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IN THE YEARS 1998 to 2005, The Terri Schiavo case was a right-to-die legal case in the United States  

The intervention of Congress and the Bush administration into the case of Terri Schiavo—the Florida woman on life support for 15 years—is an act of unmitigated political thuggery, exploiting a family tragedy for the most reactionary political purposes. It is both a moral abomination and a frontal assault on basic democratic rights. The assertion of unbridled government authority over the most intimate and private concerns is an ominous warning of the political direction of the US ruling elite and its political agents. The emergency bill being rammed through Congress has been accompanied by open appeals to religious hysteria and thinly concealed incitement to violence against Michael Schiavo, his lawyer, and the Florida judge who upheld Schiavo’s decision to terminate life support. (WSJ)

Republicans Jeb Bush/Bill Frist/Mike Enzi/George W. Bush, all decided to play judge jury doctor and GOD and to demand Terri Schiavo’s husband, Michael Schiavo be removed from participating in any or all decisions regarding his brain dead-vegetive state wife. Senator Bill Frist a heart and lung transplant surgeon prior to becoming a Senator, actually, from a remote location looking only via a camera, declared he knew more about Terri Schiavo than her doctors or husband. Before this INTERVENTION DURING and even until THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY, the Republican Party declared declares and IDENTIFIES as the NO GOVERNMENT INFRINGEMENT IN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE’S LIVES----POLITICAL PARTY!

IN THE YEAR 2021, APRIL 3O, TO BE EXACT: West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday signed into law, a measure, that prohibits transgender girls and women in the state from competing on sports teams at "any public secondary school or state institution of higher education."The law, which cleared the state's Republican-led legislature in recent weeks, states that such teams must be designated based on "biological sex," thus prohibiting trans women and girls from participating on women's athletic teams "where competitive skill or contact is involved." "Biological sex" is a term the lawmakers use to refer to the sex determined at the time of birth based on "reproductive biology and genetics at birth."(CNN)

 

"I'm absolutely all in because I do not think that from the standpoint of our girls, that we ought to allow a situation to where, you know, for whatever reason may be, we end up with a superior athlete that could just knock our girls right out of the competition," the Republican governor said. When asked by Stephanie Ruhl of MSNBC to state on incidence where THIS SITUATION had taken place in the state of West Virginia, the Governor, looking perplexed, said there was no one he had heard of!

 

Once again, and honestly before and ever since the Terri Schiavo Case, all the Republican Party wish TO DO IS INTERVENE in the daily lives of the American Citizen, remove the teetering wall between Church and State, make this nation a WHITE NATIONALIST COUNTRY, play GOD (the God of their own choosing, and remove any CIVIL RIGHTS from which the GOP think their CULTIST VOTING POOL are afraid of!

 

 

 

 

 

 

children and grandchildren

 “FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN!” Wow, I have not heard that oldie but bull shitty, slogan for quite a while, falling like flakes of vomit after acquiring food poisoning by eating that unidentifiable food inside an even more unidentifiable white plastic take-out box. BUT, now that the GOP is the minority party in what remains as the Congress and White House, the same people who created CORPORATIONS AS PEOPLE (“It’s alive, it’s alive”), a tax structure to assist the 1% and 2% to pay little to no taxes (“Trickle-down” economics” turned on its head), and the ever-enduring sacrifice to the Donor Gods,(Eliminating both the Middle Class, and destroying the lower class)…THOSE same Republican hypocrites have dug up the corpses of LIES FROM The GRAVE, and are now lamenting the doom and entire destruction INSISTING that the LEFTIST JOE BIDEN and his PROGRESSIVE COMMIE’S in Congress ONLY want to murder your children and grandchildren and future generations (on top of, OF COURSE, the already insidious plot of CANNIBALISM/PEDOPHILIA, which QANON and its cauldron of CRAZIES have assured is taking place right this moment.)

 

Human Infrastructure/Mass Vaccinations/Affordable Health Care/Bricks and Mortar Infrastructure/Learning facts from Science/Gun Control/Eliminating Domestic Terrorist Hate Groups and Racism/Black Lives Matter/Feeding the Poor/Feeding kids nutritious school  breakfast and lunch/A Living Minimum Wage/A Clean and Healthier Environment/Clean Energy/…somehow all of that, IN THE EYES AND SOUNDBITES FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, is NOT going to keep secure “YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN!”

 

We have Right-Wing SHYSTERS hawking poisonous pills which promote anti masks, anti-vax, anti-transgender, anti-black and brown, anti-Asian, anti-education, anti-democracy principles, anti-free speech, and the right to protest. We have Right-Wing Snake Oil Sales People setting up factories to promote violence, anti-Semitism, anti-medicine, White Supremacy, Corporate Welfare, and everlasting THEORIES OF CONSPIRACY! But somehow, right now, the GOP has decided to remind us THEY are worried about “YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN!”

Little Marco

 Look Out World, Little Marco Rubio has found his BIG BOY PANTS, and IS ready to start playing with the Major League of Republicans who WANNA BE PRESIDENT. Oh My Goodness, Little Marco is bringing sass, piss and vinegar, fire and brimstone, and aiming ALL of it to those nasty CORPORATIONS, who are suddenly too damn WOKE. Little Marco, loves to taunt and tempt his perceived villains, placing his BULLY MASK over his head. Why Little Marco is taking names, and NO ONE is safe, especially those CORPORATIONS, who actually have stated that Voter Repression is un-American/Black Lives DO Matter/and that THINGIE on January 6, was actually a violation against our government. None of that suits Little Marco, because ALL of that represents MORALS AND VALUES, LAWS AND GOVERNING; Little Marco has made it clear he is bored with the job of being a Senator, so having to remove any roadblocks in the way of Little Marco just collecting his puppet fees is arduous! 

 

In the scheme of things Little Marco is a bit behind the tirade or is it a tsunami of GOP Hypocrites, who have kissed Trump’s Orange Entrails; and Little Marco has been a bit too calculating as to when he should strike. I mean Moscow Mitch has already expressed emotion (he moved his lips wide enough so it actually looked like he was talking) against those CORPORATIONS for whom he and his Republican Thugs had made them human and Teflon proof against paying taxes. And Dear God, Raphael (Jesus speaks to me and said it was okay for Trump to dump on my wife and father) Cruz is courting the Oath Keepers and the Good Nazi’s/Ronnie (I win elections when the Russians interfere) Johnson and Dandy Randy (I can change my mind 5 times in three minutes) Paul are regulars on the Russian American TV Outlet, FOX. And what to do when Josh (pay me enough money and I will betray all and anything of patriotism and religion) Hawley had the NERVE to walk past the INNSURECTION crowd with a raised fist, having the cameras all on his slimy figure!

