The March for War??

I heard that MAGA lackeys
are paid to walk from
Oklahoma to Chicago;
they Walk for War
in support of bombing, ICE, and pedophilia.

A few boneheads showed up and walked one mile
in the MAGA Walk for War;
the lackey walkers were never paid by Trump,
the few who walked were spit upon,
women threw snowballs on maga shoes.

Women's Lives Matter.
White Lives Matter.
Black and Brown Lives Matter.

Jonathan Ross, the ICE murderer's
last words to the innocent woman he killed were
"fucking bitch!"

American Women Need to Woke!

Renee Good murdered in Minnesota by
an incompetent and evil ICE thug.
January 7, 2026

The Real Walk for Peace is On in 2026.

Poetry by Michael P. Garofalo
1998 - 2026

 

Trump Red Hat Rebels Crash the Congress Doors: January 6, 2021

 

 

Attack on the U. S. Capitol

European Christians and the American Way

I often see graphics on the Internet, in social media and webpages, that catch my attention.  I don't agree with them and think they are incorrect.  Here is an example:

"European Christians Built this Nation."   ????

First, the word 'Christians' is merely a lump sum statistical term and vague. The fact is that Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans, Quakers, Puritans, Presbyterians, Mormons, Southern Baptist Black Churches, Jehovah's Witnesses, Fundamentalists, Mennonites, Church of England, Revivalists, Community Churches, Christian Scientists, etc., don't agree with each other, and often despise and condemn one another.  Shite and Sunni and Sufi Moslems do the same today in the Middle East.  The fanatics in these denominations have a long history of harassing, torturing, and murdering "non-believers" in their illusions.

Yes, those wonderful European Christians (British and Spanish) and Islamics began by kidnapping, shipping, and enslaving millions of Africans in the Americas, and kept exploiting slave labor until 1870.  Those slaves help build this Nation.  

Yes, those kindly European Christians decided to exterminate those savage heathen Native Americans.  They helped unbuild America.

Yes, those hardworking and mean European Christians (i.e., Catholics, Lutherans, and other Protestants) wildly cheered for a loud mouthed demagogue who promised to "Make Germany Great Again". Their foolishness resulted in the genocide of 6 million Jews, the ruin of Europe, and 60 million dead from WWII.

Many of those closed-minded Christian Europeans, especially the WASP, bigoted, racist and violent KKK contingents, hated Catholics, Jews, Blacks, Moslems, and foreigners.

Over 25% of Americans do not belong to any religious group.  So, these hardworking folks had no part in building this Nation?


Many Americans were noted for their independence, self-reliance, and favoring a secular state and religious tolerance.  The ongoing urbanization of America in the 20th century has made us seek new ways of governing ourselves and some shifts in values.  For example, women were denied the vote by 'Christian' macho men and churches until 1920.  The Civil Rights Act was not passed until 1964.

Over the years, those hardworking and poor immigrants, from all over the world, that came to America (and their children and grand children) supported, voted for, and paid taxes for public schools, welfare, Social Security, health care, homeless shelters, sewers, colleges, environmental protection, police, Medicare, courts, social services, libraries, scientific research, roads, parks, museums, etc. Those immigrants knew that America was a better place to live and they paid for the opportunity with their taxes and their lives in our military services.  

Most immigrants to the USA, of all races and religions, are decent, generous, and compassionate.  

My Italian grandparents immigrated in 1905 to Los Angeles and succeeded. Their children went to public schools, public colleges, used roads, followed business laws, they enjoyed the use of many public facilities, they paid their taxes, collected Social Security and Medicare, and helped build America.  And many poor immigrant folks voted Democratic, were pro-union, or Socialists.

Yes, there were many decent and generous European Christian immigrants that helped build America.  But they never did it alone!  

I think that decent Americans continue to build a kinder and better secular Nation today.  

However, the sub-text, and the wrong assumption and claim, is that immigrant white folks who worshiped at my local church, and think like I do or my parents did, really did actually build America. Balderdash!

Many European Christians and Islamics have hated and feared each other for centuries.  It is no surprise to see that slip into the graphic above.  I dislike Islamic Sharia laws, and I dislike Christian Moral Majority "Sharia" laws.  Both want to force their religious practices and customs and petty rules on the rest of us hardworking, and law abiding citizens who support a secular government.  

The "welfare" inclusion is of course the same old sub-text of not wanting welfare for those lazy blacks and rapist and drug dealing Mexicans (the latest Takeaway Trump version), and Moslem immigrants or citizens who are all radical Jihadis; while conveniently ignoring and forgiving those poor unfortunate white folks who worship at my local church and need welfare to help them get a leg up in hard times.  What is good for the holy white goose is not OK for the discolored or mixed gander.  

As for 'Bitching,' it seems like a sneering phrase used to describe the opinions of people who don't agree with you, e.g., if you disagree with Mr. Trump's lies and takeaways, then you are 'whining' and 'bitching.'  Debating and discussing politics and values has a long and honorable tradition in America.  We have listened to Republicants whine and bitch and proselytize for the last eight years; it is now payback time, but with the truth this time.  

