A “book learnin’” vs. Common Sense Look at Just One 9/11 Incident

(Originally published at OpEdNews)

I know you’ve all heard it before, mostly from conservatives.

“Yeah, he or she got lots of book learnin’, but they don’t got no common sense. Why in the hell would the American government kill its own people?

Besides, what do we look like? Cambodia under Pol Pot? North Korea under Kim Jong Il? Germany under Hitler? China under Mao Tse-Tung?

No, boy, you’re way out there with your tin hat. This here is the good ole US of A and we’re a free country and we elect our leaders and there ain’t no way that we’re gonna elect a crazy person that would do somethin’ really mean like kill his own people.

I mean you’re nuts, son. Like I says, this here is a free country and if you want it to stay that way, you better stop sayin’ such unpatriotic stuff!

The worse things our presidents do is have sex there in that there White House and, of course, wouldn’t ya know it was a liberl that done that.”

“Book learnin’ vs. common sense.” If I had a bucket of vomit for every time I heard that ridiculous phrase, my house would reek.

However, we can “appease” those who want to look at, say, what happened on 9/11 from a common sense point of view.

The first thing that has to happen is for those who say that, this being the “good ole US of A”, it couldn’t happen here to somehow let go of their emotional jingoism long enough to read with an open mind what I’m about to write. That, in itself, could present a problem. But let’s say that they’re able to do it.

Secondly, those who entertain the possibility of an alternative explanation which does not agree with the official explanation have got to put aside any emotional feelings towards George Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of The Bush Administration. No preconceived love for country or hate of its leaders must enter into it.

I’m not going to rewrite Griffin’s books here and give each and every example which, in the light of common sense, might help people to look at what happened on 9/11 in a manner which differs from the way they look at it now.

In fact, I’m going to give only one example. My example doesn’t prove that 9/11 was an inside job. What my example should do, looked at in the light of common sense, is to help those who believe that “the good old US of A” could never be lead by people who would harm American citizens think twice about that.

The President Of The United States is getting ready to enter a second grade classroom in Florida. His plans are to use the progress of the students in that classroom to prove that one of his programs, “No Child Left Behind”, is working perfectly.

While standing outside the classroom, waiting to enter, George W. Bush looks at a television which happens to be on and in his line of sight and sees the first plane crash into The World Trade Center.

I know, I know, you that have done any research at all know that this is impossible since no one saw the first plane crash into the World Trade Center as it happened. The video of that sight wasn’t released until much later.

But, you know what I’m going to do? I’m going, for the sake of my common sense argument, to pretend that somehow, as President Of The United States Of America, George W. Bush has so many surveillance cameras throughout the nation that he actually did see what he said he saw. I’m trying to be as fair as possible here.

OK. The President Of The United States Of America sees one of the largest commercial jetliners in service crash into one of the most important buildings in the world. In fact, the building is part of what we call The World Trade CENTER.

Add to that the fact that this happens in New York City, one of the most populous cities in the United States Of America.

Here’s how The President Of The United States Of America responds to what he sees:

“I saw an airplane hit the tower – the TV was obviously on – and I used to fly myself and I said, ‘Well, there’s one terrible pilot and, uh, well it must have been a horrible accident.’”

“I saw an airplane hit the tower?”

“…it must have been a horrible accident?”

Let’s pretend that no other airliner hit any other building on that day. The only thing that happened, and The President Of The United States Of America saw it live, was that one huge airliner hit an extremely important building in an extremely populous and important city in The United States Of America and all he can do is to make the casual remarks shown above.

Not only does he make remarks that are casual, but he proceeds with his original plan to go into the classroom to sell his program!

I don’t know how anyone else describes “common sense”, but this is what my common sense tells me.

One huge airliner crashes into The World Trade Center and The President knows about it because he sees it happen in real time. At the very least, any president who I would be proud to refer to as my president says, “My God. One hell of a lot of Americans must have been injured and maybe many may have been killed!

And The World Trade Center is where a good deal of “world trade” takes place. What kind of consequences could this “horrible accident” have on world economic systems, especially the American economy?

Oh, I just realized that, when I projected that many Americans might have been seriously injured or might have died, I discounted the fact that this took place in New York City. Oh my God, that means that the number of Americans that may have been injured or killed is possibly even larger than what I first calculated!

