teletubbies

The Teletubbies was British Pre School series which centered around four characters drawn in red, yellow green and purple. Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa, and Po frolic and play in the idyllic Teletubbyland, while a baby's face in a sun coos and laughs. The Teletubbies have televisions in their stomachs on which they watch real children. A large, pinwheel-shaped windmill begins a "magical event" during episodes.

On February 1999Tinky Winky, one of four characters on the children's TV show ''Teletubbies,'' was accused of being gay and therefore according to Jerry Falwell, the formal Moral Majority leader is a moral menace to American youth. Writing in the February issue of his magazine, National Liberty Journal, Mr. Falwell said the creators of the program intended for Tinky Winky to be a gay role model.' 'He is purple -- the gay-pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle -- the gay-pride symbol,'' he wrote. He also noted that Tinky Winky carries a purse-like bag.

On Wednesday, April 10, 2020, the newest link to the chain of Trump Shame, William Barr, informed the Congress that he, upon HIS final indulgence in destroying what we have left as any form of democracy, would decide which components of the Mueller Report might become even more redacted. Even though Robert Mueller and his Team finalized the report, and spent almost two years preparing the Report, William Barr (the guy who is supposed to be the leader of law enforcement for this nation, able to stand upon the shoulders of lady liberty entrusted with fairness and love of country, not love of a despot) will add his own redactions, based on a variety of categories. So instead of the public JUST receiving the old “middle finger” from the government hiding their special secrets, we will now have a rainbow of “middle fingers” in our aces. William Barr is one of those holier than thou hypocrites calling himself a Christian, he does the Crusader act pretty well, so one has to wonder what colored ink he will use for his version of redactions. Will William Barr use purple at all because as Jerry Falwell suggested that is a gay pride color? Will Mr. Barr use red or orange or blue or green or yellow because those also are a part of the Rainbow Flag, you know, the Flag used by the Gay Militia to take over this country!

Once again an appointed individual, by a hacked into office, under great scrutiny for conspiring, colluding, criminally finding common ground with a foreign enemy, will play the role as King Solomon and decide which part of the Baby (the Mueller Report) the public can read, and dress it up in colors from the rainbow. Now just so you know, many an Evangelical is mighty pissed, because they say the Rainbow is theirs, that God created it, and that those nasty HOMOSEXUALS  had the audacity and claimed it as their own. So, now the William Barr boondoggle will become the new Teletubbies Show!

The vapours

The Victorians (ladies) frequently had an attack of the vapours  They would often faint at the slightest provocation and had to be resuscitated with smelling-salts (sal volatile), or have fans flapped over their faces to provide a draught of air.

Laura Ingraham must have been overwhelmed with a case of the vapours She understands, as do the trolls and mindless minions who watch her propaganda FOX entertainment hour, that SHE and only she, understands the crusade, the pain, the sheer grief, that Christians are suffering in this nation, and only SHE has the power of Jesus himself to set America straight. AND then that damn Gay guy, Pete Buttigieg, had the audacity to claim that Jesus loves him, WELL, the NERVE, and poor homophobic Laura came down with a case of the Vapours, and the only way to handle this modern version of old Victorian distress is to Tweet! So, the pompous, pious, piece of shit Tweeted: Mayor Pete comes off as more sanctimonious and self-righteous here than most Evangelical Christians I've met because that Gay man Pete Tweeted: "Buttigieg to Pence: 'Your problem is not with me -- your quarrel, sir, is with my creator”

Imagine that, the Gays are now claiming Jesus as their Lord and Savior. WTF, what is next, the presidency?! Poor Laura, overcome with the Vapours a Victorian archaic anti-modern anti-equality anti-fairness disease. Dear Mayor Pete Buttigieg, thank you so much for just being YOU, and providing no apologies to the bigots who fear the simple fact that you find no shame in being who you are, who just happens to contain the quality of being a Gay man. 

