Fix It!!!!!

The following was in response to an article about San Juan Unified in Sacramento, who had to pay out millions of dollars to atone for the unprofessional, sexual discrimination abuse by its former Superintendent.  Once again we are witness to the unprofessionalism and failure of local school boards and leadership.  It needs to change!

If anybody out there still believes in the Local School Board System read this article.  We are wasting billions on an archaic system of "local control" that  not only is waste, but ruins administrative leadership.   It is obvious this Superintendent should never had been hired, and the Board President protected him.  I was a District Superintendent and was never surprised by the rank amateurism of the school boards all over the place.  Many times Superintendents survived by constant gossip to the school board, spending hours on the phone "keeping them in the loop" while the schools floundered.  My last school board was a disaster, made up of people who ran unopposed and were micro managing all the time.  We were not alone...EVERY school board I worked for, did the same lunacy to varying degrees.  One of our best Principals was demoted because a school board member's son was disciplilned correctly, the trustee (?) held a grudge and finally "got" the best leader in the district.

And it goes on and on.   Seldom is a board position contested, often members are appointed; cronies often of the teacher's union or an employee's spouse.  That's right, nepotism runs rampant.  One of my former districts allowed an Assistant Principal's spouse on the board, and then we all watched as he was immediately promoted to the District Office, taking a job he was not qualified for; and then the mistakes began. I watched a Principal "pack the board" with his cornies and actually get the Superintendent fired so he could take his place.  Immediately the guy (I can't call him an educator) then raised his own salary, hired his friends, ran off many competent adminstrators (I was one), and "fixed" the district with a system of cronyism that exists well past his retirement.

I also was a member for many years of ACSA (Association of California Administrators) and listened to similar horror stories all the time.

A disclaimer: there are some fine school board members who work hard for professional leadership.  But they are outnumbered massively by those who don't know what to do, or who are appointed or elected with agendas that have nothing to do with academic achievement.

Our kids deserve professional educational leadership.  Our kids deserve professonal leadership of educatonal leaders way better than the goul from San Juan.

  Eliminate local school boards.  Eliminate state school boards.  Establish by student population joint state/federal schools trustees who represent at a minimum millions of students.    As part of that system, establish professional school evaluation systems that hold schools, Principals and teachers accountable.  Yes, build a bureacracy (like ALL other industrialized nations)  that holds all schools to the same standards and professionally evaluates performance.

The Local School Board system, including the out dated county schools office, is harming our children more than ANY teacher union.  Besides, as currently constructed, for my conservative friends out there, the present local control system cannot compete with a professional union advocacy.  Often, as I have stated, some  of the local board are related to teacher union representatives.

Put control of our schools where it belongs:   in the school.  Keep the overall leadership at a common bureacratic distance.

Does it work?  Ask Finland, Germany, et al!!!!!

Rock and Roll

They called it "rock and roll".

When, long ago, I went through basic training.  I am one of the 1% of Americans who actually served in the military, admittedly with great reluctance at the time.  Today, the vast majority of Congress men and women have not come near military training.  Their foolishness and me first attitudes is a result of never serving something greater than themselves.  

Yesterday, a young girl, nine I believe, lost control of an automatic weapon at a for profit gun range, and shot her instructor to death.  The instructor was a retired police officer, well trained in firearm safety.

It didn't matter, when the girl attempted to fire the automatic weapon on "rock and roll", which was slang for full automatic (machine gun like), she whirled from the kick of the weapon, and accidentally shot her instructor to death.

She is a child.  Video is available, not showing the actual shooting, of the pair as she timidedly attempted to fire a weapon intended to kill with multiple shots.

Have you ever wondered about why automatic weapons were invented?  In the "old west" single shot weapons were of small help in shooting enough Indians to stop a charge.  The Civil War saw the invention of the gatlilng gun, and repeater rifles which enabled the wholesale extermination of Native Americans from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean.  

