My new opinion piece

Believe it or not, I have better things to do.  This is one of my opinion pieces on Election 2020 which is in 2 months only.

https://www.superiortelegram.com/opinion/columns/6634804-Hoffman-column-The-danger-of-the-2020-election

Two radio shows

Here is a listing of our two most recent shows.

The first episode discusses movies on the political spectrum and what movies best describe our favorites throughout time.  We highlight the movie Crash, Fahrenheit 11/9, The War Room- about Bill Clinton's first run for president, an allegorical children's movie called the "Secret of Nimh" that Wade mentions, "I am the Giant" about Mid East protesters who risk their life, When Saturday Comes - about the tunnels between Palestine and Israel and more....

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2019/02/25/what-movie-best-describes-your-political-acumen

Our second show involves very critical testimony by Michael Cohen.  We did the prequel to the show before he testified and anticipated how the testimony would be received.  After listening to NPR today, the approach by many Congressmen and Congresswomen on the committee was very diverse, being that they only had 5 minutes each to confront Mr. Cohen.  The obvious factor is Donald Trump purposely paid Stormy Daniels, the porn star, $138,000 to be quiet in 2016 and 2017 while he ran for president and during the time he was president.  A congressman pointed out that he was supposed to turn his businesses over to his sons but was still directing Michael Cohen to make hush payments while commanding the highest office.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2019/02/27/michael-cohens-stormy-testimony-he-may-need-jack-daniels-after

Just completed our 400th episode on BlogTalkRadio

Here is one of our recent episodes we published on YouTube.
 Our link is www.YouTube.com/flyingcharm

Here is an episode about Donald Trump's visit to Duluth and the continuing immigration crisis between Northern Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe - Libyans stranded in Italy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iNa5c-JsnQ

In Trumpland by Michael Moore

The movie Trumpland brought me to tears.
There were many moving moments.
He painted a portrait of Hillary that exalted her.  It did not have the scars of media or mudslinging, it was pure in it's existence.
Her service as First Lady to initiate health care which was ultimately rejected; her careful planning to launch universal health care was her brainchild.
Moore mentioned the average of 50,000 people a year who die with a medical condition prior to Obamacare because they did not have adequate health care.
The slanted feelings of hostility toward her by misguided conservatives and their projection that her intentions were evil all become political waste because someone with a greedier heart try to kick her to the curb.  
Well, America got what they wanted now but now all the institutions of the federal government can see just how dangerous and small minded Trump can be.
The litmus paper will turn color by summer.

Another radio conflict that in the end adds up to nothing.

     I do realize over time that people who have never gone to college end up repeating the same recycled garbage and analogies that revolve around in their head.  My friend, Jon, is very good at examining spiritual complexities that people have to face in their everyday walk with God.  He has breadth and depth on the subject.

     When it comes to politics, he has a tendency to "label" friends of the opposite party such as "liberal" "feminist" "socialist" "communist" "comrade" etc.  He has pre formed definitions about these labels and surrounding ideology as well as uninformed conceptions of the American communist movement and terrors of maximal capitalism.

     He has become simply adamant about his support and stronghold for Donald Trump and what that represents for the future of America.  He won't accept anything less or any contrasting ideology or he also berates Don, I and others constantly about Hillary Clinton's qualities and physical stamina.

     I think working 12 hours a day with a dog and bossy woman has gotten under his skin.  He has always been tremendously fair and tolerant of other people with longstanding patience.

     He went off the rails last night just because I was trying to classify voters as urban, educated in major cities as opposed to rural, Southern voters who rallied around Trump.  He thought I was trying to pigeonhole him as a so called dumb voter.  But I was only strictly talking about demographics, NOT HIM.

     Either way, he feels his Trump voice can't be heard even though 7 of our 8 last callers were clearly conservative and had an hour of air time a piece.  Albert has replaced Jon as one of the three key cohosts and I doubt Jon will be back on the show for 5-6 months.  He has a demanding job 7 days a week which is 12-15 hours a day and rarely has time for himself.

      I am not sad about it.  It was meant to be.  We completed 301 episodes since March, 2014.  There was a lot of tension on the show the last few weeks and now a mitigating circumstance led to the departure of Jon by his choice.  Don, Albert and I will bring more local politicians and local/regional activists into the mix which will appeal to the Youth/Gen X and millenials.

Radio at it's best: Immigration & Crime-Carriage of Justice; Donald Trump's family image & intended projection, waning health care in Nevada for homeless and more.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2016/11/28/does-the-trump-family-pass-the-social-litmus-test-plus-immigration-pipeline#.WD0KbHkwtGs.facebook

We discuss moral decisions, eye for eye tooth for tooth, the measure of man and value of an elitist committing a crime and illegal/legal Mexicans.   Why Donald Trump's upscale values will never resonate with American common folk or quasi-intellectuals. 

Beware of the true message of Donald Trump apart from Party politics, traditional agenda and principles

FOLLOW THIS LINK TO THE REVELATION BEHIND DONALD TRUMP'S NOMINATION SPEECH

What is Donald Trump really advocating?
Why did the delegates who didn't support him fall in line so fast?
What Donald Trump's world view is regarding trade, foreign policy, beliefs that interfere with constitutional guarantees.

