Orange Band

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Author: Mark Shepherd (page 2 of 3)

Candidates for U.S. Senate?

Candidate # 1: “The President is hellbent on dividing our people and demeaning our CA ideals”…I know…
# 2: A single sentence: “40 years of business experience…”
# 3: “Constitutionalist”…anything else?
# 4: “I am a follower of Jesus Christ”…OK, but what about running for office…didn’t Jesus say render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s?
# 5: There is no such thing as “transgender”
#6 “Atrocity of abortion-on-demand must end”…that’s his entire statement (platform)?…taking single issue to a new low?
# 7: “Less Tax, Less, Regulation (why a comma between Less and Regulation?)…Together we will Make California Golden Again”…not a bad slogan but work on comma usage and capitalization…
# 8: “Democrat. Christian. Pro-Life. End Inflation. Constitutional Tax. Restore Prosperity…”…in that order?
# 9: “I took on the perils of solving…home grown terror…” great, but you are not running for AG…
# 10: “End Capitalism – don’t enable it.”
# 11: “…(need) one senator who knows how to recover quickly, with a debt jubilee, a monetary reset (when financial collapse occurs)…”
# 12: “Run for God’s Heart and American’s Freedom (and while we’re at it) challenge 2016 Presidential…results).
# 13: “…the first technodemocratic candidate…”
# 14: “…establishment is shackled by their addiction to power…”…so I’m thinking maybe I vote for her, but then I turn the page on the voter info guide and…
# 15: Dianne Feinstein
(sorry to candidates #16 & # 17, I stopped the entertaining reading and voted for Senator Feinstein).

10 + 10 (again) = WAY TOO MANY

A shotgun and and revolver (not an assault rifle) & there was a plan in place at Santa Fe High and yet 10 dead and 10 more injured…one person in South Texas remarked: “We need to bring God back into the schools” (apparently forgetting the Constitution AND how many people have died in religious wars)…now you want to talk about bringing an enlightened view of humanity, religious based or not, back to the forefront then I’m all for it!

NRA has a point??

NRA spokesperson: “no one would know your names if classmates were still alive”.

Consider that “9/11” would have no significance but for the horrible tragedy…with better intel could we have prevented 9/11…perhaps…with stricter gun laws can we prevent future mass school shootings? ABSOLUTELY!

Orange Friday

And the 1st two Orange Friday dates in 2018 are both vs. the Dodgers

Who Thinks Government is a Business?

“(Rex Tillerson’s) disastrous reorg has proved a lie to the notion that government should be run like a business.”
Max Bergmann.

FAV Non-Giant is Now a GIANT

See Andrew McCutchen at FanFest today.

I’m An Immigrant

I’m an immigrant
You’re an immigrant
We’re all immigrants
(including you Mr. Trump)
(Different voice):
My name is Geronimo
A true American
Don’t You Know.

Year in Review

January: Women’s March Out-Performs Inauguration.

March: Team USA beats Team Puerto Rico in World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium.

August 21 – darkness reigns, the earth appears to enter the Twilight Zone.

August: Hurricane Harvey Hits Houston (Houston partially bounces back by winning World Series on November 1, 2017).

September: Hurricane Maria Mauls Puerto Rico and almost HALF of PR still without power.  San Juan Mayor calls Trump: “Disaster-in-Chief”.

November: SF Orange Band releases “No Means No”, a song originally written about the Stanford Rape case but which takes on new meaning as Roy Moore revelations unfold.

December 12, 2017: Doug Jones beats Roy Moore!

December 23, 2017: Trump signs tax bill.  But let’s be honest: this is not Trump “Dead or Alive”…great benefits for him and his cronies during lifetime; not the big victory for him at death (so don’t look for him to pull the plug on himself anytime soon).

 

 

Just in time for Holidays – Children’s Music CD

SF Orange Band bandmate Stephen Iverson has just released WHAT DUCK!?

Find it on iTunes & enjoy

Tax Breaks Large & Small

After the huge tax rate reduction for large corporations was in an early draft of the Tax Bill, someone asked about a tax break for small businesses, the back-bone of America and the Small Business break was hatched. Somewhere along the way, however, “Small Business” morphed into “Qualified Business”. What is a Qualified Business you ask? Pretty much any business owned by Trump & Trump types. Can doctors, lawyers and CPA’s count as “qualified”? Yes, but only if they are small.

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