my teachers

To Miss MacAteer, my elementary school Social Studies teacher, I want to inform you that all of the information you imparted to me, a student, set me on my path to try and understand our government, and Capitalism. It was the mid 50’s and very early 60’s, and I was a naive youngster, like a sponge ready to learn the ways of governing and the purpose and role of the United States within the world we lived. I admired your dedication to teach facts, and for that particular era, try your best to maintain that the current status quo was a good thing. (You also taught your 7th-grade class, to never use God’s name in vain, by sending a student to the cloakroom for saying God Damnit when he tripped getting to his desk…I remember you placed the chalk on the ledge placed both of your hands on your desk, then picked up the Bible which each classroom teacher had possession of, and said, it is a sin to use Gods name that way). BUT you, explained checks and balances, the purpose and meaning of the Constitution, and defined as best you could the difference between Capitalism and any other form of governing.  I learned a lot from you.

To Miss Cyphers, my elementary school Music teacher, I want to inform you that I still know the lyrics to each and every patriotic American song, ever written to celebrate this nation, our Flag, and the national holidays observed by America. You not only taught us the music and the lyrics, but you provided some history as well as to just how important the music of our times had become, and just how much of pride the songwriters felt s they gifted their art to this nation (I also STILL know every verse to almost over three dozen Christmas carols, which you also taught us in public school, and I remember the time I was chosen to be the Christ child as our second grade class paraded to the lobby in front of the principals office where both the Nativity Scene and Christmas tree were on display. You too encouraged your students to be proud of the Americana tradition of music, and that many songwriters could achieve celebrity and wealth because we lived in a land of Capitalism. I appreciate all you did.

But sadly, Miss MacAteer and Miss Cypher’s recently the thing called Capitalism has taken a turn for the worse or should I say a turn for the wealthy and the newly created human, by the Supreme Court THE CORPORATION.  You both are deceased and FACEBOOK hardly registers with you, but it seems that CORPORATION decided that profit over country is the priority in a country full of Capitalism. They are not alone, in placing profit over the country. It seems EXXON/MOBILE had done the same thing. The giant oil conglomeration had kept secret, poisoning the planet, because they felt until every ounce of carbon was utilized, why spoil a good thing. Both FACEBOOK and EXXON/MOBILE also felt that if a foreign country paid enough, then it was wise to remain silent about working with an enemy. I have thrived via Capitalism, and swear I am not a Negative Nancy, but shouldn’t there come a time when profits, should be less of a priority than people. And shouldn’t there be a time, as both of you ladies (Miss MacAteer and Miss Cyphers) used to proudly teach that democracy is only as good as those who practice and respect it. I truly am appreciative of your dedication to your job as educators, but I bet if you came back to the classroom in the 21st Century you might have no idea in which country you are living!

The Monster

The monster is still at large, actually, everyone knows where he is hiding in plain sight, either in the White House in DC or his taxpayer paid for his OTHER home Mar-A-Largo in Florida. The monster still looms large, a bit scarier because he is feeling boxed in, and like most monsters, the eerie feeling of being doomed, just sets his inhuman and inhumane immoral ticks into total confusion and thus ensures ensuing chaos. The pack of Monster Enablers, his Crime Family, his  Court Jesters, the ever drab and dreary but Christian Crusader Mike Pence and the Joker, Rudy (thank goodness for 9-11) Giuliani, Comrade Mitch McConnell, the retiring and suddenly retentions introspective Paul Ryan, the Government sponsored propaganda machine FOX News, and the ever, well aware that they too are being blackmailed Republican Party, are on call to support and defend each and every newly revealed act of treason, anti-democracy, and hate-filled rant and rave to protect the Monster.

So, now, we find that there might be an opportunity for the Affordable Care Act to die a sudden death, and along with it, the millions of Americans who may also die a death, but theirs will be more dreadful, painful, expensive and nightmarish, because the Monster, being so insecure and jealous of Barack Obama has a judge Republican judge who has decided the Affordable Health Care Act is unconstitutional. (It might be funny, actually the UNCONSTITUTIONAL thingie, if in fact the Republican majority in both Houses of Government cared about the Constitution in the first place by being the check and balance they were supposed to be regarding the Executive Branch…and it might be funny, if in fact the Republican-led Senate and House actually cared about the influence and corrupt involvement by the Russians who in reality had declared war on the US, and seemingly are winning that war). The Monster may be appeased once again by ridding the world of anything Obama, you know like the Paris Climate Agreement, Immigration, the EPA etc, if in fact the Affordable Health Care Act is dead and done…so will many innocent American lives…

And then there is the Monsters absurd yearning for the WALL as if it were an extension of his male genitalia…wanting it to be large and looming. This Monster is not only deranged but a racist and he insists that the brown people should not find refuge in this nation, because they are bad people. (For this monster the white people who are Nazi nationalists are good people). So to soothe his frail and tiny ego, the Monster is threatening to shut down the government. Pain and suffering for everyone, but of course the Monster, his Crime Family, his enabling politicians (who still get paid when the government shuts down) and his groovy friends who will cheer and share the lilt of laughter and merriment at Mar-A-Lago, ringing in the new year and fucking up the incoming year for all the other peasants and peons not named TRUMP.  Trump is the MONSTER  and he IS still Commander-In-Chief… 

her name is

Her name IS Jakelin Caal Maquin. She had traveled with her father from a rural indigenous community in Guatemala's impoverished Alta Verapaz region. They were among a group of 163 migrants detained by Border Patrol agents the night of December 6 -- three days after her birthday -- in a remote area of the New Mexico desert, officials said. Two days later, 7-year-old Jakelin WS dead.

