Politics
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Politics
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES
I admit, I was scared when I got the email- the email that threatened my life and the lives of those around me. For weeks a group of organizers in my community had been planning a local March For Our Lives event. We were getting many offers of, “Can I help in anyway? We need to do something about this.” Even people who didn’t usually step up were offering help. In the back of my mind I suppose I knew that there would be kick back, that we may get hecklers and disrupters BUT I did not imagine the vicious email we would get. I guess because I don’t think of the world in terms of hatred and racism like some do. Here it is, completely un-edited:
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
The March for our Lives Movement (MAROLI) closes upon the nation’s capital, as have myriad other citizens’ interest groups throughout the relatively short life of this republic. This time, there is a difference. MAROLI is not inhibited by time, politics or money. It is pushed by renewable youth, passion and technology. The latter is kryptonite to the former.
- Written by: Michal Hamilton
- Category: Politics
Arming Teachers? Yeah I’m not too sure about that one.
Sadly here we are again dealing with another school shooting in America. No other nation upon God’s good green Earth has this problem like America, but Hell we’re No. #1, right? Understand that I can take no joy in making that statement, by the way. Going back to the issue at hand, what can be done to reduce the frequency of these horrible events? It is clear to me that “thoughts and prayers” aren’t working (for full disclosure I am a Deacon at my church), I am all for praying but I am equally all for some action.
Read more: Arming Teachers? Yeah I’m not too sure about that one.
- Written by: Bonnie Bertelson
- Category: Politics
I watched the horrible news of the Parkland, Florida shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School unfold on live TV. I saw the children, as they fled the buildings with hands up – some of them with Valentine balloons in tow - in stunned confusion of “Another”: Another mass school shooting… Another preventable act of gun violence… Another devastated community… Another round of meaningless prayers from legislators and deafening silence from the NRA.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
When I was in Brazil, I voiced my curiosity about the, “Favelas,” the Black slums that populate almost inaccessible, prime real estate in Rio de Janeiro’s highlands. I was told that they were created by runaway slaves who were looking for safe places to hide out.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Politics
This weekend the California Democratic Party had it’s Endorsement Convention and it was raucous, exciting, loud, surprising, educational and exciting. In 2010 the state of California passed a measure to enact a “top-two primary which is a type of primary election in which all candidates are listed on the same primary ballot. The top two vote-getters, regardless of their partisan affiliations, advance to the general election. Consequently, it is possible for two candidates belonging to the same political party to win in a top-two primary and face off in the general election”. Whether or not this was a good idea remains to be seen and whether we like it or not it is the law of the land and we all have to abide by it. Until we can change it.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is not sacrosanct. It is, however, decrepit and anachronistic.
When I was a teenager in Philadelphia, sometimes while doing delivery chores downtown, I would wander into Independence Hall. There were no guards or hovering docents. As you entered the back door, there was the Liberty Bell at eye-level. It was not encased, and was fully available for hands-on inspection. The most popular thing was to stick your fingers into that famous crack.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
While in the title I apply Henry II’s allusion to Thomas Becket to mean “Us” and him who dishonors the Oval Office, it is obvious that that same thought haunts the mind of the Evil Interloper with regard to Robert Mueller.
Why do we watch this ridiculous clown show in silence? The answer seems to stem from a variety of dreadful apprehensions. Somehow or other, this Constitution-shop bull has succeeded in bullying the whole of our society. Will no one take him on?
Are we nuts? Why are we allowing this man continually to expose our nation to the Soviet/Russian expressed mentality of, “burying” us? Except for the delusional one-third of us, no one agrees with the treasonable presidential declaration that Putin is a preternatural pawn and innocent as a lamb in these U.S-substantiated accusations of Russian meddling in U.S. elections.
The man who was elected to. “Defend...the United States against all enemies…” curiously and unerringly finds no fault in a murderous tyrant who blatantly is attempting to restore Soviet-like controls and actively promotes his contempt for Western democracies. Why is there not, at this moment, a battalion of marines encircling the White House and flushing out this floor-flushing, floozy-flatterer?! Probably because they never would get through the constant, Moscow-style parade that this idiot man-child is planning, and which would sap needed funding from the practical purposes of our armed services.
Amazingly, smack in the midst of, #MeToo which was dubbed last year as Time Magazine’s most topical of topics, this clueless clod shed salty tears over the departure of two brutality-in-marriage-charged White House staff members.
- Written by: Bonnie Bertelson
- Category: Politics
I don’t know where to start writing about domestic violence… again. I don’t know how to explain why my emotions are virtually bouncing off the walls of my head… again. I don’t want to think about my own experiences from long ago… again. But I won’t be silent about domestic violence… never again.