TUNE INTO THIS RADIO EPISODE with a political scientist and a chair of the #NAACP along with two other knowledgeable co hosts.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2016/07/22/trumps-white-nationalism-leaves-no-inclusion-for-minorities-loyalty-to-allies

Donald Trump's nomination will shed blood but not the kind of blood Tamir Rice died for.

Donald Trump has ascended to the latter stage of the most delegates needed to win the Republican nomination but in a sense it is by default.  He himself is only partially to blame.  The uneducated and misinformed people who voted for him (primarily because they swallow his tenuous one liners like minnow bait) cannot precisely identify any policy positions that are worthy of implementation in Trump's bag of magic tricks because he has not offered any.  He give sketches of his trade ideas, what he plans to end or do over, but no specifics.  Except for his attractive wife and children, he is a bad package in general.  Over sixty percent of Americans do not know the thrust, intent or maintenance of modern government and what roles it plays.  Even if Americans were educated dissenters on what role government should not play - i.e., administering health care, regulating unwinnable wars, etc, they clearly do not take the time to examine the impact of anything to do with policy initiatives, the future direction of America and executive prioritizing.  I believe the only educated group out there are the environmentalists.  That is why I am giving this precluded hint on how there will be violent incidents between now and November.  People unfamiliar with debate or hearing differences of opinion will not tolerate other ideas.  America has gone downhill.  I have also attached my article from the Reader Weekly of Duluth below to show who had to pay the price for bloodshed in this country and why certain elements of the white majority will be the future bearer of punishment.  The red link on my name will take you to my other articles. White or not white, holding to old ideas that stigmatizes race and keeps another race exalted is also dangerous in this ever growing diverse culture.

Good Cop, Bad Kid: The Tamir Rice Story

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by Jane Hoffman

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.” –Aberjhani
Good cop, bad cop.  Good kid, bad kid.  Good child, Black child.  Status quo, never had a chance.  Should my child be waving an airsoft gun in the air in light of gun misuse and perception in America?  The answer is no.  But something got into Tamir Rice, who removed an orange marking from his toy BB gun that he holstered in his waist.  He didn’t think that by not taking the cops seriously, he would not be taking his life seriously. 
A man calling 911 told dispatchers the boy was on a swing set and pointing a pistol that was “probably fake” and scaring everyone, but officers weren’t told by the emergency dispatcher that the caller thought the gun might not be real, the president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association told the Associated Press.  The perception is that the two Cleveland police officers who are now on administrative leave could have tased the child, according to Rice’s father.  They could have approached him closer.  The child was not yelling, being violent, or defying them.  They just chose to shoot, and they chose to shoot because it’s efficient.
The worth of a Black child is meaningless in certain parts of America.  George Zimmerman thought so.  “Those punk kids, they get away with everything,” according to Zimmerman.  George made sure that one did not.  George, like many of us, grew up in a suburb, city, or town that had pre-conceptions about Blacks, Native Americans, Asians, and other races.  My own mother thought all Black people could tap dance because that is what she saw in the movies in the 1930s and 1940s.  She had a Black friend at the nursing home in Ramsey County.  My mother would clarify each statement about Blacks by referring to her friend: if Gloria Owens did or did not do it, said it or did not say it, it meant it was Black behavior verbatim.
When I first moved to Los Angeles in 1987, I met one of Magic Johnson’s friends.  I went to an upscale party in Altadena, where the Blacks who “made it” hung out.  They were rich and did as they pleased.  I was no wet-behind-the-ears Midwestern girl.  I was the only white person who had lived on campus at an all-Black college in North Carolina, because I wanted to save the world from racism.  I transferred from UW-LaCrosse to North Carolina Central University at age 19 on an exchange program.  I had the idea that I was going to make an impact by being down there.
I found out that the Black population did not need my help.  They did not need me to save them.  They were self-sufficient students, most in the top 10 percent of their class, and from the upper East Coast.  I worked in the nitty gritty of public housing in Virginia, where racism was an overtone, not an undertone.  There was no class warfare, just accepted class division.  Later in Stoughton, Wisconsin, I started my own anti-racism organization in lieu of different states rejecting the idea of a Martin Luther King national holiday.  I did receive one death threat by the KKK.
Even if people are not born to be civil rights freedom fighters, the cycle of racism has heightened again, and there is opportunity for involvement.  Michael Brown did not need to die.  At best, the police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, could have not shot when Michael Brown put his hands up.  At worst, he could have shot Michael Brown in the knee and called for back-up.  Two days before Darren Wilson’s indictment was announced by St. Louis County, Missouri, another-12 year-old Black boy was killed by Cleveland cops.  Why?  Because the dispatcher did not give the whole story and because the cops did not think of viable alternatives at the scene of the alleged crime.
These are the stories we know about.  But silently, socially, and formidably, a social movement is being formed under our thumb.  People came to Ferguson from all over the country a few weeks ago in order to have an organized, thought-out demonstration with lined-up speakers on police brutality and the carriage of injustice across our nation.  Students came from as far as California and Florida.  This is no Black Panther movement.  It’s a movement on enlightenment and a battle with words.  It is not going to die out, because cops will continue to make decisions that impede child safety.  Just like Jena 6, where over 30,000 Black activists descended on a southern Texas town to protest another act of injustice against Black high school students, the movement is not going to fade.
Raising bricks and shedding blood may be the next consequence, because law enforcement and civil authority is simply not listening.  Obama’s plead to avoid violence came out like a hollow ring on the news this morning.  “We are a nation built on the rule of law, so we have to accept this decision was the grand jury’s to make.”  Like hell we do.  The rule of law is only validated by the justice system being able to identify what went wrong versus what went right during a series of events in which law enforcement confronted a citizen.  In this case, I go with street justice.  Street justice will even out the pockets of privilege and deception in the depths of the false compass of authority.  My bloody hands will cause me to die for that injustice, and with my blood the score will be settled.

