This Is The Week That Is

The good news continues this week with President Obama's announcement of a solid, sensible, verifiable nuclear deal with Iran. The warmongers in the US and Israel will be set back on their plans to bomb Iran even more than Iran has been set back on building a bomb (if they ever were). This comes on the good news that one of the Senate's most virulent warmongers, Bob Menendez (D-NJ), will have to spend more time trying to avoid the Slammer on bribery charges than ginning up war with Iran.

Earlier this week the homophobic dinosaurs couching their homophobia as religious freedom, self destructed. When a groveling politician like Indiana governor Mike Pence passed a law allowing, even sanctifying discrimination against the LGBT community (or anyone else), the vast majority of people and corporate America pushed back, threatening economic collapse for the Hoosier State or any other backward state dumb enough to copycat.

And even slave wage corporate giant McDonalds bowed to public pressure to increase wages a buck over the poverty level minimum wage in restaurants it owns. While only giving relief to 90,000 of 900,000 low wage McDonalds employees, due to independence of the 90% employed by franchisees, it turns up the heat on those skinflints to follow suit.

Weeks like this don't come to often. Let's savor this one for a bit, (I'll sip a shot of Jack Daniels Sinatra Select) and then get back to work moving the ball of human progress forward. It's heavy, but when wise leaders and tens of millions of supporters push... it moves.