Hearkening to the famous set of lines about "fooling people" -- Trump has once again shown the way. He once said he could "shoot someone in the middle of the street in NY (or anywhere) and still get away with it" -- because he is "loved" so much.
The State of the Union was not so much that -- as a State of the Trump Brain. He thinks he has succeeded everywhere so as he "blows his own horn" in tweets or in speeches -- his loyal sycophants idolize and praise him. If the nation actually survives Trump -- historians will have their say and Trump will fall into his rightful place in our history: regressive, anti-science, truth-denying, obfuscatory, and sociopathic.
Asking everyone to join his view is his only understanding of "healing the divisions" in our country. He must honestly think that the world and its leaders are as ill-informed and stupidly miasmic as he is.
And that is why we must continue to RESIST!
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Please God ... stop Trump!
Today is the day of Trump's massive claim of intelligence, success, intolerance, and ego-stroking known formerly as "the State of the Union" address. We know that Trump will claim complete success for all aspects of change, growth, and monetary success (as he always does) and deny responsibility for all failure, wrongdoing, and uncharitable bad taste (as he always does).
In both cases of course he is lying -- to varying degrees.
His personality, sociopathic behavior, and bad morals do not allow him to do other. He is worse than a flawed human being; he is a deliberately self-made flawed human being. History will record what a fool he is. Mankind will regret the votes of all Americans that were wasted on him for President, as an anomalous error of "extinction" proportions.
For all of the rest of us -- we must RESIST!
In both cases of course he is lying -- to varying degrees.
His personality, sociopathic behavior, and bad morals do not allow him to do other. He is worse than a flawed human being; he is a deliberately self-made flawed human being. History will record what a fool he is. Mankind will regret the votes of all Americans that were wasted on him for President, as an anomalous error of "extinction" proportions.
For all of the rest of us -- we must RESIST!
Monday, January 29, 2018
Love is...
Lots of songs, lots of poems, lots of epitaphs -- begin with those words.
But for me -- and people like me: love is touch, love is comfort, love is a "warm heating pad" contained within your conversations, love is understanding, love is "reaching out," love is trying to always do good for the other, love is the softest "kiss" you can give, love is a ready and capable arm around your beloved, love is life on smooth energizers, love is looking straight into another's eyes without blinking.
Love is an essential, love is the warmest kind of friendship, love is support, love is ... life itself.
Kiss the sky every day, breathe in the wonderful sweet smells of nature, give yourself every opportunity to love--- and be loved.
And, in the Trump "universe," continue to resist.
But for me -- and people like me: love is touch, love is comfort, love is a "warm heating pad" contained within your conversations, love is understanding, love is "reaching out," love is trying to always do good for the other, love is the softest "kiss" you can give, love is a ready and capable arm around your beloved, love is life on smooth energizers, love is looking straight into another's eyes without blinking.
Love is an essential, love is the warmest kind of friendship, love is support, love is ... life itself.
Kiss the sky every day, breathe in the wonderful sweet smells of nature, give yourself every opportunity to love--- and be loved.
And, in the Trump "universe," continue to resist.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
The Long Good-Bye
These are the last few moments that I have access to my Savannah Tech office. I have "done the rounds" and said "good-bye" to all my closest friends here -- no tears, just joy. Many of them asked if they could go with me -- which bespeaks the state of morale here.
Leaving STC is easy -- but not for those left behind. For them the "greener grass" on the other side of the fence always beckons. As it should. Right now this is a "deprived place" to work -- low salaries, good students, very little hope of upward mobility, or positive change --- especially for the faculty and low-level administration.
Given the budget cuts, hiring freezes, and general stupidity in the State Legislature of Georgia (too many Republicans! too many Trumpians!) -- prospects for the future of Georgia education, on this level at least, are slim to none.
So, RESIST while you can, as you should!!!
Leaving STC is easy -- but not for those left behind. For them the "greener grass" on the other side of the fence always beckons. As it should. Right now this is a "deprived place" to work -- low salaries, good students, very little hope of upward mobility, or positive change --- especially for the faculty and low-level administration.
