Christmas 2019

 Posted by at 7:36 am  Holiday, Politics
Dec 252019
 

This year, once again, I wish you a very Merry Christmas, or whatever holiday is appropriate to your beliefs.  Since many of the Carols I’ve used in years past stopped working, I had to change the music I’m using to celebrate Christmas with you.

Traditional Christmas Carols

An hour of traditional Christmas carols sung by a church choir. 1. Silent Night 2. O Come All Ye Faithful 3. Away In A Manger 4. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 5. Ding! Dong! Merrily On High 6. Joy To The World 7. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 8. It Came Upon The Midnight Clear 9. Rocking 10. See Amid The Winter Snow 11. I Wonder As I Wander 12. De Virgin Mary Had A Baby Boy 13. A Maiden Most Gentle 14. As With Gladness Men Of Old 15. The Shepherd’s Farewell 16. Past 3 O’Clock 17. A Child This Day Is Born 18. Deck The Halls 19. We Three Kings 20. White Christmas

 

Note that the last Carol is for our Republican friends, who we wish a hearty “Happy Holidays”.

Finally I will restate last year’s warning, as our nation remains in dire peril!

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name

that sat on him was Trump, and Pence followed with him.

And power was given unto them over the fourth part of

the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with

death, and with the beasts of the earth.

RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

 Posted by at 8:09 am  Holiday, Politics
Nov 282019
 

 

I’m  not thankful for Trump.
I am thankful for the faith to force myself up each day.
I’m not thankful for Safeway.com.

I am exceptionally thankful for Wendy!!

I’m not thankful for Bought Bitch Mitch or Devin Nunes.
I am thankful for all of you.
I’m not thankful for pseudo-Christians.
I am thankful for the strength to

RESIST!!

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Whose Day Is It, Really?

 Posted by at 10:00 am  Holiday, Politics
Oct 142019
 

In school we learned that history was the history of white colonialism, and that in 1492, Columbus discovered America.  We were also taught that the indigenous people were called Indians, because they did not have the decency to be living in India, where Columbus thought he was at the time.  Worse yet, they attacked us, because they were too impatient to wait for us to complete the genocide before civilizing them.  Ever since, we have celebrated Columbus Day on this date (or a close Monday), but whose day is it, really?

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On Monday [today] in the nation’s capital, there is no Columbus Day. The D.C. Council voted to replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day in a temporary move that it hopes to make permanent. Several other places across the United States have also made the switch in a growing movement to end the celebration of the Italian explorer in favor of honoring Indigenous communities and their resiliency in the face of violence by European explorers like Christopher Columbus.

Baley Champagne is responsible for that change in her home state of Louisiana. The tribal citizen of the United Houma Nation petitioned the governor, John Bel Edwards, to change the day. He did, along with several other states this year.

“It’s become a trend,” Champagne said. “It’s about celebrating people instead of thinking about somebody who actually caused genocide on a population or tried to cause the genocide of an entire population. By bringing Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we’re bringing awareness that we’re not going to allow someone like that to be glorified into a hero, because of the hurt that he caused to Indigenous people of America.”…  [emphasis added]

Inserted from <NPR>

I could not agree more.  I fully support the switch to Indigenous People’s Day.  For more information, click here.

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Happy Labor Day!

 Posted by at 10:14 am  Holiday, Politics
Sep 022019
 

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For most of my early life I considered Labor Day little more than a day off at the end of summer.  That’s because I am not a union man.  I have never belonged to a union, nor has anyone in my family.  So what has the labor movement done for me?  I have learned what organized labor has done to improve the lot of all American Workers, and I have come to understand that Labor Day is a celebration of Union labor, and one that is well deserved. This is a another minor variation on last year’s article.

laborThinkProgress has assembled just five of the many things that Americans can thank the nation’s unions for giving us all: 1. Unions Gave Us The Weekend: Even the ultra-conservative Mises Institute notes that the relatively labor-free 1870, the average workweek for most Americans was 61 hours — almost double what most Americans work now… 2. Unions Gave Us Fair Wages And Relative Income Equality: As ThinkProgress reported earlier in the week, the relative decline of unions over the past 35 years has mirrored a decline in the middle class’s share of national income… 3. Unions Helped End Child Labor: “Union organizing and child labor reform were often intertwined” in U.S. history, with organization’s like the “National Consumers’ League” and the National Child Labor Committee” working together in the early 20th century to ban child labor… 4. Unions Won Widespread Employer-Based Health Coverage: “The rise of unions in the 1930′s and 1940′s led to the first great expansion of health care” for all Americans, as labor unions banded workers together to negotiate for health coverage plans from employers… 5. Unions Spearheaded The Fight For The Family And Medical Leave Act: Labor unions like the AFL-CIO federation led the fight for this 1993 law, which “requires state agencies and private employers with more than 50 employees to provide up to 12 weeks of job-protected unpaid leave annually for workers to care for a newborn, newly adopted child, seriously ill family member or for the worker’s own illness.” … [emphasis original]

Inserted from <Think Progress>

It’s well worth the time to click through for the rest of this article. Furthermore, here is an excellent video on what labor has done for America.

Therefore, to begin my celebration of Labor Day in the best possible way, I wish to thank all of you who are or have been union workers.  My life is better because of you.  And to you and everyone else, have a Happy Labor Day! Sadly, because of ongoing, predatory Republican impingement on workers’ rights, this article is even less true than it was  last year.  It’s up to YOU to change that trend.

Support Labor!

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

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