I’m sorry fellas, we gotta get outta here. I gotta speak to Mineta (Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta) and Garvey (Federal Aviation Administrator Jane Garvey)! This is horrible! How could this have happened? Get me to Air Force One ASAP!”

Secret Service Agent to second grade teacher: “Ma’am, I’m afraid The President’s got some serious business to take care of. We’ll reschedule this event, though, don’t you worry about that.”

And off he goes to find out more about this “horrible accident” as soon as he can.

Quite possibly, the “common sense” of some people may still not lead them to believe that The President Of The United States Of America should have reacted this way to such a “horrible accident” involving so many Americans, such an important structure and such a populous and important city. Maybe I only think that it’s common sense because of all my “liberl, unpatriotic ‘book learnin’”. But I’m thinking, “Nah, it’s common sense.”

As I implied in the beginning of this article, I think we can go through Griffin’s books and books and videos written and produced by others and find many, many, many more instances of just plain common sense explanations for what happened on 9/11.

However, I don’t think the “my country right or wrong and, damn it, it’s never wrong” people removed their hubristic armor long enough to even look at this one, single case with an open mind.

To friendship,
Michael

“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.” - Leo Rosten

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Roy Zimmerman's “Thanks For The Support”

A few years back, a political satirist named Johnny Steele put on a show at The Town Hall Play House in Lafayette, California. Steele’s show was funny and I’d definitely go to see him again.

A guest he presented was much funnier than Steele and was also much more politically biting than Steele. After the show, the guest, whose name is Roy Zimmerman, was selling his CD called “Faulty Intelligence” in the foyer of the building. I didn’t have to be convinced to purchase one.

There are satirists that are funny while addressing socially significant issues.

That’s what Roy Zimmerman does – he addresses socially significant points and he’s hilarious. The one word I’m not certain that one can use with other satirists that is perfectly legitimate in describing Roy Zimmerman is brilliant.

In searching for Roy Zimmerman, I was taken to YouTube, where else. The video that opened automatically was of Zimmerman singing a song I hadn’t previously heard. This song is socially significant as well, but it’s anything but funny. It’s a beautiful song and its beauty is in its understanding of the darkness of war. I hope that you can become as emotionally attached to this song as my wife and I did when we first heard it. It’s called:

“Thanks For The Support”

To friendship,
Michael

“No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.” - Lily Tomlin

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Want Ads: Unions Wanted - Rather - Needed

Howard Zinn tells us in his People’s History of the United States that, “…as the twentieth century opened, 284,000 children between the ages of ten and fifteen worked in mines, mills and factories…” in The United States of America.

Child labor and unconscionable treatment of all employees, especially women and children, spawned the organization of labor unions.

Once organized, labor unions pressured Congress and employers to humanize employment in the US.

There are people today, so called middle class, working people, who have said that it’s a good thing that unions are fading out of site. Many say that unions have outlived their usefulness. They did some good at first, but they became as corrupt if not more corrupt than the employers from whom they were supposed to protect workers.

No one can deny that many unions became too large and, consequently, corrupt and, in many cases, began doing business with organized crime (hey, the purpose of a union is to organize, right?).

During Ronald Reagan’s administration, the government of The Former United States of America began its path toward today’s almost entirely fascist governing methodology. Corporations knew that they were on their way to being in the driver’s seat of the American government after Ronald Reagan fired 11,350 air traffic controllers in 1981.

It’s obvious, as well, that the media was realizing at this time that it was, in fact, a corporate entity as it presented the argument made by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association (PATCO) as a collection of selfish demands by one of the highest paid professions. There was very little attention given to the history of the turbulent relationship that began in 1968 and culminated with the ’81 strike between PATCO and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Consequently, the public sided with that always upbeat, smiling Reagan when he took the livelihood away from 11,350 American employees.

There was also very little air time given to the fact that, by 1983, the replacement ATCs were already looking to form another union and actually attempted to do so in 1987.

In his article

“Workers Sticking Together to Challenge Corporate Power”

David Johnson makes an excellent case why middle and lower class Americans should cease cheering for Corporations and begin to join their fellow workers in reviving efforts to organize.

