Hi Carl and all,
I do believe that there is still some good American spirit left though it is
not what it used to be. IT was most alive during the 1930's and 1960's. IMHO,
that spirit was in deep hibernation from 1980 until November 8, 2017. IT is
trying to make a comeback now, but who knows if it will last any decent length
of time. A big part of the problem is that too damned many Americans care more
about their own material gain than they do about the common good. So long as
that continues to hold, the ruling class will keep on playing the rest of us
for suckers as they laugh all the way to the bank.
Bob Hachey
Bob Hachey, MBA |
Director : Government Relations and Advocacy |
Project Starfish |
www.pstarfish.org |
Phone: 781-893-6251
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Roger and All Working Class Americans...and friends,
"Skilled politician", as I'm sure you know, was said tongue in cheek.
Like you, I am speechless(not really to the point of silence) over how American
voters joyfully elect one Fox after another. It's gotten so there's more Foxes
in the Hen House than chickens. But we've allowed this to happen. While we,
the Working Class, trudged off day after day, doing the work that keeps our
economy going, and our money flowing always upward into the coffers of the
Ruling Class, those same Rulers of the American Corporate Empire(ACE)have not
been idle. The reclaiming of this nation back under the absolute control of
White European/American Supremacists has been underway for decades. The Great
Society of LBJ scared the socks off True White Patriots. From time to time I
refer to the Empire's Pied Pipers. That's no joke.
We, the Working Class, have been duped by the sweet sounds of these Empire
Pipers. We've danced and played away our leisure time, while the Rulers have
spent their off-hours in planning sessions at posh resorts...which they own.
While Working Class America lines up at McDonald's and heads for the ball park
or the beaches, Corporate Heads are developing ways of eliminating Media
competition, removing names from voters registers, ridiculing Progressive
politicians, removing Labor Unions, and on and on and on.
And now we have a Loose Cannon holding us prisoner, waving the threat of
nuclear destruction at North Korea, daring them to take the next step. And we
watch as if it were all one big Reality Show, not seemingly able to lift a
finger or utter a whisper of protest. Have we lost our Independent American
Spirit? Or perhaps the question should be, did we ever have an Independent
American Spirit? Was it always the Spirit of the White Oligarchy, passed off
as if it applied to all of us?
Carl Jarvis
On 8/8/17, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Skilled politician? Perhaps, but it is well to remember that governor
of West Virginia is the first political office he ever ran for. In
that way he is another Donald Trump. James Justice is best known in
West Virginia as the owner of a lot of coal mines and the owner of the
Greenbriar hotel. The Greenbriar hotel is the one that is known as the
poshest hotel in West Virginia, the hotel where the West Virginia
Classic golf tournament is held and where the congressional fallout
shelter existed for so many years. That fallout shelter is now the
poshest gambling casino in West Virginia. So, like Trump, billionaire
Jim Justice decided to dabble in politics and switched from Republican
to Democrat to run for governor. He won the governorship and then
switched back to Republican to cater to Donald Trump. What I can't
figure out is why it is not obvious to everyone what a scoundrel he is.
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On 8/8/2017 12:18 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Obviously this man is a skilled politician, able to sniff out a
dollar from across the Aisle. And of course you are quite right.
The differences between the Two Heads of the One Monster Party are
blurred and only change with the number of dollars piled on top.
On 8/7/17, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
James Justice was a Republican right up until late 2015 when he
switched just before he announced that he was running for governor as a
Democrat.
His switch back now comes less than two years after registering as a
Democrat. Obviously he switches whenever it is opportune for him.
Not only does it confirm to me that the difference between the two
is pretty much nonexistent, but it confirms to me that these
politicians don't see a difference either. I don't expect that this
will mean any changes in his positions on any issues. If there are
any I expect that will only reflect his opportunism too.
On 8/7/2017 1:31 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
No one ever said you had to have a working brain in order to look
like a grownup.
By the way, I've seen nothing on this list about the slimy governor
of West Virginia. I'm sure he was a lover of Big Money, long
before he was wooed into the Republican den, but as a regular run
of the mill voter, I would be spitting fire and blowing steam from
my ears if I had believed any of his democratic platitudes, and
then had him turn on me. But forget trying to recall him. Voters
who were taken in by his babbling don't really care what party he
hangs his hat on. I keep reminding myself that my own
mother-in-law voted for John McCain because she liked the way he looked.
For me, this is as close to concrete proof that there is no Great
Wise Father Figure leading us.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/7/17, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2017/8130/813005.html
The Militant (logo)
Vol. 81/No. 30 August 14, 2017
(front page)
Texas gov’t launches new attacks on womens’ right
to abortion
Nathan Lambrecht/The Monitor
Defenders of abortion rights face opponent of right to choose,
holding rosary at clinic in McAllen, Texas, Jan. 21, 2017. Texas
governor signed new anti-abortion law June 6.
BY LEA SHERMAN
Texas lawmakers have launched a new round of attacks on women’s
rights, passing a number of anti-abortion bills to deny women the
right to choose or have access to abortion.
On June 6 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott enthusiastically signed a law
banning all abortions performed by dilation and evacuation, the
safest and most common method of second trimester abortion. The
law, which goes into effect Sept. 1, also prevents women from
donating fetal remains for scientific research and requires all
abortion clinics to dispose of any fetal remains by paying for a
burial or cremation.
Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a
lawsuit July 20 seeking to block provisions of the law. Seven
other state legislatures have passed similar restrictions.
“The law we challenged today in Texas is part of a nationwide
scheme to undermine these constitutional rights and ban abortion
one restriction at a time,” Nancy Northrup, president of the
Center for Reproductive Rights, told the press.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, legislators in six states
this year introduced “measures to ban all abortions, and in 28
states to ban abortions under some circumstances.” Major
restrictions have been adopted in 11 states.
Abbott called a special session of the legislature that began July
18 to adopt more laws to prevent women from ending an unwanted
pregnancy.
The
Senate has approved two bills now heading to the House. One bans
insurance plans from covering abortions and the other prevents any
government funds from going to affiliates of abortion providers
that do not offer the procedure.
“They want to close down the Planned Parenthood in Austin that
does not perform abortions,” Lexie Cooper, president of the Austin
chapter of the National Organization for Women, told the Militant
Aug. 1.
This facility provides other services, including birth control as
well as cancer and HIV screening. Shutting down Planned Parenthood
“hurts the most vulnerable, low-income women,” Cooper said. At the
same time, “there’s been an explosion of so-called crisis
pregnancy centers. They get government funds, tax dollars, but
their aim is to prevent women from getting an abortion. They give
false information like abortions cause cancer.”
A number of previous Texas government attacks on women’s access to
abortion have been reversed. In June 2016, after a three-year
legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Texas law
requiring any doctor who performs abortions to have admitting
privileges at a local hospital and demanding abortion clinics meet
hospital-like standards.
This was a victory, but over half the 40 clinics in Texas closed
in the meantime. Only four have reopened.
By 2014 no clinics provided abortions in 96 percent of Texas counties.
This situation falls particularly hard on women from the working
class and from families on farms and in rural towns.
A new 2017 Pew Research poll found that 57 percent of all adults,
as high as it has been in two decades, support legal abortion in
all or most cases.
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