Up until the invention of what amounts to an automatic weapon, that you don't have to cock, load singly; etc., single shot weapons were useful for hunting, but not for killing human beings.  

If you missed for example, it took time to reload, and your opponent could get close enough to you to do you harm.  The Comanche held off Texas Rangers for decades, because they learned, by counting to wait until the Rangers fired their first volley, and they had horses fast enough to charge and kill with bows and arrows before the Rangers could reload.

And the Comanches were very good at it.  

After the Civil War, the strategy no longer worked, because the Rangers had repeating handguns and rifles.  Counting did not work anymore, and the Comanches were basically wiped out.

Which gets us back to what automatic weapons are for:  they kill people with multiple wounds, or can be used to spray a group, inflicinting wounds or death on many from one weapon.

World War I is a good example of how the machine gun, the ultimate in automatic weapons, changed warfare forever.  Trench warfare evolved quickly, when it became obvious that a frontal charge, usually timed when the enemy reloaded, was useless against a machine gun.  What is amazing is troops for years kept the frontal mass attack as a strategy, with horrendouls results.  An entire generation of European young men were exterminated.  They are called the "lost generation".  

So, an automatic weapon is meant to kill lots of people.  It is not meant to hunt with.  The meat is ruined if you shoot multiple bullets into a deer for example.

And then the interview with the gun range owner.  He was contrite, and at one point said he felt very bad for the young girl.  He was defensive  obviously, and rambled on how safe the range was.

Of course, he never mentioned the absolute lunacy in having a small girl attempt to fire an automatic weapon on rock and roll.

When we fired our M-16s, one shot at a time was ok, but multiple shots sprayed all over, unless you kept the bursts to three or four rounds at a time.  Otherwise, no accuracy at all was the result.

And these were all adult males, who had sat through hours of training, and many had gun handling backgrounds.

At one point the gun range owner said perhaps they needed to have a height requirement, 'like Disneyland'!   I almost gagged on that one.

DAMN THE SECOND AMENDMENT.  That's right, damn our interpretation of it.  Modern firearms do not belong in the hands of anybody.  That's right, nobody needs to have an automatic weapon.  They are a military weapons and should be banned as well, because of the damage they do.  

If a hunter wants to shoot a deer with an M-16, they should be imprisoned for animal cruelty!  A machine gun is an atrocity!

Why on earth do we continue this madness?  Why do we tolerate these loon toons, who advocate children shooting machine guns, and then weep when they shoot someone, or themselves, because THEY HAVE NO REASON TO FIRE AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON.  THIS IS NOT DISNEYLAND, IT IS A KILLING MACHINE!

And automatic weapons have no place for personal defense either.  If you go to rock and roll, you kill everything in front of you, with no accuracy whatsoever.

And don't give me that bullshit that training helps.  It doesn't help a nine year old girl. And for  most troopers, it doesn't really help either.  

In combat most troops fire blindly, because if they aim, they expose themselves to enemy fire.  So they put the rifle around a corner and fire, on rock and roll, and kill or wound dogs, cats, kids; etc.

That is the reality of this madness.  America has lost its mind to fools who worship weapons on rock and roll.

God forgive us!!!!!!!!

What is Real?

Today I read incredulously that Americans by a large margin oppose Common Core national learning standards.  The study also found Americans haven't got a clue as to what Common Core Standards are.

And to make things worse, they also support Charter Schools even though subsequent questions in the survey show they don't know what they really are.

In short they are forming opinions that shape public policy, we are a democracy remember, that are based on erroneous information and ignorance.

Who is to blame?  FOX NEWS.

Many right leaning people, if not all of them, get ALL of their information from Fox.  They listen to that blather for 24/7.

And they are getting lied to all the time.

Recently we had a person from the Probation Department speak to the SIR club I belong to (Sons in Retirement).  She was trying to explain AB 109 and associated legislation that seeks  to reform California's unconstitutional penal system.  The law is complex and seems to be working, but the crowd was having none of the detailed explanation the presenter gave.