Given the budget cuts, hiring freezes, and general stupidity in the State Legislature of Georgia (too many Republicans! too many Trumpians!) -- prospects for the future of Georgia education, on this level at least, are slim to none.
So, RESIST while you can, as you should!!!
Monday, January 8, 2018
Final Crisis in America
This piece does not concern Donald Trump: his impeachment, his removal from office via the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, his indictment, his resignation, his disgrace, his hospitalization for mental problems, his bankruptcy, his moral repugnance. It does however concern each of us -- all of us: Americans, world citizens, peoples of all nations, all human beings!
We are the creators of our own future. We in America made a mistake in electing Trump as President; we must now "get past him." We must not only survive him, but also put aside all our own overt and covert attempts to "use him" to achieve our own selfish agendas. Yes, we have a "tax cut/restructuring;" yes, it will aid the rich and the corporations most of all; yes, we have allowed a selfish set of actions to override our "good common sense."
But what now? Now we must survive -- we must get back to a sense of holistic "balance." We must regain and re-establish our morals and mores. This is not the "end times." This is not the "omega of America"; is it the "alpha time." It is the time to love, help, support, and triumph over greed. Be a Warren Buffet instead of a Paul Ryan; be a Bill and Melinda Gates instead of a Donald and Ivanka Trump. Be a humanist instead of a capitalist!
And continue to "RESIST."
We are the creators of our own future. We in America made a mistake in electing Trump as President; we must now "get past him." We must not only survive him, but also put aside all our own overt and covert attempts to "use him" to achieve our own selfish agendas. Yes, we have a "tax cut/restructuring;" yes, it will aid the rich and the corporations most of all; yes, we have allowed a selfish set of actions to override our "good common sense."
But what now? Now we must survive -- we must get back to a sense of holistic "balance." We must regain and re-establish our morals and mores. This is not the "end times." This is not the "omega of America"; is it the "alpha time." It is the time to love, help, support, and triumph over greed. Be a Warren Buffet instead of a Paul Ryan; be a Bill and Melinda Gates instead of a Donald and Ivanka Trump. Be a humanist instead of a capitalist!
And continue to "RESIST."
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Sex and Love
Together, in the same relationship, sex and love are beautiful and humanly perfect. Or as perfect as humans can get. Ecstasy is as close to physical perfection as a human being can get.
I will not talk about Divinity, spiritual perfection, God, Angels or Saints in this regard. I have no "direct" experience of any of them except through "faith" -- which is true of most of us. Sex is in my level of experience -- and is the reason I believe that "sex is not a sin" -- in nearly all cases. Sex as power is a sin; sex with the unwilling is a sin; sex across species is probably a sin; sex without purpose is also probably a sin. Sex for pleasure is not a sin; nor is sex for enjoyment; sex without the intention of procreation is also not a sin.
Religions generally are afraid of sex -- they (the religions) label sex as "the original sin" equating it with Adam/Eve and the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden. So God punished mankind for eating an apple? (More likely a peach or mango?) Why? Because God is vengeful -- or doesn't understand his own creation -- or has some kind of "hang-up" about sex? I don't think so; and neither do you.
If the "original sin" is something as small as sex -- then God is not God, but is a human fiction created by men to limit human behavior. Religion as a belief system, as a moral structure, can be a wonderful aid to mankind. But as a limiting power, as a parameter of what is human; religion itself is driven by the worst constraints within humanity, and is thus, immoral (or at least amoral).
So, continue to resist -- the stupid, the unthinking, the denizens of repression and inhumanity.
I will not talk about Divinity, spiritual perfection, God, Angels or Saints in this regard. I have no "direct" experience of any of them except through "faith" -- which is true of most of us. Sex is in my level of experience -- and is the reason I believe that "sex is not a sin" -- in nearly all cases. Sex as power is a sin; sex with the unwilling is a sin; sex across species is probably a sin; sex without purpose is also probably a sin. Sex for pleasure is not a sin; nor is sex for enjoyment; sex without the intention of procreation is also not a sin.
