My Thirty Minute Phone Call From Mitch McConnell!

Last night, just as I was falling off to sleep, my telephone rang and I answered. To my ecstatic surprise, it was Mitch McConnell in the flesh, so to speak, since so many million Americans have begun to doubt his existence. I spat, sputtered, regained control of my rapidly beating heart and finally responded, "Mr. Senator, thank you very much for calling me! I'm surprised you remember me since it has been so many years since we last spoke." Mitch rejoined, "Not remember you??? How could I not remember you? We ate pinto beans together at the old Rock House Restaurant at the mouth of Slone Fork between Hindman and Mousie in the summer of 1968 when we were both just young whipper snappers. You were sixteen years old and fresh out of high school at that wonderful old Knott County High School at Pippa Passes on Caney Creek, what an institution! I was a young, wet behind the ears attorney, just twenty-six years young, just graduated from law school the year before, working for Marlowe Cook in his run for the US Senate seat as his college coordinator with all the colleges in the state. We were desperate for every vote we could find so he sent me to see you in Knott County because you were enrolled in Alice Lloyd College after a wonderful academic summer or two in Upward Bound, that reprehensible program which had been such a waste of federal money by Democrats." I was thunderstruck to say the least but I tried to speak, to ask what he could possibly need from me now almost 60 years after that fortuitous bowl of pinto beans. I tried to speak, to question why it was his idea to call me now. "You and that bowl of pinto beans changed my life forever. You actually agreed to be the campus student chair for Marlowe Cook and Richard Nixon, God bless their sainted souls! You worked that job so hard, called me once a week at my office in Louisville and repeatedly told me the truth, that there were no Republican votes on Caney Creek. You taught me how to face the truth with that kind of honesty. You set me on the path to great power, motivated me to become a powerful United States Senator and Senate Majority Leader for a record stretch. I'll never forget you or that wonderful bowl of pinto beans." I said,"Sir, I'm afraid that you have more important calls to make than this one. I hope you don't intend to waste twenty minutes of your valuable time with me as you have with so many of your Republican colleagues! To my utter surprise, Mitch then said with a sly chuckle, "Waste twenty minutes? Oh no, this won't be a waste, and I'm going to give you a full half hour unlike the others. Just relax and listen as I tell you my plans." I agreed to sit quietly and listen as the half hour flew by, or actually just twenty-eight minutes of it. I can't divulge what plans Mitch told me about but they were fantastic, exhilirating, stupendous, supercalifragilisticexpealidoscious, but he swore me to secrecy. Then just as my bedside clock showed the call to have been going on for twenty-seven minutes, I heard a stentorian but heavenly voice in the background of Mitch's call. "Mitch, it's time. Let's go, please!" I heard Mitch respond, "Peter? Saint Peter, NO, it can't be. I have so much to do. I was just telling Roger Hicks how much I have planned from now until the end of my term...". Then,to my utter consternation, the line went dead...and, I suspect, the line did not go dead alone.

The Terrible Destructive Work Of The Kentucky Legislature In 2022

 

It is truly tragic that, at a time when we have the best governor in the United States in Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear, we also have one of the three worst state legislature in the nation.  The Kentucky state legislature has passed more destructive, unjustified, Right Wing Radical legislation in the current, nearly finished session than has been passed in Kentucky in the last hundred years.  The legislature has passed numerous bills with the intent to hamstring the governor's ability to deal with the worst national and statewide crisis in many years.  They have passed legislation intended to steal public education money from the school children of the state and give it to Right Wing Radical charter schools which will often, if not always, have connections to some of the most conservative churches in the nation.  This particular legislation is a clear cut violation of the Separation Of Church And State clause in the US Constitution.  There will be numerous legal challenges to nearly every piece of legislation which this legislature has passed the Right Wing Radical Repugnican Attorney General Daniel Cameron will waste millions of tax payer dollars to defend them when, if he had the best interests of the state in mind, he would challenge them himself.  But this attorney general is, and always has been, a major part of the problems in Frankfort.  He is simply one more cog in the Right Wing Radical Repugnican political machine constructed by Senator Mitch McConnell and owes his political existence to Mitch.  The entire slate of statewide officers in Kentucky, other than Governor Beshear and Lieutenant Governor Coleman are part of the problem.  Until we vote with the best interests of the entire state in mind and return statewide Democratic control of public offices this state and its citizens will suffer greatly.  

