Taxes

Come writers and critics who prophetize with your pen and keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again and don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin. - Bob Dylan

When you have major corporations not paying a nickel in federal taxes,
clearly that has got to change. -- Bernie Sanders.


Just received a bumper sticker today with the logo "Corporations are NOT people". Now all I need is a vehicle with a bumper. Or better yet, transportation to the doors of Congress where I'll be arrested by the Koch brothers police for defacing what they consider their property. Actually too many Congress Critters on their payroll agree with them. Fortunately,99% of the rest of us disagree with corporations not paying their fair share of taxes. Until now we had no voice., Now we do if we will just use it at the ballot box in the democrat primaries next year. And finally at the ballot box in November.

In the 1960's Bernie Sanders and many others including myself supported Lyndon Johnson in his push for civil rights of everyone, Included was the right to vote when a citizen reached the age of 21 regardless of race, gender,cost or other restriction. Yet I live in a home with a 64 year old man who brags he's never voted. He says his vote doesn't count yet he rails against Supreme Court decisions he doesn't like,or any new law or regulation. I can't convince him that if he won't vote for the best candidates he is actually voting against them and voting for their opponents. So he has no right to protest or object to whatever they do. In those primaries next Spring vote for Bernie Sanders. Any vote for anyone else is to vote against Bernie Sanders. The rest of the 99% is the power needed to beat the 1%




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Sander's theme

"come senators, congressmen please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall" - Bob Dylan  

    Transforming our energy system will not only protect the environment, it will create good paying jobs. - tweet by Bernie Sanders (next president)

I was looking over all the people who want to be president. Only one of them has any reputation for truth telling.  From billionaires to preachers, none of them say today what they exhorted last week or even last month.  I'm not a particularly religious person but it seems most of them could use some God in their lives. A real faith and a following of real belief rather than what they pass off to fool voters. A faith like that of former president Jimmy Carter, the most honest president I've known in my lifetime.  For the moment I've forgotten who said  "don't tell me what you believe, tell me what you do and I will tell you what you believe"   I think most of the candidates should take that to heart and act accordingly.

Big Money Banks

.There is no "path" to choose. The path is what is behind you that led you to today. What lies in front of you is not a fork in the road - not a choice of paths to take, but rather an empty field for you to blaze your own direction.

    I saw this yesterday on Daily Kos and liked it but don't know who to attribute to. I'm going to spend the rest of today searching for the post and who wrote it and

the next time you see it, it will have a credit.

  

     " If a bank is too big to fail, it's too big to exist" - Bernie Sanders.

Yesterday, I joined the Bernie Sanders campaign for President of this country.  I listened to what he said and my research proved that he doesn't make up crap but says the same words and means the same thing today as he did last week, last month and last year or years behind that. Difficult not to believe a man like that. Bernie is not for abolishing the Federal Reserve but regulating it to free up the money supply for the people to use to create jobs,  repair or replace dangerous and outdated infrastructure and rebuilding our economy and country and taking power away from Wall Street and billionaires, hedge fund managers and banks who use the people's money for gambling and losing it on million dollar bets with each other, expecting taxpayers to cover their bad deals and losses.  As Bob Dylan sings "Your  old road in rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand for the times they are a changin'"

Maybe people and Sanders can't win this game with all the deck stacked against us but we are damn well gonna' try our best.  On to November and beyond 2016.                                                                        

Poor Hillary

The poor woman just can't win.  Evidently she was born under the wrong sign or date or something.  She had the democratic nomination all wrapped up in 2008.  Until Obama came from nowhere and snatched it away,  Last week, she had the democrat nomination in the bag until Bernie Sanders popped up with the answers America seemed to want most.  A lot more than her proposals.  He is honest; his years long record on votes in the senate is spotless with his support of the people over big money.  Not even Fox News has been able to dream up anything impugning his integrity.  Sooner or later Republicans and conservatives will make up some corruption and make fools of themselves.  He will shoot them down as he's done for over twenty years.  

    Sorry, Mrs. Clinton.  It's just not your time.  Fate seems to have decided otherwise. 

