It is the end of a year and the end of the decade. Last night there was a blue moon. This is when there are two new moons in the same month. There will not be another blue moon at the beginning of a year for 19 years. As always, the older one gets, the more one looks back to see the road traveled.This last decade brought us Dick Cheney, who was by all standards the worst person named Dick … [Read more...]
Time for the Yellow Dogs to Bite the Blue Dogs
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I am a, tired of watching the spineless so called Blue Dog Democrats bending over for Glenn Beck and the right wingnuts (like Limbost).I want to know what the hell the Yellow Dogs are doing to put the pressure on the “Blue Dogs.” I am a member of a union, and have been all my employed life; I want to know why the unions and the rest of us who fought for health care as a worker’s right … [Read more...]
Childless Fathers
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Last year I was on a street corner in Chicago standing with a Quaker woman and a young Quaker girl at a peace demonstration - just like I did in 1962 when I was 14. Only this time on the ground there were combat boots painted white, which symbolized the soldiers who had committed suicide either in the field or at home. A man stood next to a pale woman who cried quietly as he described holding … [Read more...]
Affirmative Action the Chicago Way
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Apparently there were no qualified Mexican Americans out of the 600 applicants for the job of Chancellor of the University of California, Davis (UCD). So the Regents, in their wisdom, chose Linda Katehi, a white woman from Illinois. She is eminently qualified to hold the job, we were told when we asked why the Regents could not find a California Chicano/Latino to do the job.Today, buried in … [Read more...]
Civil Rats Are Human Rats!
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I watched the movie Gettysburg again the other day. It is one of my favorites because the producer was a Mexican American and it is about the real reasons why democracy exists. In the movie, there is a scene where a New Hampshire officer is talking to two rebel soldiers. He asks them why they are fighting. They reply, “for our Rats.” He says, “What?” They reply, “for our Rats, our … [Read more...]
Nazis Were Terrorists, Too
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Happy Memorial Day! It is a great time to be an American once again. We have a U.S. President who operates his government not based in fear-mongering.We have a country that will create a generation of the children of a Republican economic depression. This means we will create a nation of people who once again know how to save rather than spend every dime they do not have.We have a … [Read more...]
Spending Money at Home Helps America!
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I watched all the Sunday stuff on the telly today. Who was that old guy on the show saying that we should not be spending money on American schools, American students in college, or on the rebuilding of the infrastructure of America? Why? Because, are you ready, he says it will not do any good and its just liberal spending! That is soooooooooooo John Roberts!Let us review basic Econ 1A about … [Read more...]
How Jerry Brown Saved Chrysler and Why the Republicants Are Acting Un-American.
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Have you noticed how since the Big O got elected America has lightened up? I mean all of a sudden its OK to be American. We are starting to see that we can laugh at jokes about ourselves. I mean if the President can laugh it must be okay for all of us to do so. So what's wrong with the Republicants?Okay, America, let us start with the fact that the Big O went over to Capitol Hill (white … [Read more...]
That’s So John Roberts!
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Just when a friend of mine got ready to coin the phrase, “that is so Sarah Palin," along comes a RepubliCANT who cannot memorize the Presidential oath of office (a job that has only been done 43 times before). When preparation and memory fail, “that’s soooooooooooooooooooooo John Roberts!” Barry has only been in office for a week and already the Republicants are up in arms trying to say … [Read more...]
Pit Bulls vs. Terriers
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Amazon.com Widgets Note: The title of this article, "Pit Bulls vs. Terriers" is a metaphor for the 2008 Vice Presidential race between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. I watched the Republican pit bull be unleashed in the race and thought, "well here they go again".As a half Irish Mexican, I get the fight between pit bulls and terriers. The fight here between the Alaska pit bull and the Delaware … [Read more...]
Obamanos! A Man with the Courage of Robert Kennedy
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Finally, after eight years there is a budget and a plan for the Latino voter! It must really gall a bunch of folks within the Democratic National Committee (DNC) (who have bought off on the Dean theory of kumbaya and let us do a 50 state plan) to see that Obama gets it. You have to win Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico.The $20 million dollars is going to be a real squeaker. Lets face it 20 … [Read more...]
Republicans are Cowards
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I have concluded that Republicans are, by their very nature, cowards. Let us look at the evidence.First, instead of fighting a war that we really should have been fighting (like addressing real issues about who we are in the world community), we went to a trumped up war based upon lies and innuendo in Iraq. Instead of facing up to the fact that we have to deal with the Muslim nation of … [Read more...]
If We Surrender The Terrorists Will Win!
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For the last several months, I have received phone calls and a zillion emails about the Hillary issue. I supported the move to get the Democratic Party Florida delegation seated before any other Democratic National Committee (DNC) member outside of Florida signed on.I argued that the DNC Rules Committee did not have the authority to not seat DNC or Congressional members of either Florida or … [Read more...]
Notas por La Casa Politica
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How can I vote for a candidate who doesn’t care about us?Race, sex, and age are always issues in every political campaign.In every political campaign, a successful candidate will confront racism, acknowledge economic inequality, and assure voters of all ages that their agendas will be addressed. For the last eight years I have trained thousands of political activists to address race, … [Read more...]
The Madness of King George
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There is a great scene in the film Last of the Mohicans, the Daniel Day Lewis version, in which his character challenges the British General and says when the rule of law is ignored and replaced by absolutism then revolution becomes inevitable. Well, more or less that is the message.In the last several months our own King George has become a real absolutist. He makes it clear that his rule of … [Read more...]
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