His name is, Hogan Gidley, he IS the White House deputy press secretary, he called Jakelin’s death “a horrific, tragic situation.” “Does the administration take responsibility for a parent taking a child on a trek through Mexico to get to this country?” Mr. Gidley responded. “No.”   Her name is Kirsten Nielsen, she IS the Director of Homeland Security, her team responded to the death of Jakelin Caal Maquin by saying “We cannot stress enough the dangers posed by traveling long distances, in crowded transportation, or in the natural elements through remote desert areas without food, water, and other supplies,” “No one should risk injury, or even death, by crossing our border unlawfully. This is why I asked Congress on Tuesday to change our laws so that the United States is not incentivizing families to take this dangerous path.” His name is Donald Trump HIS administration was blasted this year for separating migrant children from their parents as a result of a “zero tolerance” illegal immigration policy at the border.

A government report in October found that the administration had not told key federal agencies about the zero-tolerance policy before publicly announcing it. That left front-line officials unprepared to handle the ensuing separations of thousands of children from their families.

WE are Americans, and WE can either reduce this whole thing to JUST an incident that happened because too many humans want to seek asylum from their own countries in which the torment of daily living is total hell, (something the US, has done since its own revolution from tyranny has welcomed the oppressed) and ENOUGH is ENOUGH, OR WE as Americans can begin to DEMAND that racist, xenophobic, nationalistic opportunists like Trump and his cadre of criminals be held accountable for reckless deaths, deportations, caging of children, and creating too many obstacles for people to be granted freedom.

Her name IS Jakelin Caal Maquin, she is no martyr, her father is no murderer, they both wanted to find sanctuary in a country that once upon a time welcomed, the immigrant and did not try to torture or murder them!

be loud about this

I am one American, out of millions, but I want to be heard SCREAMING and DEMANDING that MY government STOP, our current Trump administration policy of murdering children, creating Concentration Camps throughout this nation for people seeking asylum, and in particular, the housing of youth as if they were criminals, keeping them locked in detention centers, almost as if these children were wild animals caged and locked away.

I will not be that German villager who heard nothing, or saw nothing, or did nothing when Hitler (another delusional and narcissistic dictator similar to the traits of Trump) decided that a demographic of people were less worthy, less human and less important and decided to separate them and eventually cause them illness, and death.

Suddenly the Southern Border is a THING, and suddenly it is a dangerous THING, one used to frighten the most bigoted and racist of Americans, who need a scapegoat to heal their own sick, sick insecurities. And suddenly the Southern Border, controlled by willing robots, and Nazi-like soldiers, has become a place of hell and horrendous conditions, where families are torn apart, some children permanently orphaned, contained as w wild animal might be, and a place where real danger digs in its heals and can kill innocents, just trying to find freedom and safety. Yes I, Gerry Buncher, and American am not blinded buy the lies and disgust the Trump Administration via the Department of Homeland Security have set in place, pretending that by limiting or eliminating safe asylum centers, or creating impossible living  conditions, will deter people from entering this country to escape the horrendous lives they have lived in Central America. I protest LOUDLY, and will not be one of those German or Polish like villagers who swore on their lives they never knew that the stench was coming from the Concentration Camps or he trains filled with humans as if they were cattle were headed to Concentration Camps, or the their Government, was in the process of demeaning and destroying the lives of innocents.

One young girl, that we know of has died while in the custody of the Border Patrol under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security authorized by the Trump administration, how many more have or will perish. Little babies, have numbers printed on their bodies for identification, like the inmates of Concentration Camps, demanded by the Trump Administration, and adolescents are left alone to live in tent cities, as if they were criminals. I am one American and I DEMAND MY government, not the one hacked into place by the Russians or paid for by the Saudi’s stop this American version of a Holocaust! MY silence would mean death for far too many people!

when a tree

If a tree falls in the forest…and no one is there…the questions become a few…did it fall because no saw it tumble to the ground…did it fall but since no one witnessed it, it doesn’t matter…or, so a tree fell, there are hundreds of others…