Unusual week

This has been an unusual week indeed.  I can't even remember Monday now but I believe Sunday was in the 50s.  On Tuesday, I did my driving job and it poured buckets of rain the whole day while I drove over 60 miles.  I drove an 84 plus lady with a debilitating disease home in which she mentioned that her church had been sending people to her home to visit that only asked her what she would do with her stuff when she died.  This happened 3-4 x in a row and she asked them to stop coming.  I am thinking of letting her pastor know since she has been a member 78 years.  It wasn't our church, that's for sure.  

On Wednesday, I was supposed to start a new job in education but we had our first snow day of the year and school was cancelled.  Mind you, it's March 16th and that being our first snow day of the year was more than strange.

I started my new job on Thursday, March 17th.  I forgot to wear green.  I was only worried about getting there on time and looking properly dressed.  I enjoyed the day thoroughly and loved every minute of it.

Today is Friday.  I survived the week.  I am on my lunch break and enjoy my job more and more.  Things have run smoothly and the students are nice.  

I have strongly limited watching air time on major news networks who fail to cover the presidential candidates equivalently.  I would say equally but there is no way that Kasich will get as much TV time as let's say, Trump.  CNN did something special last night.  They played an ad from a private citizen who produced a TV ad on why it was crazy to vote for Barry Goldwater in 1964.  He repudiated that there is no way he would vote for someone who was going to hijack the party and align with hate groups.   Here we are again 52 year later in the same boat.  Listen to the coverage of my radio show as we examine all the elements of executive decision making over the last 12 years.  We are in a cycle of American democracy that could produce a civil war.  If you want to hear more, tune into my radio page.  The link is on the Israeli flag on my blogger page, WHICH IS THIS PAGE.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2016/03/14/confronting-the-structural-weaknesses-of-our-government-inoperable

Observations

I have lived in Duluth for 3 years now.  I arrived this week 3 years ago.   It's been a navigational ride.  I met a lot of friends at Fonduluth the first 1.5 years.  Then, I retreated and the last year I have been attending a group that helped me sort out my problems and priorities.   I have caught up with all my relatives; 4 on my mom's side and 3 on my dad's side.  I recently found Regis, my dad's cousin, whom is still alive.  She went to Calgary earlier this year and she is going to France in about a month.   She is in her mid 80s.  That is pretty unbelievable in itself.  I am grateful for Toivo and his generosity to my family.   Quayle (name change) is someone I can empathize with but I am saddened for him because he never got over his childhood trauma.  He holds grudges and has a harsh opinion of people.  I've known people like him.  It means they don't have a lot of love in their life and they feel under-loved.   I know some people have ignored him but he has driven others away.   I have still not reconnected with Pritchard because he has chosen a life of solitude.   
I won't mention the others at this time even though this blog is rather obscure and only viewed by a few people from my past.
I am running for school board.  It is exciting to learn about the process of running for public office.  There are endorsement screenings we must go through.  There are interviews with the media.   There are questionaires that are detailed.  Some questionaires restrict your word count just like some face to face interviews restrict your time.  There are people who have chosen pre-destined political alliances even before the race started and there are sitting board members who think they have the power to control the future by hand picking their successors.  Nothing like that really works in real life.   Look at Jesse Ventura who won the Minnesota governorship.   He beat Hubert Humphrey's son.  A boa feather wrestler beat a Vice President's son.  Now, in the 2016 Presidential race, Donald Trump with his outlandish statements on Obama's birth records in the past, he claim that even immigrant parents who gave birth to children here won't be legitimate and other over the top comments---is ahead in the polls because of glitz and no substance.  I want to be judged on my experience as a teacher not for glitz.  But charm can win a race over.  I don't have puckered lips like Trump or media wars with people like Rosie O'Donnell.  I have more favorable amo than Trump.  However, a false ego can create false pride.  I want to theorize about my belief systems in politics, political philosophy, government and education.   I want to espouse ideas so they may register with people and allow them to ponder things.  I am glad I am involved with something exciting and valuable.  Duluth School Board needs good input and fresh blood.  With that I will close.