 

SO, NOW as they say on WWE, “let’s get ready to rumble,” and Little Marco is sputtering, stammering, spitting out his last nerve, shouting, and of course what he does best from atop his IVORY TOWER…THREATENING, Corporate America. EXCEPT, as is the case with Little Marco and the rest of the TREASONOUS TRAITORS identifying as Republicans, it is all word and NO action. I mean if you are pissed, then initiate IMMEDIATELY that all of the tax breaks (from paying less than the poorest of Americans to paying no taxes at all), be removed, and have the Senate place that as law. What is that, CRICKETS…UH-HUH. That is the sound we usually hear whenever Little Marco places on his Big Boy Pants and just farts! 

Not Wonderful

 The camera pans into a room, with stuffed leathered chairs, floral wallpaper in greens, and pinks that seem to cushion the space, almost smothering its surroundings. The camera then slowly moves to the left, catching the large wide opening of a Victrola phonograph. From there the camera seems to slide down the neck of this classic musical innovation. Suddenly, we see two hands, very veiny with sullen-looking skin surrounding the ten fingers, that of a person who was not quite young enough to have lived during the heydays of the Victrola, but old enough to have had a grandparent who might have spent time swaying back and forth to the tin sounds, and the shrill soprano’s emitted as the music spun round and round. A record of thick black vinyl is placed on the rotating table, the same hands carefully place the arm holding the needle, and a scratchy and feeble song is heard, one by Louis Armstrong as it spins it spews the words, “I see trees of green, red roses too, I see them bloom, for me and for you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world.” (What A Wonderful World/Thiele &Weiss)

 

As quickly as the first verse is bouncing across the room, we see a large hand slide across the record, scratching sounds erupt, the words no longer are understandable, and we hear “THIS IS NOT A WONDERFUL WORLD!” THIS IS 2021!

 

The camera jolts to the far wall, a large 55 inch TV is hanging from it as if it was a framed photograph. The camera once again pans onto two hands; but this time, the flesh is more robust, pliable, and moving down to the fingers we notice a red remote facing the TV. Almost like clockwork we watch the flicking of a wrist in 5-second intervals, and now we hear: Brett Kavanaugh, a troubled teen and college student, claims young people if they do a crime can spend their life in jail…the Ron DeSantis, brag about mowing down protestors in Florida…Oath Keepers reminding us January 6 was just the start…Kevin McCarthy lie about the words Trump told him during the INSURRECTION, pretending that Trump tried to stop the riot…The Supreme Court GOP Activist Justices, letting state’s override any gun laws restricting the use of Assault Weapons…Tucker Carlson promoting Anti-Sematic conspiracy theories…Laura Ingraham decrying foul, that the Jury in the Derek Chauvin Trial were nothing but Leftist prejudiced lackey’s…The Arizona State Republican Party with the assistance of QAnon still counting the votes in CERTAIN communities regarding the outcome of the 2020 election…SUDDENLY, the camera shifts back to the Victrola, and the veiny hands, shaking and gyrating place the vinyl on the turntable, the needle on the record and all we hear are the words “I see… and then, the same voice with the thunderous echo to it shouts, THERE IS NOTHING TO SEE HERE!

 

 

 

WHY THIS MATTERS

 Kevin McCarthy (Minority Leader of the House of Representatives) initially said Trump “bears responsibility” for the January 6, riot and admitted the then-president was too slow to respond. “He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding,” McCarthy said a week after the insurrection. But on Sunday, April 25, he changed his tune completely, telling Fox News that Trump promised to help stop the violent attack on the Capitol carried out by his supporters. “And that’s what he did,” McCarthy said. “He put a video out later.”

 

Trump waited hours to release the video, eventually telling the rioters “we love you” as he asked them to go home. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) said McCarthy told her that when he asked Trump to stop the attack, the then-president replied: “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.” (HUFFPOST)

 

WHY THIS MATTERS: WHY I STILL WORRY: WHY NOT FIGHTING FOR TRUTH WILL HURT: WHY LIARS IN POWER ARE DANGEROUS: WHY, WHEN POLITICIANS STOP WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE AND COWTOW TO A MOB BOSS IT IS WORRISOME: WHY GASLIGHTING AND REWRITING HISTORY IN OF ITSELF IS INSIDIOUS, BUT IN THESE TIMES OF CONSPIRACY LUNACY, EVEN WORSE: Look around, all of us take a deep inhale with your eyes! What do we see? Confusion on the most basic of health measures, denial, still that we are in the throws of a Pandemic. That somehow hating Immigrants is still as American as Apple Pie. Guns do not kill. Any action the Police take against People of Color is justifiable. People like Greene, Jordon, Boebert, Gaetz, Jordon, Gohmert, Hawley, Cruz, Johnson, Paul, Graham hold power, a power to disrupt democracy. WHY THIS MATTERS, is that truth is dying a torturous death, and during its last breathes, WE THE PEOPLE are suffocating!

What we see

 Church services just ended, Bill and his wife Claire had a trick, they would exit the Cathedral 5 minutes before the final AMEN. The parking lot was not constructed with consideration of the people who had places to go, so staying the extra 5 minutes would mean an extra 15 minutes, just trying to weave past those old ladies who crept at 3 miles per hour, or worse the families with their Children On Board, SUV’s, who braked at every squirrel or chipmunk. It was a Sunday, and the Denny’s had all-you-can-eat breakfast, and Bill always worked up an appetite waiting for the Pastor to finish his preaching. Claire was always waiting to see what kind of fine suit the pastor would wear, and always wanted to comment on the dress his wife chose to wear to set the mood, and it matched his tie! “Always a new dress and suit Clair would comment under her breath, just how God would want it. Bill scooted out of the parking lot took the main boulevard, and just as he got to the spot where the major boulevard had intersected with the highway, the one spot if you were lucky to get the green light, you were a free man, and able to get the best booth at the Denny’s and begin to eat all you want, watching the old ladies and those families with 6 kids arrive and wait in line.