WTF, AGAIN

ALL CAPS! YEP, WTF!!!!! (A WHOLE BUNCH OF EXPLANATION MARKS ALSO.) If I hear one more supposed intelligent person/or paid to act intelligent Talking Head, explains, that ever since, Nixon, every candidate nominated by a political party to represent their Party has done this nation a FAVOR, (a fucking FAVOR), by providing the American public with their personal tax returns. HUH! Until Trump came along, I have to admit I honestly had NO idea that the guy or gal running for President had the choice, (THEIR FUCKING CHOICE). So the guy or gal who is going to learn ALL of the most TOP, of TOP SECRETS, ALL of the hidden codes and mysteries that keep this nation ticking and ticking, has the CHOICE of either demonstrating to the American public how honest they are, or how dishonest they are, by either showing us who they are beholden to, or not. I thought we fought a REVOLUTION, against the Royals because we decided that no one IS above the law.

So the guy or gal who can hand out SECURITY CLEARANCES or in the time Trump, just remove them, does not have to go through the same (once rigorous and valid) background checks, follow the money, who's zooming who, routine! SERIOUSLY! You can be a spy, or in the time of Trump a COMPROMISED AGENT, but because you are called the President, no one gets to know how shady of a past you have created, or in which are currently living. ARE WE FUCKING SERIOUS, AMERICA…?

All of the Trump court jesters and official ass lickers act as if we AMERICAN CITIZENS, have the audacity to DEMAND to know Trump’s finances, his business dealings, and his family’s associations. The guy is making decisions that concern ALL of our lives, and WE are supposed to lie down dead, and let him run over us as if we are road kill! Nixon was a crook; Trump is a crook. Why IS there NOT a LAW, that states: If you intend to run for any Federal Office, be it President, or Vice President, or Senator or Congress Person, because of the authority those positions hold, YOU must pass the same security clearance as anyone you might appoint. How is THIS even a THING? 

So let me make this clear…the guy or gal who eventually has all of the power in this nation (except for Mitch McConnell), once elected as President, does not need, BY LAW to show the public ANY materials which state he or she is LEGIT! BUT, he or she, has the right to decide who else can get SECURITY CLEARANCES, or have them taken away. Why are WE THE PEOPLE, not demanding that our Government take heed, and place the ALL men or women on the same scale and have them provide any background information, all of which will affect ALL of us!

stone soup

And as the parade of promising presidential possibilities, promote themselves, providing some insights as to what they might offer, if elected, the real world in which this nation finds itself, thriving on the thin wires of Trump and the Republican’s non-stop revelation to ruin our Republic, masses of red hats, replacing white robes and red armbands, continue to shout “Lock SOMEONE Up,” of course that someone NEVER ever the real criminal Trump! Pretending that MSNBC or CNN or for that matter the mainstream of news outlets is going to really challenge, in-depth, their promises (many a pipe dream for the current crop of citizens just fighting to exist each day), very few of the Dems (now known by the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy or the Neo Nazi’s) as Democrat Socialists, traverse to the real towns and neighborhoods suffering the vacant promises of Trump (those usually all white), or to the let’s all look the other places in this nation where (mostly the people of color live), who are usually talked at and never to, and no matter the case, seem to never have a ladder with more than one rung attached to it.

I have read a variety of Factual News (such a shame we live in a decade where one must first attach the adjective fake or fact in front of the word news), where communities whose collective vote, favored Trump and his LSD lies, and who still attend rally’s for a mad man telling them (as they wait for food stamps/have inadequate health care/or no health care because its either food, or clothes or heat) how TERRIFIC/BEAUTIFUL/TREMENDOUS their life has become because of Trump’s policies. (I read the book Stone Soup, during my Kiddie Lit course when I thought to teach was my destiny…at least in that story, a vagrant, a man with nothing convinced he could provide soup for the community, all he had was a cauldron and a stone, but bit by bit neighbor by neighbor, everyone believed that working together adding just one item, there might actually be some soup…and as a group of socialist’s acting together the Con Man, delivered on his promise and realized, it does take a community, not one person!

