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The Root Cause of America's Problem of Violence is it's Gun Culture

"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.Matthew 26:52Americans don't just have more guns that anyone else – 270 million privately held...

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Recapping Last Night's GOP Convo

xYouTube Video An angry mob of ignorant fools wanting blood.

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Trump is a very real danger to civilization!

In 2000 I was stunned as the Supreme Court helped Texas Governor George W.  Bush rob the election from Vice President Al Gore. I was resigned to it.  After all, what was the worst that could happen?  A...

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Trump Insults the Party of PT Barnum

I have heard it said over and over that Donald Trump is a modern-day PT Barnum.  Well, they are both showmen that dabbled in party politics but that is where it ends.PT Barnum is best known as the...

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Cape Verde warning of volcanic eruption on Brava

Local authorities order evacuation of several villages in Brava, Cape Verde, due to higher likelihood of volcanic eruption following earthquake - US State Departmentwww.breakingnews.com/...Cape Verde...

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Welcome to the 7th Party System!

Over the course of American political history, every generation has a watershed change moment that sets the rules of engagement for the next generation.   We are currently living in a political era set...

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What's Wrong With the White Working Class Male?

The same white working class man that was championed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and socially elevated by the New Deal was the New Deal's undoing.   Richard Nixon won them over in 1968 and 1972....

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There is no denying it, Donald Trump is a Fascist

Top Nazi leader: Trump will be a ‘real opportunity’ for white nationalists www.washingtonpost.com/...xWhen the Trumps tweet some meme out, the first place to go is the white supremacist site...

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What country we flee to if the fascists win?

Well, let us assume that the absolute worst happens and Orange One proclaims himself God-Emperor Overlord of the Fifty States in November.  What country would you like to emigrate to?  Let’s keep it to...

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The Republican Party is Dead and Trump is a Zombie.

The GOP really died long ago with the elections of 2006 and 2008 and it has been a walking dead zombie ever since.  It’s political leadership was decimated and replaced with wild-eyed ideologues and...

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Trek against Trump

Real quick, my beloved Star Trek franchise has done something unprecedented.From Facebook...www.facebook.com/...Star Trek has always offered a positive vision of the future, a vision of hope and...

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Moving to England if Trump becomes President

Regardless of Brexit, I refuse to live in Trump’s America.  Donald Trump is an American Fascist.  There is no other way of saying this.  This is how strong I feel.  My wife is British, so it will be...

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Good-Bye Cruel Nation

www.gov.uk/…that is all

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March on Washington on Jan 20, 2017

Donald Trump's shocking upset over Hillary Clinton in the presidential election isn't even two days old, and already protesters are planning to converge in downtown D.C. on Inauguration Day, Jan....

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The Next Fascist Domino to Fall: Le Pen of France

Russia’s Putin and his electronic brown shirts are now turning thier attention to France’s upcoming election.www.reddit.com/…The once unthinkable is now possible.www.nytimes.com/...

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What the Fuck is Wrong with Mika on Morning Joe?

Has she completely lost her mind?Attacks Elizabeth Warren and defends Donald Trump all morning.

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Trump is fomenting anti-Muslim hatred

xISIS is taking credit for the terrible stabbing attack at Ohio State University by a Somali refugee who should not have been in our country.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2016From...

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First they came for...

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist.YOU ARE...

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It's 2017 and I am still not over it.

And I cannot get over it.I have fallen in despair.  I deep sense of foreboding and dread fills my days.  Just the idea of President Trump makes me shiver. I was convinced that this country would reject...

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Next Anti-Trump March set for Tax Day, Saturday 15 April

Activists are hoping to keep the momentum alive after a weekend of protest marches and rallies aimed at President Donald Trump.While last weekend’s marches focused on women’s rights, activists on...

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The 15 April Tax March Poster is here!

Spread this far a wide and everywhere!By the way, I have decided to get a twitter account.  It is his favorite medium, so let it be our battleground. Follow me at @aaraujo02910        

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Federal Employee Hiring Freeze hurts the active duty Military

Does the Orange One not understand that a huge part of the DOD are federal employees?  They provide the support and continuity to the active duty military.  Not to mention that all of the VA are...

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Trump is giving me anxiety

I am still not over the election.  I am trying to get there but I am not.  The transition was a joke, the inaugural address was frightening and now these executive orders are insane.I swear that I have...

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World Wide General Strike against Trumpism general strikecalled for on 17 Feb 17

twitter.com/…A generalstrike (or mass strike) is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labor force in a city, region, or country participates. Generalstrikes are characterized...

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Hey Congress, you already have a template. Use S.Res.60 — 93rd Congress...

Introduced in Senate (02/05/1973)Establishes a select committee of the Senate, to be known as the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, consisting of 7 members, to conduct an...

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Nunes questionable allegiances to the United States

Nunes has placed himself firmly in the middle of negotiations between the U.S. and Portuguese governments over the future of Lajes Air Base on the island of Terceira in the Azores. Since 2009, the...

