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“Equal is everyone getting the same thing. Fair is everyone getting what they need to be successful. We will always try to be fair, but it won't always feel equal.” – U. “Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.” – Victor Hugo.

The May 4, 1886, rally at Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works.

The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour work day, the day after police killed one and injured several workers.Employers decided that police should not be used to restore order. Employers agreed not to use strikebreakers. Employers grew more suspicious of labor unions. Employers began to strongly support labor unions.

 

“Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.”-Jodi Picoult/Small Great Things Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. On this date, President Grover Cleveland signed S. 730 into law declaring Labor Day a national holiday. Since 1882, Labor Day had been celebrated at the local and state level. When the United States began to seriously consider creating a national holiday for workers, U.S. President Grover Cleveland did not want to choose the May date because of its association with the Haymaker bombing, so instead picked the alternative day in September.

The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the nation’s largest police union, announced it is endorsing President Trump on Friday and praised him for his calls for law and order. “Public safety will undoubtedly be a main focus for voters in this year’s election,” FOP President Patrick Yoes said in a statement. “Look at what the national discourse has focused on for the last six months. President Trump has shown time after time that he supports our law enforcement officers and understands the issues our members face every day. So here we have it, the Men and Women In Blue, overlooking all and any other crimes committed by Trump and his Swamp because those somehow were against other groups. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors

 

“Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!
Fight for your own emancipation;
Arise, ye slaves of ev’ry nation, in One Union Grand.
Our little ones for bread are crying;
And millions are from hunger dying;
The end the means is justifying,
‘Tis the final stand.” (Workers of the World Awaken/Joe Hill)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sunday Before

 The Sunday before Labor Day! By this time, way back in my young world in the 1950’s my summer crew cut, the one Joe and Son’s Barber Shop, located across from Sterrett School, now closed for the season, had grown into a regular back to school (he needs his new school year hair cut), long enough for my grandmother to say I would need a bobby pin to keep my hair from looking like a girl’s!  And those SPECIAL EXTRA HARDY shoes my parents bought my little sister and I, from Father and Son’s Shoe store in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, the shoes with at least two inches of pure bouncy rubber soles on the bottom to keep busy kids active all summer long, with only ONE pair of shoes, had finally melted away, leaving only a plastic shield between my feet and the cement, requiring a trip to another shoe store, Little’s Shoe store in Squirrel Hill, my neighborhood, for fancier and a bit more expensive shoe to last at least until Passover! The Sunday before Labor Day, I would wonder, how tall all my classmates had grown, knowing for some reason I seemed to remain always a bit short.

 

The Sunday before Labor Day! My Father and a few of his Police Station crew (at the time, Station Number Eleven located on Northumberland Street) would walk the streets of North of Forbes and place twelve-inch flags on the lawns of every home, all of this paid for by the business owners of the Forbes and Murray retail businesses. Charcoal grills would already be set out, talk about where you might stand to watch the Labor Day Parade on Monday, was shared, and groups of kids would make one more round with their official Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon collection cans, hoping to see their names mentioned the next day on KDKA Channel 2’s 24-hour presentation of the telethon. (We had all lived through the polio epidemic and knew just how dangerous some of these mystery illnesses could get!) There was still the humid aroma of summer oozing in the air, but even though, the summer heat was around, somewhere, as a kid, if you stopped long enough from being especially overly active, (trying to get in ALL of your summer vacation fun before it was too late,) the smell of autumn was waiting, providing a sniff here and there of soon to be Pittsburgh grey, and the dread of less sunlight and homework!

 

Sunday, September 6, 2020, the Sunday before Labor Day, I am now 70 years old, having experienced six decades of the Sunday before Labor Day, and never in my life, of those years that I can truly recall and remember, have I ever been so overwhelmed with this dread, and depression, angst and anger, and fear of what comes next. 

 

“The summer knows, the summer's wise
She sees the doubts within your eyes
And so she takes her summer time
Tells the moon to wait and the sun to linger
Twists the world 'round her summer finger
Lets you see the wonder of her arm?

And if you've learned your lesson well
There's little more for her to tell
One last caress, it's time to dress for fall” (The Summer Knows/Marilyn &Alan Bergman)

 

Helplessly Hoping

 “Helplessly hoping her harlequin hovers near

Awaiting a wordGasping at glimpses of gentle true spirit he runs

Wishing he could fly
Only to trip at the sound of goodbye” ("Helplessly Hoping" is a 1969 song by the American folk-rock group Crosby, Stills, and Nash, written purposefully in alliterative form by Stephen Stills.)

 

Perhaps, ONE arrogant, too many verses in what might be his final dirge (A dirge is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as would be appropriate for performance at a funeral); falling as freely as “Lock Her Up,” “Mail-In Fraud,” “Tired Joe.” “Good Nazi’s” “Law and Order,” and “Chinese Flu.” A rush of denials and walk backs by too many surrogates, suffocating on excuses, double talk so speedy that the 360-degree spin of Linda Blair’s neck in the ‘Exorcist’ seems tame, and typical defiance of sources anonymous, buy other sources as anonymous to placate any semblance of told truths!

