by Bob Filner | Oct 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Let Them Eat Paper Towels Every time you thought it couldn’t get worse, it gets worse. Even Marie Antoinette must be rolling in her grave. The picture of the President tossing out rolls of paper towels during today’s visit to Puerto Rico must rank as the most (pick a...
by Bob Filner | Sep 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Taking a Knee on Puerto Rico A lot of football metaphors have been kicking around lately. Was Trump’s attack on NFL players a misdirection play, a punt, a Hail Mary? Let’s call it an unforced fumble. Calling a First Amendment protest an unpatriotic act which...
by Bob Filner | Sep 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
How the Hell is this Normal? As I watch hundreds of heads talking as if we are living through some normal Presidential administration, I keep yelling at them: “How the hell is this normal?” Is this, at last, a “pivot”? Doesn’t the Afghanistan speech show that...
by Bob Filner | Sep 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
How do we deal with the threat to DACA, brought about by Donald Trump? Let’s look back at the sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and voting rights efforts in the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s. Faced with the immorality of segregation, thousands of people put their...
by Bob Filner | Sep 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Pardon Me? It wasn’t enough to call Mexicans “criminals” and “rapists”. It wasn’t enough to go after the grieving parents of a U.S. Muslim soldier killed in action. It wasn’t enough to question the impartiality of a Federal judge because he was a “Mexican”. It...
