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Friday, April 24, 2020

To Trump Followers, Supporters, Republicans and Right Wingers Across America


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You say it's your right to protest now but you get angry when Kaepernick takes a knee.
You say your body is your own, but you get angry at a woman who demands the same.
You are against abortion saying every life is precious, yet you are willing to sacrifice your parents and grandparents for the economy.
You claim corona virus is fake, yet you wear a mask, gown, and gloves.
You say healthcare is a privilege, but want your Covid-19 hospitalization covered.
You say Socialism is bad, yet your hand is out for a stimulus check, unemployment benefits and you wait in line at a food bank.

What you say confuses me.

Forgive me if I no longer care what you say.


-Author unknown

To be clear, you made no sense long, long before this President, too.


Sunday, October 1, 2017

Quote of the Day -- Timely


Not only was H.L Mencken correct here but he and his quote are extremely relevant and poignant now, what with sports figures taking a knee about justice and injustice in our nation.

Image result for “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”  ― H.L. Mencken

Sunday, September 10, 2017

You Should Be Watching This


A documentary on Jackie Robinson is on this evening on PBS and KCPT. It's part one of this series by, again, no surprise, Ken Burns.
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It is fantastic.

What Jackie Robinson did and what he--and his wife--went through is just incredible.

And PBS, showing this now.

Incredible. Brilliant. 

We need to know this history, period, but it's especially important and relevant just now, at this time, with racism, once again, rearing its ugly head. No surprise but another Ken Burns documentary. And then with Colin Kaepernick, standing up against injustice, just as Jackie did?  It's extremely poignant.

We need, however, as a nation, to stop having to relearn these lessons. We should know all this already. We went through it. We shouldn't have to go through it again, to learn it once more.

Oh, and Buck O'Neil is even in it so all the more reason to watch.