The Statue of Liberty Poem Made Sense When it was Written in 1883... At that Time, Immigrants were Mostly from Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Scandinavia - She Certainly Wasn't Talking About "THIRD WORLDERS"... And now you know the rest of the story...

Up Until 12/19/2025, the USA had "The Diversity Visa Program" that allowed 55,000 People from Third World Hell Holes to Immigrate into the USA Legally... Trump Changed that Number to ZERO... Smart Move! Thank You!

I Wonder... Who (George Bush the Father) could possibly think that bringing in 55,000 "Diverse Immigrants" a year is a Good Idea... Was He Smoking Crack???

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-suspends-green-card-lottery-program-that-let-brown-university-mit-shootings-suspect-into-u-s

It was the law from 1924 to 1965...

The U.S. Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act), aimed to restrict "inferior" genetic stock from Eastern/Southern Europe and Asia, promoting the perceived superiority of "Nordic" races. These laws used quotas and bans to engineer the population based on racist and nativist beliefs.

When was the last time you said: " I sure wish there were more 'Freaking Third Worlders' around here. You can never find a 'Freaking Third Worlder' when you really need one!"

REMEMBER??? Dec. 27, 2023: A caravan of thousands of migrants continued its days long march through Mexico toward the southern U.S. border...

The Caravans of migrants have stopped now that Trump is president... His policy of  "Get the F*ck Out" seems to be working! Now, most of them are going to Mexico City where there are plenty of jobs! Excellent!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/migrant-caravan-heads-us-southern-border-ahead-blinkens-trip-mexico-rcna131192

While most people believe that the Tactics of ICE are insane... That's exactly what the voters voted for... To Reduce the Quantity of Brown and Black people in the USA... Yes, it's racist, but that's what the people wanted! And We absolutely selected a White Man over a Black/Indian Woman... The Democratic Party needs to promote Popular Issues in the Future...

Dora the Explorer Being Chased by ICE Agents in the Thanksgiving Parade...

Please Share Your Anti-Trump Memes on TwitterX, gab, gettr, mastodon, Tooth SoCal, linkedin, tumblr, threads, bluesky, Reddit... The Faceborg Algorithm only shows your posts to people that already agree with you...

LINK to my Anti-Trump Merchandise!

I LOVE PBS PASSPORT - ANY PBS SHOW AT ANY TIME - I donated $100 and I'm really glad I did! I unlocked the entire PBS catalog... excellent!

Trump Kills Miss Piggy! "WE LOVE BACON!" - Republicans pass a bill cutting funding for public television... They want to make sure your children don't learn to read... 

Donate here!

Congress approves Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid...

https://apnews.com/article/pbs-npr-budget-cuts-trump-republicans-b0044285659ab708e23eb2dc2f3eabfa

CBS cancels Stephen Colbert’s show days after Trump settlement criticism... 

The late-night host had scoffed at a decision by CBS’s parent company to pay the U.S. president $16 million over a disputed interview.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/18/cbs-cancels-stephen-colbert-00462089

Corporate Censorship... The Colbert show was the highest rated show... But he exposed Donald Trump as a Madman! Tell the truth and your show gets canceled!

Trump's Priorities Are Insane! I Don't Care if Farm Laborers are Illegal Aliens or Not. Motel Maids? Construction Workers? I Care About High Prices for Gasoline, Food, Shelter and Daycare... 

Save Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog! Trump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can't...  Contact congress and tell them to Impeach Trump! BIG BIRD Not MAD DOGE!  

https://www.house.gov/

Use the link above to Contact your Representative in the House... Find their Phone number, street address of the local office and email comment form... If you don't tell them what you think, they won't know!

"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President's authority," the corporation wrote in a statement issued Friday morning. "Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government."

The CPB noted that the statute Congress passed to create it "expressly forbade 'any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors."

Congress said that such funds "may be used at the discretion of the recipient" for producing or acquiring programs to put on the air.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs

I finally watched the video of Mad DOGE playing with the chainsaw and it appears that it was not running... There was no engine sound and no smoke coming out... His latest freak out is to attack Sesame Street... Because if you teach children to read it's very likely they will not become MAGA morons...

Will Fox News STOP Lying? What Else Could They Possibly Do? Their Entire Business Model is Based on LIES... If they start telling the Truth... They Face Competition From... 

CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, BBC, C-SPAN, VOA, NPR, Democracy Now and Hundreds of Actual News Websites! 