 

 

In the upcoming 2022 elections, we have the opportunity to begin to correct the electoral mistakes of the past 20 years and defeat every Republican who is running for office.  We must elect Democrats to every office.  We must reverse the great majority of the legislation which has been passed by the state legislature in the past several years.  And we must never again make the mistake of giving control of statewide offices and the state legislature to Right Wing Radical Repugnicans.   

Great Political Banners In Appalachia

Every now and then someone does something which I cannot resist passing on to the general public in the best interests of the country and the world at large.  This is one of those occasions and my cousin, really more like a brother, Jack Terry, is the person who has done it.  Jack and I have known each other since I was born 68 years ago.  You might say we go back a long way.  Our mothers were sisters and we grew up a lot alike, about 5 miles apart on the waters of Beaver Creek in Eastern Kentucky.  Our families actually spent several years, at different times, living in the same house on Steele's Creek near Wayland Kentucky.  Our upbringing was a lot alike and Jack, his brother Johnny, and I spent a lot of time together when we were not in school since we attended school in two different counties.  My parents moved out of that house and store on Steele's Creek in Floyd County in the summer of 1957 just before I turned six and started school.  As we moved out and further up Beaver Creek to Dema in Knott County, on the return trip down the creek, the truck and laborers stopped at the place Jack's parents had been living in and picked up a load of their house plunder and hauled it to the building we were moving away from.

Jack became career Army and later career Army Corps of Engineers and is now retired as am I.  He lives in a very rural part of Lawrence County Kentucky and recently sent me photos of two political banners he has erected on his property beside the state highway.  I love these banners.  They say at least part of what needs to be said about the ongoing political, moral, ethical, and legislative disaster which has been transpiring in America since January 20, 2017.  Here are the photos.  Feel free to share them anywhere you desire on social media or otherwise.  But please give photographer and creator credit to Jack D. Terry.

Political Banner--Created & Photographed by Jack D. Terry

Political Banner Created & Photographed by Jack D. Terry 

Right Wing Radical Repugnican Vote Buying With Federal Money

While it still has to be approved by the House of Representatives and signed by the TRAITOR Trump, the US Senate approved a $2trillion dollar Corona Virus assistance bill last night, March 24, 2020, and sent it to the House. TRAITOR Trump and his Right Wing Radical Repugnican co-conspirators must be held responsible for their disastrous handling of the entire response to the Corona Virus pandemic.  It is now being reported that most of the Repugnican governors in the nation are also speaking out against the asinine and ignorant idea being espoused by TRAITOR Trump that we can send the work force back to work by Easter which is less than three weeks away.  Also, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York has stated that the payment in the bill of $3.8billion to his state cannot begin to cover the anticipated cost of at least $15billion which the virus eradication and treatment effort will cost. 

House Speaker Pelosi has stated to the press that the House will consider the bill.  Her official statement said: “House Democrats will now review the final provisions and legislative text of the agreement to determine a course of action.”  Based on what I have seen in the news media, the bill appears to be in many ways both a giveaway to several segments of business and a blatant attempt by #MoscowMitch McConnell, TRAITOR Trump, and the Repugnican party to buy votes with federal money.  It also includes a provision for most lower and middle class citizens to receive a payment of $1,200 for each adult and an additional $500 for each child in a household. But the publicized economic thresholds for eligibility to receive this cash subsidy actually extend all the way to $99,000 per individual and $198,000 per couple with an additional $500 per child per household thrown into the deal.  Those numbers are far too high to be realistic.  Any single person making $99,000 per year or any couple making $198,000 per year who are in financial trouble now are simply in that condition based on prior bad management of their money and not primarily due to the Corona Virus. It would have been far more rational and effective if the income limits had bene lowered to something near $50,000 per individual and $100,000 per couple and then added the money saved to the payments to those lower income families up to about $4,000 or $5,000 per family and $700 per child in each household.  This issuance of federal financial assistance to suffering famiies is a good thing on the face of it; but, it is still an attempt to mitigate anger toward TRAITOR Trump, #MoscowMitch McConnell, and the Repugnican party due to their having so horribly screwed up the response to the Corona Virus pandemic.  It is simply an attempt to apply a Bandaid to family suffering which is greater and to buy votes with federal money from those recipients who are gullible enough to fall for the lie and the bribe. Ever since this issue of possible federal financial assistance has been discussed, I have suggested that all of us who are financially stable and receive a check immediately donate the amount of that check to one of the following entities: the campaign office of the Democratic presidential nominee, the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, the House Democratic Campaign Committee, or the national Democratic party in order to help regain control of all three branches of government.