 

“What the Hell,” Bill shouted as he slammed on the break, ready to cruise through the yellow light, and the beckoning call of bacon at Denny’s. Claire was looking at the contents of her pocketbook, for her lipstick, she bumped her elbow, and told her husband, that it was Sunday, no need for that language now. “Look at this shit, Bill said, paying no attention, to Claire’s lecture. Claire was ready for another this is Sunday lecture, when she saw lines of people carrying signs, declaring the police are murderers and those unnecessary Black Lives Matter. Bill pressed hard on his car horn. A few protestors ignored him with one or two providing their middle finger as their horn. “Fuck, Bill said, looking straight at the protestors, isn’t it enough we had to wear masks to enter the church and had to sit at least one seat apart, now this, what happened to FREEDOM in MY country! This time Claire was also having had just enough and said AMEN to that. “Well,” hissed Bill, the Governor said OUR FREEDOMS are just as important ha these Leftist Commies, so here we go, Claire. And with that, he stepped on the brakes, set his eyes straight ahead, and got to the other side. Claire turned her head to see what just happened, and Bill yelled to her, OUR FREEDOM is more important than a bunch of Commie lovin’ traitors. And Bill and Claire continued on to their all-you-can breakfast!

 

On that same Sunday morning, Isabel a 71-year-old woman was in the passenger seat with her la hija, (daughter) Edelira, they waited until the end of services. Both wanted to have a leisurely breakfast at Denny’s and order from the Tropical Cuban menu. Unexpectedly, as Edelira arrived toward the intersection where the protest was now in full bloom, Edelira slammed on her breaks. “Madre María, ¿qué haces mi hija?” shouted Isabel. Frustrated, and shaken, Edelira said, they protesting again, mama. Edelira sighed rolled down her window, spat and said, “no sabes nada de verdadero tormento y tortura, ¡vivimos a través de Castro! ¡Esto es América, todos ustedes son egoístas!”

 

 

Sake of Public Health

 “For the Sake of Public Health,” a group of leadership in the city of Flint Michigan, met in yet one more ZOOM meeting, scratching their heads as to what and how and why the fuck (I added that part), too many people are acting the FOOL, and ignoring, denying, and avoiding something as simple as the term IT TAKES A VILLAGE, (I added that also)…they are meeting to try and figure out why A VACCINE to stop death and destruction is such a problem and political dilemma?

 

Proudly, the “15 Minute of Fame” shysters, prey upon the unintelligent, the uninformed, the ultra-ignorant, unrelenting masses of lemmings never able to make up their own minds, but gladly HAVE someone else do it for them. Not much skill needed to misinform THESE INBRED CREATURES, because usually, those who refuse science oftentimes confuse facts as a kind of propaganda, truth as a weapon to deny religious freedoms, the freedom to murder others, and medicine as a weapon invented by some unknown band of LEFTIST PROGRESSIVES ready to take over the flesh and blood of those devoted to bigotry and hate! And no matter how many steps ahead GOOD and VALUES take; the sheer EVIL of DUMB AS SHIT seems to knock all that success back to the starting line.  

 

I am genuinely dumbfounded at the resentment by SO MANY toward THE OTHERS who just want to save lives and have, living that life a healthy and hearty experience! Many of these DENIERS AND PARANOID PARASITES, identify as PRO-LIFE, yet it seems ANY and EVERY action and reaction they take is a complete 360 degree toward any quality to life! Of course, it is a RHETORICAL QUESTION, YET one I still find confusion in asking, BUT why is the “For the Sake of Public Health,” even a thing?

no both sides

 “But now it's just another show

And you leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take and still somehow
It's love's illusions that I recall
I really don't know love
Really don't know love at all” (Both Sides Now/Joni Mitchell/1967)

 

1967, the year I graduated high school. The year of so many folk styles, hippie-dippy, personal ballads from my favorites Crosby Stills, Nash and Young, the Mama’s and Papa’s, Leonard Cohen, and Miss Joni Mitchell to name a few. Clouds and Both Sides Now, the opportunity to think that illusions made sense, and life could be a form of give and take; and the caution of just don’t give yourself away. WOW, I was a high school graduate, and the world seemed big enough to find the choice and chance to make a difference…at least from the promenade of the sets of staircases from my high school Taylor Allderdice, whose motto was “Know Something Do Something Be Something”, as I looked dramatically into the heavens. (I expected a block or brick or mortar to fall from the sky, but as I remember a pigeon flew by and pooped on me!)

 

During these very depressing and dark days brewing and churning as if a few BAD WITCHES, threw together a bevy of poisonous potions in a cauldron, and set it on fire for the smoke to surround the world, and permeate a dense doom-filled fog on America, memories of what once was and what supposed to be have floated, like clouds around me…and SOMETIMES, the edginess and ugliness seem too overwhelming and unfair! And I THINK, NOPE there are NOT BOTH SIDES, now or ever when it comes to Murdering Black People/Inciting an Insurrection/Denying Transgendered Kids access to a bathroom of their choice OR playing Intramural Sports/Denying Access to Protest and Free Speech/Any News Outlet To Provide Fiction instead of Fact/Polluting the Environment/Permitting any well known or wealthy person to escape the law as they participate in Rape/Child Molestation/Tax Fraud/Collusion. And while we still are counting from the number 570,000 deaths due to COVID…THERE IS ABSOLUTLEY NO FUCKING BOTH SIDES NOW, to the question of mask-wearing, becoming vaccinated, and social distance. 

 

Gym Class

 I was a Student Teacher at Holy Family Catholic School in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Yep, a nice Jewish boy who just wanted to experience the ways and means of a Parochial School, and to learn about the environment of a section of Pittsburgh I actually only passed through as a youth; and never knew much about, except what I saw in the passenger seat of my car. The Mother Superior was delighted to include me. (This was 1968, and I had a beard, mustache, long hair down to my shoulders, and the Mother Superior, winked and whispered to me, I had a visual look similar to Jesus.) I taught third grade, and was basically the only male educator, with the exception of the Priests who provided the religious texts once a week.

 

Everything about the school was urban, from the bricks and mortar built back in the early 1900s to the cement fenced-in area which was referred to as the playground. (This area was as large as a tennis court, surrounded by fencing and one or two rusting slides. The students honestly could do very little during recess, primarily because cement does not provide for having fun, and mostly because the Sisters whose job it had been to guard the playground, had only one nerve left, and if it got too noisy, that nerve culminated in whistles being blown, large rods being smacked against the chain link, and clapping of the hands! So I have been a camp counselor and a youth worker, paying for my education; needed to step in and do something. I asked the Mother Superior if I could become the Gym Teacher. She hemmed and hawed, gave it a week to think it over; but finally agreed to let me be the Gyn teacher for the two Third Grade Classes only.  My kids were delighted. I recalled all my Gym Class lessons as a student at my elementary school and used those experiences for my lesson plans. Fun was had by all, a release of childhood energy was expended, and the rest of the afternoon was an easier time.

