Author: overcoffee879

So the Republicans have finally seen their wish of more than seven years progress toward their end: the death of social welfare and health/medical care in the United States. Obama care has its flaws, of course, but what constructive suggestions to better it have they made? None! One of the may things that dismay me is that retired people and the less favored would vote conservative. What have we got that we must defend? As we applaud the Trump-Ryan success tell me what the alternative will be? Frankly for many of us health care and hospitalization are more necessary than more weapons for Iraq.  Now the insurance companies are in charge. Free enterprise and the American Way meaning die if you can´t pay for it will prevail. Voters in Wisconsin deserve what they will get from the local boy they sent to Washington. Those who applaud this setback are fools who enjoy throwing rocks at their own windows on a cold day.

Let´s face it, friends. The United States is against Russia, Iran and North Korea having nuclear weapons. Russia would agree  that they are bad in our hands while Iran would claim that they are evil unless in the hands of the  Faithful. That fat little guy in North Korea would explain that he needs them just to kills us. Everybody is against others having them. We know it because the heads of state get together from time to time at the UN to agree that others´bombs and missiles are a threat to living things on the Earth. Everybody applauds, the Secretary General smiles and the delegates check their watch to see if the speaker is within his/her time limit. Year after year, decades come and decades go and we hear the same, tired old song. It´s a farce! Everybody insists on keeping his/her nukes.

Let´s all skip over our so-called national leaders. Here, there and everywhere let´s get a populist cause going calling for the total elimination of atomic weapons made who cares where. A Russian bomb is no less criminal than an American bomb. An Iranian or israeli weapon is no more an expression of God´s love than a North Korean fire ball is a sign of national greatness. As a person I have no more interest in killing a Russian than a Russian has in killing me. Do Washington, Moscow or Peking  ever ask us? No! Do they care what we think? No! Let´s make it clear to them that their political views are offensive to human beings. Governments will never disarm because they just do not understand that we-the-people have not interest in killing each other.

Between jamborees and tuits the Wizard of Trump shows us that serious analysis of the reality around him is not his strong point.  In his appearance before the NRA he voiced his total support of our right to defend our freedom shooting  enemies in the malls and schools where the evil opponents  of our constitutional rights hide out.  But then, maybe I am being unfair. After all, the Wizard did call for a peaceful path to reducing the attacks against Right by limitations on the first amendment for the media and comic books.  At the Harrisburg jamboree he called for constitutional reform while before the NRA he stood for the defense of our constitutional right to kill anything that bleeds.  In Harrisburg the Wizard was at his trashy best! Without any evidence at all he basked in the applause of his faithful as he explained with a lack of any detail why his first 100 days were a landmark for brilliant leadership in the history of the United States. How could we not have noticed the renewal of our political life that his presidential decrees were showering on us?  In Harrisburg his postures, strutting and firm jaw poses and so many other stage antics remind me of Il Duce stomping his feet promising that trains would run on time.  The tragedy is that at Harrisburg a free people applauded another fool´s laugh-ins.

The Republicans, under the Trump´s leadership, are back again with the American Health Care Act. This legislation is alarmingly tilted against all of us. It will weaken Midicare and the costs for people 50 and above will be left to the mercy of those who love us so in the world of private insurance. Again, the AARP is calling on us all to attack the proponents of the American Health Care Act where it hurts them more: in the political hopes and ambitions of members of congress. Let´s write to them each and every one of us. And, if we have friends who can write or  still dial the phone, let´s get them involved too. We scared the hell out of many Republicans in states like New Jersey last time the Trumpeters under Paul Ryan´s baton tried to nail us to a cross. We can do it again, please!

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Hoy el ABC ha vuelto  a dar una amplia cobertura a la cuestión  de cómo han de ser los servicios callejeros al turismo en Sevilla. En nuestra ciudad como en Barcelona, Florencia, Roma y Venecia los peligros al patrimonio secular del turismo de masas nos preocupan muy en serio. Hay, debajo de la foto de rigor, D. Alberto Díaz del PP se ve conmiserando con D. Borja Hernández. En la misma página 10 del ABC, D. Antonio Muñoz ha vuelto a reiterar la decisión del Ayuntamiento a mantenerse firme ante la estridencia intolerable de los anuncios agresivos que afean nuestras calles y plazas. Hay que admirarle su valor como político. Espero que el PP adopte una postura de apoyo al Sr. Muñoz. Que el Sr. Díaz, ya hecha  la foto de rutina, se siente con D. Antonio para idear un plan que permita que en Sevilla establecimientos de la innegable categoría de la Pastelería La Campana sean autorizados a continuar abiertos al público mientras la ciudad se mantenga firme en el veto a los intereses tóxicos que lo degradan todo. A ver si alguna vez, el PP y el PSOE serán capaces de poner delante de todo los intereses y el futuro de nuestra Sevilla herida.  De paso sugiero a D. Borja que La Campana vuelva a abrir el pequeño patio-café  que hasta hace poco tenía en Sierpes.