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The Massive April 15 Tax March is only two weeks away. Get ready

What is the Tax March?The Tax March isn't an organization – it's a movement – gaining momentum around the country. Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump told the American people he...

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Empty nest, now what?

My daughter has left home for college.  As soon as she found out that she could start summer courses, she went.  Didn’t bother to wait for the traditional fall beginnings with the rest of the freshmen....

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Trump blocked VoteVets on Twitter: So-called commander-in-chief just blocked...

xThe Commander in Chief can block @VoteVets, the voice of 500k military veterans and families, but we will NOT be silenced. pic.twitter.com/SaCN5hKU9R— VoteVets (@votevets) June 13, 2017

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Trump is dangerous and a cancer on American culture

Donald J. Trump is a raving lunatic and he is using the age-old tools of fascism for personal power and wealth But, we knew this. What I fear are his cultish followers.Last night, my wife and I are...

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Should you really own pets?

Over the course of human history, out of millions of different species to choose from, we have only been able to domesticate a handful of animals.  It has been done by exploiting genes that, in humans,...

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Pack it up, kids! We're off to Korean War II

North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S. analysts saywww.washingtonpost.com/...War with North Korea is inevitable now. Trump says North Korea will be met with ‘fire and fury like the...

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Checking in.

Sorry that I have not been in here in awhile.  2017 threw me a few curveballs and I have found myself in a new place.  The dust has not yet settled and I do not know where my voyage is taking me but I...

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Why I also have not been blogging

Teacherken’s blog post this morning has also sparked me into writing something.I have also withdrawn from regularly posting.  I just don’t have the energy.  Twitter and Reddit does provide a lazy and...

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There is a Historic Political Realignment Election Brewing for 2020

Since the ratification of the US Constitution in 1788, there have been historic realignment elections about every 36 years.  These elections were revolutions that reset the social, political and...

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Russia is training white supremacist terror groups to undermine USA

Neo-Nazi Rinaldo Nazzaro running US militant group The Base from RussiaCourt documents prepared by the FBI describe The Base as a "racially motivated violent extremist group" that "seeks to accelerate...

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Evolve or Die: American Democracy

is this thing on?  It’s been a while.  With 40 days until Armageddon, I decided that I needed to post something.My thoughts are on American Democracy and its teetering, wobbly institutional...

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Serious question for VP, is Donald Trump insane?

Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States of America is mentally unhealthy.  He is psychologically damaged and dangerous.  Politicians and media personalities need to say it clearly that...

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I'm living in the UK now. Their politics are just as broken as ours is back...

Now with the all consuming madness of Donald Trump is almost a year behind us, we can start looking clearly at his British doppelganger, Boris Johnson.  I have been on the ground here only a couple of...

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Happy Winter Solstice from Old England

This is my first Winter Solstice in England. I’m in rural East Anglia and it is dark.  Very dark.  No ambient metropolitan lights on the horizon, no nearby interstate highway streetlights illuminating...

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Republicanism in England, the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth

As an American recently living in the UK, the idea of the monarchy is alien and foreign and completely un-American.   I guess all those 4th of July fireworks has conditioned me to reflexively reject...

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The Right likes to compare US Gun Violence to UK Knife Violence. They are NOT...

As an American living in England, I feel as though I have escaped the Matrix.  America’s right-wing echo chamber has warped all sense of what is normal for an advanced developed society.   Guns are...

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I have left the United States and I may need to think if I would ever return.

I’m desperately sad for the United States of America.   With a happy coincidence, a rare opportunity and some luck between my professional and personal life, I have relocated to the United Kingdom....

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Happy Independence Day from the UK

Do you know what they call the “Fourth of July” in England?  Give up?  “The Fourth of July”Anyhow, it’s a typical summer Monday morning here.  I get to watch ITV’s morning shows which are just like...

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After a full year living in the UK: My observations

I’m an American expat living in the UK’s rural countryside.  I am surrounded by mostly farmlands dotted with small villages and tiny market towns.  It’s also very monocultural with 80 to 90% of the...

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Well, I guess I am a republican now.

No, not a member of the fascistic Republican Party. I refer to the original meaning of, republicanism, the political ideology that emphasizes the importance of a system of government in which political...

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Trump is a Clear and Present Danger to America

Intraparty politics can get heated, personal and feelings will get hurt but all Democrats, registered independents and  moderate Republicans must know that Donald Trump cannot be elected President of...

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Witnessing the Collapse of Western Civilization

A month ago, Hillary Clinton had a huge lead in the polls. Today, she has a modest lead at best.  Make no mistake, Donald Trump can be elected President of the United States of America.Trump is merely...

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Reddit turning into Hillary is 44?

Back during the 2008 primaries when then-Senator Obama was closing in on the Democratic nomination, a new group developed called “Party Unity My Ass” aka “PUMAs”.   They were the last 10% of the hard...

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Pathetic Little England

"Little Englander" is an epithet applied in criticisms of British nationalists, English nationalists, or English people who are regarded as xenophobic and/or overly nationalistic and are often accused...

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