BUT, this idea of freedom, and noise, and boys and girls exercising or playing at the same time, became a bit too much; and sadly the majority of the Nuns felt I was disrespectful of the decorum of the school. The Mother Superior, called me in her office, apologized, saying my heart was in the right place, my intentions were genuine, my spirit high…BUT all of this was a change and changed too fast.

 

I thought about my days at Holy Family Catholic Church, as I read the responses, the negative actions by the Republicans who seem to want to stymie any progress in the quality of lives of Americans, and who indeed say that Voting Rights/Civil Rights/First Amendment Rights might be good intentions, but by even hinting at them provides a CHANGE that somehow is not the right decorum for our nation. They watch the combustible energy of Americans grow and grow and grow knowing that eventually all of that power must be released, but instead of helping, say not now, too soon, and too fast. And as I did at Holy Family when I had to tell my kids, no more Gym Class, I feel sad, as I watch Americans being told no more FREEDOM FOR YOU!

you go girl

 “You Go Girl,”  (Unconfirmed, although many site the 1992 – 1997 Martin Lawrence television show Martin as its original source.) I remember, visiting my kids, as a divorced dad, arriving from Houston, where I was working, returning to Pittsburgh, and on this particular visit, I arrived at the field where my daughter was playing soccer. I had missed too many in-person triumphs for both of my kids, and JUST being able to watch my daughter play soccer, which she excelled in, made the sad, somber, melancholy moments of divorce a bit brighter. I got to the field, and in about 10 minutes, my daughter scored a goal, and by some circumstance scored a second by the magic of her skill and teammates. I ran over to her, and the first thing out of my mouth was the slang “YOU GO GIRL!” of course followed up with I love you.

 

Almost immediately her teammates hovered around her, and shouted what a cool dad she had, for ME to use the phrase “YOU GO GIRL!” I even got a few high fives, from her teammates, and a thumbs up from my daughter. On the way home from the game, my daughter, said, I was the first dad to say, “YOU GO GIRL,” and although it could have been ‘queer’, the way I said it was cool. (My kids and I had our own translation of queer back then, and it was not used as a part of the LGBTQ term, but as weird or off-put, old school term for queer.) It was interesting even now, as I recall that event; exactly how words are used and by whom, and exactly when it is kind of queer (old school definition) for the inappropriate person to say words they have no idea of what they mean!

 

WOKE: Woke is a term that refers to awareness of issues that concern social justice and racial justice. It is sometimes used in the African-American Vernacular English expression stay woke. I have to almost CHOKE, now, when suddenly the GOP douchebag Senators like Dandy Randy Paul, or Teddy (I speak to Jesus) Cruz or Tommy (I will act as if I am the president) Cotton get all pissed off when corporations finally come out and push back on Racism and Bigotry. These HYPOCRITES, are now all over themselves explaining the WOKE Corporations are bad People (Remember it was the GOP who demanded Corporations ARE people.) To imagine that Paul or Cruz or Cotton even have an inkling of why and how and what for WOKE is even a term amazes me. AND to be honest, it embarrasses me (as if one more BS trick from these Three Stooges could embarrass anyone) to hear them say the word WOKE. Let me just say, as once COOL DAD, these three men ARE NOT COOL, not even almost COOL!

 

 

 

today a breath

 I waited, patiently, to write my BLOG, my RANT, my COMMENTARY, not because I had any idea of what the news might bring us, BUT because in the past four years, and the year of 2020 and A Half, I have learned, that each NEXT moment will probably provide events never ever perceived as possibly being real or even a definition of REALITY! When FICTION had become the TRUTH, erased when it didn’t fuel the flames of HATE enough, discarded when a more important lie could make things worse, OR a means by which to have the ending fuck over everyone; I learned as might Pavlov’s Dog, to be conditioned to the worst in HUMANITY…and not only conditioned BUT PARALYZED by all of it! So as positive as I am trying to become in my OUTLOOK on life, I have also been keenly aware that as long as humans enjoy sadomasochism, pain will triumph over pleasure! 

 

I was glued to the Cable News, hated myself for falling prey to the unnecessary commentary by Talking Heads, by wannabe somebodies, by the hype and hyperbole of pretending to be a fortune-teller; by the sheer indulgence in talking over themselves hoping to be heard, when in fact it was just noise, actually causing a din blocking out the TRUTH. But today, Tuesday 20, 2020, and A Half our nation had a milestone to face, and a chance to look Lady Justice honestly or to provide her once again the middle finger! Much to my surprise, my pleasure, and satisfaction; the Jurors for once let their own eyes inform their brains of FACTS; and placed a muffler over the voices of LIARS/BIGOTS/CON ARTISTS/and pay to play politicians paid comfortably by a 1% Donor Class, Hellbent, to burn this nation to ashes and soot!

 

For now, as a white man, an American, I can feel proud that Black Men and Women, can BREATHE, at least for NOW!

moments so dear

 “Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes

Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure? Measure a year?” (Seasons of Love/Jonathan D. Larson)

 

According to the Gun Violence Archive, a total of at least 19,394 people lost their lives due to gun violence in 2020. Including suicides, that number jumps to 43,550 people.

As of Sunday, the group tallied at least 5,517 non-suicide deaths in 2021, on track for a similar total to 2020. Another possible cause: the uptick in gun sales. 2020 marked the best year for gun sales ever. The rush for firearms began with the first coronavirus lockdowns and continued through the summer's racial justice protests. At least 20 million guns were sold legally, up from about 12.4 million in 2019.

 

“Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty five thousand journeys to plan
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure a life of a woman or a man?” (Seasons of Love/Jonathan D. Larson)

 

As an American, I imagine that about the same total of “THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS”-“IT IS TOO SOON TO TALK ABOUT CHANGE”-“ALL YOU WANT TO DO IS TAKE MY GUNS AWAY”-and “MY SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS ARE SENT BY GOD”, were offered as an excuse; to permit murder mayhem and massacre. This is a disease a cunning as cancer, as contagious as COVID, as corrupt as Capitalistic greed and gluttony!

