Colin Kaepernick started it. It’s out of hand. “If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!” Trump tweeted just hours before the start of Sunday’s NFL games as likely more players kneel to protest racial injustice. “…NFL attendance […]
Franklin D. Roosevelt warned Congress, January 3, 1940: “Doctrines that set group against group, faith against faith, race against race, class against class, fanning the fires of hatred in men too despondent, too desperate to think for themselves, were used as rabble-rousing slogans on which dictators could ride to power. And once in power they
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It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then to loosen up. Inevitably though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker. I began to think alone, “to relax,” I told myself. But I knew it wasn’t true. Thinking became more and more
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Many Americans were thrilled to watch the charity funding site where Houston Texans JJ Watt started with a $200,000 goal to raise money for Hurricane Harvey victims that raced pass $20 million. That type of giving is about to go away. One of President Trump’s campaign promises was tax reform that he suggested include drastic
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Did you know that God and Mother Nature now live in 90210? I didn’t either – at least until Jennifer Lawrence proclaimed this past week that she knows for a fact Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are Mother Nature’s punishment of Americans for electing Donald Trump. With that proclamation I am certain J-Law and Mother Nature
How about a pause from politics, hurricanes, and nuclear war today? Let’s do it! I am probably the only one you know that struggles with letting go. I think I have a memory twice that of an elephant. Sometimes that is good. But often it creates difficulties for me. I hold grudges far too long.
Stupid question, right? There are so many things going on in the U.S. not to mention the World. I thought we today would simply touch on several of those: Houston/South Texas I was born in Pasadena, Texas, a suburb of Houston. I have relatives who live all through the area. My father passed away a
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Hate speech is speech which attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, or gender. We have seen hate speech used again and again throughout modern history, but never in the U.S. as we see now. Is hate speech actually protected speech under the
Lesson #1 A sales rep, an administration clerk, and their manager were walking to lunch when they found an antique oil lamp. They rubbed it and a Genie popped out. The Genie said, “I’ll give each of you just one wish.” “Me first! Me first!” said the admin clerk. “I want to be in the Bahamas
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I am trying to comprehend all of the explanations for the furor surrounding last weekend’s demonstrations turned riots turned murder in Charlottesville, Virginia. Forgive me, but as a true Southerner I am a bit simple in many ways. Although I stay tuned to the political happenings in D.C., I often struggle as I am today