But I digress…I receive at least three dozen emails from then DNC and almost every Democrat candidate running to just give them $5 more dollars and damn they will kick ass! Bull shit! Hey Dems, here is an idea, for free, but instead of me, “just $5 to make magic”, try this…find those communities of white poverty, the places where Hitler might have gone to find sanctuary or the hinterlands where folk believe the South will Rise Again, or that inbred marriages make being white supreme. All of you brave souls, you know the sprinkling of women, women of color, men, men of color, and even the homosexual, play the Trump game, ALL of you have a Town Hall meeting. Provide real evidence of the decline in the lives of those living there by inviting real neighbors not to bitch about politics, but to explain their difficulties just existing. Imagine what happens when your message touches just one person, and you are no longer that boggy man FOX News promised, but one real American talking to another American. Get rid of pomp and circumstance, the fake promises, just listen and provide the audience with stories not made up by George Soros, but truth told by the local citizens! Then try ALL of that and wander into the communities made up of people of color. Don’t rely on the past, but see where their present has taken them and discuss their future, not just as people of color, but as Americans!

distant music

“And there was distant music, Simple and somehow sublime,
Giving the nation A new syncopation- The people called it Ragtime!”

(From the Musical “Ragtime”/Lynn Ahren)

Boisterous, bullying, billowing, begging, bemoaning, even bragging, the music coming from the White House and its staff of self-castrated cartoon caricatures, echoed in lush harmony by the Putin puppets calling themselves Republicans, with just enough bravado from FOX and Fascists, the distant music once so sublime and sarcastic has grown in grandeur and gradation, LEAVE THE MUELLER REPORT TO WILLIAM BARR/HOW DARE YOU SEEK THE PRIVATE DEALING OF TRUMP, YOU THINK HE IS PRESIDENT!

With the finger taps of Tweeting, which may one day become a sport in the Olympics for the sloths, along with how often you can swing at a golf ball and still declare yourself a winner, the syncopation from Trump is that those nasty Dems are poor losers, they are playing politics, they hate this nation! I am TRUMP the Evangelicals call me the Christ in training, the anointed one, the next great religion! The MAGA’s love me because I removed the white robes and white hoods from their bodies so they can see daylight, and the GOOD Nazi’s are making a shrine unto me!

How about this Trump and McConnell…I am an American I am entitled to see your tax returns because you work for me and I want to know if you are a liar, compromised, a criminal and even paid your fair share of taxes. And Trump, if there is nothing to see, then why to hide (YOU ALWAYS HIDE). Oh yeah, how about this, all of you men and women in Congress running for President. Why not do two things, the first is PUSH for a law for the 2020 presidency and into the future, that to run for President, once you submit your name you provide 10 years of tax returns. And the second thing ALL of you submit YOUR tax returns for the past 10 years also! 

And there was distant music Changing the tune, changing the time,
Giving the nation, A new syncopation: (Ragtime/Lynn Ahren)

some truths

The list of those seeking the Democrat nomination for the office of President, is almost becoming as long and tedious as the list of convicted felons, those under grand jury subpoenas, Cabinet members either leaving their offices under disgrace or actual criminal activities, and those associated with anything Trump who has either violated tax laws, perjured themselves or have had illegal if not dubious business relationships with the Russians and or other nasty world leaders. Each day MSNBC or CNN pretend to find new and innovative questions for the Democrat wanna be’s and each and every day, it seems there is more and more bull shit the supposedly wise and professional Talking Heads, inquire about, leaving less and less time for real questions which actually might either change who deems themselves the next BIG THING, or in fact should just go home and sit in the dark!