 

Experts, though, say that it can be a challenge to isolate any single cause, particularly during the pandemic with mass unemployment and closed schools……..HUH/WHAT/DUH. Seems the same people who HAVE NO IDEA, AS TO WHAT TO DO, know how to stop a woman’s right to her reproductive rights/deny transgender people to choose a bathroom/invalidate democracy and ballots/ lead and INSURRECTION! “In five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure a year in a life?” (Seasons of Love/Jonathan D. Larson)

 

 

No Weeds

 Perhaps it is my age; NO, maybe it is the circumstances in which I find myself at this age; WELL, maybe it is much more than a simple explanation, or a chance to identify this emotion, to just be able to simply state, my state of mind; BUT, here on the Cape it was actually the kind of day in spring, which, when the winds caressed my skin, whizzed by me and played hide and seek with my clothing, I actually heard the past, smelled the fragrances of once upon, and felt my heart blossom as might that of a petal of a plant or the bud of a leaf. And here I was in North Truro, recalling walking through the Spring Flower Show at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, with my little sister, and of course, My Aunt Meercy, who I had no idea was our guide to Culture and Nature, and INSIGHT, as I grew up!

 

The Conservatory was a delight, and the array of flowers and plants for a young kid, was like observing the Earth, and thinking just how immense and many colors, fragrances, and kinds of flowers there actually were. My Aunt was one who believed that education was always premier so as we wandered the various collections and gardens and rooms, we not only ooh’ed and ahh’ed my Aunt taught us that A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies. A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place". Adding her own take on each definition, trying to slip in some Aunt Meercy philosophy, and hopefully her own imprint on her niece and nephew; my Aunt added the following: Life seems like forever, one day to the next, one year to the next if we are lucky, we blossom over and over again, and each time, the color may be more defined the shape larger, we are the same, but seek to be different than what we were before, like a PERENNIAL. Sometimes life gets tricky, she would add, and we come back again but something new must be learned, some change must be made, we take nothing for granted because to do so, may not avail you of the second third of 100^th chance, like an ANNUAL. 

 

My sister and I, the older we got, began to understand a point my Aunt was making that life may repeat itself, but we have the chance of a slight change in the road ahead, we take it, taking nothing at all for granted. And then as we began our exit from these bountiful halls, my Aunt would stop, turn us around from facing the exit doors, and say. “There are no weeds here, NONE!” “Not because the weeds don’t want a chance to show off, but because WEEDS are users, they take, and take, never give back, and look pretty perhaps, until you understand that all they do is undermine Mother Nature.” “Once weeds grow,” my Aunt Meercy would say, as she took out her handkerchief to dab her lipstick, “they never want to leave, until they leave anything around them sad and broken.” My sister and I looked a bit shaken, and my Aunt would then say, “It is your job to stop anything that does not bring hope and heart from growing in your garden.”

 

Today, I heard that entire lecture, as I walked past the flora ready to embrace their new year, and I thought; 2020 and its annex year 2021have grown a whole bunch of WEEDS, and it IS my job to pull them from their roots!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eve of Destruction

 “Don't you understand what I'm trying to say?

Can't you feel the fear that I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave
Take a look around you boy, it's bound to scare you, boy…” Now, it is a protocol by the Republicans to dismiss Putin as an evil genius, and instead complain that Biden is the true dictator because, in spite of the DELIBERATE roadblocks and McConnell tricks of the trade to refuse to pass any legislation, the BOO-HOO GOP is mad, so they are taking their HATE and ignoring a real threat to democracy, Mr. Putin, and claiming Joe is the real MAD MAN!

 

“But you tell me over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction”…No masks, no social distance, no need for science or medicine, not when QAnon and the lemmings who love Racism, Lonny Tunes, Hate, and total disregard for the health and welfare of even their own monsters, can sell snake oil wrapped in a Confederate or Nazi Flag, wrapped in a white Jesus, who is having brunch at Mar-A-Lago!

 

“Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin'
I'm sittin' here just contemplatin'
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation
Handful of Senators don't pass legislation

And marches alone can't bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin'
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'”…One more mass shooting, after all the GOP have as many thoughts and prayers as does the NRA, bullets, so bring along as many AR weapons of war as possible. One more police black person criminal event, pay no attention to all that has come before, because those situations are still full of debate, no need to decide how to serve and protect. Life seems only a priority for the GOP if it is a zygote or fetus, of course in a white woman’s embryo.

 

And you tell me over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction” (Eve of Destruction/Barry McGuire, written in 1965, and YA KNOW, what the fuck, it might as well have been written today!

 

 

what personal freedoms

 I decided I needed some time to breathe, not a typical inhale or exhale, but the kind of OH MY GOODNESS this IS living, sort of out of body experience, where my lungs rejoiced, my heart’s chambers actually played symphonies, and a brain rush took me to finish lines ending at the millennia of distant horizons. So, there I was for almost one WHOLE week, avoiding any news, most of the noise, the negative naysayers, and the booby traps set by evildoers cloaked in a faux Religion, a fake Patriotism, and Plethora of Paranoia, Self-Delusion, and Hate! I struggled perhaps, as might an addict facing his first week without the preferred drug to help cope; but I knew there was a residue of madness meandering low and slow over this nation from the previous years of Trump, and if I DID NOT ATTEMPT to seek refuge from this fog, where would my footing find itself, and could I approach my future or just amble into an abyss?

 

And my first foray back to current event land, was a coincidence of sound bites, by one heinous and hideous hyaena on the prowl; still hoping the Mad Hatter Tea Party of Trump remained vibrant and viable enough to poison any life form. The insidious creature was GOP Representative Jim Jordon of Ohio, who without any nerve endings attached to any anatomy of his body, was presenting a FOX News Commercial or a reelection campaign PR piece, in which Jimmy said he was tired of Anthony Fauci, and the Dems denying he and those God Bless Americans, their PERSONAL FREEDOMS! Jimmy, it seems thinks this mask business, this social distance bull shit, this scientific medical advice was leaving too many Good Nazi’s Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and 2^nd Amendment Armed Militia, from eating apple pie, celebrating motherhood, and of course not being able to paint their picket fences, WHITE!

 

So, as I watch my first newscast, I see Jimmy Jordon, who gave no shits about the wrestling team at Ohio State, who has only offered thoughts and prayers to the hundreds murdered by assault-style military-grade weapons of war, has encouraged the denial of black votes, ignored the over 500,000 Americans have died of a lack of any cohesive COVID plan, expressing HIS FRUSTRATION, that those mean Democrats have only one intention in life, and that IS to STOP Jimmy Jordon from acting a malicious, maggot, and a that of malignancy on the future of this nation! My time away is over, and I am back to fight as I can the sinister and purposefully Cancers, in this nation, who look, talk, and smell like Jimmy Jordon!  