With the "All Lies all the Time" Theme the Only Competition Fox Has is OANN, TASS, RN, Pravda and Truth Social...

The New Classics: Books that Everyone Ought to Read. If People are Talking in a Crowd, You'll Understand the Cultural References... 

1984

Brave New World. 

The Monkey Wrench Gang

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate

Alice in Wonderland

Thru the Looking Glass

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

The Whole Earth Catalog

Steal this Book

Revolution for the Hell of It

I, Robot

Foundation

Caves of Steel

Tom Sawyer

Huckleberry Finn

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

The Man in the High Castle

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Harry Potter

Lord of the Rings

The Hobbit

Remember, Be Here Now

Still Here

The Time Machine

The War of the Worlds

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Around the World in 80 Days

Stranger in a Strange Land

Slaughterhouse Five

Cat's Cradle

The Four Agreements

Don Juan, a Yaqui Way of Knowledge

America's Bogus Wars

The Violet Overgrow (an Eco-Warriors's Journey)

The Great Gadsby

The Armies of the Night

Trout Fishing in America

Island

The Psychedelic Experience

Fahrenheit 451

The Doors of Perception

Ender's Game

The Cult of Cthulhu

Dune

Chariots of the Gods?

Autobiography of a Yogi

Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

All Quiet on the Western Front

Catch 22

Everything By Edgar Allen Poe... Steven King... 

and... 

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds... 

Just for FUN... Write Your Own List and Post it on Your Own Blog... or FaceBorg... It's a worthy Exercise in Self Introspection!

If there are any Classics I Forgot, Email Me at gregvan(at)yahoo(dot)Com

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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR https://thehumanist.com/




Sunday is the National Day of Reason. Too bad we live in an Age of Nonsense.

Trump is pushing forward with a Commission on Anti-Christian Bias despite most Americans, including many Christians, believing that it’s a waste of time and Christians aren’t oppressed.

The federal government is shutting down research, and national parks, and the office that answers the phone when people have questions about their student loans.

The Supreme Court is seriously considering allowing your tax dollars to be used to teach other people’s kids a religion you don’t believe in.

The White House is even implying it wants to use the US military to prevent crime.

But we’re not taking it lying down. We’re fighting back with legislation. We’re funding local humanist groups from Colorado to Mississippi providing mutual aid for their community.

And we’re also calling the lack of reason out for what it is - because as Jefferson said, “ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”

We helped Reps. Jared Huffman and Jamie Raskin introduce a proclamation recognizing the National Day of Reason in the face of unmitigated absurdity - and we hope you’ll call on your Member of Congress to sign on here.

Proclamations and events, like the Reason Reception we co-hosted on Capitol Hill earlier this week, seem like small things. But when more and more members of Congress are willing to publicly affiliate themselves with secularism and open advocacy for church-state separation - that’s how we build power. The bigger, louder, and better organized we are, the harder it is for the religious right to steamroll us.

That’s why we’re excited that Rep. Judy Chu has joined the Congressional Freethought Caucus this week - meaning the caucus we helped found is growing faster than ever in its history.

And it’s a good time for our movement to be growing - because we have a big fight ahead.

The Supreme Court’s decision in its St. Isidore case could be monumental - a generational blow to church-state separation and the right of all students to receive a free and equal public education regardless of their religion.

It could open the door for religious law and instruction to infect every area of government.

We don’t want our tax dollars to be used for religious schools that openly admit they may not accept people like us as teachers.

In general, we don’t want to create a world where education and other public services are run by private interests that aren’t accountable to voters, where different kinds of people get different kinds of service. Ninety-two years ago, we declared “humanists demand a shared life in a shared world” - and we meant it.

Public services should work for all of us. They shouldn’t be privatized. They shouldn’t be subdivided with special carve-outs for people of particular faiths. They should be equally open and accessible to all people.

That’s why humanism matters. It’s not just about demanding the separation of church and state. It’s about demanding a world where everyone matters and counts - without exception. Where everyone’s dignity and humanity is taken care of - no matter who you are or what you believe. And it’s about reason - acting in line with common sense, not nonsense.

In an age of absurdity, reason’s an act of rebellion. But what else is new? Humanists have always been rebels. This moment doesn’t require us to be different people - just a little louder, a little braver.

We can all be a beacon of reason in an age of nonsense.

