U is for Understanding over Ugliness

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Understanding	Ugliness
Compassion Mutual agreement Comprehension	Offensive     Hideous     Unpleasant

I am not sure what happened to all the compassion and understanding we had for our fellow humans. It sure seems that the members in congress that are in control now have lost all sense of that when it comes to passing the laws that will enable people to have affordable healthcare, help when they need it like Medicaid and even the help that Ukraine and other countries need during their difficult times.

Instead we get masked goons coming into our cities and terrorizing little children. We get concentration camps where who knows what is going on. And to be told lie upon lie upon lie is just offensive to my intelligence.

I'm from the SF Bay Area. Can we please just have some more peace, love and rock and roll?

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

T is for Triumph over Tyranny

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Triumph	Tyranny
Victory Joy                         Success	Oppressive power Government with a single ruler Harsh and unjust act

I think the best example of this lately is the victory in Hungary over Viktor Orban. He had been in power over the people of Hungary for 16 years! The corruption and oppression were terrible. He was old #47s idol (along with Putin). Even sending the vice-president over there to try to help Orban keep control didn't work. The people had had enough.

It gives me such hope. Watching those Hungarians dance in the street after the election was exciting. I can't wait until we can dance like that too!

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

S is for Substance over Slander

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Substance	Slander
Fundamental characteristics Ultimate reality Weight Practical importance	False charges that damage reputation False statements Defamation of character

The most recent defamation lawsuit brought up by those incompetents is the one from Kash Patel regarding the reporting of alcohol abuse while on the job. I mean, just look at his eyes people. It seems to me that there is substance in those allegations because we all saw the video of him chugging the beer at the Olympics. Really dignified actions for the FBI Director.

Can we please go back to respectable times?

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

R is for Reason over Racism

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Reason	Racism
Rational motive Logical Something that makes sense Explanation	Belief that race is a determinate of human traits. Discrimination Prejudice

One would think it reasonable to assume that after so many years of education and bringing the examples of how racism is rampant in our country to the forefront, it would not have been possible to elect such outright racists to the highest level of our government. But you know what they say about "assume."

I had no idea, for example, about the racism shown in the medical profession especially in regard to pregnancy. In the last few years I have been doing transcription for projects that are researching the differences in care between the races and how hard it is for people of color to get the same care given to white women. It is amazing.

Will we ever learn?

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

Q is for Quality of Life over QAnon

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation.  

Quality of Life	QAnon
General well-being Healthy Comfortable Able to enjoy activities of daily living Ability to afford to have a home, food, all the necessities and more	Far-right American political conspiracy theory and political movement. Believes the world is controlled by Satanic cabal. Believes there is a ring of pedophiles

I believe there may be a ring of pedophiles but they are not in the place that QAnon is looking. Let's release the Epstein files and see, shall we?

I know I am guilty of taking my quality of life for granted. I hope that we can learn from this difficult period in our history and make the changes necessary not to repeat it ever again.

Feeling better and trying to catch up with my work so a short one today. Thanks for all your well-wishes. I got lucky and my symptoms were not extreme.

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

P is for People over Politics

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

People	Politics
Human beings Friends     Neighbors Kinship	Government     Policy     Political opinion     Affairs of state

Taking funding away from important programs like the Affordable Health Care Plan or Medicare so that the wealthy can have a huge tax break does not sound like putting people over politics. I understand that there are concerns about wasteful spending but to just arbitrarily defund programs doesn't make sense to me. Have you seen the depositions of those two guys who were working with DOGE? They were being asked about the cancellation of things because of "DEI" and they couldn't even articulate what DEI was! They used ChatGPT to help them identify programs to cut.  Another one was asked if he felt sorry for pulling the grants away from people who were doing important research. He said he did not feel sorry for them, he was trying to reduce the deficit. When asked if the deficit had been reduced, he said no. 

This is a clip from a news report: 

The smug look on their faces just tells it all. The full depositions I'm sure can be found on YouTube if you want to see them. 

Still a little under the weather so this is the best I can do for now.

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress.

O is for Opportunity over Obstruction

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Opportunity	Obstruction
Choice Getting a chance to do something A favorable situation A way to move forward	Block Hindrance Obstacle Interference

Putting this here as a place holder. Unfortunately I got COVID and I am drained! Talk about an obstacle!

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress.