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Friday March 17, 2017 · 12:30 PM PDT

2017/03/17 · 12:30

So I was half-way through a frightening page-turner about innocent and defenseless people being sentenced to death by a cruel and crazy hanging judge when I realized I was reading Trump's budget.

Right, that was a joke since the title, "America First," led me to assume it was a biography (or autobiography) of the American Nazi Party. After all, "America First" was their slogan for decades.

But then I pondered, why would the President of the United States be smiling while holding up (and appearing to pimp) Nazi literature? Didn't the Anti-Defamation League finally convince him to stop using the slogan after he ignored their pleas for some 18 months? Trump certainly didn't need to double down on the slogan since the election was over and the Nazis endorsed him way back in May. Perhaps his much ballyhooed "America First" book signing event was simply reassurance to hate groups as to where his sympathies fall.

I suppose it proves that even a compulsive liar tells the truth, sometimes. But may I suggest to Mr. Trump and his professional spinmeisters that they start working in the less obscure slogan, “Now, Tomorrow & Forever." It's one that won't just scare the crap out of Jews my age but also African Americans of nearly every age.

SPOILER ALERT: Trump's latest horror genre novelette-cum-motion picture does not have a happy ending. But then, that's not what he was expecting when his script's ghostwriters were put to task.

Fini.

Obami's Secret Plan to Destroy America

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Monday July 02, 2012 · 11:26 AM PDT

2012/07/02 · 11:26

Give that Obami feller another four years, and here’s what that Kenyan anti-colonial socialist is gonna do to our beloved America:
(This took me nearly an hour to research and assemble because I believe it’s important for real America to read... before it’s too late)

If you want to survive, I suggest you read this diary to the very end.

(Or skip to the end before biting my ass, please)
-wbramh

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Saturday May 26, 2012 · 7:44 AM PDT

2012/05/26 · 07:44

The late-setting July sun illuminated the canyon of freshly deserted mills on the avenue. Over-sized factory windows impregnated with senescent layers of dust reflected a copper-tinted hue over buildings and roadway alike. The streets were now devoid of the usual parade of delivery trucks and day workers. Just hours earlier, loading docks bustled with a small army of teamsters disencumbering the trucks of their raw contents to waiting pallets. By 8:00 PM, the district more resembled a ghost town.

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Tuesday March 20, 2012 · 4:09 PM PDT

2012/03/20 · 16:09

The Republicans sure have a way with words.

Name a recent Republican bill in Congress that actually deals with the problem mentioned in the bill's title, as expressed, or even mentions the title subject in the body of the bill and you probably found a bill to name a local post office after a retiring Republican Congressman.

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Thursday February 09, 2012 · 1:52 PM PST

2012/02/09 · 13:52

It’s been a mixed month for Newt Gingrich.
Even Fox News winced at Newt’s proposal to colonize the Moon and declare it our 51st state.

But then came Iran.

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Wednesday December 28, 2011 · 2:41 PM PST

2011/12/28 · 14:41

So my daughter is in her neighborhood supermarket this morning. She lives on Passyunk Avenue not far from the site of Philadelphia’s old and infamous Tasker projects; in other words, in an area of our fair city generally not known for its niceties and extravagances.

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Saturday December 24, 2011 · 10:47 AM PST

2011/12/24 · 10:47

Wingnut Cuckoo Clock ™

(They’re Going fast. Buy one now before they sell us out!)

-Description and picture below-

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Monday November 21, 2011 · 8:44 PM PST

2011/11/21 · 20:44

I’m sure a lot of Americans were upset at Newt Gingrich for advising the OWS protesters to take baths. Coming from most people, a statement like that would be considered ignorant and downright nasty, but I’m going to defend the indefensible with no more than a keyboard and a giant pair of low-hanging loofahs.

Sure, Newton Leroy Gingrich is a citadel of slime - ergo, who would know dirt better than a man steeped so deeply in his own crust that four showers a day wouldn’t be enough to remove the outermost layer? Like the age rings on a rotting stump, Newt’s personal detritus serves as a testament to his historical knowledge on the subject of proper hygienics.

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Sunday October 02, 2011 · 8:03 PM PDT

2011/10/02 · 20:03

Back in 1996, one of America’s lower-paid healthcare company executives was Allen Wise, a VP at United Healthcare. His annual salary was a paltry $2,697,751. The company CEO at the time was one Dr. William McGuire, a man willing to settle for stock options equaling $50,042,237. But he was far from the number one pilferer that year. That title belonged to a fellow by the name of Stephen Wiggins, the CEO of Oxford Health Plans. His stock options way back in '96 totaled $82,799,000. Wiggins also managed to be the salary champ that year at a whopping (for the time) $29,061,599.

That was then - or “the lean years” as they’re remembered in executive board rooms.

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America: From Steinbeck and Guthrie to Paul

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Saturday September 17, 2011 · 3:30 PM PDT

2011/09/17 · 15:30

As the ugly onslaught of hate, derision and indifference continues to be promulgated by the Right, I have begun to wonder, what happened to the glorious commonality born from the great melting pot? Where are the simple heroes written of by Steinbeck? What became of the moral battle laid out so passionately in a Guthrie song?

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Sunday August 28, 2011 · 1:42 PM PDT

2011/08/28 · 13:42

AKA: Bad Night, Irene

A Level Whatever (plus) disaster was moments away and coiled to strike.

On any other day, the first clue that trouble was on its way would have seemed innocent enough and ignored, but this would be no ordinary Sunday morning. Cities were being evacuated and at least one Atlantic coast governor was cursing at money-spending vacationers daring to surf on his threatened beaches. When the ridicule finally became too much and they packed up their bogey-boards, it left only a few thousand people in yellow slickers carrying foam-covered microphones and an ample supply of hair spray behind. They would have to face the terror, alone.

I lost power for no more than a milli-second, not quite long enough to reset my window air conditioner to the off position, but it sputtered for a moment, just long enough to damage my already frail sense of security.

I knew what was coming, and it would likely be the end of times.

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Sunday July 31, 2011 · 3:00 PM PDT

2011/07/31 · 15:00

Forgive me if I’m missing something here, but a few days ago, I watched and listened as Congressional and Senate Democrats (led by Reid, Schumer and the President’s close friend, Dick Durbin) stood in front of microphones and cameras and admitted they offered the Republicans everything they demanded in return for raising the debt ceiling (and still got a “NO!!”).

Is that what it's all about now to our Democratic representatives?
Just keep us out of default and you can have anything you want?

So they totally cave in to Right wing crazies; agree to raise zero revenue while destroying critical social safety nets, and then beg the Repubicans to extend the debt ceiling so not to deliberately send the country into an instant Depression.

Wow. Patriots everywhere these days.

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