August 2019 – Welcome to Phools Country

AFTER TRUMP…WHAT?

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS THE RESULT OF, NOT THE CAUSE OF OUR DIS-SATISFACTION WITH THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. IF THE CAUSES OF OUR DIS-SATISFACTION ARE NOT ADDRESSED AND CORRECTED, AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EXIT THE CAUSES OF OUR DISCONTENT WILL REMAIN.

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE NEEDS TO BE ABOLISHED. ITS ONLY REASON FOR BEING IS TO OBSTRUCT THE POPULAR WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
THE METHOD BY WHICH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS ARE DETERMINED SHOULD BE IN NEUTRAL HANDS- SO THAT GERRYMANDERING CAN BE AVOIDED.
THE NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES NEEDS TO BE EXPANDED. THE U.S. IS ONE OF THE MOST UNDER REPRESENTED DEMOCRACIES IN THE WORLD. WE HAVE 435 REPRESENTATIVES FOR A POPULATION OF 325,000,000 PEOPLE. THAT EQUATES TO ONE REPRESENTATIVE FOR EVERY 700,000 CITIZENS. NO OTHER DEMOCRACY IS SO UNDER REPRESENTED.
VOTER SUPPRESSION SHOULD BE TREATED AS A FELONY AND ANYONE FOUND GUILTY OF IMPEDING IN ANY WAY A CITIZEN’S RIGHT AND ABILITY TO VOTE SHOULD BE PUNISHED BY FINE AND INCARCERATION.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED AND THE LENGTH OF CAMPAIGNS SHOULD BE SHORTENED. WITH THE CURRENT STATE OF TECHNOLOGY THE NEED FOR TWO YEAR CAMPAIGNS IS LUDICROUS.
ELECTION DAY SHOULD BE MADE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY OR MOVED TO THE WEEKEND TO INCREASE VOTER PARTICIPATION.
A WAY SHOULD BE FOUND TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF VIABLE POLITICAL PARTIES TO BROADEN THE CHOICES AVAILABLE TO THE CITIZENS.
MILITARISM AND PERPETUAL WAR SHOULD BE ADDRESSED.

FAILURE TO ADDRESS THESE PRE-TRUMP FAULTS WILL RESULT IN A POST-TRUMP ERA OF CONTINUED DIS-CONTENTMENT

Poor Richard’s Almanack

Benjamin Franklin’s Best Sayings

With Numerous

Old Wood Engravings in Color

Benjamin Franklin wrote and published many works in his long lifetime. None were more popular than his several editions of Poor Richard’s Almanack. The first was published in 1732. Full of wit, wisdom, and useful hints, it soon became the most widely read almanac in all the colonies of pre-Revolutionary America. It helped make Franklin’s fortune, and contributed to his growing fame.

The young, Boston-born Philadelphian came early to health, wealth, and wisdom. Born in 1706, the son of a sturdy English tradesman, Ben was apprenticed at 10 years of age to his half-brother, a Boston printer. By the time he moved to Philadelphia at 17, the boy had already published many articles of his own.

From Philadelphia he was sent to England and there made many friends with his philosophic and political writings and his honest hard work. Back in Philadelphia, he established his own printing shop, bought a failing newspaper – the Philadelphia Gazette – and made it a profitable enterprise.

Distinguished statesman, respected scientist, practical and wise thinker, and the most famous American of his time, Benjamin Franklin put into Poor Richard’s Almanack much of the keen understanding of human nature that guided him through his long life. In the three centuries since its first publishing, the Almanack has continued to delight and inspire new generations of Americans with its sound practicality and its humorous turns of phrase. This new edition is a sampling of Franklin’s best.

(from the cover- 1967 edition Hallmark Cards, Inc.)

A FEW SAMPLES FROM THE ALMANACK

Fish and Visitors stink after three days.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Three may keep a secret, if two or them are dead.
Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.
Well Done is better than well Said.
A stitch in time saves nine.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
If a man could have Half his Wishes, he would double his Troubles.
Haste makes Waste.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.

HIDDEN COLORS 5

THE ART OF BLACK WARFARE

Hidden Colors 5 is the final installment of the critically acclaimed Hidden Colors documentary series.

In this installment, the film explores the history of warfare as it relates to global Black society. The film is broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages warfare from a historical, psychological, sexual, biological, health, educational, and military perspective.

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FEATURING…RIZZA ISLAM-DR. KMT SHOCKLEY-JABARI OSAGE-PROFESSOR JAMES SMALL-DR. CHARM TIMS- SHAHRAZAD ALI-DR. LLAILA AFRICA-DR. CLAUD ANDERSON-DAVID BANNER-CHUCK D-ICE T- MACHAEL JAI WHITE-DAME DASH-ZO WILLIAMS-BROTHER POLIGHT-DJEHUTY MA’AT-RA-KABA KAMENE

DIRECTED BY TARIQ NASHEED

THEY WERE HER PROPERTY

White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

by STEPHANIE E. JONES-ROGERS

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.

(from the jacket)

BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME

by TA-NEHISI COATES

“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.”

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta – Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men–bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from a personal narrative, reimagined history and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between The World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

TA-NEHISI COATES is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story “The Case for Reparations.” He lives in New York with his wife and son.

(from the book jacket)

UNTOLD HISTORY of the UNITED STATES

“This is the side of history we didn’t learn in school. Upsetting to some, but profound for those who think for themselves.”

