trump/Pence Ashes or Revive and Breathe Free?
While there will be no perfection here on earth, if, in our politics, media and elections, we could give equal focus to those who've given up and given in to seemingly deaf and blind leadership -- That would make us BETTER.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 5, 2016 Is the Independence we celebrate, Freedom & Justice for All?
What happens when there is unlimited biased content flowing throughout global cyberspace with fewer regulations guaranteeing the truth of what is streaming on our Android, iPod, iPad, Smart Phone, laptop, and television?
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, November 12, 2018 Never Forget, America's Mission is Keeping Promises
Never Forget, we lie to ourselves when we profess exceptionalism, religious superiority or even human decency while repressing voters, banning different faiths or locking children in internment camps.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 30, 2017 Knock, Knock: Who's There? Trumped Trump
Defying oligarchy, climate denial and government gag orders with peaceful protests at local offices of both Republican and Democratic members of Congress
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Growing Labor Pains: Religion -- Guns - Victim Mentality
Understanding, like drought in California and Labor pains in Wisconsin, any state's pain is America's pain, and all Americans need to be solutions to our collective growing pains.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 31, 2016 To What are Americans Entitled?
Discovering how we are all connected by weather, pipelines and how we overconsume earth's resouces.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, July 27, 2015 Slow Down, I'm Conservative
Still think Atticus Finch is the problem? Donald Trump the hero? Father's teaching their sons how to be snipers, the solution?
SHARE Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Lawmakers, 'What Are You Doing? Why Are You Here?!?'
I'm with Senator Chris Murphy,what are Elected Officials doing here if they don't realize their job is to preserve, protect and defend all who live here. Better yet, why do voters continue to elect do nothing Senators, Representatives and Governors?!?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 24, 2016 Nasty Woman -- Bad Hombres -- Gettysburg
Perhaps on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, most of us will find the crumbs left behind for our return to civility and unity -- for as a people, most Americans remain Good Samaritans.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, October 26, 2020 Post Trump's COVID-19 Deaths, What's Next for We the Left Behind
"- The slick polluting champions of Black Gold, guzzle down four Billion American tax dollars every single year, while in all probability investing our tax dollars in renewables, so they can corner that market as well, once we start electing leaders who actually care about our children's future
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 6, 2012 What We Don't Know Hurts
If we are to move forward with any semblance of the exceptional ideal of our beginning, we must realize that, at least since the end of WWII, we have been programmed by an ever-increasing powerful few. Then, we must reject their puppet strings, begin thinking again for ourselves, and resume our international leadership role in invention, education, humanity, and peace.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 28, 2016 Rising Above Those Who Live Above The Rest
Recount yes, but with malice toward none is our only true choice for overcoming any rigging of America's commitment to Out of Many, One
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 21, 2015 Dawn to Dusk - Ashes to Dust
Change and transformation have always frightened some Americans, but hopefully a realization of the diversity of those who are the 99%, may help us embrace some unity of purpose.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 9, 2021 For All Who Ravenously Tell the Worst lie of All: the Lie We Tell Ourselves
True patriots don't lie for traitors who incite scoundrels to beat Capitol Police, Asian Americans or attempt to hang a sitting Vice-President or believing Black lives never mattered, protect those who randomly kill them.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 4, 2018 Recapturing the Flag from NRA's Russian-made MAGA
Sustaining an American Dream that reflects our ever-evolving nation of hope, will sustain voting rights, affordable mental & physical healthcare, quality education and justice for all.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 24, 2012 Embracing the Power of the Crowd
Recognizing the true power of "United We Stand," we need to end the Civil War between Right & Left and launch a united peaceful Revolution
(12 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 12, 2018 We can STEP up with The Lynx or choose National Suicide by Trump-Pence
There has been a "New World Order" secretly rising since FDR's death, boosted by 11/22/63 Trickle Down, Gerrymandering, Red Mapping and Trump's election. Now We the People need to reorder it into realignment with our Gettysburg Address.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 29, 2015 From Pope to Putin, the answer is simple: No Labels
The whirlwind visit of Francis I wasn't to be Made in America with The People's Pope label. He came to touch our hearts and open our minds so we see the injustice of Climate Change, war, ignorance, and yes, the shame of sexual child abuse. He came so we could see beyond America, to Global Citizenship.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 24, 2015 Gifts: from Little Boy to ISIS
Knowing where we're headed requires knowing how we got here from where we've been.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 12, 2016 The Republican Bond: A Gathering of Billionaires
It's less about Left Liberals vs. Right Wing Conservatives and more about an invasion of extreme resounding echos deafening us to the reality of Trump's difference. It's he's more dangerous than his inventors.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 20, 2013 Organizing for ACTION
Appreciating jpast Presidents and Obama Inauguration
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 18, 2016 Reason for Hope
We are stewards of nothing, if putting faith in Goliaths, we forget we are the masters of our fate and the Davids of America's soul -- the very instant we keep hope someplace safe, where our children can find it.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 9, 2019 Trump Quotes + Blackface Dolts = State of Our Union?
