There's a meme going around depicting demonstrators as cry babies. If we are crying, it is not because we lost, but for: The families of the Jews buried in peace whose graves are being desecrated because of the empowerment of the worst … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2017
The Next Elected President Will Be Republican Unless Democrats Address The Non-Racist Root Problems Inflaming Most Trump Voters
Call me an optimist but I refuse to believe that most Trump voters (63 million Americans) are true racists and homo-phobes and anti-immigrant etc. Most are pissed about lost opportunities for them and their children. Then Trump comes … [Read more...]
Accepting JConway’s Challenge – Party Participation 101
On one of the recent threads regarding the race for DNC Chair, JConway suggested that I try my hand at a diary written in layman's terms regarding how to break into what to some may feel like a fortress which is difficult to breach. While … [Read more...]
Dental practitioner bills could undercut care of the developmentally disabled
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) Sometimes even well-intentioned bills in the Legislature can have unintended impacts, and we're concerned about two such bills that authorize mid-level dental practitioners to perform basic dental … [Read more...]
Trump is using the ‘shock doctrine’ to become a corporate dictator, but it’s not really working
[Note: I tried to insert an image here of the cover of Naomi Klein's book, "The Shock Doctrine," but nothing seems to show up.] From the continuous barrage of propaganda emanating from President Trump and his administration, it seems … [Read more...]
Excellent Essay Making the Rounds:
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN AMERICAN Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality … [Read more...]
Appropriation By Dictate?
So what gives? Money has to be authorized and appropriated by acts of Congress in order to be spent by our government. So why are news reports tonight saying that the department of homeland security is already contracting for the building … [Read more...]
Party Chair: Are We Doing this Wrong?
Here's a question for everyone to think of today, as we're awaiting news on our next party chair from the smoke-filled halls of a hotel in Atlanta. How many people do we think should get a vote? 477, or 4,770,000? Right now, it's 477 … [Read more...]
DNC chair voting happening now
... and you would be forgiven for wondering when this primary will ever end. Most of the attention has fallen to Keith Ellison, an early endorser of Bernie Sanders and therefore the favorite of that wing. Tom Perez is seen as the … [Read more...]
MA Newspaper Owner: Layoffs Will Continue Until Subscriptions Improve
More than a dozen of Massachusetts' top mid-sized newspapers are facing even more layoffs, because $32 million in profit isn't enough for their Wall Street owners. Reports David L. Harris in the Boston Business Journal: The cuts come as … [Read more...]
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