"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered...A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
- Martin Luther King, 1965
The Palatine Township High School District 211 board adopted a policy allowing transgender students to use locker rooms and bathrooms of the gender with which they identify. Angry parents said that the board members who supported that policy would have to pay.
Three anti-transgender candidates were fielded to challenge incumbents. The local election was yesterday.
Stardate April 5, 2017. Approx. 580 days until the next U.S. election, just over a year before the serious campaigning starts for the midterm elections of 2018. Currently Donald Trump is president, the republican party has the majority in the House and Senate and the serfs are as screwed as ever. More than ever.
I pointed out last week how a grassroots insurgency was threatening the corrupt Democratic establishment, which is in the process of co-opting 'The Resistance'.
Boyertown, PA. It's not too far from Philadelphia, located between Amityville and Congo on Ironstone Creek in Berks County.
It is the site of the most recent attack by the so-called Alliance Defending Freedom on equal treatment of transgender students in our schools.
ADF is claiming that
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
- Mark Twain
At some point we are going to have another economic bubble burst.
It's inevitable. It's what we do.
So to stay in practice, let's play Spot The Bubble.
Heh. Lot's of rumours about Bernie, will he or won't he. Got a fundraising email from him yesterday asking for donations based on the come. Think I will def wait to see the bill.
Regardless, there is a substantial move afoot to make Medicare For All happen. Now. Even 40% Republicans think it's time.
If blasphemy was possible on a secular website, inhabited mainly by Bitter Berners, this would be a cardinal sin. My excommunication from the congregation may be vitiated by the following explanation.
Ten people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion on a subway train in St. Petersburg, Russia Monday. Russian officials are indicating it was a terrorist attack by a radical islam suicide bomber.
