21st Century: Good Things Improve, Bad Things Worsen
Even in these days of hate, ignorance, environmental irresponsibility, greed and selfishness, there are still many good things–and they continue to get better.
With each passing year: (more…)
Tagged with: environmental irresponsibility
Christians Resist Evil, But That’s Never Easy
Franz Jaegerstaetter was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II, sentenced to death and executed for his refusal to fight for Nazi Germany. He was later declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church.
The reader who sent me this added a quote from Jaegerstaetter, “That we Catholics must make ourselves tools of the worst and most dangerous anti-Christian power that has ever existed is something that I cannot and never will believe.”
I can only surmise that the reason for the reader’s mentioning this is his belief that present-day Christians find a similar discomfiture in being forced to operate in a country defined by racism, lies, violence, corruption and criminality, all emanating from its president.
Tagged with: Trump corruption and criminality
Mitt Romney Illustrative of Movement in GOP
Was Romney actually the worst Republican in 2012? That’s debatable. He got whacked after it was revealed that he had said to a private group of donors that 47% of the country would vote for Obama “no matter what, (since they feel) that the government should give them housing, food, healthcare, whatever.” That’s not good, to be sure. (more…)
Tagged with: Trump corrupt, trump criminal, Trump mendacious, Trump reckless, Trump stupid, Trump traitorous
30-Year Old, Believing Pandemic a Hoax, Attends “COVID Party,” Dies–What To Make of This?
There are a few possible reactions to this, two of which are as follows:
1) Stupid people are constantly killing themselves, and there’s nothing you or I or anyone can do about that. This is natural selection at work; it’s how species evolve. Letting this upset us is like crying over the disappearance of slow gazelles. (more…)
Tagged with: Trump committed involuntary manslaughter
(Physically) Removing Trump
We’ve discussed this before, but a reader asked me the question at left.
I reply: I propose leaving this to the 1.3 million members of law enforcement, assisted as required by 1.1 million active duty military service people. Every single one of them has sworn to defend the U.S. Constitution, and they, collectively, are equipped with hundreds of billions of dollars of weaponry. That should get the job done in a matter of minutes.
Tagged with: (Physically) Removing Trump
We Don’t Have Enough Racial Hatred and Violence in America, So Let’s Start Promoting Vigilante Justice
The good people at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) want to teach you how to arrest immigrants…presumably without your getting yourself wounded or killed, or charged with assault, battery, kidnapping, misprisonment, stalking, threatening, harassment, hate crimes, terrorism, negligent homicide, manslaughter, murder, or any of a broad number of other misdemeanors and felonies.
Good luck with that, hateful morons.
Yes, academy students face numerous types of physical threats and legal liabilities, but don’t think the “professors” are immune from prosecution when one of those students commits multiple murder and goes down for 25 years to life.
Tagged with: Racial Hatred and Violence in America
Embarrassing Trump?
The meme here makes a good point about former acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
But here’s something else to be added: Speaking strictly for myself, I don’t want to see Trump’s tax returns so as to embarrass him, but rather to imprison him. We have every reason to suspect, especially because his two sons bragged about it, that most of Trump’s business dealings are with Russian oligarchs, and his loans (that only one bank on Earth would write) come at their behest.
If this can be proven this explains his treasonous behavior toward the United States, I think I speak for the vast majority of Americans in saying that I want him to die in prison.
Social Democracy
Here’s a short chat with a reader, who notes: I think that we’re heading toward socialism. This election will determine if this is what Americans want.
My thoughts:
Biden is a centrist Democrat, like Obama and Clinton. He’s actually slightly to the right of where those others were when they were in office. He represents essentially no change from the neoliberalism that has dominated the American political-economic landscape since the 1980s. (more…)
Tagged with: Social Democracy
New Zealand and the United States: A Stark Comparison
There are many important differences, many of which are interrelated, between New Zealand and the United States. First, where the U.S. has rampant corruption that seems to be getting worse by the day, the Kiwis can proudly claim that their country ranks along with places like Denmark and Finland, as the most honest and transparent, least corrupt nations on the planet.
Another distinction to be made is that their system of governance enables science to play a superior role to that of the government itself. (more…)
Handling the Pandemic with Negligent Homicide
South Korea (pop. 51.2 million) and the U.S. (pop. 328 million) had their first confirmed cases on the same day. Five months later:
S. Korea:
13,338 Cases
288 Deaths (more…)
Tagged with: Handling the Pandemic with Negligent Homicide