 

Trump talks a talk written by Evangelical Christian Taliban, Domestic American 1% Donor Class Terrorist, Vladimir Putin, and the numbness and vacant minds of self-serving entertainers as Hannity, Graham, and the Foibles known as FOX and Friends. He also speaks as perhaps different personalities approach his vacant apartment called a brain, thinking there will never be a trap strong enough to grab his lies and show them to the world. Alliteration In literature, alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently. As a method of linking words for effect, alliteration is also called head rhyme or initial rhyme. Trump speaks in a method of alliteration, a purposeful method to say one thing over again, almost as if chanting a spell, so you listen as if it was a melodic chant. Maybe, Motherhood, Apple Pie, Baseball became obsolete in Trump /MAGA Land, but somehow disparaging our Military in a manner as blatant and precise as Trump had done and continues to believe, will be his final words!

 

“Wordlessly watching he waits by the window and wonders
At the empty place inside
Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams he worries
Did he hear a good-bye?
Or even hello?” ("Helplessly Hoping" is a 1969 song by the American folk-rock group Crosby, Stills, and Nash, written purposefully in alliterative form by Stephen Stills.)

 

 

 

SURREALISM

  

sur·re·al·ism: a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

 

“What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.” ― André Breton

 

"Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers," Trump told aides after he scrapped a visit to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 to honor the dead service members, according to The Atlantic which cited four people with first-hand knowledge of the discussion. Trump, on the same trip, later referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives in the Battle of Belleau Wood in France as "suckers" for getting killed, the magazine reported.

Successfully rolling out a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 1 will rely on clinical trials conducted at unprecedented speed, coupled with the public release of research that shows it is both safe and effective, experts say. Doctors will insist on seeing the full data and will demand that the information come from those in the scientific community. "I want the physician-scientists and not the political leadership to make these decisions," said Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic. "If it's made from the Oval Office," Nissen said, "there's going to be a lot of skepticism

Trump appeared to justify his call to vote twice by telling rally attendees that if their mail-in ballot came in after they had voted in-person, then it would not get counted. It is illegal to vote twice.

“A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guards them.” ― Floriano Martins

 

The unconscious mind insists that first there is, first a mind, and it has the ability to empathize, deliberate, comprehend, and synthesize the elements all around it, and then respond. How wonderful, if we could imagine the next best thing, using the wit and skill and intelligence of our current state of being. For Donald Trump, there is no conscious mind, no sense of conscience behavior, and no correlation between good or bad, right or wrong. For some, so sad and dangerously so, Trump’s complete lack of wherewithal to commit to reality is a bright shiny object, bejeweled and behest with promises that nothing matters so, do at your leisure anything your wish, because it will be to your satisfaction, any results, and to the distress of those who NEVER KNOW AS WELL AS YOU AND YOUR LEADER TRUMP WHAT IS REALLY GOOD.  It is SURREAL, if you honestly contemplate the entire concept, and not in a good way at all!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCREAM

 Maine outbreaks demonstrate how Trump's politicizing of the CORONAVIRUS leads to death as Pastor ignores warnings and offciate3s an indoor wedding. Coronavirus cases linked to Maine wedding rise to 134 as it revealed the pastor who officiated the nuptials held an indoor service even after health officials said they were investigating an outbreak at his own church

 

Echoing a discredited conspiracy theory, vulnerable Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is suggesting government statistics on coronavirus infections and deaths have been inflated. Ernst, who is facing an unexpectedly tough reelection fight, made the comment after a man at a campaign stop in Waterloo, Iowa, said he believes the numbers of cases and deaths are much lower than reported. Experts refute that and new data suggests that the toll is probably significantly higher than the official count.

 

Ernst, who is facing an unexpectedly tough reelection fight, Ernst said she, too, is “so skeptical” of the official numbers. “These health care providers and others are reimbursed at a higher rate if COVID is tied to it, so what do you think they’re doing?

 

OH AND BY THE WAY THERE ARE 6.13 MILLION CASES OF COVID IN THE US AND 186 DEATHS

 

President Donald Trump suggested that people in North Carolina should vote twice in the November election once by mail and once in person, escalating his attempts to cast confusion and doubt on the validity of the results. "So let them send it in and let them go vote, and if their system's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote," Trump said when asked whether he has confidence in the mail-in system in North Carolina, a battleground state. "If it's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote. So that's the way it is. And that's what they should do," he said.