For humanity,

Fish Stark
Executive Director

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Bill Maher... Republicans cannot be trusted to just flirt with dictatorship. Not everyone who flirts cheats, but all cheating starts with flirting.

Anti-Vaccine People are More Likely To Get Sick and Die - MAKING AMERICA GREAT! I just got an Anti-Vax Email from the owner of GAB Social Network, Andrew Torba... He's an Idiot...

a Idiot that Has enough Money to Buy a Server and Set up His Own "Facebook" Style Site...  but STILL an Idiot and a Menace to Society... a Danger to Self and Others: Police Code 5150... GET A SHOT AND SAVE LIVES! This Man is an Internet Influencer and His Brainwashed Followers are Likely to Refuse Vaccination and Put Us All in Danger...

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JOE GETS IT. President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan includes a detail aimed at rolling back US financial support of fossil fuels. --- Climate activist Greta Thunberg tells Congress 'subsidizing fossil fuel' companies is a 'disgrace.' https://www.businessinsider.com/greta-thunberg-subsidizing-fossil-fuel-companies-disgrace-2021-4

Will Trump Pardon Derek Chauvin? He is the "REAL" President Isn't He? and He Has the "REAL" Power to Pardon People... Doesn't He? [In Reality, NO... he's Just another Angry Old Man... Complaining... Just Like So Many Other Shuffleboard Players in Florida... Grumble, Grumble, Grumble... ]

The Honeymooners was an odd Show. That "JOKE" was That He Would Hit Her So Hard that She Would Fly To The Moon...  How Could Wife Beating Ever be Funny? That entire Era was Strange... Backwards... Thankfully, In The Sixties we WOKE THE F*CK UP...  The ONE Good Thing is that The Honeymooners Inspired The Flintstones Cartoon Show... an Excellent Show with NO Wife Beating Jokes!

Somehow... I Feel that Having Fentanyl Users Kill Themselves Makes the World a Better Place to Live... IT'S CALLED CULLING THE HERD...  Darwin's Survival of the Fittest... https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/22/989833102/overdose-deaths-surged-in-pandemic-as-more-drugs-were-laced-with-fentanyl

The Mission to Mars is a Total Waste of Taxpayer Dollars... There is NOTHING INTERSTING THERE... Why Not Spend that Money on FIRE FIGHTING in the Western USA... Buy More Helicopters to Drop Water on Wildfires... This Summer is Likely to Be a MASSIVE BURN HERE ON PLANET EARTH... https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-s-mars-helicopter-soars-higher-longer-2nd-flight-n1264944

JOE GETS IT... Putting Americans Back to Work! Great Idea, ACTUALLY MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN instead of Just a Slogan on a Hat... Like Trump Did... 2016-2020 were some Horrible Years but we WOKE THE F*CK UP and Banished Trump to Mar-A-Loser, Florida... https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-pandemics-jobless-claims-business-health-6987e16b710d5db599ae4f429fcd7deb

Yes, Tucker is a Real Weirdo... Belonging to A Club Celebrating the Murder of a Gay Man? That's Truly Sick! DON'T BE A SUCKER, UNPLUG TUCKER! https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/549738-tucker-carlsons-college-yearbook-reveals-he

HEADLINE: Tucker Carlson's immigration bait-and-switch betrays his desperation... 

Silicon Valley was BUILT by the Work of Immigrants... I worked at System Industries in 1976 and We Employed People from Asia, Central  America, The Middle East... and The USA... All that really Counted was Quality... I Remember a Japanese Sculptor who Designed the Shape of Our Ink Jet Printer... He was Like a Zen Master... And My Immediate Boss Was a Lot Like Bruce Lee... a Karate Enthusiast who Rode a Harley Davidson... Gee, I'm Glad I Met these People... https://www.salon.com/2021/04/22/tucker-carlsons-immigration-bait-and-switch-betrays-his-desperation/

What Can We Say on Facebook To Cause Even MORE Republicans to #RUNAWAY from the GOP? If You Know, Just Create Posts and Memes to Drive them Away from the EVIL Republican Party... and Make them Greens, Libertarians or Democrats... THE GOP IS DOOMED... 

Somebody asked the Question n Facebook about Regrets... 

Well, I refuse to Dwell on Regrets. I'm Focusing on Excellent Memories... I Remember Swimming Nude with my Wife before we were Married in Butte Creek Near Chico... I Wanted to Impress her (a surfer) by swimming Butterfly across the Lake and Making a Big Splash... No Regrets There!