QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I AM AMERICA. I AM THE PART YOU WON'T RECOGNIZE, BUT GET USED TO ME. BLACK, CONFIDENT, COCKY. MY NAME, NOT YOURS. MY RELIGION, NOT YOURS. MY GOALS, MY OWN. GET USED TO ME."

Muhammad Ali

ROSEANNE-ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

Roseanne Barr. There's a piece of work. She obviously is not very smart. She likes Trump and she can't keep her mouth shut. I guess the voices are just too loud for her to ignore. I feel bad for the other people in the show. Anyway, another Trumpy bites the dust. Damn liberals.

REMEMBERING WHEN WE WERE YOUNG

• OUTDOOR JOHNS.
• GOOD MUSIC.
• MOTORIZED BIKES (A baseball card and a clothes pin, Hopefully, not a rookie Joe DiMaggio).
• BACKYARD WIFFLE BALL, STICK BALL, BASEBALL GAMES. CORK BALL WAS PLAYED IN A CAGE. PITCHER, CATCHER, BATTER. 
• DRIVE-INS. (THEY DIDN'T NEED TO WASTE TIME SHOWING A FILM).
• ROTARY PHONES. PARTY LINES. OUR NUMBER WAS 118.
• POTLUCKS AT THE CHURCH.
• HOME-MADE GO CARTS.
• 1957 CHEVY. $800 IN 1965.
• PLAYING DOMINO'S AND CANASTA.
• MARBLES. JACKS. HOP SCOTCH. ALLEY, ALLEY OVER. HIDE AND SEEK. WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME PLAYING ARMY, WHICH LATER WE TRIED TO AVOID.
• FIRST KISSES. HOLDING HANDS. PUTTING YOUR ARM AROUND YOUR SWEETHEART.  ACKWARD. HESITANT. ECSTATIC.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

 Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

A NATIONAL, NO WORLD, DISGRACE

Donald Trump is a disgrace. He has no business sitting in the White House. Everyone knows Russia interfered in the election, but no one does a thing. Day after day, he sets us further back on the evolutionary chain. We will soon need to crawl out of the primordial ooze for the second time. And I sit here in awe, wondering what has happened to us. Perhaps worrying what will happen to us.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"NO ONE IS BORN HATING ANOTHER PERSON BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN, OR HIS BACKGROUND, OR IS RELIGION. PEOPLE MUST LEARN TO HATE, AND IF THEY CAN LEARN TO HATE, THEY CAN BE TAUGHT TO LOVE, FOR LOVE COMES MORE NATURALLY TO THE HUMAN HEART THAN ITS OPPOSITE."

Nelson Mandela

COMMUNITY VS CORPORATION?

I don’t want to be a corporation. I came here to escape being part of a corporation. I want to be part of a community, using municipal rules and policies. I want to feel like I have a say in what happens. Not after the manager and board have decided, but before. Twiggs wanted a corporation, and hand-picked our manager to push, or pull, us along. Now we are running the place like a business. Finances are number one, like any business, and people number two, or three, or….

A community of 13,500 should be paying a manager around $60,000. (Frankly, that would be high). I wonder what we are paying ours? For that matter, I wonder what we are still paying Twiggs?  Or Troon? Or what we will end up paying for the gates? Or the swimming pool? Everything is a secret, particularly if it doesn’t work, which seems to be fairly often.

Our manager is under the illusion that we would have to become a municipality to use municipal rules. As a private club, we can use anything we want.  We can pick the best rules and policies from the best communities in the country. Nothing stops us from doing that but our leadership. After all, we became a corporation overnight. I don’t recall being asked about it. It just happened.

To continue along the corporate trail will force us to consider becoming a municipality in order to help assure democratic rule. Corporations don’t have that. They hand pick their boards and have elections for show. Sound familiar?

My paranoia is pushing me toward believing we been Trumped. But we could have just been fooled, which seems to be just about one-and-the-same. At any rate, I hope we begin to pay more attention. This is our town, not their company.