As I understand what I have read so far about this bill, it does contain one key provision which I am certain the Democratic senators and congress people probably had to fight tooth and nail in order to win. That provision states that TRAITOR Trump, his businesses, and his family members and their businesses, along with members of the house and senate cannot receive any of the loans which it makes available to both large and small businesses.  This provision is also an aspect of the bill which I sure the Democratic senators and congress members had to fight tooth and nail to get. If this bill had been passed by both houses of congress and signed into law without that provision, it would have served to further reward TRAITOR Trump for his TREASON and his disastrous responses to this pandemic.  Every American voter needs to make sure to drag themselves to the polls whenever the November 2020 presidential election takes place and vote to send a rational human being to the White House to protect this country for further disasters being perpetrated by TRAITOR Trump, his Russian Master Vladimir Putin, his family, and his Right Wing Radical Repugnican co-conspirators. 

The Incalculable Costs Of TREASON!

Donald Trump is a TRAITOR!  All 51 US senators who voted to whitewash his TREASON are TRAITORS!  America is now headed into the darkest hours in this country since Pearl Harbor.  As bad as it has been in America since January 20, 2017, it will only be a candle flame compared to the Right Wing Radical attacks on America, American Democracy, and everything good and valuable which will take place until this now fully unleashed Russian Agent is forced out of the White House, the scene of his most recent three year crime spree.  It is impossible to calculate how much damage can be done to this country by this TRAITOR and the other TRAITORS who have supported his TREASON in the time we must still suffer from the plague they have created and will further spread across this country.  A megalomaniac has now been told he is free to commit any crimes he chooses for as long as We The People allow him to remain illegally in the White House based on his TREASON with Russia, Ukraine, Syria, and Turkey.  Innumerable crimes against democracy will be committed in the coming months until, at least, January 20, 2021.  

We will see a multitude of systemic attacks on democracy in the next year and we will also see a multitude of random terroristic acts by Right Wing Radicals because they also believe they have been told there is no crime for which they will be held responsible.  The Right Wing Radical Repugnican TRAITORS who refused to hold an honest impeachment trial in the US Senate will now go on to assist the TRAITOR they released to destroy the US federal court system by adding even more Right Wing Radical judges at all levels of the judicial system.  They will work to pass hundreds of laws in the US Senate with the intent to destroy environmental, education, human services, and health care laws in this country.  They will further damage the enforcement aspects of gun control in this country and further increased acts of domestic terrorism will take place by the various groups of lunatics who support this TRAITOR and his crime spree.  There will be no federally based attempts to control corporate greed and corruption.  We are already seeing hundreds of counties and small towns across America pass ignorant local ordinances claiming these jurisdictions are Second Amendment Sanctuaries which will not enforce federal gun control laws.  We are seeing organized efforts to destroy the Affordable Care Act, the US Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, and nearly every other agency of the federal government which operates in the best interests of the people.  

There will be literally no end to the attacks on organized government in this country. Right Wing Radical acts of domestic terrorism will become even more widespread than they have been for the last three years.  Groups such as the NRA, the KKK, the Aryan Brotherhood, Neo-Nazis, and hundreds of other small, loosely organized collections of domestic terrorists otherwise known as "the basket of deplorables" will commit more mass murders, gun crimes will spread like the plague and the Terrorist and TRAITOR who is living illegally in the White House will do nothing to stop it because he is a Russian Agent and has been since 1989 when Alpha Bank and Deutsch Bank bailed him out of his casino bankruptcies.  He and the 51 TRAITORS in the US Senate will continue to do the work of Russia and Vladimir Putin to destroy America and American Democracy.  Our only hope as a nation is to support the Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives, work to elect Democrats to every elective office in America, and to oppose and resist this TRAITOR and the other TRAITORS who support him and his crimes.  Organize; Vote Straight Democratic; Donate to Democratic Candidates; Stand Up,  Speak Out, Speak Up; and never fail to confront this Russian Agent and his supporters.  

Don't Let The Door Hit You...