No, the "common perception" was that felons were being dumped into the country and running amuck in the community.  The county sheriff is an avowed conservative and hasn't helped, using the "issue" (which is the law) to explain away his department's deficiencies and failures.

And, conservatives in the crowd never asked questions about how California got  into such a fix:  overcrowding its prisons with "get tough on crime" and the war on drugs.

Both of these "programs" are reactionary public policies that were passed after the sixties and seventies, most racist in background, that were aimed at incarcerating every African American in the state!

And to some extent, it succeeded.  It also succeeded in bankrupting the state.

But not a word about that from the right wingers in the elderly crowd

No, conservatives never say they are sorry.

Their "think tanks" never analyze their policies and implementation.  They never fine tune their ideological mistakes.

Fox News says that getting tough, not allowing any rehabilitation, throwing people in jail forever, solitary confinement, and arresting people for drug addiction works.

It doesn't.

California is a perfect example.  Redding today is less safe than every before BECAUSE of  the conservative infatuation with determinate sentences, harsh treatment of mentally ill prisoners, incarceration of people of color at unprecedented rates.

Of course, progressive policies, like the Affordable Care Act, have been subjected to a microscope of criticism and reaction finding every minute detail that can be attacked.  Recently a conservative court found a problem in one sentence of the Act that implied a state could not offer subsidized insurance plans if it had refused to establish a state exchange.  That legal nit picking goes against the entire essence of the thousands of words the act includes.

In short, conservatives don't play by the same rules they subject progressive public policy to....they cherry pick, and NEVER subject their policy to scientific scrutiny.

Tax cuts and tax increases are another good example.  Cons will vote for tax cuts, but all have taken a pledge to NEVER vote to increase taxes.  For California this meant years of tax cuts, and starving the "beast", which meant wholesale cuts to education, that led to more incarcerations which led to prison overcrowding which led to AB 109.

See, the cons now say, AB 109 is flooding our community with felons.  The lady patiently explained ALL of the felons were homegrown, the law expressly calls for release under parole (after the sentence if served by the way) in the home county of the felon!  That's right, they are not dumping them here, they lived here!

Of course, the released felons have no education, no rehabilitation, because the cons cut that out long ago; so they wind up homeless, desperate and often commit crimes of opportunity to stay alive.

See, the cons say (who caused this mess) we "need to get tough on them", build more prisons, cut education and other social programs...and the United States begins to look like a Gulag.

What is real?  It sure isn't the crap that Fox dishes out.  It sure isn't in a political movement that refuses to be accountable for their political policies that backfire.

What is real?

My Hands are In the Air

There is outrage.  

I, and my fellow Democrats rage every day about the unfairness of our society.  We rage about the social and economic injustice that has created a "New Jim Crowe" in our nation.  We rage about the fear of homeless people in our community; a fear that looks away from the poor, that is so smug in its civic irresponsibility it makes me sick.  In my home town, the white Police Chief has succeeded in convincing people that the homeless are panhandlers who make $200 to $500 a day; are criminals who will steal from you.  Meanwhile, of course, the Mission, who houses some of the homeless, screams that this is not true.  But he has succeeded in scaring the shit out of the white middle class, who predictably do all the wrong things about the homeless.  

There is a movement to "round them up" and send them out.  Out to where?  

We rage about the double standards we see everywhere, the middle class that has been gutted by tax cut politics that allow uncompromising positions of no taxes by Republican politicians at every level; government revenues for everything from schools to prison reform are gutted in favor of arming our police like Seal Team Six.  

The poor get it, they are the targets of "starving the Government". Starving the "government beast" is really get the "darkies".  Unfortunately the poor don't vote.

People of color do vote.  They vote highly Democratic.  This scares the racist plutocrats. 

And they are who is really behind this... 