I am a proud Democrat, call me Progressive even say the words Liberal and for certain ways and means in my American life a bit Socialist. I don’t hate Capitalism, I have indeed thrived via a free market place, but I have also been stifled by the rigged tax systems for the wealthy and the unbelievable tax loopholes for the new race of beings called Corporations, and the entire smoke and mirrors of the Republican witchcraft called Trickle Down Economics. And as a Democrat, I have also grown so tired COMPLETELY drained with some kind of recent CASTE SYSTEM intended to equalize the playing field, but instead has created some kind of Cannibalism within the Democrat party. To listen to the kind of questions the Democrat candidates are asked and the standards by which there is an ASS-UM-TION, all Democrats must adhere to piss me off and make no sense at all in having MY political party not only take over the White House but assume the majorities in the Congress!

Suddenly Joe Biden’s behavior is worse than Trumps, never recognizing the use of language and the machismo attitude and misogynist manner demonstrated by Trump. Suddenly every male candidate is asked would you select a female as a running mate, instead of would you select the best possible candidate to be on your ticket. Where are the questions of when you will show us your tax returns from the past ten years? When will you provide us with any clients or associates you have done business with, either from this country or a foreign nation? Have you read the Constitution? Would you be willing to take the same test we ask of anyone who wants to become a new citizen of the United States? What is your personal belief in the division of church and state? Have you given thought to term limitations for the Congress, understanding that the Executive Branch is limited so there will NOT be a President for life? Are you prepared to provide for the common citizen the same benefits that Federal politicians receive as well as most of their staff?  For me, it is absurd to have dozens and dozens of men and women running for the office of President, and not having any of them asked questions pertaining to the dozens and dozens of broken laws, and ravished intentions toward Democracy that the Republicans and Trump are still in the midst of committing. Instead of the Dems eating one another, I would love to find which person is the right one for me, for my country, and for the next generation of my family and friends! 

color me red

The old con game was placing a coin under three red cups. The shyster would stand behind the cardboard table, then try the sleight of hand, look you in the eye, move the three red cups round and round in and out, provide a slight smirk lean in and then dare you to select the appropriate cup and offer you some kind of stuffed animal if you chose the correct red cup. Wham bam, no matter how well you kept an eye on the certain cup hiding that coin when the little con was finished, and the cup you were certainly held for you a great gift…you were incorrect…you were HAD! Shysters are good at their trade! They are great grifters! Conmen are conscious of just how gullible you are the odds are always in their favor.

Have you ever seen the Tax Payer, Trump Rally, you know the pretend fireside chat, that presidents used to have to speak to his “fellow Americans”, not his Klansmen? Trump is running for office in 2020 and uses these Rally’s as if he was a sincere Commander-In-Chief speaking directly to the people. These Rallies are just one more way to soothe Trump's pouty insecure mood, just like the zillions of trips to Mar-A-Lago, which are costing Tax Payers Zillions of dollars so Trump can take a holiday at our expense.

I can only spend the three or four seconds, as Cable news network flashes scenes reminding me of those good old days when Adolph Hitler stood before his passive peons, praising himself and in those days the Fatherland. Where the throngs of racists, anti-Semites, bigots, xenophobes wearing their red swastika armbands, smiling and cheering as Der Fuhrer belittled immigrants, any perceived political opponent, the free press, and the OTHER. Now we have Trumpty-Dumpty and his Kingsmen standing before throngs of jeering jerks wearing their red MAGA hats shouting, “lock her up”, lock him up” “lock them up!” This time, of course, all pretending to defend the Homeland, from immigrants, Socialist Democrats, the First Amendment, and anyone who dares step foot on the Second Amendment. As I looked at the latest mob pictures of all the Red MAGA hat wearing minions, watching Trump swish and sway his tiny fingers, it reminded me of that shyster behind the card table, and I was actually waiting for Trump to ask, which head wearing a red MAGA hat has a brain. Then all the Klansmen changing places and finally removing their hats and the answer is NONE!