America’s RAW Story

First Edition

Welcome to the first edition of the newly titled blog, “America’s RAW Deal.” “RAW” is WAR spelled backwards, where war should go so peace can go forward!

Peace has NEVER gone forward in America! If you doubt it, please see my book, “America’s Oldest Professions: Warring and Spying” at http://tinyurl.com/n9ew856heck . I spent about a decade doing the research to write it, and I did not rely on school books or the mainstream media that give a varnished history of our nation.

Or you can see what people like David Swanson, co-founder of World Beyond War (http://worldbeyondwar.org/ ) said about the book: “This deeply moral, highly readable, and urgently necessary book, which provides a wealth of new information even to a reader like myself who writes on similar topics, takes us from the birth of the United States to the Barack Obama presidency.“ Or what a WWII Veteran said about it: “Dr. Brumback gives us a penetrating exposé of an America in the late stages of an addiction. The toll of death, destruction and human misery from its habitual warring and spying is mounting.”

I will be posting many more blogs about the RAW Deal, but since war is so depressing, for this first edition I will start by quoting some humor about America’s politicians,. They are, after all, partly responsible for America’s endless warring.

What Some American Humorists/Comedians Said About Politicians

- I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a

man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's. ~Mark Twain

-The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for

laughter, they are an entire banquet. ~ Mark Twain

-A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking

through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. ~Carl Sandburg

-We have the best Congress money can buy. ~Will Rogers

-The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ~Will Rogers

-There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. ~Will

Rogers

-Everything is changing; people taking comedians seriously and politicians as a joke.

~Will Rogers

-There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for

you. ~Will Rogers

-Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. ~W.C. Fields

-Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the

other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. ~H.L. Mencken

-I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

~James Thurber

-You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. ~James Thurber

-I'm proud to be paying taxes but I could be just as proud for half the money. ~Arthur

Godfrey

-No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that’s why we have two parties.

~Bob Hope

-Clock, jock and crock: Big Ben, Joe Namath and a candidate's campaign promises.

~Johnny Carson

-When asked for his ID George Washington whipped out a quarter. ~George Carlin

-If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno

-Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. ~Alfred E. Newman