The racist minority in this country that moved from the Democratic Party to the Republican and with corporate money has dominated the political landscape for years. Red states are every bit as segregated as in 1960.  SEC teams have African American players all right, but they are simply hired to win, the colleges themselves are still mostly white.  Alabama wins, Alabama graduates hardly no African Americans.

Stanford however is a different animal.  Stanford is a very exclusive college that housed Mitt Romney in the mid-Sixties for a time.  Stanford was the typical Ivy League school, token people of color and the rest the jet set.  

Today, not so.  Stanford reflects a meritocracy and by coincidence the racial make up of the United States almost exactly.   And the giving of a mostly white alumni is at the highest level in years.  Oh, and Stanford wins; winning the Director's Cup for twenty years in a row for the best athletic program.  

Hmmm, racial diversity and inclusiveness works for better outcomes.   And Mitt Romney was a student there.  

Call it white guilt if you must; I am one of those white (actually part Cherokee) graduates, who is proud of the diversity, who knows Stanford has got it right, in spite of housing the independent Hoover Institute right in the middle of an example of diversity in one the richest areas on earth.

We need to get rid of the Hoover Institute because it supports the economic unfairness in the guise of "conservative principles".  Those who would say this would be unfair, practice unfairness everyday, in fact base their businesses on it.  

There is simply NO COMPROMISE with racism.  None.  Mandela had it right when confronted with a "compromise" that would have left the apartheid government in power in exchange for his freedom, he did not compromise.  

He did compromise once the government changed and he was President,  for the peace of the nation.  

For that, he is remembered next to Ghandi and MLK today; he practiced the principles of Christ as well.    

Conservative principles are not economic, they are racist.  They are exclusive, kill motivation by cloaking people of color with layers of poverty and hopelessness, making a plutocracy  who takes needed jobs overseas, or cynically competes state against state, always cutting corporate taxes and directly hammering the poor. Ironically the vast majority of the poor are WHITE! 

The rich get richer, the colored poor get poorer even in Silican Valley.  Recently the San Jose Mercury News bragged that average home prices in the peninsula were a million dollars.  How on earth does the middle class work in such an environment?  They commute of course, sending more tons of CO2 into the environment, choking California to death with an endless drought. 

Of course, the racist Republican Party thinks Global Warming is non existent.  They also think cutting taxes helps the environment.  They are not only wrong, they are wrong for a racist reason:  repress people of color at every turn.  

The United States has no higher moral ground in the world.  We cannot question the motives of Mr. Putin in the Ukraine, when we allow a segregated economic and social society at home.  The world is watching and again, just like when Bull Connor unleashed the dogs, and shaking its collective head.  

We are failing as a society.

Hitler was famously quoted as demeaning the United States as hypocrites about race, while he was killing Jews by the millions.  Meanwhile, the United States refused to house Jewish refugees during most of the war, dooming them to travel the globe looking for refuge.  

The election of an African American President scared the shit out of the racists , hence the never ending obstruction to reform, which again slams the poor minorities that are actually majorities in their communities.

So from what we hear from my conservative racist friends we have divided this nation between a racist Republican Party and an inclusive Democratic Party, that we need "law n Order" as a solution.      It worked once to give them power by a frightened white middle class.  So arm the police to the teeth, elect fascists to office, and then wonder why the whole thing blows up????

Fear is the the code that works.  Fear is a cover to racism.  Fear leads to power, but  a power that is superficial and doomed to failure.  Jim Crowe failed because it could NOT last.  MLK and his heroism finally stopped it....for a brief moment.  The Apartheid of South Africa succeeded for a few decades, but was doomed to what turned out to be a fairly non-violent end.  It could have been much worse.   

The war on terror as you  know, is code for racism, code for throw the "darkies" all into jail, code for attacking child immigrants who are fleeing violence in their own lands, code for sending a tank into a neighborhood to hammer a peaceful demonstration.  

We know we are in trouble when we consider sending in the National Guard to protect the community FROM the police that is hired to protect it.  