We must be more than a tea-stained American Dream, white-washing our Black-Face nightmares and restricting our national ID to ICE, Red, Blue and Purple States, Black v. White and LGBTQ v. straight.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 9, 2020 America by the Numbers, Hues and Ballots
Radicalism isn't Left or Right, but people centered on the falsehood that another's good, diminishes their opportunities.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 14, 2016 The Roar of Rural White America
What are the lessons for us all from the election of Donald Trump as President-Elect?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 24, 2016 Beyond ISIL: Brussels, Cuba and Obama
Have we given any thought to what's beyond ISIS and Obama -- not just who will be the next occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, but who will we be, beyond who we've become?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 16, 2016 GOP Pathological Path from Peace Dividend to Trump to Toilets
2016 Elections are too much about Trump media hype and too little about Climate issues, including but not limited to, people insisting on continuing in careers that are killing them.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 12, 2016 Obama: I'm with Her
In the media age of Donald Trump ratings with former Dixiecrats, the Democratic Party needs to find its center.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 19, 2018 People We'll Always Remember and those We Can't Wait to Forget
Experienced memories are our best defense against, What is Past is Prologue - when laced with new vision that passionately ignites new blood, with skin in the game.
SHARE Sunday, December 18, 2011 No Labels In House Caucus
On Tuesday December 13, 2011 "No Labels," "a group of Democrats, Republicans and Independents dedicated to a simple proposition: We want our government to work again;"
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 16, 2015 The Last Time I Saw Paris
As we counter the profanity of Freedom Fries, by joining our French allies and friends in mourning the loss of life in Paris, let us consider what connects all on earth to this tragedy.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 9, 2017 Before the Parade Passes By Democracy
Good is Peacefully Assemble; bad is accepting the bottom line of two, tarnished by Wall Street, national political parties; ugly is the lies we tell ourselves to justify electing the worst among us.
SHARE Tuesday, February 3, 2015 Bullies and Friends
Saving Children from committing Bullicide in reaction to Bullies, by supporting Documentary "Bullies and Friends."
SHARE Thursday, January 6, 2011 OUR ABC's
Stunting growth of education budget while increasing transportation costs, eating habits and entertainment choices delivers misinformation dominated by monitored communications, thus corralling work force of the fat, lazy and less educated classes.
SHARE Thursday, July 12, 2012 2012: Aristocracy or Democracy
What are we really voting for in 2012? It's as simple as American desire to have cake and eat it too. For instance, if you don't want trees falling on power lines during storms and cutting off your power, you've got to trim trees back away from power lines. Lesson: learning to live with the choices we make, especially in voting booths.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 18, 2016 When Ignorance Leads by Example
Answer the call of Nature, before your grandchildren ask, "What's a Brook?"
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 20, 2016 First Father's Day After Orlando Twins: Terrorism and Guns
Do-Nothing Congress begets waste and greed. Waste and Greed beget Climate Injustice. Climate Injustice begets Fear. Fear begets Anger, Bigotry & Hate. Anger, Bigotry & Hate beget Mob-rule. Mob-rule begets domestic abuse & rape. Domestic abuse & rape beget violence. Violence begets guns. Guns beget Mass Murders and Terrorism.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 14, 2015 Transforming Hope
Hope is transforms us when nourished by faith in ourselves, minus hero worship.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 7, 2016 Real Grownups Listen to Children
Recapturing the Greatest of America means leaving something of value to you children
SHARE Tuesday, September 2, 2014 Mr. No Strategy President, Really!?!
If by now we can't recognize that Obama, Media and Koch Brothers each have a strategy but GW didn't, then how will we recognize the light at the end of the tunnel when it appears on the horizon?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 12, 2016 With a Song in My Heart
A Medley of love songs for David Bowie and all the voices we've lost too soon -- especially to gun violence.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Words and their Power Over Us
Our words impact lives, whether telling a younger sibling they can't draw or confessing to a wife's students, she, brings out the pizza in me.
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Oranges, Trump and Origins of Green New Deal
Continuing to focus our energy on the ineptitude of a bullying villain - the joke will prove to be not only on us, but our planet
SHARE Thursday, November 10, 2011 Emancipation Occupation
Life changing as we know it in The US. Bank of America, Iraq, politics and loss of life changes our landscape.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 3, 2016 Loss and Tears of Joy
What we discard, what we remember and what we do next.
SHARE Sunday, September 14, 2014 Turning Point?
The beginning of wisdom is acknowledging our contribution to a world seemingly gone mad: Guantanamo Torture. Then begins healing, international communication and thanksgiving for rational leadership, after eight years of man's inhumanity to man. This can be our Turning Point toward reason.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, February 22, 2016 HERos
If only we could celebrate our better selves found in our better halves.