To friendship,
Michael

“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.” – James Dewer

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Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

(Originally published at TED.com)

We are all one. I know this sounds like psychobabble or ‘60s “hippie talk”, but it’s neither. It’s physically true. There is energy beyond our being that connects all of us to one another and even connects us to trees, animals and anything that exists upon this earth. As Ms Taylor says in the video, it can’t be put aside for the moment or planned for the future because it’s happening now. It’s happening whether you want to be aware of it or not and the analytical mind, which is found in the left cortex of the brain, fights it tooth and nail.

The mind puts all kinds of obstacles in the way. Religion is one example. I refer to organized, dogmatic religion, not spirituality. Most of the large, monotheistic religions teach us that the life we live upon this earth is an audition of sorts for the “real” eternal life that we will experience at the culmination of this earthly life. These thoughts and beliefs take us from away from now. When we refuse to believe that the only time that’s ever true is now, we find it easy to dwell on getting back at someone, even though the past can never be changed, or a racing to something we can never know, the future. We lose all connection with reality, with now.

As shown in the following video, the left side of the brain isn’t bad. It takes care of things that need logic, like solving a problem.

Learning what is or isn’t toxic in one way or another and knowing enough to stay clear of it is important. Planning a trip makes the trip much more enjoyable. There’s a difference between preparing for a trip and letting the thought of the trip totally engulf you to the point of neglecting important, real responsibilities like - remembering to eat.

John Lennon wrote, “Life is what happens when you’re busy doing other things.”

Ms Taylor reinforces the idea for me that it doesn’t take a god or angels or goblins or spirits flying around to be spiritual. Spirituality is real and I believe that it’s physically manifested.

To friendship,
Michael

“The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.” - David Hume

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Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

They're Takin' Our Jobs!

They’re Takin’ Our Jobs!

There was an episode of South Park which was a spoof of the ongoing immigration debate in The Former United States of America. If I remember correctly, the aliens were just that, aliens from another planet, but they were taking the jobs of the citizens of South Park, Colorado nonetheless. As with most South Park episodes, I found this episode “fall on the floor ” hilarious.

Of course, what isn’t hilarious is the intensity of the real life immigration debate and the traumatic effect that some of the solutions have been and can be both on illegal immigrants and on Americans.

What should one logically think of when hearing the phrase, “They’re taking our jobs”?

Think of it. Here’s this factory, office, vineyard, hotel room which needs cleaning and here are a bunch of Americans doing the work in those places.

A group of Hispanics breaks in and, armed to the teeth with all kinds of weapons, beat the Americans, causing them to run away and abandon their jobs. Of course, the logical next step is for the illegals to put down their weapons, change into the hotel room service uniform and begin doing the jobs. Right? Isn’t that how one “takes” a job from someone else?

And that’s how one would think it happens if one reads letters to the editor which ask, “What part of ‘illegal’ don’t the immigrants understand?”

Now, if one hears the phrase, “They’ve been given our jobs” – well, in my humble opinion, it should create a completely different image and the onus for the “crime” can then be placed where it belongs, as Joshua Holland of AlterNet explains in his article:

Want to Win the Immigration Debate? Start Talking About Illegal Jobs

To friendship,
Michael

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This Is Important!

I received the following from a friend and a member of my mailing list:

A friend and former classmate of mine J. S. Tissianayagam has been arrested by the govt. of SL. He has not been charged with a crime, and has been detained for almost 2 months. They will not charge him nor release him and will not let anyone see him. The govt. wants him to admit that he is a terrorist, which he is not. If he will not admit that then they want him to rescind everything he has written about the the govt. He has been a critic of the govt. and this is their way of getting back at him.

I have attached a website from AI where they have a form letter that could be sent to the Sri Lankan ambassador in the US and the president requesting his release. Those of you who know him could also add to the letter.

He has a degenerative eye condition that could lead to blindness if he does not get treatment. The sooner he gets released the quicker he could get this taken care of.

It only takes a minute. If you could do it I would greatly appreciate it. Attached below is the website.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/sri-lanka/action/page.do?id=YCA0991145000E&n1=3&n2=30&n3=991

The link takes you to Amnesty International’s site.

Doing this is not only important because an innocent man is being held unethically and illegally, even according to Sri Lankan law, but it’s important to do this because, for all of us, it expresses the fact that We The People don’t condone this behavior no matter whose government exhibits it.

Please sign the petition.

Thank you.

