All posts by joe quigley

I grew up on the South and North Shores of Massachusetts, and taught in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Oklahoma City. I was a successful Labor and Gay rights activist, and cartoonist in the places where I taught. I even won an award or two for my teaching, activism, and cartooning on the local and national levels. In 2012 I received the Angie Debo Award from the ACLU of Oklahoma for working for the protection of GLBT students in the Oklahoma City Public Schools, and getting the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” added to that school district’s policies on Nondiscrimination, Bullying, and Harassment. Wherever I lived and worked I had and continue to have many friends involved in local and national politics who keep me informed of what is going on. I am an unabashed liberal.

insensitivity?

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I am definitely not a fan of those who, after a natural disaster that could not be averted, claim that God spared them, or someone close to them.

Unless the decision was the result of a divine dart having been thrown at a beatific dart board, the implication is that the survivors were chosen by God because they were better people than those who did not survive, or that those who did not survive had been judged by God as not worthy of his largesse.

It seems to speak of a conscious acceptance or rejection by a God who does not explain to those who lost a loved one why the choice was made.

Two children are in the same classroom when a tornado hits the school building, and one survives while the other does not.

Two parents appear on the evening news claiming God has spared their child, while another quietly mourns the loss of theirs.

One family speaks of having been spared through God’s choice, while another not only has lost a child, but knows people have been led to believe the decision was somehow God’s.

They not only mourn the loss of a child, but, if religious enough, have to come to terms with what made that child undeserving of God’s mercy. Was it the child, or were the sins of the father visited upon the son?

Did the wall fall on one child because he was sinful, and not on the other because he lived a better and more worthy life?

Did the first responder turn right or left because of a decision based on a quick analysis of the situation, or did God direct him in that turn so the right kid would be pulled to safety while the other died?

To me this “God picked me instead of others” reaction to such things is insensitivity bordering on arrogance.

It also has a tendency to ignore those who did what was necessary to bring about a good result.

It’s almost as if a person has found an excuse to avoid showing the proper gratitude to the responsible person, or persons.

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Two doctors contracted the virus as they worked with those with Ebola, were flown to the United States after having been transported to the airfield by health workers, were then treated by doctors and nurses until a beneficial treatment was discovered and used, and now have no trace of Ebola in their systems.

According to one of the doctors, Kent Brantly, “God saved my life. A direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers”.

Apparently, besides having had no need for doctors and nurses to bring about the cure, God also ignored the prayers of all those in West Africa, and the whole world for that matter, and chose to cure no one there.

The recovery of Brantly and Nancy Writebol came after treatment with ZMapp, an experimental drug, or didn’t if as Dr. Brantly continued, “Today is a miraculous day”.

At a press conference upon his release, Brantly entreated people to never stop praying for the people of West Africa.

Perhaps he hopes that God, having cured him, might get around to curing the 1,123 Africans still dealing with Ebola. After all, He hadn’t been all that responsive while 1,350 West Africans died from it.

Of course, it does leave one to wonder why a benevolent and loving God waited to act with Brantly, while just turning His back on the people in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria as they died.

Certainly some of them were good people who prayed as hard as Dr. Brantly did.

Bruce Ribner, director of the Infectious Disease Unit of Emory University Hospital, was a little more generous with his gratitude by stating that the staff there was grateful for having the opportunity to apply their training, care, and experience in meeting the patients’ needs.

The cost of the treatment is unknown.

But if God did it, it seems it would be free.

Meanwhile, if it was the use of ZMapp, this could be the beginning of the end for the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

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How Many?

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There is a part of me that would just love to ask those people who were so “Patriotic” that they wanted the kids from Central America to be turned back and sent home immediately upon arrival at our Southern border because they just refused to accept that these kids were escaping death,

“Are you happy now?’

People seemed to actively refuse to accept the reality of conditions in Central America, many preferring to use the influx of immigrant children to exercise their dislike of President Obama.

Their claim that these kids were illegal and should be sent back because this was all so very unique and a new phenomenon ignored the number of unaccompanied children who had been sent here from Europe to get away from conditions there during the great immigration years of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, and while bringing up Ellis Island conveniently ignored that until they were processed there, the vast majority of immigrants had actually been illegal.

Ellis Island is closed, and while the kids coming from Central America are being sent to may locations to be processed they are just as illegal as many of our ancestors were while they waited for processing.

According to Hector Hernandez, the director of the San Pedro Sula morgue, San Pedro Sula being the capitol of Honduras, they have had to take care of 42 dead children since February of which between 5 and 10 were deported after crossing into the United States, the rest being the victims of the violence in their home countries.

So i that 6 month period:

For teachers, this would represent two classes of students.

For hockey fans that would be the number of players on both sides suited up for a game.

For Football fans that would be a team roster.

For baseball fans that would be a little less than twice a team’s roster from March to August until the minor leagues close in September and the roster goes up to about 50. So that would make the death toll 8 less than the complete roster of an MLB team.

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Bringing it back to kids, that would be a school bus load of children.

And that is only since February 2014.

There have been years before, and there will be years after.

