For the Better

By Mike Garofalo

 

Government, Society, Economy
Environment, Futures, Humanism,
Virtue Ethics

 

Virtue Ethics

Cloud Hands Blog

How to Live a Good Life: Advice from Wise and Respected Persons

 

April 12, 2026 Facebook Post

We do not support forcefully drafting young Americans into the USA Military. We support an All Volunteer armed forces dedicated to support our Department of Defense defending our Constitution. We reject all
current efforts of the MAGA DTrumpp zealots to withdraw support and care for the Department of Veterans Affairs helping our veterans.

We do not want to see our grandchildren subject to such risk. Any MAGA nutball can volunteer today for the Army, but they are blowhard cowards.

There were also other good ways, in the past, for young persons to serve the United States of America in the Job Corps, Civilian Conservation Corps, Peace Corps, voluntering, etc.

No Draft! No Wars! No Department of War!
No More demented killer DTrumpp!

[I was drafted in 1969. I served four years in the U.S. Air Force from 1969-1973, reaching the rank of Staff Seargeant. Our Air Force, under Richard Nixon's anti-communist cruelty, killed millions in North Vietnam. DTrumpp was a rich lying draft dodger with sore toes, while millions of us ordinary Joes were draftees in the 'Service.']

 

April 17, 2026, Facebook Post

We are very upset and angry about the discriminatory laws against women passed by the MAGA 'evangelistic' Republicans. Not promoting qualified
women in the military. Telling women their only job is to birth and raise children. Being unfairly criticized for taking jobs away from less qualified men. Banning needed abortions. Taking away maternity leave.
Providing insufficient research into womens' medical concerns. Showing disrespect to women in public. Enduring tolerated rape and pedophile rings. Taking away women's sports in schools. Showing contempt towards
female minorities (picturing them as monkeys). Bragging about grabbing women inappropriately and unconsensually.

I learned, at age 15, that all Christian churches in America supported slavery in 1830; and, all were against womens' right to vote
in 1910. So, I never went to church again.

Jewish-Christian-Islamic
customs, rules and doctrines favor men, NOT WOMEN. Fact!

I was forced to pray
"Our Father, who art in Heaven..."
But, you can never be a Father
without a Mother.
Where was God the Mother? The Goddess?

{You can never be a father unless you were
first born by a mother.}

Just another Bible translation by a
King James paid translator scribe
to satisfy his King's macho male
desire for an eternal Kingdom to rule.

"Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven..." Baloney!

These are the words of men, not the words of gods.

 

April 13, 2026 Facebook Post

Can't we just get along.
Republicans and Democrats should join together.
We need to find Common Ground.
Let's put our differences aside.
Each side should respect the other.


No! We want food prices down. Period!
No! We want ICE Thugs Out. Period!
No! We want Christian Nationalism Out. Period!
No! We want No Wars. Period!

No! We want DEI Back In. Period!
No! We want madman pedo Trump Out. Period!

 

 

April 10, 2026 Facebook Post

When diesel food prices soar higher, our food
costs will rise and food will be harder to find.
Your gas guzzling autos are dinosaurs
and you willy-nilly pleasure trip driving is over.
We need food, not fast cars, to survive.

I drove a Honda 90cc motorcycle from 1967-1979.
We now drive an old Ford Escape 30 mpg SUV---
yet feel extravagant. So: drive less, go smaller,
go electric, motorcycles, bus, trains, bicycle
and walking to survive. But, keep the
diesel 16 wheelers and shipping boats coming.

 

4/3/2026 Facebook

"What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?"
RIP and Honor: Renee Good and Alex Pretti
Four Dead in Ohio 1970 Song by Crosby Stills Nash Young
No More ICE Tin Soldiers 2025-2026

!! End Trump Fascism !!

Four Dead in Ohio, Song by Crosby Stills Nash Young, 1970

 

 

 

April 3, 2026 Facebook Post, CHB Blog Post

We do not support the unwise, unfair, and unwarranted harassment and hatred of persons who are homosexuals. We strongly object to MAGA Republicans who want laws that discriminate against LGBTQ persons.

If your outdated and mean religion encourages you to to hate people you don't even know, and waste time in your petty minds with thinking all the time about the private sexual activities of other adults... that's another good reason to remove the mental curses of religion from your life. Or, just from common sense: mind your own business. However, pedophile perverts like some Catholic priests or Donald Trump do deserve some serious legal oversight.

OK, say your personal preference is straight monogamous occasional heterosexual sex play/love. So your very uncomfortable, for unconscious reasons, around gay people. So What!

I don't harass vegetarians because I like Kung Pao chicken.
I don't hate short fat people because I am tall and skinny.
I don't despise Afro Hair because I am a bald old white guy.
I don't like red MAGA caps, but I don't start fist-fights with selfish jerks.
I don't hate Mexican and Latino Immigrants because my grandparents came from Italy and Germany. [I grew up in the Bandini Barrio in ELA.]

Please stop thinking so often and so emotionally about the sexual acts and preferences of other adults. It is a form of obsessive mismanagement of yourself.

If you are terribly concerned and riled up about the private sexual organs of other adults --- your mentally sick.

 

April 1, 2026 Facebook Post

We have found that costs for food have increased greatly, and we are very concerned about the new challenges facing elderly folks and the poor. We expect gasoline prices to rise continuously because oil is a non-renewal resource, and billionaires profit more. We are very dissatisfied with the excessive Federal spending on the military, and want a Department of Defense to return. No More Wars! We both think Donald Trump is mentally incompetent and morally disgusting.

 

 

 

This document was last edited, revised,
reformatted, added to, relinked,
changed, improved, or modified
by Mike Garofalo
on April 10, 2026.