Riding Home

My little sister in her early teen years owned a beautiful Palomino horse like the one Roy Rogers rode in the old cowboy movies.  As i look back on this mare, I believe she must have been a Lesbian horse although in this distant past, no one conceived of such a thing.  She hated all the male gender and abhorred having a man on her back and unless she had a more pressing need, would do whatever she could to get rid of him including rolling over and trying to crush him beneath her, resulting in two males with broken limbs that I know of.  With a female of any breed she was like a playful kitten, horse, human, or whatever as long as the gender was right.  Thus it was that the horse was tethered in the back yard.  Like any young girl, my sister was at that stage of transition from horses to boys.  She had ridden her horse from pasture to backyard, left her there when a boy came by and invited her to the Daily Queen or wherever teens went then.

   Meanwhile, the mare was getting thirstier,  hungrier and angierier by the hour.  

Finally, our mother asked me to ride her home and she would follow and bring me back. Sounded like a simple plan to me.  "Where's the saddle", I asked.  "Oh, she rode her bareback."  "Is it too much to ask if she brought a bit and reins"  Who knew what rapport she might have with this pet of hers.  Maybe she guided her with psychic commands.  By some good luck, this mare was guided in the normal manner by the steering wheel of bit and reins. After attachment and backing to the porch and at last I was aboard and ready for a gentle walk back to the barn.  But this she-devil had her own ideas when she saw an open gate to freedom and her pasture only a couple of miles away.  By the time we reached the front yard  she was in full gallop mode at top speed. Normally a horses accelerator is controlled by the pressure if a rider's legs against her side.  By the time we cleared the yard, all thought of control was out of the question.  I had one hand on the reins, the other wrapped in her mane and holding on as tight as possible, legs flying every which way desperately trying to sit as tightly as possible to keep on board. Each second of success pile up until you become convinced your balance will save you and you are not going to die sliding alongside the road.  Until about halfway there, you hear a pack of neighborhood dogs barking, roused by all the commotion rapidly approaching .
  Pictures rise in your mind of movies you've seen where a horse reads up and throw its rider when surprised by a snake on the path.  Surely, this encounter will have a similar result.  Ha!. With the thought in her mind only of fresh grass, gallons of cold water and a cozy stable, the dogs were past by the time anyone noticed leaving only yelps and whimpers where the ambush failed.  At last, we arrived at the gate, foaming and blowing  and both still alive, although it took me several minutes to be able to stand up after sliding to the ground.  She just stood there placidly munching grass  Her mission accomplished.
    All of this a lot like our president.  He sets a goal and goes for it regardless of obstacles or distractions like barking dogs in the way.  With healthcare or gay rights, he just rolls on home where he was going in the first place.  I've lived and watched 13 presidents now.  Roosevelt and Truman and Johnson were strong, Carter was strong in his honesty, but Obama is quietly strongest of all.  In my opinion.

Marriage Equality

I know a man who brags he has never voted in his life screaming about that bunch on the supreme court legalizing gay marriage.  When I told him he had voted for them in 2000, he denied any part of that, I explained to him that no action is basically an action in itself.  When he didn't vote against Bush, he had voted for him.  I don't think he ever really grasped the concept.  But went on with his screed against same sex marriage.  I at least finally realized the fundamentalist isn't really concerned with two men or two women married to each other.  If they are married they might be playing with each others genitalia and he can't stand the thought of some perversion  like that.  The illness resulting from a Judea-Christian upbringing.  With the exception of Islam which sprang from the same roots, no other culture or religion in the world inculcates the tenets of sexism such as those of this country.  And like the famous movie characters line "that's all I got to say about that"    

For the last several days, all the media is fixated on the nine shooting victims in South Carolina exhorting people to pray for them.  A question occurs to me: Why?  They are dead and beyond any help from whatever they are praying to is expected to do.  Nearly all Christians of whatever stripe teach they have been finally judged immediately and sent on their way to eternal reward or punishment either temporary or permanent.  Perhaps they think there is some heavenly supreme court that might overturn somehow the initial final judgement and their Supreme Being on reconsideration reverse the original verdict.  This should kind of destroy their original belief in an all knowing and omniscient father figure.  Anyway, pray for them.  But just ignore the 21+ or so other people shot and killed in homicides in the US on the same day. Or the 50 or so killed by guns either accidentally or self inflicted suicide every day.  By reading  FBI statistics on gun injury and/or death one gets the impression the country is nothing more than an NRA slaughterhouse.