Hugo Ramon Maldonado of the Committee for the Protection of Human Rights in Honduras says that about 80% of Hondurans fleeing are escaping crime or violence.

San Pedro Sula saw 187 killings for every 100,000 residents, and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency report saysthat many Honduran children are on the run from extremely violent regions “where they probably perceive the risk of traveling alone to the U.S. preferable to remaining at home.”

Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican, and Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat, and both from Texas, want the turn around time from arrival to deportation to be no more than 7 days.

These kids who have left everything behind, or whose families sent them north to save their lives would be pushed through a legal system they do not understand to be returned to horrific environments they do.

The U.S. and Honduran governments have set aside funds to help those who are sent back, and part of this is to give support to community programs and improve policing of the gangs these people are fleeing.

But until something concrete actually results from the promises to do something, the fear that upon return the deportees face death seems to have some validity unless a person feels there is a number of deaths that has to be reached before kids getting killed becomes a legitimate concern.

 

Terrorism, the new sales pitch

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There is nothing so “American” as the various festivals held throughout the country to celebrate regional things like crafts, foods, livestock, and cow chip flipping.

In California I attended the Artichoke Festival once.

Here on Cape Cod there are Oyster and other shellfish and seafood festivals.

You name a vegetable or any type of food product, and there will be a festival somewhere.

Sorgum? Covered.

Kolaches? Covered.

Pumpkins? Covered.

Keene, New Hampshire has the annual Keene Pumpkin Festival that includes a number of towers made of lit jack-o-lanterns in an attempt to set the world record for the most lit jack-o’-lanterns in one place.

The festival is held each year in October and is attended by as many as 70,000 people.

Keene, a town of only 30,000 people is, according to its own website,
“ an interesting community: It’s rural and folksy in some ways, but it’s worldly as well. Keene is an old community that is rich with history, as many New England towns and cities are. The people around here guard and enrich their heritages for the interested public, and not just for scholars and researchers. There are several centers of local history in Keene, the most prominent of which is the Historical Society of Cheshire County, right across Main Street from Keene State”.

Recently the town secured a BearCat military-grade armored personnel truck for its police department.

The application for the truck claimed that ‘’the terrorism threat is far-reaching and often unforeseen”, and a possible target is the “annual Pumpkin Festival.”

Keene’s city council’s accepting the federal grant to purchase the armored personnel carrier in 2012 was not without opposition as one city councilor called it “the poster child of waste”, and citizens questioned the need for a $285,933 vehicle.
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Keene Police Chief Kenneth Meola justified the need for a BearCat in the picture postcard New England town.

“Do I think al-Qaeda is going to target Pumpkin Fest? No, but are there fringe groups that want to make a statement? Yes, and we should prepare for that. It is a target in the New Hampshire region.”

Jim Massery, sales manager for the company, Lenco Armored Vehicles, that manufactures the vehicles, explained,.

“We don’t know what the terrorists are thinking, No one predicted that terrorists would take over airplanes on Sept. 11. If a group of terrorists decide to shoot up a shopping mall in a town like Keene, wouldn’t you rather be prepared?”

Great sales pitch.

Introduce a threat where none exists, and then offer to sell the protection from it.

The American Civil Liberties Union in its report on the militarization of the American police department said:
“Not even Keene city officials believed that the city actually needed the BearCat to thwart terrorism. To explain why the police included the word ‘terrorism’ on their application for federal funding for this purchase, a city council member said, ‘Our application talked about the danger of domestic terrorism, but that’s just something you put in the grant application to get the money. What red-blooded American cop isn’t going to be excited about getting a toy like this? That’s what it comes down to.’”

Recently I was stopped at a red light at a major intersection in Dennis MA when a newly acquired all-Cape SWAT truck went by. It was all black with dark tinted windows, but it was a basic model BearCat as it looked more like a personnel carrier without all kinds of attachments.

There are 15 towns on Cape Cod, and, as a resort area, from May through October the population quintuples. Obviously the chance for crime also increases, and who comes to the Cape during that time is a great unknown.

The possibility of needing a SWAT vehicle exists, but it is still a little disconcerting to see one go by in a little rural town known for its soft shell clams, golf courses, and beaches.

I can only imagine how it must look in a town like Keene, New Hampshire,  with its farms, rolling hills, theaters, both film and live, places to buy New Englandea, and a college to see a BarCat roaming the streets and being a presence at the Pumpkin Festival.

 

 

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Why the difference?

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How come Cliven Bundy out west can refuse to pay his usage fees for grazing cattle on our land, and then gets armed militia groups to come in and set up sniper posts to fend off the Bureau of Land Management guys, and there are a lot of threats about shooting people with guns being brandished and citizens stopped on the roads through the area by self-appointed road block “officials, and things remain quiet?

No military presence, but, instead, just a bit of benign neglect with plenty of support from the likes of Fox News and “patriots”.

