another letter coming out

I've become really popular and unpopular at the same time. It
s am honor both ways....


Most of those who complain about teachers aren’t in the education field and know little about learning or child development and behavior, particularly in group settings.  Even parents of large families will not have a firm grasp. No. Most of the children they deal with at home will be their own blood. Dealing with 25-30 of someone else’s children is a whole ‘nother thing.

Teachers taking part in the recent “All out for Education” event last May 1 have been called :”union thugs,” ungrateful, anti-child, socialists.  Critics could not be more wrong. North Carolina teachers have no unions, devote up to 12-14 hours daily to the benefit of their students and if they seem ungrateful, it is because they ARE unappreciated. Furthermore, public education IS socialist, as are the post office and the military.  They exist for the benefit of ALL, not merely a small, affluent minority.

  Teaching takes a special kind of a person, one who knows they will be valued less (“those who can’t do, teach!”) , have impossible things demanded of them and know they will never be compensated well enough.

Critics need to walk a mile in teachers’ shoes rather than judging them.

the "Imbuicles" are gonna eat this one up...

I showed this movie to the group I subbed for all week today. I'd seen it before and believed it taught a vital lesson.

I've told students before that you one does not have to like someone to treat them decently. This movie is a grand example of what happens when people stop doing this.

The German people were convinced that "the jew" was their enemy, the cause of betrayal and the defeat of Germany in world war 1.  In the motion picture one of the main characters tells his young son that jews aren't really people, and insinuates that, in order to make a better world, they need to be eliminated.  And being the commandant of a concentration camp, he makes it his business to make sure this happens.

The young son meets a young jewish boys resident of the camp and strikes up an unlikely friendship. Neither he nor has mother particularly buy into the "final solution."  Neither does the paternal grandmother who, they say, is mysteriously killed in a "bombing raid."  They didn't say, but I am left with the notion that her demise was due to other causes and to her politics.

Not all Germans approved of Hitler or the Nazis.

The words and attitudes displayed throughout were chilling and I sense a similar outlook on the loose now in this country.

Westboro Baptist would execute homosexuals in a moment, if they could.  Some preachers have openly advocated it in other places.

I will readily admit that I am not always comfortable with either Jews or homosexuals, but no way would I ever advocate harming or sanctioning them. Nor do I have the right or the inclination to judge them.

Truth.

LOL!!!

I got blasted on the News and Record Blog, as I knew I would be.  I am still the reigning "drama queen " and delusional "leftist," the one who imagines that so many of these white supremacists have been "inspired" by Trump's words and actions.  Some have so stated in their "manifesto," including some who reside in other countries.

Those are facts, but then such things are totally wasted on Trumpkins.

I've come to measure the quality of my letters by the amount of vitriol my opponents spew. One of them even referred to Bernie as a "cocksucker" this time around, the act of a hormonal adolescent.
I will not relent.  Some would advocate that I stop trying to reason with fools.  I'm not. I'm way past that.  Now I am just providing them with the opportunity to show other voters how twisted and delusional they really are...


They say that sometimes, as one gets older, they come to view certain things in a different way. That has certainly happened in my own case.

I now see how my prolonged association with Mary J cost me dearly.

I also see how some of my words and actions with difficult people, particularly during my time in the Catholic Schools, made situations worse than they were.

I've even come to question a lot of our military actions, including  even our involvement in Kuwait. I volunteered, was not drafted and was gun ho for the longest time.  Was I lured into going along with some things I should not have?

As a "transplanted" southerner, I went along, also, with the notion that southern secession was about...I guess the term might be southern "nationalism" and not merely slavery. Converts can be deluded and overly zealous in a lot of ways.

I believe I see things more clearly now. Agreed, it was not merely about slavery alone but part of a grand scheme to perpetuate a system of servitude that involved both black and white.  Less than 6% of southerners owned slaves, yet many of the remaining 94% were lured into defending that "system," facing for the notion that the "meddling yankees" were attacking our "way of life."  Few of those slave owners shared in the danger.  Many were exempt due to owning slaves.

"Rich man's war; poor man's fight."

Hundreds of thousands died in the effort to maintain the system of servitude. Perhaps the reason I know that so well, now, is because the same kind of things is and has been happening in current times.