When driving home from work one day two years ago, this is what I saw.  A local red-neck rifleman, probably a "Jeffersonian," spray painted on the side of a bridge over Interstate 5 the following: "Lynch Obama."  [One can't know for sure who the perpetrator is, since he hides like the coward he is; but a local Red Bluff racist redneck is most likely.] He most likely sits in a Christian Church on Sundays, with other white European Christians.  Many of us are not thankful for these belligerent European Christians doing their clandestine political bitching. This freeway is flanked by posters and signs with pro-Christian warnings of hell-fire, and anti-abortion crosses.  Thankfully, a state CALTrans worker removed the racist graffiti from the concrete bridge wall a few days later.  

Takeaway Trump and the Republicants, Take 1, Out of the Gates

I seldom comment on current politics.  Television, radio, newspapers, and the Internet are filled to the brim with controversial discussions about the latest changing news about the proposed changes in our Federal Government.  People study and debate these matters to make a living, and are much more qualified than I to evaluate and comment.  I can only express my own opinions.  

I supported the proposals of Senator Bernie Sanders, and his candidacy for President of the United States.  I voted for Democratic candidates at all levels of government.

My problem with the conservatives and Republicants with a slight majority now in power, and with the rather rude maverick and bold Mr. Takeaway Trump, is their inability to see that you can't have major tax cuts AND a multi-trillion dollar federal infrastructure improvement plan, a modified Affordable Health Care plan, and build up the military to higher levels (all proposed by Mr. Trump).  The typical result from Republican administrations is escalating the national debt, and the rich getting richer. Trickle down economics has failed since the days of President Reagan.  (Read Noam Chomsky, Matt Taibbi, and Burt Hall.) 

Building a new Trump Wall along a 1,950 mile long border through largely deserted desert territory seems wasteful and impractical.  This is not an infrastructure improvement or security improvement. I suggest, for example, beginning with solving Flint Michigan's water problems, and a thousand other worthwhile local infrastructure projects.  How about the federal government doing a major national solar energy infrastructure project in our deserts, and repairing aging hydro-electric dams?  How about a plan to work with Canada, Washington, and Oregon to bring needed surplus water to California - a Green Pipeline?  

The Republican rejection of the global warming facts  is unwise and unscientific.  If you live in a coastal U.S. city you had better start worrying. 

I agree with many that Mr. Trump's inflammatory remarks and loose lips have greatly encouraged many of his ardent followers who are racists, bigots, conspiracy boneheads, preppers, gun hoarders, and one issue fundamentalist true believers. 

I do not support conservative and Republicant attacks on women's rights and women leaders.

I strongly support the separation of secular governmental functions at all levels from the many antagonistic and muddle headed religious creeds and their missionary agendas.  Our constitution, a product of Enlightenment thinkers, supports this idea.  However, since the Moral Majority days, the fundamentalist Christians (aka WASPs) and Islamics have been making every effort to force us all to accept their antiquated mores and customs.  Many church zealots don't support secular freedoms.  (Read Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins).  

Republican attacks on our public education system are unfair and not fact based.  Anti-Intellectualism has deep and growing roots in America (read Richard Hofstadter).  Are using federal funds to indoctrinate children in Baptist, Islamic, and Catholic Schools what most people think is wise public policy?  

Mr. Takeaway Trump's constant attacks on the Press are very dangerous to a free society.  Strange, he, the demagogue of fake news and unsubstantiated claims himself, complaining about 'Fake News'?  The news source that criticizes him is bad 'liberal media', and if the same news source compliments him it is praiseworthy.  Trump's Tweets and trolls are often those of a petty, nasty, and argumentative brat.  


I retired at age 70, after 54 years of working.  Since my wife and I now make 60% of our monthly income from an independently managed portfolio of investments, stocks, successful businesses, savings, bonds, large investment organizations, real estate investments, annuities, and company profits, I do favor practical, honest, and fair ways to improve and strengthen our economy.

We earned pretty good money from these investments during President Obama's eight years as President; we did less well during the second term of President Bush Jr. (and the financial scandals of that period), and strong with President Clinton.  Mr. Trump might have some good ideas and plans for national business success - I hope so.  

When I hear Mr. Trump talking about "shutting down the government" it makes me quite alarmed.  What kind of competent leadership is that!  I do make 40% of my monthly income from Social Security, and a small CalPers pension from my 17 years of working part-time as a teacher-librarian; and, I hope not to loose these earned benefits. 

My wife and I have paid Federal and State taxes every year since 1963. However, the free-loading tax manipulators like Mr. Trump and other wealthy people, all the churches that pay no taxes, parents with big families that get many tax write offs and free public education and other benefits for all their many children, and criminal tax evaders all rankle my bones a bit.  Too many people don't financially support the government that benefits them or fights for them.  I favor increased taxes for everybody.


I am not very optimistic about the results of the current leadership in Washington.  I expect my taxes to increase to fund programs I don't support (e.g., subsidies for religious schools, more polluting coal plants, increased military spending), my Social Security or Medicare benefits to decrease, the national debt to rise, political divisiveness to increase, unemployment to rise, systematic attacks on the integrity of the judiciary to proliferate, increased polarization in our society, harassment of minorities to increase, women's rights denied, and our image around the world tarnished.  I hope I am wrong about some of my predictions.  

And, while I worry, Takeaway Trump is golfing with his millionaire buddies and lackeys and 'making deals', and 38% of Americans believe he is doing a good job.  What?  

Who will the new 'president' SCREAM at this week?

Enough said!