M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

 As a kid, we heard a corny joke from our Social Studies Teacher, Ms. Mac Ateir (who knew teachers could tell jokes? Ms. Mac Ateir, also stopped class one day while teaching my seventh-grade class, when a student shouted “God Damn, as his desk lid slammed his fingers while he was trying to get a book out from the desk, Ms. Mac Ateir shouted, “THIS IS AMERICA AND WE WILL NEVER USE GOD’S NAME IN VAIN) Her joke was: “What has four I’s but can’t see…M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I”

 

Sadly, Mississippi is still a joke, uses God as a scapegoat, and still can’t seem to see anything that is not bigotry, phobia, anti-educational, or democratic. Mississippi's poverty rate of 19.7 percent ranks it dead last in the U.S. Mississippi ranks 47 in educational achievement. The health research organization's "Scorecard on State Health System Performance" ranked Mississippi No. 51. Mississippi voted 57.5% for Trump and 41% for Biden in 2020, and 54.1% for Cindy Hyde-Smith( R), and 44% for Mike Espy ( D) in 2020.

 

“The Supreme Court has consistently held that abortion before viability is an unqualified right; the state has no reason to question women on the reason they have made this difficult choice," BUT: Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law Wednesday that bans abortion based on the race, sex or genetic anomalies of a fetus, adding new limits in a state that already has some of the strictest abortion laws in the U.S………On Thursday, Gov. Tate Reeves signed “the Mississippi Fairness Act” into law, requiring the state’s schools to designate teams by sex assigned at birth and prohibiting transgender student-athletes from participating in school sports in accordance with their gender identity. AND: One state resident, Katy Binstead, said in a news conference last week, however, that the law will make things even harder for her transgender daughter, who “faces bullying on a daily basis” at her middle school……… Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban strips citizens of their right to vote for many offenses, such as writing a bad check or stealing wood. THUS: It disproportionately harms African-American voters. It even lets legislators decide whose voting rights to restore. And it’s unconstitutional for all of those reasons, according to a suit filed today on behalf of Mississippians seeking to regain their right to vote……… Mississippi has, to date 75,000 unused vaccines for COVID, due to the denial of White Conservative Christian Male to sign up and the fact that a majority of the population needing the vaccine are people of color and live in very rural areas and have few options of delivery. In Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves says masks will no longer be mandatory. Just encouraged. (NBC News) One has to wonder, ONE, might WONDER, what the fuck MISSISSIPPI! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try It Yourself

 Testimony resumed Thursday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis officer charged in the death of George Floyd. Dr. Martin Tobin, an expert who specializes in pulmonology and critical care, was the first witness called to the stand.

Tobin, a Chicago-based physician who is a renowned expert on pulmonology (medical issues involving the lungs and respiratory system), testified that Floyd died of a low level of oxygen. Tobin said Floyd's "shallow breaths weren't able to carry air through his lungs, down to the essential areas of the lungs that get oxygen into the blood and get rid of carbon dioxide."

Tobin testified Floyd's position was akin to being caught in a vise between the pressure from the officers atop him and the street below, interfering with his ability to expand his left lung. Tobin said the weight of Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck compressed his airway, also compromising his breathing. (CBSN Minnesota)

 

I have been following this trial, reluctantly! Not because, I lack concern or conscience, but because, watching it on Cable, is so fucking frustrating, knowing that a man died, because he was suffocated and done so with all the evil and lack of concern and conscience by Derek Chauvin, and the seeming lack of remorse is, for me as overwhelming as the mere idea of committing the murder in the first place. Now it is the turn of the defense to tell us that addicts, drug users, those on the lower end of the economy, some who live their lives in neighborhoods of poverty and dread, and perhaps in a body of a color other than white; MIGHT have deserved to be treated as if BEING ALIVE was some kind of unearned gift!

 

I was not there, I only witnessed the video of those who filmed the torture of George Floyd’s final nine minutes. I am not a Police Officer, nor have I ever wanted to become one (My Dad was a Pittsburgh Police Cop, proud of HIS profession, but also leery that too many of his brethren forgot the professional part…and urged us to be whatever we wanted but NOT a Police Officer) and I had or have no idea what it is or would be like to face choices of life and death. HOWEVER, if in fact, as the Defense Attorneys for Derek Chauvin INSIST, THAT A KNEE TO THE NECK IS NOT BIG DEAL, then why not have one of them lie with his handcuffed face down on the courtroom floor, have a policeman the size of Derek Chauvin place a knee on his neck, set the stopwatch at nine minutes, and demonstrate, what a walk in the park that experience must have been! OR NOT!

 

 

Fool and their money

 It was another non NEW news day, not that the current events are meaningless, but they have once again become so mean and less notable for help or hope, purpose or promise; even I, one who does not like bygones to remain bygones, wishing them GONE, almost ran out of commentary and criticism. I mean the news has honestly become a plot in a Stephen King novel or a Shirley Knight novel; both authors reveal and rumination about the revelations of life being either, GOOD or BAD! And for them (Thank Goodness) to be in the middle, spread caution to the wind, OR keep your head in the sand because by standing straight you might have to make a decision or get smacked in the head for not, IS NEVER THE CORRECT OPTION TO CHOOSE.

 

I tried to NOT write my BLOG, today…I HONESTLY, made every attempt NOT to mention Republican Hypocrisy, Evangelical Christian Double Standards, The Sheer BLISS of Being an Extra Dumb as Shit MAGA, or Matt Gaetz…and here it is 6:07 East Coast Time, and until this moment as I place finger to keypad (I actually got a D in my typing class in high school, my teacher used to walk up and down the aisles and if she saw any student looking at the keyboard she would slap you with a ruler…and no this was not a Catholic School), I refrained from ruminating…BUT then I read a news story, which brought me a bit of smile…(no not about Matt Gaetz)

 

So, it seems the Republican National Party and many of their Congressional subsets are using the Snake Oil Technique of SCAMMING their devoted Klan, which Trump used for his campaign, and for which HIS campaign reportedly had to reimburse 65 PLUS Million Dollars. An already checked box, telling YOU the MAGA/FOX VIEWER or GOOD NAZI can make a donation and never realize that it will be tripled in cost or made for eternity. Yep, and if you decline, there is a paragraph that states someone will report you to TRUMP! Even before a WTF, could erupt from my gut, my brain intervened and said to my GUT, fuck those fools! Yeppers, if they continue to believe that TRUMP and the GOP are their saviors, let them ALL go broke believing. It is kind of like paying Joel Osteen, or Pat Robertson, or Alex Jones to have Jesus bring you into Heaven!

