Category Archives: Resistance

About Dismantling Health Care: This Is Personal

I’m talking personally here because this issue quickly becomes about as personal as it gets. I read there’s twenty to thirty million Americans depending on the ACA; even more on Medicare. I’m concerned about them on a policy level, and hope I feel compassion.
But this ACA & Medicare repeal talk –it’s not just “policy.” Not just about “them.”
It’s about “us.” Me. It will affect me & my family.
My not particularly unusual family.
Directly, and bigtime; not someday, but immediately, and probably catastrophically.
So the drive for repeal is toying with the fate of real people with real lives. All over the country.
Including me and my family. (And maybe yours too?)
The impact of any such repeal will be coming right at us. Directly.

Breaking: Kellyanne Conway & the “Bowling Green Massacre” are Back

Quit piling on about the Bowling Green Massacre!
That’s very good advice. After all, everybody makes mistakes, and this time, mirabile dictu, it was even admitted, eventually.
So shouldn’t we forgive and forget, show compassion, and move on?? I mean, it’s become an indelible part of our history now.
This is all excellent advice, which I fully intend to follow.
Starting tomorrow.

John Lewis vs. Little Hands: Talk vs. Action

In light of recent events, permit me to share a photograph or two. Selma, Alabama, March 1965. I stood on the church steps behind John Lewis, Hosea Williams & Andrew Young. Then John & Hosea marched over the Pettus Bridge & were beaten & teargassed; John got his head busted, was almost killed. I got … Continue reading John Lewis vs. Little Hands: Talk vs. Action →

Push & Pushback in the Northwest “Showdown”

Northwest Yearly Meeting is notorious for its institutional culture of secrecy; indeed, I think they could teach the CIA some tricks.

So imagine my surprise when a clandestine collective which can be called “Quaki-Leaks” passed along some emails hacked from the listserve for NWYM pastors. There were other posts,but these offer an illuminating glimpse of what goes on behind one of the numerous veils that shroud much (too much, in my view) of NWYM’s proceedings.

The posts dealt with the impending midyear session this weekend, and its hot issue of what to do about gay-friendly meetings. The samples presented here offer three distinct views of the situation, with some qualifying comments by the NWYM Superintendent. We’ll finish with some brief comments.

First up is a Friend who dislikes the petition, because he hopes to avoid a purge. We’ll let him explain:

Deep State vs. Dupe State: Round One

Thinking over the Friday “revelations” about how the big intel agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) are agreed that Russia hacked the election to favor the President-elect (Or P-E), I’m recalling that African proverb about how when elephants fight, it’s the grass & the mice that get trampled.

And I’m taking a mouse-eyed view of what just happened.
Here’s how I think it looks from there: those with eyes to see witnessed an opening round in what could be a death struggle between the Deep State vs the Dupe State.