And we stood by for Five Days until a Democratic Governor finally spoke up, AFTER the African American President said enough.  And remember, the federal government has armed these ghouls to the death as an anti terrorism "force".    

Conservatives, under George W., succeeded in identifying American Citizens as terrorists.  So Police "stop and frisk", Police beat citizens, shoot them for no reasons, and almost always the targets are people of color.

We watched in horror as police shot at a van full of children, driven by a African American mother, who feared for her children's safety.  All of the police where white and she of course was not.  Few questioned this act of racist stupidity.  Few asked what she had done so wrong that they used deadly force against a van full of children who simply got angry and was fearful being a lone African American woman in the New Mexico desert surrounded by white guys with guns.    

That would never happen to a van full of white children.  

The United States is all concerned about what is going on in the Ukraine and Iraq.  

St. Louis stands as stark evidence that we have succumbed to racist fascism.

When will enough be enough????

Don't shoot, my hands are in the air.  

ACA Under Attack Yet Again: Bring in the 14th Amendment

So now the 14th Amendment to the Constitution means nothing in RED America.

A Federal Appeals Court in Washington, whose ruling will be appealed, recently ruled that subsidies for insurance cannot be paid to individuals in states that have not set up their own exchanges.

Now remember, the FEDERAL government will pay the subsidies to those low income AMERICANS according to a FEDERAL LAW.   There is not burden to a state save setting up an exchange and the ACA provides assistance for that!  

California for example set up exchanges as the law encourages it to do.  Its citizens gain the advantage of equal protection of the law by getting tax credit subsidies when they purchase policies through the exchange.  Tennessee for political reasons elected to not set up a state exchange, so citizens there still could use the federal one (remember the one that was plagued by software issues that works fine now).

These are ALL private insurance company policies by the way; both in the federal and the state exchanges.  The amount of subsidy is EXACTLY the same; determined by income level  

The idea is to insure all Americans providing equal protection of the law and equal access to affordable health insurance.

Those too poor to qualify for subsidies are covered by Medicaid, that was expanded with huge federal subsidies.  The Supreme Court, in its usual wrongheadedness, ruled that unconstitutional allowing Red States to deny their poor health care coverage.  As a result, if you have the misfortune to live in a Red State, you are screwed if you are poor.  The Supreme Court, riddled with politics, decided 5-4 that states could essentially discriminate relative to who gets health care.  And Republicans cheer!

That in itself is an abomination.

Now, a court made of of two Republicans "regrettably" ruled that subsidies to individual policy owners could be different depending if you live in a a Red state or a Blue state.  This ruling has the effect of driving up insurance policy prices, again for poor Red State citizens, preventing them as well as their poor brethren, from gaining access to health care!

The Federal Exchanges were set up to be used if a state chose not to set one up.  Most Red states did not set up exchanges in their blind opposition to a law that just seeks to bring America into the twenty first century relative to health care.

 The Federal Exchange exists to provide equal protection under the federal law for those citizens who are unlucky enough to live in a Red State!

That is it, there is no other difference.

So, the Appeals Court is rewarding unequal protection of the law.  The Appeals Court is rewarding unfairness and pure partisanship.

I suggest massive lawsuits by the ACLU and others challenging this incredible unfairness and frankly unconstitutional  application of Federal Law.

I am reminded of the old Jim Crowe Laws, that allowed a different application of Civil Rights Law depending on what state you occupied.

This is wrong.  Republican jurists are voting politically against a law they have been drilled into hating because it simply tries to improve the nation's health.

I am ashamed of these people, just like I was ashamed of the southern states who for years blocked civil rights' protections for millions of people.

Enforce the 14th Amendment!!!!!!!  The state you live in should not be a determiner of your basic right to decent health care, just as it could not determine what level of civil rights you enjoy.

The American Dream

I just finished reading an article about Anquan  Bolden, a San Francisco 49er receiver.  It seems that Mr. Bolden is an example of the American Dream.