QUESTIONABLE

 Moscow Mitch still believes he owns the American Government, (which makes a lot of sense, due to the fact that ever since President Barak Obama was elected, Moscow Mitch indeed proclaimed that no matter what the popular voters wished for; IT would NEVER find fruition!)…and just for good measure, denied a Democrat Supreme court nominee the slightest chance to communicate, and instead placed two GOP darlings, (one with QUESTIONABLE sexual pleasures and choice of beverage, the other with QUESTIONABLE experience) in their LIFETIME FOREVER jobs. Moscow Mitch also rushed into courtrooms all across the nation, the most QUESTIONABLE of judges, most more conservative, and then the other!

 

Anyone paying attention to the Archaic and Inane so-called Upper Chamber (laughingly it is referred to as the most distinguished deliberative body of government in the world) has to wonder how the fuck one Senator from one state, can and does have MORE power than say a President AND can wish away what HIS DOMESTIC 1% DONOR TERRORIST PUPPET MASTERS, don’t like!

 

And now, it seems two times in two months, Moscow Mitch has threatened this nation, by first declaring a scorched earth policy if the FILLABUSTER (which honestly is a weapon in McConnell’s own arsenal), and now Moscow Mitch, has told CORPORATIONS (for whom HE and the GOP and his wealthy 1% Domestic  Puppet Masters ordained were people) to STOP BEING SO WOKE! Moscow Mitch made veiled threats, but the fact that his frozen face void of any emotion has no high or low, ONE has to imagine Moscow Mitch has some hidden weapons ready for them! I might be a bit dense (NO I AM NOT)…but this reminds me of some Orange Turd telling HIS cult-like followers to take over the Capitol!

Respect Yourself

  

In 1972 the Staples Singers released their single, ‘Respect Yourself,’ the lyrics immediately spoke to me, and having no idea I fell in love with a Christian Gospel Pop Record, I quoted the myriad of verses; thinking NOW THIS MAKES SENSE. It is now 2021, forty-nine years later and I found myself singing along to ‘Respect Yourself’, popping out of my earbuds as I was working out. (I am so old school in listening to music, that my favorite lists of music are all 60’s and 70’s, you know crotchety old man music!) And my concentration on form and function wandered to what the FUCK and who the FUCK do these Republicans think they are!...

 

“…If you disrespect anybody that you run in to How in the world do you think anybody's s'posed to respect you… Little Lindsey and Teddy (Jesus spends time in my wife’s bedroom, and has dinner over my house at least twice a week) Cruz, BOTH have besmirched the Government of the US in so many ways, each trying to get further inside Trump's ass so they can claim the prized of Orange Nose, that one might imagine shame would finally have smacked them in their balls…BUT, it seems they became eunuchs’ for Trump so who needs genitals, anyway!...

“…You the kind of gentleman that want everything your way, yeah Take the sheet off your face, boy, it's a brand new day…” Governor Brian Kemp and the entire Georgia State Legislature, no longer even desire to avoid comparing themselves with Jim Crow, and now it seems it is EVEN more fashionable to be a KKK Fascist, during daylight…Now they actually all are threatening their creation of People, known as Corporations, and demanding the CEO’s stop being WOKE…OMG, they speak Urban slang!

“…If you're walking 'round think'n that the world owes you something 'cause you're here You goin' out the world backwards like you did when you first come here yeah…” then there is the ever useless YET HYPERBOLIC HYPOCRITE, HUCK HUCKABEE,  pretending he is anything but selling Christian Snake Oil when he pontificated via a TWEET, PROUDLY, "I’ve decided to 'identify' as Chinese. Coke will like me, Delta will agree with my 'values' and I’ll probably get shoes from Nike & tickets to @MLB games. Ain’t America great?"

“…Oh, you cuss around women and you don't even know their names, no then you're dumb enough to think that'll make you a big old' man…” AND of course, Matty (My Daddy will fire your ass if you mess with me) Gaetz and We all shit so what if I shit in my pants and walk around in all day long). He AIN’T gonna resign from Congress, He AIN’T gonna be bullied, SHIT HE IS THE DUDE, and whoever he disrespects should wear that as a badge of HONOR!

 

Happy Fun and Messy

 More and more, perhaps because the older I get THERE SEEMS TO BE MORE AND MORE; I find myself reflecting on “THOSE, BACK IN THE DAYS,” occurrences which pop into my mind, causing a smile to grow from my gut to my brain, attach itself to my heart and appear on my face. Corny perhaps, but a little kernel of corn tastes a whole lot better than a mouthful of snark! (And I should know because there are way too many people, who need to have the SNARK smeared all over them…and I have no hesitation in doing so!)

 

Picture this, (as Estell Getty might say as she relates a story about her youth, in the TV show Golden Girls!) Pittsburgh the decade of the ’50s, the Saturday before Easter, my Jewish mother, unpacks her four dozen teacups of various and sundry assortment, places four grocery bags from the Star Market on the table, each containing at least 12 boxes of PAAS Easter Egg Dye, begins to boil 30 cartons of eggs, delivered to us by the Dairy Guy who would sell his farm goods on the weekends! She then has my siblings and I go into the dark recesses of our cellar (where we are sure the nastiest of spiders are lurking) to gather together old plastic tablecloths, from the Year One to be placed on the floor of our dining room, where we have removed all chairs from the dining room table, placed the two table leaves extending the table from east to west, with absolutely no way to walk around the table except underneath it. If it is still Passover, my mother had baked Pesach Brownies at least 6 trays, which are being housed in neighbor’s freezers, and if Passover has ended she has baked 6 chocolate cakes, half with homemade chocolate icing and half with vanilla icing. 

 

It is NOW Easter Sunday, the majority of our neighbors are Jewish, but already salivating, as they come to the Buncher’s to dye their dozen Easter Eggs. My father was a policeman, and most of his work friends were not Jewish, and about 15 extra kids would join us after Easter Mass. My mother would welcome everyone and would say: “Today may mean different things for every single person here, but the one thing we all have in common is to be creative…she would pause, (my little sister and I, when we were a little older would roll our eyes) and THEN my mother would add, and be as MESSY as you can! Happy Easter, Happy Fun, and Happy Mess! 