To friendship,
Michael

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Yet Another Attempt at a Wake-Up Call

(originally published at OpEdNews)

I write articles that are published in OpEdNews and, when I do, I sometimes reference articles I’ve written which have been published in OpEdNews. When I do that, I often wonder if readers look at those references and think, “Narcissist, narcissist! I’ll never read an article written by a person who promotes his own articles. Narcissist, I tell you!”

Besides the fact that I am somewhat innately paranoid, I’m wondering at this particular moment if readers think that way. You see, I didn’t receive any comments the last time an article of mine was published.

I know, I know. Again, “Narcissist, narcissist! Not only does he want us to read the article which is in the latest OEN publication, not only does he try to get us to go back and read some of his older articles by referencing them in the most recent article, but now he wants comments! Narcissist, narcissist, I say!”

I bet almost everyone would like to know what readers think about his or her articles. It’s only natural. It’s also inevitable that some articles won’t draw comments and many, maybe most, of mine have not drawn comments. I may be a narcissist in some ways, but it’s OK with me if my articles don’t inspire readers to comment.

However, here’s the catch.

Tom Ridge, the first and former Secretary of Homeland Security, has outed The Regime by confirming what many of us suspected. Many of us believe that, if any member or members of The Regime does or says something that’s controversial, is not in the best interest of the nation or is just plain illegal, the color coded “terrorist in the house” warning system changes it hue, distracting the masses. In fact, Keith Olberman exposed this practice on his “Countdown” television program. He actually equated changes in the warning system to specific events that The Regime obviously thought could have made it look bad.

It wasn’t so much a startling exposé as it was an affirmation that The Regime is not in touch with reality. The truth is, if The Regime wants to use color coding to distract people from noticing that it looks bad, the color coding would be flashing somewhat like a disco ball.

The point is “distraction”, though, isn’t it?

During the so called political campaigns in 2000, 2002, 2004 and even 2006, The Regime dusted off and shined up its wedge issues. Yes, during campaign season, George Bush, Dick Cheney and their Velcro troops become defenders of good, wholesome family values. They promise amendments to The Constitution outlawing same sex marriage, abortion, flag burning and flagless lapels. Well, they haven’t suggested an amendment for the last beacon of patriotism - - yet.

While it incites its base to passionately shun those of us who disagree with them in the areas of love, self determination and how cloth ought to be handled, The Regime continues its attack on the nation whose governance is in its paws. It continues to push “free trade agreements” with every third world country and every nation ruled by tyrants – the kind that don’t hide that fact that they’re tyrants - and the consequential damage those agreements do to Americans who are consistently worth less than a million dollars, it continues strengthening the belief that war is so inevitable as to be considered a way of life, it continues to make up rules as it goes along which steadily makes the unitary presidency appear more natural to more people as time passes and it always surprises those of us who actually pay attention with new and even more despicable acts and behaviors.

The point is “distraction”, though, isn’t it?

The Regime has its shills to help with its distraction. An entire national, no, international television network, which dresses up as a 24 hour cable news network, is constantly rototilling the soil so that The Regime can grow and spread its deception.

The Regime arose from The Republican Party and now John McCain is running for president so that The Regime can stay in power. It’s very fortunate for The Regime that McCain promised to do his best imitation of George W. Bush for four years starting in 2009. It would have been a lot more difficult if The Regime had to resort to what many of us suspected it may resort to and that’s finding an excuse to “push the elections back”. It would have had to plan how and where Al Qaeda would cause death and destruction within The FUSA and that would probably entail parting with large sums of money to convince Osama Bin Laden to influence more of his deaf, dumb and blind followers to carry out its plan. Whew! Thank god for John McCain.

Good thing Democrats aren’t trained in the practice of deception, isn’t it?

I did try to make a case that this “exciting”, fingernail biting primary “season” is theatrics in my previous article, “Stop The Theatrics” (no link in avoidance of narcissism). As I mentioned, though, no one commented. It was silly of me to try to point out how this presidential campaign has thus far been nothing but theater and the actors are following scripts as rehearsal for following a script once one of them is “elected” as our next president. I should have known no one could have been distracted from what could possibly the most important presidential election in the history of this nation.

Now that I think of it, I tried to make the same points in 2004, but I overlooked the fact that people would not be sundered from their involvement in what could have been the most important presidential election in the history of this nation. I wonder why I continue to overlook that fact. We were told by some extremely intelligent people that John Kerry may not have been perfect, but any Democrat would have been better than four more years of George W. Bush. Who knew what our country would have looked like if George W. Bush was re-elected?