Like many poor people of color, Anquan is one a very few who was able to escape, partially, his poor sharecropper roots through football.

I can remember when I worked in the then Grant High School District and speaking to the quarterback of the Varsity.  He asked me sadly if there was any way OUT of Del Paso Heights.  He asked me how I had done it, escaping Redding California for Stanford.  He told me, "If I stay here I will be dead before I am 21".

Those words haunt me to this day.

I told he to study hard, don't count on football to get you anywhere, that only a fraction of a percent ever get college football scholarships, and way less get a chance in the NFL.  I told him the way out was through education and hard work.

But, if you talk to parents of kids anywhere, who are playing football, you will hear invariably, "He may get a shot at the NFL".

Anquan Bolden knows better.  He comes from a high school that has won a couple Florida state championships and a few NFL players have come from his area.  But he is working right now with the community on educational opportunity and economic opportunity; not how to get a shot at the NFL.

I have said before in this Blog that I am an example of the American Dream, even though for a long time I did not realize it.

My mother's family were poor dirt farmers; my father's were part Indian and poor.  Both went hungry during the Great Depression.

As a child of that union, I really had no chance of attending Stanford University or becoming a professional educator.  The odds were huge against that happening.

But I got lucky.  I  possessed exceptional speed and could carry a football better than many.  I also loved to read, and took advantage of what the New Deal had given Americans; a good public school system, a way for even the poor to buy a home and enter the middle class.

We were middle class.  We were not rich or upper middle class, but we were the post WWII middle class, whose children got a better opportunity than their depression era parents.

And I took advantage of it, just as millions of other "baby boomers" did.

The opportunities were everywhere.  Tuition at state colleges and universities was low or non-existent.

So an entire generation did much better economically than our parents.  And, except for people of color, we shared the American Dream.

Then in 1976, the year of American bi-centennial, America began to blink.

It started with the Prop 13 movement in California of all places.  A progressive and liberal state began saying no to taxes.  From that same state, a national leader emerged, Ronald Reagan who basically said the American Dream cost too much. He, and his Hollywood millionaires, were enraged by the income tax marginal tax rate that taxed them at a huge rate.  Of course they still were fabulously rich.  But he was able to convince the middle class that taxes were essentially the work of the devil.

And, the middle class baby boomer, who had burned his draft card in the 60s and dodged military service, switched from his New Deal roots and adopted the conservative anti-tax rant.

And the American Dream dimmed for millions, including the poor African American kids in Del Paso Heights.

No longer do we have tuition free schools. No longer do we have state Mental Health hospitals.  We now have student loans that are for a lifetime.  We now have homeless legions of young people, who literally have no chance.

And Mr. Bolden knows this.  And I know this.  My daughter is a college grad, her husband is a small businessman and they are barely making it.  My home town is one of the poorest in the state, with a huge homeless population, belabored by poverty and crime.

I have called this Potterville, a fictitious town from "Its A Wonderful Life" that is in the image of a rich selfish banker, who seeks to run everything at the expense of everyone save himself.  And we are seeing more Pottervilles all the time, middle class people carrying water for the rich few, in the fallacious belief that cutting the future for their grandchildren will somehow create a just society.

These people are fools, nothing more, nothing less!

The American Dream of opportunity for all; now is only for the well off, the affluent, the rich.  The middle class has shrunk the past ten years as much as it grew in the post WWII boom.

And still they vote Republican.  Still middle class people rant about immigrants and "those people" and close their minds to common sense.

The American Dream is why we are still here.  Young GIs in WWII fought fascism to a standstill and destroyed it, only to see their grandchildren adopt the same fascist mindset that they destroyed.  And, strangely, those who still are alive, sometimes through fear support  a conservative cause that for all intents and purposes is fascist.

I am typing this because the American Dream worked for me.  I worked with kids all of my adult life, trying to get them through education to get a shot at the American Dream.  Yes, I was one of the few, who got my chance through football.  But very early on, I realized there would be no NFL for me.

