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Stepping Into The Confederate Statue Debate

August 20, 2017September 29, 2018 B. John 1342 Views 4 Comments Alt-Right, White Supremacy, White Supremacists, Racism, Nazis, Heritage, History

Well, I suppose it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that I’m going to step into the debate about Confederate statues. It has obviously become something of a lightening rod after the incidents in Charlottesville, VA last weekend. I am seeing what too often happens, and it started with Trump’s tweets. There is this effort to try to claim there are two-sides to this, and that everyone is at fault, so the White Supremacists are not at fault…or something like that.

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A HART Failure

July 27, 2017July 27, 2017 B. John 738 Views 2 Comments Hillsborough Transit Authority, Katharine Eagan, Ruthie Burckard, Pat Kemp, Transportation, Leslie Miller, HART, Sandy Murman, Mike Suarez

A recent experience caused me to gain some insight into the process the local transit authority, HART (Hillsborough County, FL) for those with medical requirements needing their door-to-door services. It is, as it turns out, way more complex than it should be, and likely makes flat impractical from some people who need the service on a shorter-term basis to be able to use it.

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H-1B Visas – The Joke’s On Us

June 16, 2017September 29, 2018 B. John 1735 Views 0 Comments H-1B, Temporary Worker, Chuck Grassley, Visas, Immigration, Department of Labor

Recently, I caught a story of an IT firm in Iowa that posted an advertisement for an H1-B only person. The ad by American Technology Consulting, posted to the recruiting website ZipRecruiter, sought a java developer to work in San Diego. Initially, it stated “H1B Only,” but has now been changed. This seems to bring home something I’ve seen frequently, and that is a perceived abuse of the H1-B program. I say perceived, because the law has changed so much people who passed it in 1952 wouldn’t recognize it.

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Is The Left To Blame for Today’s Shootings?

June 14, 2017September 29, 2018 B. John 440 Views 0 Comments Ammosexuals, Gun Nuts, Rand Paul, Gabrielle Giffords, Chris Collins, Barry Loudermilk, NRA

I think the shooter, combined with the ready availability of guns, is to blame for today’s shooting. Of course, in their usual fashion, Republicans rush to blame anyone but themselves. Gabbie Giffords, herself a victim of an assassination attempt made a post today expressing her sorrow and support. The ammo-sexuals didn’t take kindly to her kindness. Rand Paul forgot to delete his tweet explaining the Second Amendment was there for people to shoot government officials, and a Georgia Congressman would have taken care of it himself if he’d only been allowed to have a gun.

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Ducks and Congressmen – How They Differ

June 14, 2017September 29, 2018 B. John 609 Views 0 Comments High-Capacity Magazines, Congress, Hunting, Shooting, Guns

Today, I was contemplating the story of the shooting at the Congressional Baseball practice session (and later in the day after another workplace shooting at a UPS facility in San Francisco), and something occurred to me about our priorities. Reports from the scene of the Congressional Baseball practice say something like 50 shots were fired, meaning the gunman had a relatively high capacity magazine in what has been described as an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon.

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Christian Author Says Liberals Hate 100 Things-I Respond to Each

June 8, 2017September 24, 2019 B. John 711 Views 0 Comments Infowars, Alt-Right, Mike Pence, conservative, Ted Cruz, White Supremacy, Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Snyder

I know the headline comes as a surprise to you, but Right Wing Watch has called attention to an article by some Christian author who, on Charisma News, posted a list of 100 things we Liberals hate about America. I had to read the list, and, of course, since it’s me, I have to comment on it. So let’s just roll right through this list.

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Saving the Republic – My Master Plan

May 26, 2017September 29, 2018 B. John 447 Views 0 Comments Donald Trump, Trump TV, Constitutional Crisis

I’ve come up with an idea for how to save the Republic from the mafia family currently trying to take it over. This of course means getting the “Clown-in-Chief, Trump, and his gang of thieves out of the White House.

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Rick Baker Still Has An Issue With LGBT People

May 23, 2017September 29, 2018 B. John 643 Views 0 Comments Rick Baker, St. Petersburg Pride, St. Pete Pride, Rick Kriesman

So Rick Baker has decided he wants to be Mayor of St. Petersburg again. The problem is, the guy may be full of more crap than Donald Trump. One of his biggest issues is how he has treated the very large and active LGBT community in St. Pete. During all his years as Mayor, he consistently refused to sign a Pride Proclamation, and never once got close to the St. Pete Pride event.

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Nixon and Trump – There is a Difference

May 22, 2017May 21, 2017 B. John 647 Views 0 Comments Trump, Clinton, Watergate, Corruption, Russiagate, Nixon, Scandal

It’s impossible to not look at history as the Trump Administration seems to be crumbling under the weight of scandal after scandal. The ties to Russia appear to be growing and becoming more irrefutable. The President and his aids are certainly acting much like people in the Nixon White House leading up to the resignation. The Comey firing is akin to Nixon’s Saturday night massacre. It certainly looks like an attempt to cover it up us underway, and the idea of White House tapes of conversations have been thrown around. But there are differences between the Nixon and Trump Administrations, and that’s what I hope to analyze here.

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War Dogs – A Movie Review

May 17, 2017May 21, 2017 B. John 623 Views 0 Comments Todd Phillips, Gregg Weiner, Bradley Cooper, David Packouz, Guy Lawson, Miles Teller, Comedy, Arms Merchant, Drama, Gun Running, Jonah Hill, Steve Lantz

Two friends in their early 20s (Hill and Teller) living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in over their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan Military – a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, not the least of which turns out to be the U.S. Government. Based on true events.

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How Donald Trump Won-“I Don’t Care”

December 6, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 1250 Views 12 Comments Election, Christians, evangelicals, Trump, Pence, Bannon, House Speaker, Paul Ryan

Let me be clear, I do care that Trump won, and I care about determining how this awful destructive force has been unleashed on our once great nation. And I think I have cracked the code. It’s because a lot of Trump supporters just said, “I don’t care.” Certainly people were motivated to vote for Trump for many reasons, but I believe it boils down to suspending their empathy to feed their fear.