-Oliver Stone

PART 1

Chapter 1: WW II

This new one-hour series features human events that at the time went under-reported, but crucially shaped America’s unique and complex history. The first chapter explores the birth of the American Empire by focusing on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Through examination of key decisions during World War II, discover unsung heroes such as American Henry Wallace and explore the demonization of the Soviets.

Chapter 2: ROOSEVELT, TRUMAN & WALLACE

Highlights from the historical upset of Harry Truman replacing Henry Wallace as Roosevelt’s Vice President during his fourth term – this dramatic shift in leadership propelled the U.S. toward empire-building. Exploration of the relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the beginnings of the Cold War. The relationships between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill are an integral part of postwar Europe’s division at the Yalta conference.

Chapter 3: THE BOMB

The strategies behind the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan are explored, as well as the new mythology that emerged from the war. The bombing haunted the Soviets and mistrust toward the Allies grew quickly. The consequences of beginning a process that could end life on the planet are examined.

PART 2

Chapter 4: THE COLD WAR

The equation changes: specific month-by-month causes of the Cold War. Highlights include Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech, the civil war in Greece and the Red Scare that prompts the rise of Joseph McCarthy, the House Un-American Activities Committee and the FBI.

Chapter 5: THE ’50s: EISENHOWER, THE BOMB & THE THIRD WORLD

Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles replace Truman. Stalin dies but relations with the Soviet Union turn colder. The H-bomb and the doctrine of nuclear annihilation are explored, as are the Korean War and U.S. rearmament. McCarthyism grows and so does the ruthlessness of U.S. policy toward the Third World. Eisenhower emerges as a game changer.

Chapter 6: JFK: TO THE BRINK

JFK and the Bay of Pigs; on the brink of total war during the Cuban Missile Crisis; early Vietnam; JFK’s attempts at peace with Khrushchev; JFK assassinated.

Chapter 7: JOHNSON, NIXON & VIETNAM: REVERSAL OF FORTUNE

Cataclysm in Vietnam as the war reaches a turning point – there’s no going back. The betrayal by Richard Nixon.

PART 3

Chapter 8: REAGAN, GORBACHEV & THE THIRD WORLD – RISE OF THE RIGHT

Carter’s dreams of change give way to Ronald Reagan’s secret wars in Afghanistan and Central America. Gorbachev emerges. Fresh opportunities for peace arise. The debate over Reagan’s legacy.

Chapter 9: BUSH & CLINTON: SQUANDERED PEACE – NEW WORLD ORDER

Russia introduced to American Capitalism. U. S. goes to war in Middle East. New World Order shaped.

Chapter 10: BUSH II & OBAMA – AGE OF TERROR

George W. Bush’s doctrine of an “endless war” against terrorism manifests in the Department of Homeland Security, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in a worldwide global Security State. The cannibalization of the U.S. economy continues. Obama and the destiny of the American Empire.

PART 4

BONUS MATERIAL

Prologue – Chapter A: WORLD WAR I, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION & WOODROW WILSON: ROOTS OF EMPIRE

How did the United States become an empire? A look back at the election of 1900 and the Spanish-American War – climaxing with World War I and the Russian Revolution as the mother of the ensuing conflict between the British, Soviet, and newborn American Empire.

Prologue – Chapter B: 1920-1940: ROOSEVELT, HITLER, STALIN: THE BATTLE OF IDEAS

Franklin Roosevelt inherits a divided nation rife with conflict. Struggle leads to change in the United States, Hitler rises to power in Germany, and World War II pushes the U.S. and the Soviet Union toward an uneasy alliance.

A CONVERSATION WITH HISTORY: TARIQ ALI AND OLIVER STONE

In this companion film to The Untold History of the United States, Oliver Stone and author/political philosopher Tariq Ali discuss a wide range of topics, accompanied by archival footage not found in the series, in a probing, hard-hitting conversation on the politics of history.

(from the enclosed booklet)

SCHOOL DAYS and BEYOND

IMA

Douglas Elementary (K-6th Grade)

Northeast Junior High (7th – 9th Grades)

Sumner High School (10th – 12th Grades)

University Of Kansas (KU)

University Of Kansas School Of Medical Technology

JESS A.

Kealing Elementary (K- 2nd grade)

Stowe Elementary (3rd – 6th grade)

Northeast Junior High (7th – 9th grades)

Sumner High School (10th – 12th grades)

University Of Kansas City (KCU)

University Of Missouri At Kansas City (UMKC)

Duplicate

Beyond

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE SCHOOL FORT SAM HOUSTON 1953

ANGRY WHITE MEN

BY MICHAEL KIMMEL

The white American male voter is alive and well — and angry as hell.

Sociologist Michael Kimmel, one of the leading writers on men and masculinity, has spent hundreds of hours in the company of America’s angry white men–from white supremacists to men’s rights activists to young students–in pursuit of a comprehensive diagnosis of their fears, anxieties and rage. Kimmel locates this increase in anger in the seismic economic, social, and political shifts that have transformed the American landscape: Downward mobility, increased racial and gender equality, and tenaciously clinging to an anachronistic ideology of masculinity has left many men feeling betrayed and bewildered. Raised to expect unparalleled social and economic privilege, white men are suffering today from what Kimmel calls “aggrieved entitlement”: a sense that those benefits that white men believed were their due have been snatched away from them.

The election of Donald Trump proved that angry white men can still change the course of history. Here, Kimmel argues that we must consider the rage of this “forgotten” group and create solutions that address the concerns of all Americans.

(from the back cover)