So I gave back.  I was forced to join the National Guard toward the end of the Vietnam War or get drafted.  But I did not run, I joined.

I am glad I did.  I learned the military was not evil, only the political leadership that abused its trust and loyalties  was.

I learned the value of national service both through my Guard experiences and through a lifetime of educating youngsters.

Today less that 1% of all Americans of working age have done ANY public service of any kind.  That is why the American Dream is dying.

And that is why our democracy is dying.

We all should remember where we came from; and how we got where we are, and the American Dream is the answer.

So, pay your damn taxes, pay more.  Demand good government and get involved.  Vote!    Do not listen to the fascists who tell you less is more.  Stop feeding the beast of ignorance and nihilism.

Your grand children's lives depend on it.  

The Little Children

Sometimes they are so infuriating I almost want to resort to violence.

The modern Republican Party, the Party of NO, the Tea Party "Patriots" have so dishonored themselves lately, it makes me sick.

There is a huge need for immigration reform in this country.  The latest manifestation of it is in the thousands of Central American children who are being warehoused in border care facilities.

The Republicans have, predictably pounced on this issue as the President's Fault.

You know, like the health care crisis is the President's Fault.  The weather is the...President's Fault...the deficit (rang up by President Bush who unlike any President in history tried to fight two wars while handing out a tax cut)...is....The President's Fault.

The Fault Lines go deep and are never ending to the current Republican Party.

Of course, there is not an ounce of truth to any of it.

Truth long ago left the Republican lexicon.  Richard Nixon took care of that with his "promise to the end war with honor" and once in office, INCREASED the bombing of North Vietnam and sent more soldiers into harm's way.  Oh sure, he delivered on his promise all right he lied to us.  Gee, a Republican who lies....

And whose fault was it...why Jimmie Carter's of course?  Huh?

And whose fault is the "loss of Iraq"...why it can't be the blundering, stumbling mess Bush made of it, it has to be.....The President's fault.

The Republican Party has, for the past forty some years, denied responsibility for one public policy disaster after another and takes credit for every success: even if they opposed the policy in the first place.

The works with the "base", those beyond middle aged seniors who wake up with Fox News, go to bed with Limbaugh and fill in the rest with "'Free Fire Radio"; a local right wing fascist radio station right here in good old Redding.  Republicans over 65 are mostly hateful bitter old people who hate from the minute they wake up until the minute they go to sleep.   They are an embarrassment to basic humanity. 

And what about the Little Children, some less than five years old, who are really refugees of a Central America whose political systems have been overwhelmed by the foreign policy of the United States and the "War on Drugs" (another Reagan disaster)?  What has really happened is the idiotic policies of Republican administrations has created a gangster infested culture that parents are willing to send their youngest children away from.

Can you imagine sending your five year old to America, in desperation to try to save them from gangsters who will kill them or rape them otherwise?  Imagine giving up your child to save them?

That is what is going on with "The Little Children".  They are not immigrants, they are REFUGEES!

And what do the Republicans do?  Why they scream to "close the border"; build a fence; send in the National Guard. 

I am reminded of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" which depicts a North America ravaged by the effects of global warming, who in desperation advises United States citizens to go south, into Mexico to save their lives.  And the Mexicans, after years of being humiliated when THEY were refugees do what?   They open their borders and let the Americans (who previously denied them access) into their country.  The Mexicans act like human beings SHOULD act. 

Why?  Because most countries are not dominated by a bunch of right wing zealots, who ALWAYS are wrong; who ALWAYS blame the African-American President....and always get away with it.

Had enough yet?  The next time a right wing groups tries to block a bus full of refugee children from gaining access to sanctuary, I advise the federal authorities to arrest every one of them, and assign them to duty helping the children. 

That is the only thing that can break this cycle of stupidity and hate...care for the little children.

I doubt it Republicans have the heart or the guts to do so...