I’m guessing we all sighed a sigh of relief when we came to the conclusion that Bush was not reelected, that he merely stole another presidential election.

Four years have passed and George W. Bush is still the president in spite of the effort of many of our finest citizens to have him and his entire administration impeached. The nation has lost more of its military personnel, we’ve murdered more Iraqi civilians, the economy is still in decline in the real world even though there are statistics that can be and are erroneously used to debate that conclusion and war as a way of life has taken us to the brink of a winner leave all confrontation with Iran.

Again, I write an article that attempts to gain your attention and distract you from the most important issue of the day which is, “What’s the score?”

How many delegates does Barrack really have? How many does Hillary really have? Should we count Florida and Michigan?

And what about those sneaky “super delegates”? My god, we’ve even stolen the lingo of the sporting world!

Super delegates? Super Bowl. Super heavyweight. Super duper delegates.

Ladies and gentlemen – wake up! No one is running to be the next commander-in-chief of the American armed forces, the next “leader of the free world”.

Oh, I’m a Truther all right and I’ve even read some interesting articles about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, although I’d never gotten into that for some reason or another. But this one is a doozy, isn’t it? The conspiracy theory of conspiracy theories. See, I told you I was a bit paranoid.

Note that I didn’t write that no one is running to be the next president of the United States. You see, I’m not sure I’m talking about a true conspiracy. I’m not sure that Hillary, Barrack and McCain got together and decided they’d put on a show for the American people. I actually believe that they’re vying for a position as they perceive that position.

They’ve even told us how they perceive that position.

They’ve raised otherworldly sums of money to finance these theatrics. They have received a fair amount of that money from corporations and groups to whom one of them will be beholden once the “election” has been played out. We can easily find out how much money any one of them has received from corporations or “special interest groups” – god I hate politalk.

When they’ve given a moment to speaking about what intelligent Americans want to hear, the “real issues”, we’ve found that none of the candidates is in any hurry to end our occupation of Iraq.

All of them, in one manner or another, want to keep some kind of “emergency force in the area” or want to make sure that, when and if we bring our troops home, we do it in a “responsible manner”.

All of them, even Barrack, is willing to engage Iran militarily. It’s just that he’s said he’d talk to them before “obliterating” them. Oh, yeah, that was Hillary, wasn’t it? Not the talking part, the obliteration part.

Any Democrat is better than John McCain? If I’m an Iranian and my skin is slithering from my bones, I bet I’m not saying, “What a relief. It’s so much better to be obliterated by a Democratic president than a Republican president.”

Yet, intelligent people, like my favorite radio host Thom Hartmann, say that Hillary’s “obliterate” remark truly troubles them. Thom, in fact, said that he’s waiting to hear Hillary define “obliteration”. She’s a Democrat, so I’m sure it’s not the kind of obliteration that John McCain would initiate.

We have to actually wait for Hillary to make a speech defining “obliteration”? Does no one know how to use a dictionary?

The candidates really can’t talk about unemployment, can they? You may say it’s because unemployment in our country isn’t anywhere near the worse it’s ever been.

I’m sure that Obama and Clinton have spoken about under-employment. This is where an American, indeed, has a job, but the job doesn’t pay enough to raise a family of two.

So they won’t speak about unemployment but sometimes will talk about underemployment. But this nation isn’t really suffering from either. It’s suffering from overemployment. Yep, unemployment numbers look promising if one doesn’t take into account the fact that, many times, the very same person may hold jobs for two different employers and still fail to make ends meet. What are they going to do about “overemployment”, the condition under which people spend their entire life being employed?

None of the candidates have made the campaign promise to re-level the playing field so that it’s once again fair for American workers. This, of course, can only be done by turning back the clock to the time when tariffs ensured that Americans wouldn’t lose their jobs because they’re unwilling to work for a few dollars a day.

It’s gotten so we “Progressives” have become satisfied with what Obama and Clinton have proposed to solve the problem of accessible health care, although neither propose what’s right and just.

This country has a name, The United States of America (although, in truth, it’s The Former United States of America) and it’s represented by a very lovely flag.

