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A very partial scandal list

  07/10/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Rachel Maddow made a short list of Trump scandals to show how quickly we forget. One just nudges the last one out until we have (Continue Reading)

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The Perfect Storm aka cluster f***

  07/08/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

By the end of this summer, just during the party conventions and the election, we will see: continuing rise in virus cases, high unemployment, evictions, (Continue Reading)

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The Tale of Little Katie Miller

  07/07/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The excerpt Maddow published on the show quoted Miller as telling Soboroff: “My family and colleagues told me that when I have kids I’ll think (Continue Reading)

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A few Trump goals met

  07/02/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A U.S. border sealed tight? Check. Canada no longer lets Americans cross over into their country. The Canadians are not worried we’ll rape their women (Continue Reading)

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Why did the DNC cede aggression against Trump to Republicans?

  06/28/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently we have seen a spate of highly effective and even vicious ads against Trump and Trumpers on the part of….. wait for it ……. (Continue Reading)

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Could COVID19 Do Trump In?

  05/20/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

COVID19, the Corona Virus, has seeped into our consciousness now in a big way. The virus has the potential of generating a pandemic in this (Continue Reading)

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Accountability and Reconciliation

  04/15/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Bishop Desmond Tutu led his country into an era he called Truth and Reconciliation. South Africa had been as bad as the American South; worse, (Continue Reading)

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States with no lockdown as of April 4

  04/04/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Four states, all Republican governors. Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, North and South Dakota. Iowa really surprises me.

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Insults

  04/04/2020       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Conservatives complain that liberals insult them, calling them uneducated, rubes, fly-over country residents, red-necks and say they vote against their own interests. This is supposed (Continue Reading)

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Vindication

  03/09/2020       Pat Barrett      8 Comments

This morning on Morning Joe I heard two statements vindicating what I’ve been saying for several years. Trump is seeing his prime device for dealing (Continue Reading)

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Why no Black love for Bernie?

  03/06/2020       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

It’ simple. Bernie wants to change the society Blacks have been trying to get into. March 6, 2020 Addendum on watching Rachel interview Bernie Sanders: (Continue Reading)

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Chilling memories prompted by Trump

  02/19/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Sharp comparison given in article by George Packer on William Holbrooke quoting a woman who lived through the Balkan wars and was watching a Trump (Continue Reading)

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“They all think that.”

  02/13/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A journalist from Abuja, Nigeria, reporting on Trump’s popularity in Nigeria, when asked about his racism, said that Nigerians recognize that all Americans really think (Continue Reading)

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Just in case you wondered what happened to this category……….

  11/04/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Trump’s misdeeds, atrocities, and lies are simply too many to keep up with and they’re all well catalogued on MSNBC and other outlets. The lies (Continue Reading)

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Final final to the grouplet

  12/06/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“People that say that facts are facts — they’re not really facts . . . there’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of facts. And so Mr. Trump’s (Continue Reading)

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Satire just might do the trick

  10/17/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

We have a new knock-knock or how many Xs does it take to….. type of joke: Just how stupid is a Trump supporter? I’m afraid (Continue Reading)

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Looking for Mr. Trump

  10/16/2016       Pat Barrett      3 Comments

How bright is the line between Trump and the rest of us rude, crude and lewd guys? We’ve heard numerous men step out to say (Continue Reading)

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Running blog on politics 2016

  08/05/2016       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

Given the pace of political events, I’ve decided to stop flooding my Politics category with entries and to instead start a ramble with a political (Continue Reading)

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Classroom control by SRO

  10/31/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A cautionary tale is part of new teacher orientation: third day of class a kid shows up after the teacher has carefully accounted for the (Continue Reading)

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Two New Orleans young people who’ve made a mark

  08/28/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

On the Rachel Maddow show the guest host, Melissa Harris-Perry, interviewed two young people who survived Hurricane Katrina and went back to the city and (Continue Reading)

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  02/18/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Considering a post to flteach citing an article in NEA Today re the school to prison pipeline. I responded describing how Deasy stated that just (Continue Reading)

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A Day Without Mexicans

  01/23/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Reading Diane Ravitch’s blog every day gladdens my heart that so many people are onto the phony reform movement. When I went to my son’s (Continue Reading)

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Evidence for why you shouldn’t ridicule non-standard English

  12/16/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

So important for our teachers to understand, but it’s buried on p. 29 of McWhorter’s The Missing Spanish Creoles: “In Creolophone communities, authors such as (Continue Reading)

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