 

OH AND BY THE WAY, IT IS ILLEGAL TO VOTE MORE THAN ONCE IN THE UNITED STATES

 

OH AND BY THE WAY, HOW MUCH MORE MADNESS, MUST WE AWAKEN TO, CAUSED BY A MAN WHO WE UNDERSTAND HAS MENTAL ILLNESS, AND NOW WE DISCOVER MIGHT HAVE A FEW STROKES. OH AND BY THE WAY, PEOPLE LIKE THIS PASTOR IN MAINE, PRETENDING THAT HE SPEAKS FOR JESUS, AND SENATOR JONI ERNST IN IOWA, PRETENDING SHE SPEAKS FOR THE CITIZENS OF IOWA, WHEN WILL THE PEOPLE WHO SPEAK FOR THE DEAD THE DYING THE SOON  TO DIE, TELL BITH OF THEM TO JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP! YEAH SOMETIMES I EVEN HAVE TO SCREAM LOUDER THAN USUAL EVEN AS I WRITE MY BLOG!!!!!

 

 

Dark Shadows

 Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place………… In an extensive on-camera interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday night, Trump was asked who is pulling Biden's strings. "People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows," Trump said. "People that you haven't heard of. They're people that are on the streets, they're people that are controlling the streets," Trump said.

Men In Black Part III They are the best-kept secret in the universe. Working for a highly funded yet unofficial government agency, Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) and Jay (Will Smith) are the Men in Black, providers of immigration services and regulators of all things alien on Earth. While investigating a series of unregistered close encounters, the MIB agents uncover the deadly plot of an intergalactic terrorist who is on a mission to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies currently in residence in New York City………… The president then suggested, without citing any evidence, that there was an organized plot against the Republican National Convention last week, claiming that someone boarded a plane "from a certain city" and it was "almost completely loaded with thugs wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms with gear and this and that, they are on a plane." "I'll tell you sometime, but it's under investigation right now," he continued. "But they came from a certain city and this person was coming to the Republican National Convention. And there were like seven people in the plane like this person and then a lot of people were in the plane to do big damage."

Suffering from the degree of Narcissism and the depths of a SICK, deranged non-self-aware sociopath, once again must project his intentions on others, and must share with the world the truths he understands; all at first he thinks to undermine an enemy, but in fact, just a demonstration for his own ego, how really sinister he can get and the things he can get away with. People we never heard of are the same Bounty Hunters Putin used in Afghanistan to murder our Troops, The Dark Shadows are the Militia, known as either Good Boys, Good Nazi’s or the Evangelical Christian Crusaders waiting impatiently NOW to create chaos and crisis. Trump's cadre of invisible yet lethal shadow people are the armies of the Russian Bots and perhaps the Saudi’s (Kushner’s best friends) who are spewing propaganda dressed as Americans but indeed only alien life forms, not of this democracy. Trump cannot hold himself back when he knows how the dirty bombs will be used and when they will be deployed. He thinks none of us, understands how he projects his pride in these plots to make America a DYSTOPIAN AUTHORITARIAN NATION!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

words and examples

 malevolent

malicious, spiteful, hostile, evil-minded, baleful, bitter, evil-intentioned, poisonous, venomous, evil, malign, malignant, rancorous, vicious, vindictive, revengeful, vengeful, pernicious.

cruel, fierce, nasty, unfriendly, unkind, ill-natured.

literary malefic, maleficent.

 

Trump is planning trip to Kenosha Wisconsin. Trump’s Intelligence Agency will no longer report verbally to any Congressional Oversight Committee. Trump has pressured the Food and Drug Administration to avoid the necessary steps in testing the efficacy of potential vaccines for COVID. Trump has ordered his Post Master General to ditch Mail Boxes, and any Postal Equipment to help speed the sorting of mail. Trump still has kids in Concentration Camps. Trump has threatened Governors of the Blue States and Mayors of Blue Cities. Trump has yet to say out loud the number of Americans who have died of the CORONAVIRUS, nor offered any words of sympathy to the surviving families. There is still a bounty on American Troops, and Trump has not said a word to Putin.

 

subservient 

fawning, kowtowing, obeisant, obsequious, servile, slavish, subordinate.

 

Moscow Mitch, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Susie Collins, John Cornyn, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Devin Nunes! Just a few placing the power of a Donor’s Purse over the purpose of being an elected official working for the Constituents and obeying the Constitution. Racists, Fascists, Good Nazi’s Bad Nazi’s both Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy, the Adult Children of the Trump Klan, the KKK, Militia using weapons of war as their genitals, Wealthy Jewish Donors, Wealthy Christian Snake Oil Evangelical Pay to Pray Con Artists, and the Plethora of attorneys from Rudy, to Willie the Roy Cohn Barr.

 

douchebaggery

Noun. (plural douchebaggeries) (slang) Blatant stupidity, ignorance, or insolence.

 

Who you have become by celebrating Kyle Rittenhouse and his mother, applauding anything Ann Coulter says, making America great by first destroying its foundation, watching then repeating anything said by anyone on FOX News, thinking Junior Falwell is the victim, calling Trump a Christian in training…oh yeah and actually saying you are still undecided as to whom you will be voting for as president in 2020!