However, this country isn’t its name nor is it a smartly designed piece of cloth. This country is the land and the people who inhabit that land. Fighting for one’s country does not have to entail uniforms and weapons. In fact, I know that this is an unpopular position to take, but the military personnel in Iraq are not fighting for the land and the people who inhabit the land which is called The United States of America and is represented by a tri-colored flag. Those who killed and died in Vietnam were not fighting “for their country” either.

What’s right and just is for the citizens of this nation to become “real world” patriots and fight for their country by defending the land and the people that inhabit it. If we stopped paying for our military and its wars, we could all fight for our country by paying to help those who’ve been tossed aside like worn wash rags by greed-filled, wealth driven corporate humanoids. That’s not only right and just, but it’s patriotic as well. It not only supports our troops, it supports all of us.

I admit I’ve presented the problems. Some may think that this is a War And Peace length bitch session. I’ve not proposed a solution.

Many of my articles do point to the cracks in the walls, but I’ve been known to recommend steps towards solutions.

I really hate to pick on old Thom Hartmann again. As an aside, I think the reason I express disappointment in some of the things that Thom says is because of the great admiration I have for him and for what I believe he really stands for. He lets it slip out on occasion and it’s nothing like what Kerry, Clinton (either of them) or Obama propose. I think when someone to whom one looks up says or does something that we know is somewhat disingenuous it hurts a whole lot worse than when someone that we expect to be a dick is a dick.

Nonetheless, Hartmann suggests contacting members of Congress. If any of you have made a habit of doing that as I have you’ve probably got the reams of form letters and letters “agreeing with” you while disagreeing with you. If you save emails, you’ve probably got folder upon folder of the same kind of communications. You’ve probably spoken to enough interns to be able to make a decision concerning which ones to hire and which ones not to hire (thought I was gonna say something nasty about Bill Clinton, didn’t ya?).

Contacting members of Congress about the welfare of our nation is akin to contacting the fox concerning the welfare of the hens. The addiction to money and other favors that can be and are provided by wealthy lobbyists representing wealthy “special interest” groups trump your phone call, email or letter any day. Asking members of Congress to fix a process which, as is, benefits members of Congress has been, at least for me, a joke in the genre known as black humor.

Another solution is to go to Democratic Party meetings and become active in the party. To a certain extent, one may be successful doing that. However, just as software providers always include a “free trial” of the next best thing within the packaging of the “thing” we purchase hoping that we’ll pay for the “next best thing”, attending local Democratic Party meetings makes it clear that in order to proceed to the “next best thing”, one has to begin to pay.

Electing Democrats, it’s been suggested, no matter how much what they say sounds like what a Republican would say, would at least get a Democrat in place. Makes sense to me.

From there, continues the myth, the next step is to remind the elected official that he or she is a Democrat and really didn’t mean what she or he said during the campaign. To take it a step further, it will then be a cinch to convince the elected official, say, for instance, Kerry, Clinton or Obama, that he or she really didn’t want to support NAFTA or other “free trade” agreements, that she or he really didn’t want to continue to vote to give The Regime money to help solidify its colonization of Iraq, that he or she really believes what’s said by our National Intelligence Estimate and shouldn’t look at Iran as an enemy, that she or he has no reason to consider Venezuela and its leader, Hugo Chávez an enemy of the United States. A cinch, no doubt.

A Democrat was elected in 1964 and the next step was his virtual resignation in 1968.

A Democrat was elected in 1976 and he boycotted an Olympics, failed to rescue Americans held hostage by Iran and promised that all administrations from his own until the year 2000 would carry through his vision that every American home would be using solar energy by 2000.

A Democrat was elected in 1992 and he became a Republican.

What’s the solution?

I continue to narcissistically promote my article “Priority Number One”, (I guess I just can’t help it).

However, before we begin directly voting for those for whom we vote, maybe we should insist upon a discussion clarifying the real purpose of the fourteenth amendment to The Constitution and remove corporate influence from our electoral process.

OK, so we’re up against the wall. Contacting Congress is useless and doing an intervention for a Democrat once one is elected is to change the nature of our relationship with wealth and probably won’t happen.

I don’t know.

I guess I’ll leave you with a few narcissistic suggestions.

If we think contacting our members of Congress will do any good, well, it ain’t gonna happen.

Maybe it’s time to work outside the system.

Maybe it’s just time to ask if there’s still time.


“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.” - Carl Sagan

To friendship,
Michael

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