Religions generally are afraid of sex -- they (the religions) label sex as "the original sin" equating it with Adam/Eve and the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden. So God punished mankind for eating an apple? (More likely a peach or mango?) Why? Because God is vengeful -- or doesn't understand his own creation -- or has some kind of "hang-up" about sex? I don't think so; and neither do you.
If the "original sin" is something as small as sex -- then God is not God, but is a human fiction created by men to limit human behavior. Religion as a belief system, as a moral structure, can be a wonderful aid to mankind. But as a limiting power, as a parameter of what is human; religion itself is driven by the worst constraints within humanity, and is thus, immoral (or at least amoral).
So, continue to resist -- the stupid, the unthinking, the denizens of repression and inhumanity.
Friday, January 5, 2018
Exposing Donald Trump
Literally hundreds of blogs, columns, postings, and podcasts have already exposed the "real Donald Trump" for what he is, a man unfit to be President of the United States. That is my opinion, as one who has seen Donald Trump lie openly in a courtroom; and deceive millions more in all media.
Donald Trump is my President, unfortunately. I can honestly say I did not vote for him, though some friends and relatives of mine did. Nonetheless, I am ashamed of him. Every day he embarrasses us by his petty over-sensitive "hubris." Every day he besmirches the office and the power of the Executive Branch by his over-reaching use of statements, opinions, directives, and intentions. He is certainly living up to his campaign promises -- though I think none of us expected him to be as crass, stupid, and autocratic as he openly appeared during the campaign.
Trump fooled us all then. But he can't fool anyone now. He is a schoolyard bully -- a feeble excuse for a leader; a ridiculous non-example for our children. Though he is not the "anti-Christ" he may be the least interesting man in the world. He is a Wharton "bumpkin" with neither social nor political savvy. He is a L-O-S-E-R!
I am not lying when I say I "pray" for the end of the "real Donald Trump" era.
Resist!!
Donald Trump is my President, unfortunately. I can honestly say I did not vote for him, though some friends and relatives of mine did. Nonetheless, I am ashamed of him. Every day he embarrasses us by his petty over-sensitive "hubris." Every day he besmirches the office and the power of the Executive Branch by his over-reaching use of statements, opinions, directives, and intentions. He is certainly living up to his campaign promises -- though I think none of us expected him to be as crass, stupid, and autocratic as he openly appeared during the campaign.
Trump fooled us all then. But he can't fool anyone now. He is a schoolyard bully -- a feeble excuse for a leader; a ridiculous non-example for our children. Though he is not the "anti-Christ" he may be the least interesting man in the world. He is a Wharton "bumpkin" with neither social nor political savvy. He is a L-O-S-E-R!
I am not lying when I say I "pray" for the end of the "real Donald Trump" era.
Resist!!
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
The New Era of Trumpdumb
Trump claims that "deregulation" is the key to prosperity; that the "only thing holding back 'winning' is the government's interference with corporations (via taxes, control of toxins, control of human rights in the workplace, health regulations for consumers, etc.). His notion that all will be well if the corporations will be in charge of everything and "deals" will mean prosperity for all --are outright lies, and at the very least "naive and superficial" solutions to world level problems: destruction of the earth through pollution, extinction of species due to uncontrolled use of resources, putting hardships on the poor and the non-corporate types via paying for the messes that will follow.
Trump's claims are so moronic and one-sided (including his condemnation of Obama policies as well as those of all former Presidents) that they are a nightmare of ego and solipsistic hubris. Trump is not so much insane as he is non-sane. When crises come, and they will; Trump will continue to blame others, the Democrats, the "deep state," the Liberals -- and he will pass into history as the man that sanity forgot.
Trump's claims are so moronic and one-sided (including his condemnation of Obama policies as well as those of all former Presidents) that they are a nightmare of ego and solipsistic hubris. Trump is not so much insane as he is non-sane. When crises come, and they will; Trump will continue to blame others, the Democrats, the "deep state," the Liberals -- and he will pass into history as the man that sanity forgot.
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