Not who or what BUT WHY

 "We know that drivers can and do have trouble finding restrooms because of traffic or sometimes rural routes, and this has been especially the case during Covid when many public restrooms have been closed," the company said in a blog post  Its admission came a week after the Democrat criticized Amazon’s working conditions, saying in a tweet: “Paying workers $15/hr. doesn’t make you a ‘progressive workplace’ when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles.”(Reuters)

 

For me, this brief bit of we all knew this anyway, NEWS is the truest form of The REAGAN and the RAGTAG ROGUE of REPUBLICANS who have tried to pretend that “TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS” is anything but having to piss in a bottle economics OR as George H.W. Bush said (probably the only truthful thing he muttered,) calling it VOODOO ECONOMICS! This may not be THE news story of the week, what with another death of a Capitol Police Officer, still protecting a place full of INSURRECTION loving Republicans…another ass licking Trump sycophant being called out and hopefully arrested for acting like Trump, Little Matty (My daddy has lots of money, so watch out) Gaetz…Little Lindsey Graham trying to demonstrate HIS form of machismo, by showing a PR Photoshoot, of him holding, or was it caressing an AR-15 Rifle, insisting that HE will be ready when the government collapses and will shoot those enemies of the state (remember, he cried for his mama during the INSURRECTION, and HE condemned those enemies of the state, UNTIL HIS DADDY, DONNIE, told him not to) and oh yeah HE is  Senator of said GOVERNMENT! So yeah, lots happened, but this trickle in a bottle bull shit by a company too wealthy to pay its fair share or for that matter any share of taxes, is like having jock itch, all you want to do is scratch at it, and as you scratch at it just spreads and spreads and spreads!

 

“If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do, is to save everyday 'til eternity passes away; just to spend it with you” (‘Time In A Bottle’/Jim Croce) To ask the question of WHO, are we as a nation, or WHAT have we become, I SAY, would be to demonstrate IGNORANCE and FOLLY of facts and truth! Maybe the question I should ask is WHY!

 

 

Bad to good

 ‘When Bad Things Happen To Good People’ is a 1981 book by Harold Kushner, a Conservative rabbi. It has also been a recurring theme during the 4 years that Trump was hacked into office by the Russian’s and prior to that at least 8 years while Mitch McConnell, one Senator, functioning as Lord and Master of the Senate due to very archaic and arcane rules promoted and permitted by the Good Ole’ Boys Club of the Upper Chamber of Congress! Bad things have been happening to good people at a record speed during my 71 years of living, causing me to sometimes wonder if the NATURE of things is so fucked up that BAD somehow is the new norm, and GOOD, a forgotten way of life!

 

We have to be reminded that Black Lives Matter. We are told that the zygote and fetus are God’s gifts, but the same people who lecture us on that prefer that brown children can be held in cages, black kids can drink from lead-tainted water faucets, transgendered children should be arrested for just being who they are, and orphaned children should remain in foster agencies as if they were cogs because that is better than having them placed in a loving home by two dads or two moms! We have been told that a white adulterer, a tax-evading, sociopathic liar is the new Messiah, while a black happily married truth-telling loving father and husband is the anti-Christ. We now have revisited past American injustices, inciting hate against Asian Americans, and have celebrated one of the lowest points of American history and brought back Jim Crow. And of course, Villages are for fools, and it should never be the responsibility of a village, to aid in the health and welfare of its inhabitants, because keeping all of us safe is a Communist plot!

 

I have grown so weary wondering which next VIILIAN will be held in high esteem by mere mortals so lacking in depth or perception, celebrated ad a liberator for their pent-up bigotry, bias and bogus hate, and uneducated and baseless facts, based on their own sense of inferiority and insecurity! But WAIT…maybe there IS hope that GOOD will GAIN footing. Sad, but true, I find much GLEE in watching Matt Gaetz squirm and stew, in a cauldron of his own insipid creation; a man who loves maligning others, MAYBE, FINALLY, having BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE! One can hope!

 

 

MORE OF THE SAME, BUT NOT

 OK… It is the day after my second vaccination, and as much as I bragged last night, how I FEEL FINE…JUST PERFECTLY FINE…today, not only DID I NOT FEEL FINE, but in actuality, I could feel my hips, my lower back, my butt, and my right arm and every nerve, bone, ligament, and muscle; feeling more like the characters in the Fantastic Voyage a (1966) film in which a scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream with a small crew. (I loved that movie, OMG, I thought at the time, IMAGINE that kind of vacation!) Well, today I am on a VACCINATION UN-VACATION, achy, yucky, BUT happy as hell that SCIENCE and MEDICINE have been resurrected and revived…AND no matter what, the temporary complications, I am lucky enough to a part of that! And as I celebrate the aftermath of a proven scientific maneuver, along with the willingness of an intelligent and empathetic President and his cadre of SANE associates; I realize that SHIT IS STILL HAPPENING, all around me, and no one has yet developed a vaccination to heal that DISEASE!

 

So today we learned the real name of a crazy dude, Travis View, making at least $60,000 a day for spewing the dumbest of shit to the dumb shits who have never ever been raised with love or compassion; broadcasting his QAnon Anonymous is a pseudonym and supposedly his real name is Logan Strain. (Wasn’t it George W, who said some kind of Texas bull shit about fooling me once or twice or a thousand times…) We have been following the Tela-Novella of one of the most spoiled brats and rotten to the core, rich kids, Matty Gaetz, whose daddy had the Police chief fired when his son was arrested for a DUI, whose daddy, played politics and may be placed a few heads of horses on Floridian GOP’s beds, to get his son elected…Now Matty, is dazed and confused. Yup, he has moved on from denying he is a gay man having raised a Cuban orphan on his own (who suddenly, out of nowhere appeared on a vacation with Matty)…to now VEHEMENTLY denying he EVER DATED, let alone trafficked underage girls across state lines (kind of like Jessica Rabbit who said,  "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.") Oh, yeah, as IS usual for spoiled rotten kids, they are NEVER to blame, EVERYONE MADE THEM DO IT, OR, even better, YOU DID IT ALSO…NAH-NAH-BOO-BOO!

 

And not last nor least, but NORMAL, Moscow Mitch, has declared any Biden effort to boost Americans, health or welfare, is just NOT gonna happen, because well because folks like Koch Enterprises and the other PLETHORA of 1%Domestic Donor Terrorists are having hissy fits because they might have to pay even a half percent of their fair share in taxes. BUT, like all REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS, as they speak out of both sides of their mouths; they are taking glorious claim for SAVING AMERICA, even though NOT A SINGLE GOP DOUCHEBAG voted in favor!  My body aches, in a good way, because I know I did the right thing based on facts; HOWEVER, my mind and gut still hurt in a BAD way because the Pandemic of Trump seems to have no limits!