The Coming Collapse

The Coming Collapse

THE PEEVER

TRY AS THEY MIGHT, RIGHT-WING REPUBLICANS CANNOT HIDE THEIR RACISM. YOU CAN SEE IT IN THEIR EYES. AND HEAR IT IN THEIR LANGUAGE. STILL POISONED BY THEIR PARENTS HATRED.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"WE TREAT RACISM IN THIS COUNTRY LIKE IT'S A STYLE THAT AMERICA WENT THROUGH. LIKE FLARED (PANT) LEGS AND LAVA LAMPS. OH, THAT CRAZY THING WE DID. WE WERE HANGING BLACK PEOPLE."

Chris Rock

CUBA

CUBA HAS EXCELLENT HEALTHCARE. IN HAVANA, EVERY TWO BLOCKS HAS A DOCTORS OFFICE. THE DOCTOR LIVES ON TOP OF AN OFFICE, AND SEES PEOPLE BELOW. YOU CAN GO ANY TIME OF THE DAY. EVERY TEN BLOCKS OR SO, THERE IS A CLINIC. AND IN EVERY DISTRICT, (WHICH I'M NOT SURE IS HOW BIG), THERE IS A HOSPITAL. THE PEOPLE ARE PROUD. THEY EXPLAINED THERE IS HARDLY ANY CRIME. AND THEIR LITERACY RATE IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, THEY LOVED OBAMA AND HATE TRUMP. THAT'S WHAT A HIGH LITERACY RATE GETS YOU.

THE END COULD BE NEAR

IT IS NOT HARD TO SEE THRU TRUMPS BRAIN. PEERING OUT FROM BEHIND HIS ORANGE FACE, HIS EYES SEEP DECEIT AND LIES. HE CAN'T SEE BEYOND HIS OWN SELF-INTEREST. HE HAS NO AGENDA OUTSIDE OF MAKING HIMSELF MORE MONEY AND SUPPLYING HIS EGO WITH MORE NOURISHMENT. HE'S NOT WORTH MUCH MORE THAN THE BLOOD THAT FLOWS THROUGH HIS VEINS. HE WILL GO AWAY EVENTUALLY. HOPEFULLY, IT WILL NOT BE TOO LATE. EVERY ONCE-IN-A-WHILE EVIL GETS THE UPPER HAND. BUT IT NEVER LASTS.

THE END

FRANKLY, I THINK WE ARE SCREWED. I SAW A BAPTIST BILLBOARD SUPPORTING ISRAEL. I'M ASSUMING THEY ARE SUPPORTING ISRAEL KILLING MUSLIMS. THE CHOSEN PEOPLE HAVE BECOME THE AGGRESSORS. I'M PRETTY SURE THE END IS NEAR. BEND OVER AND KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE.

In Major Win Over 'Corporate Bullying,' Seattle Approves Tax on Amazon to Combat Homelessness

In Major Win Over 'Corporate Bullying,' Seattle Approves Tax on Amazon to Combat Homelessness

BACK FROM CUBA

HAD A GOOD TRIP TO CUBA. MY KIND  OF PLACE. THEY LOVE OBAMA, HATE TRUMP. THEY HAVE EXCELLENT HEATHCARE. EVERYONE GETS FOOD. MY KIND OF PLACE.d

QUOTE OF THE REVOLUTION

“There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why should some people walk barefoot, so that others can travel in luxurious cars? Why should some live for thirty-five years, so that others can live for seventy years? Why should some be miserably poor, so that others can be hugely rich? I speak on behalf of the children in the world who do not have a piece of bread. I speak on the behalf of the sick who have no medicine, of those whose rights to life and human dignity have been denied.” 
Fidel Castro

YOU TALK ABOUT A REVOLUTION

HEADED TO CUBA FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. NEED TO LEARN ABOUT STARTING A REVOLUTION. I'LL BE IN TOUCH WHEN I GET BACK.

HOW DO YOU SPELL REVOLUTION

DUMP TRUMP. NOW

How To Stop Trump

How To Stop Trump



DEMOCRATS, TAKE NOTICE!

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