 

 

Over the last year this blog has gained a sizable number of followers for what I perceive to have been two reasons.  1) I have been writing on this blog more consistently over the past two years plus and have not failed to add a post each month for nearly four years.  2) I have consistently confronted the TREASON of the Russian Agent who has been living illegally in the White House for the past three years based on his TREASON with Russia, Ukraine, Syria, and Turkey.  The number of followers had actually reached 92 recently which is quite high for a blog being written by an ordinary citizen instead of someone relatively famous.  But overnight, someone left the blog and the number dropped to 91.  I suspect as I always do when a follower leaves that some recent political post has irritated someone who is still stupid enough to support that same TRAITOR and Russian Agent.  I have one thing to say about that.  DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU WHERE THE GOOD LORD SPLIT YOU!  I will continue to confront this TREASON as long as the TRAITOR and I are both alive and I will confront it just as I always have from June 16, 2015, to the present.  I will confront it anytime, anywhere, from anybody and I will use my research and writing skills to produce the truth about his life of crime and TREASON.  If he does not spend the rest of his slimy life in a federal prison cell after having been convicted of TREASON, it will be the worst miscarriage of justice in the history of America. So let me repeat myself: DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU WHERE THE GOOD LORD SPLIT YOU! Attached below you will find a list of telephone contact numbers for #MoscowMitch McConnell who is a co-conspirator in the TREASON and attempting to orchestrate a cover up.  Some of these numbers will actually be answered by a human according to Chuck Eddy, who is running for congress from Central Kentucky against Andy Barr, another Right Wing Radical co-conspirator.   Chuck describes himself as a moderate Republican. 

French Toast And Political Activism

Today, December 18, 2016, I made French Toast for breakfast for myself and my wife Candice.  Those of you who have read most of this blog probably know that French Toast is a metaphor for political activism for me.  In the post which is linked in the previous sentence, I tell the story of learning to make French Toast from Don West, one of the most courageous and politically outspoken humans I have ever known.  Candice asked me to make French Toast this morning because she likes my French Toast and wanted some for breakfast, nothing more complicated than that.  But as I was cooking the French Toast, I remembered that tomorrow, December 19, 2016, the US Electoral College is likely to confirm the election of Donald Trump, a career criminal, self confessed sex offender, and likely minion of Russian President Putin, to the White House.  Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about 2.7 million votes, more than the vote totals of 11 previously elected Presidents.  But by winning Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, Trump won enough electoral votes to be declared the winner.  There has never been a more unqualified human who ever ran for the Presidency. 

Now, just before the Electoral College votes, we have learned that the CIA has stated they have sufficient evidence to state that Russian hacker, under the direction of President Putin, hacked many data bases in the US and successfully influenced the election in favor of Donald Trump.  Trump has nominated Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and Tillerson has numerous direct connections to the Russian regime.  Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for Trump, was forced to resign before the election because of his proven connections to the Russian regime.  When the CIA announcement became public, Trump stated that he did not believe the CIA.  No potential president could have said anything that could be potentially more damaging to the entire country and it's security apparatuses.  Nearly in the same breath, Trump spoke out against China for seizing a US spy drone and then reversed himself and said that China could keep the drone.  Once again Trump committed a stupid, dangerous, and unjustifiable error which was contrary to the best interests of the US.  Trump is far too stupid, dangerous, and uncaring to be in any public position of trust.  Numerous people have written at length about Trump's degree of danger, psychological instability, probable diagnosis as an Antisocial Personality Disorder.  Psychological expert Sam Vaknin studied more than 600 hours of Donald Trump's public appearances and concluded that Trump is highly dangerous.  The Electoral College could not take an action that could be more dangerous than voting to support Donald Trump as President.  

And that brings me back to French Toast as a metaphor for political activism.  I realized as I was cooking French Toast this morning that I, and every other intelligent citizen of America should work every day, for so long as Donald Trump may be near the White House, to force the government officials such as the Electoral College, the United States Congress, and The Joint Chiefs of Staff to prevent Donald Trump from occupying ((I use the military definition of occupy.)  the White House.  His likely connection to Russia and Putin borders on treason and may well be treasonous. Donald Trump also publicly confessed to sex crimes, has been sued by more than 4,000 innocent victims because he won't pay his bills, was sued and managed to settle or stop a case involving the alleged violent rape of a thirteen year old, payed $25million to settle the Trump University Case, and has more than 75 pending civil suits as we speak. At this time, Senator Mitch McConnell and other members of the Republican congressional leadership are refusing to empower a bipartisan select committee to investigate the Russian hacking despite requests to do so from both Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator John McCain to do so.  This refusal is clearly an attempt to sweep the crimes under the rug and allow Trump to assume the presidency.  Donald Trump is unfit to hold any public office. Donald Trump must be held responsible for all his criminal actions, past, present, and future.  Indict, impeach, and imprison Donald Trump!