Harvey Milk!

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country."

That was a quote from a tape made by Harvey Milk, to be released just in case he was murdered. If you dont know who Harvey Milk was you oughta learn.

40 years ago today a conservative San Francisco supervisor, that's city councilman to us rubes,named Dan White walked into City Hall and murdered Mayor Willie Moscone and Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the entire nation. Oh yeah, he used a gun, like all chickenshit assassins do, and he did it because he saw a conspiracy against conservative white men like himself.

1978 was a long time ago. I was in college. I had no idea who Harvey Milk was. I hardly knew any gay people. But the murder of a Mayor and a Supervisor by a loser "victim" like Dan White really appalled me. I didnt understand the grief, the horror, the fright that must have come down on San Francisco that day. It was just another assassination of somebody making a difference. JFK, X, MLK, RFK, Lowenstein and now Milk and Moscone.

But then came that candlelight march. That hit me hard. Hey kids, this was the days before the internet so I had to go to Love Library and read the San Francisco Chronicle for something other than news about the Giants. I learned a lot in the next few days. Lessons that changed me from naive and ignorant to woke as the kids say.

You wanna read a great story? Read The Mayor of Castro Street. I carried this dog eared paperback around with me for years and still have it. In fact, I think I'll read it again.

Harvey, we hardly knew ye.

Veteran's Day!

77 years ago my father tried to join the Marines. They said nah. Flat feet or something. So he joined the Army and spent the "4 worst years of my life" trudging around Europe stopping Nazis and fascists from murdering innocents, oppressing freedom and just being assholes. He never ever spoke of it except if the story involved humor, like stealing Generals jeeps cuz they were tired, having Italian POW's tell him that Mussolini, Hitler and FDR were all "son of a beeches" or becoming friends with a German kid named Rolfie who would warn them of approaching "Panzers" though they always turned out to be American tanks.

My point? There weren't any fucking bone spurs or flat feet that kept my Dad from doing whatever part he was assigned in defeating evil.

Yesterday a real life evil doer represented America at a World War I cemetery by sitting in his Paris hotel room and watching Fox News and tweeting that California fire victims were to blame for their own deaths. Oh did I mention it was raining and Jim Acosta was there? Ya know, messed up hair and a rude press guy forced the evil prick to stay away. Bet he doesn't miss the Putin job appraisal.

Thanks for your sacrifices to all veterans today.

The guy representing the country you sacrificed for is a disgrace.

Call To Arms!

77 years ago my parents generation came under attack by imperialists and fascists and Nazis and rose up and defeated all of them within 4 years. That was the Greatest Generation in the words of Tom Brokaw at least in regards to defeating a real threat to the world. Yeah yeah they had real problems at home that have never been fixed but the call to arms was made and they responded by being shipped off to squalor and death and horrors only they knew.

Hey Millennials ! This is YOUR call to arms. My generation of Baby boomers aint gonna save you. We are the fucking problem. We have turned from self interested protesters to a bunch of self centered morons who believe anything an orange toxin says. We elected an imperialist, fascist Nazi very fine person to run the country cuz we were afraid of the changes you Millennials accept as common sense. Equality and color blindness and who the fuck cares if you're gay.

2016 was YOUR Pearl Harbor. Will you young uns accept the challenge today? All you have to do is vote. Thats it. It takes 10-20 minutes and if the vote suppressors make it harder so be it. You can replace them. You have the power. You normally dont show up because your lives are busy and having fun is more important to you than responsibility. I get it. But take a few minutes or hours. I beg of you. Save Democracy from these closet Nazis.

I am in the 4th quarter of life and white so all of this will affect only my fragile psyche and perhaps my retirement. These people HAVE to be stopped. NOW! Its up to you. In cahoots with those of us who actually read and study things and realize what this current situation could become we can stop this. Fear of change, fear of brown people, fear of blacks, fear fear fear fucking fear. This is what the Republican Party gets. Fear.

Fuck fear. Fuck Republicans and fuck fascism. Help us!

Thanks Millennials.

Fascism Is 5 Days Away!

5 days to save the nation from a racist thug. The Mussolini in Chief has had quite the week. Inserting himself into all that is tragic, giving orders to a non existent military presence to shoot children throwing rocks, something that will never happen. Holding rallies in states for his oldster bitter base. Thinking he can change the constitution with a stroke of his EGG like signature. I mean what else can you think. Donald Fucking Trump is a thug. A creepy fascist. You know what he is. And in 5 days, he must be stopped.

Trump began the week by defying every Jewish leader, every politician, every decent human being in Pittsburgh by NOT staying away from the city attempting to recover from the Trumper maniac who murdered 11 Innocent folks in a synagogue last Saturday because of his economic anxiety. The story of Holocaust survivor being killed turned out to be false, but nonetheless, she was slaughtered by a gun toting mass murderer inspired by the words of a movement allowed from under the rock by the Racist in Chief. Trump went to Pittsburgh because of course he did what he was asked not to. And it was a typical Trump stepping in dog shit moment. He basically got run out of town. Go Pirates.

Trump continued his power grab by insisting, on the advice of "many legal scholars" led by what I assume is a gang of fake judges on TV. tghat he could eliminate an amendment to the constitution by signing a piece of paper. You see, the Bigot in Chief, doesnt think that babies born on American soil to non citizens, should be citizens. You know, like his 4 spawns of Satan born to non citizens. The idea that the 14th Amendment can be destroyed with a stroke of a dictators pen is ludicrous enough, but the fact he had support from various Republicans like the Screeching Lindsey Graham, still reeling from the latest Russian blackmail threat, is scary. The base loves it of course. Yay Donald! Get rid of those foreign browns and blacks. Russian women giving birth at Mar A Lago? What?

Trump sends 5000 military troops to border to fend off an invasion of women and children a thousand miles away. 10,000 more troops? Its getting dire down there. They are now only 995 miles away! The Fascist in Chief panicking America with his warning of something that happens regularly. People from other countries asking LEGALLY for asylum. People, forced out of American supported countries who fail to protect them from gangs and their own governments, flee and walk thousands of miles to stay alive. This is an invasion, per the Scaredy Cat in Chief and his wimpy followers, scared of their own shadow because its black.

This is the greatest overreaction to a non event since oh maybe ever. The Thumb Breaker in Chief then gave the order to the non existent troops to shoot to kill non existent women and children massed at the border if they threw non existent rocks. Shoot to kill? What is this, the 1970 Ohio National Guard?. This "order" would never be given by any military officer because they arent mass murderers but to Trump and his dumb base they apparently are.

We have 5 days to stop this crazy motherfucker. 5 fuckin days.

VOTE!