But when the people of Ferguson, Missouri, started to protest against what they consider to have been a gross violation of the trust that should exist between the police and the policed, with falsely edited videos presented as security tapes, and still pictures of someone who is not Michael Brown presented as him because the guy in the picture has money in his mouth, a gun in his hand, and booze on the table to give the impression Brown was a thug, and certainly deserved what he got, immediately military equipment is brought in to deal with the protesters while not separating the well intentioned and well behaved protesters from the morons while also arresting the press covering the events.

Whereas the media, especially the conservative media, did verbal and journalistic gymnastics to explain away certain racial statements made by Mr. Bundy, they are accepting without question anything negative, real or fabricated that might paint Michael Brown as deserving what he got.
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I know it has to be something other than the difference in hats.

We know it has nothing to do with race.

And it certainly has nothing to do with one group “looking” American.

Right?

The Girl

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This morning during my dog’s morning walk, as I approached the small horse coral just down the road from the house, a little girl on a bicycle came racing up the street and upon arriving at the coral, threw down her bike, ran to the fence, reached into a plastic shopping bag she had with her, and, like Lady Liberty holding her welcoming torch, thrust an apple into the air and in one of those cute, raspy little kid voices loudly asked,
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“Okay. Who wants the Granny Smith?”

Fox needs a scandal

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According to Fox radio host Todd Starnes’s Facebook page on August 18:
“The uncivil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri continues — and it appears the Obama Administration may be orchestrating the Michael Brown tragedy.
NBC News is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder and Valerie Jarrett are the administration’s point persons going so far as to arrange a federal autopsy.
It was Holder who tried to convince the Ferguson Police Department not to release the video purportedly showing Brown involved in a strong-arm robbery.
He also ordered local authorities to stop using armored tanks — even though officers were fending off Molotov cocktail bombs. It was a decision that in essence led to government sanctioned lawlessness.
The LA Times reports Jarrett and Holder have been discussing their game plan with the likes of Al Sharpton.
So while President Obama whacks golf balls and dances the two-step in tony Martha’s Vineyard, his administration is in cahoots with a bona fide race hustler”.

So there you have it. It is all part of yet another Obama conspiracy/scandal thing.

And, of course, we know he did it just to distract us from Benghazi and the business at the border.

The weakest president in the history of the United States somehow, while whacking golf balls and dancing the two-step in tony Martha’s Vineyard, hatched a plan in Ferguson, Missouri that everyone there joined in on willingly and as one.

In order to reassure a community in turmoil after a possible act of police misconduct, the Department of Justice often steps in to take over an investigation, and in this case, at the request of Michael Brown’s family, the DOJ also had an independent autopsy performed.

Starnes also asked why Obama didn’t offer condolences for the officer who shot Brown.

I’m going to guess it was because the police officer was not dead, nor was anyone in his family.

On August 12 he tweeted, “Obama sends “deep condolences” to family of MO teen killed after allegedly attacking police officer. No condolences for the cop”.

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But then, this idea that President Obama can rile up the people in Ferguson to the point he has them rioting gets contradicted by Joseph Epstein of the Wall Street Journal who claimed, “President Obama, as leader of all the people, is not well positioned for the job of leading the black population that finds itself mired in despond. Someone is needed who commands the respect of his or her people, and the admiration of that vast–I would argue preponderate–number of middle-class whites who understand that progress for blacks means progress for the entire country”.

Epstein’s point was that Obama is not a racial leader.

He is no Al Sharpton.

Of course, if he suddenly showed up there to make an attempt to calm things down, Obama would be accused of grandstanding before the Air Force One even hit the end of the runway.

Then in yet another attempt to get the crazies to get crazier, the Daily Caller explained that the only reason Obama offered condolences was because it might bring out the Black vote like “it helped increase African-American turnout in 2012” when President Obama made a statement about the Trayvon Martin shooting, except this time it comes “12 weeks before a critical midterm election where relatively few of Obama’s African-Americans supporters are expected to vote”.

It’s all about the votes.

Having lost Benghazi, and basically every other “scandal” it would appear the hope is still there, and the dream will never die that the right wingnuts will finally get a real scandal, or die trying.

And as far as Holder telling the police to hold off on releasing the store video, this might have been good advice as the security video seems to show Michael Brown buying some cigars while putting others back on the counter, and there is no record of anyone connected to the store calling the police about a robbery or shop lifting.

But we can be assured that Obama had the tape edited, or actors recreating a nicer scenario, and the NSA speaking to those connected to the store warning them to change their story or else,

Of course, that assurance will probably come from Fox.

 

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Trickle up

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When it comes to income inequality, it is not just that the richest Americans are getting richer, it is also that the rest of Americans are getting poorer.

In 2003 the inflation-adjusted net worth for the typical household was $87,992, but by 2013 that had slipped to $56,335, a decline of about 36%.

That basically comes down to the top 5% having benefited from the “economic recovery” and could reinvest that money or put it in un-taxable off-shore accounts, while 95%, the people who do the actual work, saw no benefit.
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Rather, they saw a loss.

A study by the Russell Sage Foundation, the principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences, found that the increase for the well to do was 14% during those 10 years, and that the greater your wealth, the better you did.

In short, the tickle down has yet to happen.