On December 5, 2018, under the dictatorship of the Trump administration and under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security, and with the guidance of ICE and the Border Patrol, a 7-year-old girl, and her father, both seeking asylum from Guatemala, died of dehydration and a having a very high body temperature.  Only on, Thursday, December 13, 2018…did the Washington Post find access to this situation to report it, and its sordid details to the American people…so the question asked I suppose under the Trump Dictatorship and his cadre of Nazi-like just following orders minions, is IF AN ASYLUM SEEKER, A CHILD DIES AFTER BEING INCARCERATED DIES…because no one gives a shit or has any moral code…does it matter…did it happen…

Trump has no conscience, he could care less about humanity, he is a sick man, and mentally ill, and the Republicans, still fearful that all of their criminal deeds will become common knowledge by either Putin or his puppet Trump kiss the orange ass and pretend that there is nothing to see here. A 7-year-old innocent child HAS DIED… at least a week ago, under the administration of trump and the asshole named Kirsten Nielsen (Director of Homeland Security), and under the lack of will and guidance of the Border Patrol of the US…and, we are as a country supposed to just shrug it off…

Jason Chaffetz, the ex-Nazi working for the Republican Party, who held way too many hearings on anything Hillary, resigned his job as Congressman, to become a well paid consultant to FOX News…he said that the jailing and imprisonment of asylum seekers is necessary because there are at least 7000 Terrorists in the Caravan…he had no fact to back it up, except he said he knew it in his heart…I wonder if the 7-year-old girl who died was one of those terrorists… When honestly when does the CRAZY end, and the morals and values come to life…if one 7-year-old innocent child dies and no one knows about it until a week later does it matter……… 

100 bottles of beer

One time, and one time only, when, we took our long kids on a long drive, did we decide to sing the song 100 Bottles of Beer on the wall. Not a great song, the tune becomes easily remembered, one might argue, that it was a great arithmetic game, and good parents back in the days could enhance their children’s ability to learn how to count backward. Plus for a young kid, supposedly back in the day when people of the age of 69 had young kids, you were creating a moment an educational moment even while on a vacation. I know, that by the end of that 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall sing-a-long, maybe one of four people were singing that great surprise crescendo announcing 1 Bottle of Beer, while everyone else was either snoring of begging the lone voice to STOP already! You learned along the way when you had young kids…maybe a few lessons from your own parents, of course, some instructions from your older siblings, and of course if any of your close friends already were in the child producing business and had a few in stock, from them.  But mostly it took one experience of 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall, to understand, that sometimes it seems an eternity when you repeat and repeat AND repeat the same things over and over again…

And now…as the old Abbott and Costello routine used to go (…whose on first…a frustrating and only one time funny shtick)…we have the Russians/payoffs/laundered money/Moscow Towers/spiteful walls by a spoiled brat/imaginary terrorists dressed as asylum seeking women and children/blackmailed Republicans by Russian Oligarchs/and a plethora of other indecencies, immoral and illegal…all created by/motivated by/inspired by and committed by Trump and his Crime Family…and just like 100 Bottles of Beer, the song goes on and on and on…and the more you hear it sung, the sicker you get, the more impatient you become, and as one of my two young kids must have shouted, or maybe both at different times as we were stuck in that car headed to our rented condo in Ocean City Maryland, CAN WE STOP SINGING—ALREADY!

Oh MY GOD…yep all in caps, because for me only some higher power has the ability to stop the lyrics of this song from being sung, and only the HIGHEST OF POWERS must find conclusion…because, if not, we will all become mad. This entire Trump nightmare is like never being able to understand WHO IS ON FIRST, or maybe the most egregious of questions where does the universe end, and what is it called after that!

RHETORICAL

rhe·tor·i·cal: relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric…expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress…(of a question) asked in order to produce an effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information.

Hmm, umm, ahh…how many Talking Heads, laughing and making merry does it take to just say Trump is a criminal and has participated in and initiated criminal activity…how many supposed news anchors will it take to find a backbone and stop pretending there are two sides to the story of collusion, laundered money, bribery and hacking when it relates to anything and everything Trump and his Crime Family have committed…and how many more Red Bannered News Bulletins, will have to flash every time one more cohort or peon, or puppet, or anarchist working for Trump is arrested and found guilty of almost anything there IS to be found guilty of…

So, and, indeed…how many more times will Trump insist he is not guilty even as he Tweets his guilt, cubically proclaims his guilt, and as usual because of his mental disease of narcissism actually admit by calling out others as lyin’ cheatin’ stupid, that in fact anything he accuses others of being or doing is actually Trump bragging out loud about what he seems to think he just got away with…

Finally, how far down the road of demise will our democracy drop until at least a half-dozen Republicans (not on Putin's blackmail list…if there are at least that many to be counted) will come forward and actually say the phrase COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY…AND why haven’t the Dems spelled out continuously, and I mean continuously EXACTLY who will be affected by a government shut down…in particular how the MAGA Red Hat (made in China) bigots and racists will be some of the first to feel drain on their economy as Trump pouts and pounds his tiny hands thinking that this country is, in fact, his corporation…

Rhetorical in nature I suppose, but damn I am so anxious for real answers!