Since WW 2, we have involved our military in conflicts with countries who, with the possible exception of Afghanistan, who harbored those who attacked us on 911, had been no direct threat to the United States.  Many of the actions, both overt and covert, have resulted from our wishing to seize resources we believe we needed or in an effort to overturn established governments we disagreed with and NOT as self defense.

Who are the overwhelming majority of those who enter the military?  The poor, the disadvantaged; that has been true for decades.

"Oil wars."

"Wars for profit."

President Eisenhower warned us about the "military -industrial complex."  War is very good for certain industries and individuals. Flag draped coffins coming home don't seem to matter anymore. Nor is it a new thing, either.

Recall the dark ages?  Yes, the one with serfs and lords and ladies, a very tiered society when the few prospered and all others paid and slaved.  Are we really that far away from that now?

Another letter to the editor...

Came word for word out of my last blog entry.

There was another shooting in a synagogue today.  Information is still incomplete, but authority says it is a "hate crime," another one.  I don't know it, but suspect the culprit will be yet another white supremacist.

Donald Trump's words and example have inspired terror actions not only in the United States, but in the international community as well.

It will take years to erase the stain he has made on the American and International psyche.

It may never disappear completely.

That second civil war we have all been dreading has already begun...and it appears, we are losing....

The Trumpkins on the News and Record Blog have already initiated the name calling and insult; small wonder.  They support Trump because they are exactly like him.

I cannot imagine...

why any reasonable person would still support Donald Trump.  Millions still do.

There was another shooting in a synagogue today.  Information is still incomplete, but authority says it is a "hate crime," another one.  I don't know it, but suspect the culprit will be yet another white supremacist.

Donald Trump's words and example have inspired terror actions not only in the United States, but in the international community as well.

It will take years to erase the stain he has made on the American and International psyche.

It may never disappear completely.

That second civil war we have all been dreading has already begun...

war with Mexico?

The jackass wants to send more troops to the Mexican border now. He's also taunting Iran,

The man needs a distraction, a diversion.

The GOP is drawing up big plans to trash both medicare and social security.  They had promised never to do that.

Trumpkins are so dumb.  So many of the things King Orange is doing and plan to do will harm them the most and yet, they worship the ground upon which he walks....


Joe Biden is going to run for president after all.  I had begun to think he would not.

Not 100% sure how to feel about that...

Yes, he was Obama's veep, but I don't think he is a Barak Obama.

Still want to pull for Bernie, but fear that the GOP will use the socialism meme to discredit him. We Americans are so pedantic anymore.


That civil war so many fear has begun. Actually, it's been going on for awhile now.  Pipe bombs in the mail. White supremacist shootings.  Now a militia group on the border says they trained to assassinate Clinton, and Obama.  The world is going nuts....
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The era of Trump will not end peacefully.  He has ambitions of being president for life and has so stated.  No joke.  If he is somehow re-electred (yes, it could happen), our democracy is finished. So is our middle and working class. We'll bet reduced to the status of serfs, economically and socially.  America's status in the world will continue to decline.  We are already not seen as the leader of the free world.  Trump isn't even welcome in many c capitals in Europe.

Impeachment is unlikely.

I would rather trump be turned out be election. Njmbers don't usually lie. If he is repudiated by the majority of the electorate, it will speak volumes.  Of course, that already happened in 2016 and here we sit.

I suspect the Russians will do their utmost to be sure they pull off the same scam they did before. Yes, I still do believe they helped trump steal the election.

Should Donald Trump else out this time, there will not be a peaceful transition of power. He will create some crisis or incident that will keep him in power as long as possible. His minions will throw tantrums, claim election fraud and the good lord only knows what else.

Stupid is like cock roaches; near impossible to get rid of.

There is more to the Mueller report...

than we're being told.  Of that, I am sure.


Some democrats are screaming for impeachment proceedings to begin.  My gut tells me that could backfire on us.  Trump has promoted himself as a victim throughout and if an attempt at impeachment fails in the Senate (and it would), then he will do as he did when the Mueller report first came out, claim complete exoneration and say the evil lefties are after him.

His base will gobble that up, of course and those propped on the proverbial fence might swing to his side.

Democracy in America is on the ropes. Call me a drama queen, call me whatever else you choose, but what I just said is true, irrevocably true.  The deep pockets have managed to persuade too many that their way is right for us, that we need to listen solely to them.  Too damned many are listening to them.