Category Archives: Tom’s Tidbits

Tom’s Tidbits- Sellwood’s under threat, but there IS a solution!

Posted on July 27, 2017 by tomdwyer

This month’s Tidbits is also available in the Sellwood Bee’s “Letters to the Editor”. If you care about our Sellwood, please share this letter with everyone you know! Greetings, Tom Dwyer Automotive Services is a proud independent business with a … Continue reading →

Posted in 2017 June and July, Newsletter Columns, Newsletters, Tom's Tidbits | Tagged anniversary, apartments, builders, businesses, city of portland, construction, economy, growth, local, neighborhood, parking, patronage, permits, sellwood, squeeze, tidbits, Tom's Tidbits, traffic | Comments Off

Tom’s Tidbits- The End of the Beginning Raises More Questions

Posted on May 18, 2017 by tomdwyer

Greetings, We can’t know what’s going to happen next from inside the story, but it’s possible we’re beginning the final chapter of Donald Trump’s stranger-than-fiction presidency. As a candidate, Trump proved bigger than any single scandal and even multiple scandals … Continue reading →

Posted in 2017 April, Newsletter Columns, Newsletters, Tom's Tidbits | Tagged abuse, campaign, comey, corrupt, fbi, flynn, house, intelligence, interfere, kushner, manafort, mueller, republican, russia, scandal, senate, sessions, tidbits, Tom's Tidbits, trump, watergate | Comments Off

Painful lessons from our First 100 Days of Trump

Posted on April 28, 2017 by tomdwyer

Greetings, The greatest accomplishment of Trump’s First 100 days may have been setting a new floor for disgust with a 54% disapproval rating compared to 28%, 30%, and 37% for Obama, Bush, and Clinton respectively at the same point. Donald … Continue reading →

Posted in 2017 April, Newsletter Columns, Newsletters, Tom's Tidbits | Tagged 100 days, bigotry, bus, clinton, collusion, cronyism, executive orders, gaffes, golf, imcompetence, incoherence, lies, presidency, promisses, propaganda, tidbits, Tom's Tidbits, trump | Comments Off

It’s time to euthanize for-profit health care!

Posted on March 22, 2017 by tomdwyer

Greetings! Once upon a time you could pay your doctor with chickens, but you always get what you pay for. Costs grew with technology until individual fee-for-service medical care became too expensive. Health insurance spread those costs to make health … Continue reading →

Posted in 2017 Feb Mar NL, Newsletter Columns, Newsletters, Tom's Tidbits | Tagged hcao, health insurance, inner city blues fest, insurance, obamacare, single payer, tidbits, Tom's Tidbits, trump | Comments Off

Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes!

Posted on January 11, 2017 by tomdwyer

Greetings! Conventional wisdom says practice makes perfect, but the first week of the Trump Presidency proved conventional wisdom wrong. The Trump Campaign was a cesspool of documented, provable lies, big and small, consistently, on every subject imaginable, but this week’s … Continue reading →

Posted in 2017 January, Newsletter Columns, Newsletters, Tom's Tidbits | Tagged immigration, inauguration, lies, Obama, tidbits, Tom's Tidbits, trump | Comments Off

Tom’s Tidbits- Not the “Project for a New American Century” they bargained for!

Posted on December 15, 2016 by tomdwyer

Greetings! It’s not long now. In just a few short weeks Donald J. Trump will become the 45th President of the United States. Many Americans are apprehensive or frightened at the incoming regime, some may be hopeful and excited, but … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 December, Newsletter Columns, Newsletters, Tom's Tidbits | Tagged centrist, corporatism, lies, obligations, pnac, politics, president, trump | Comments Off

Tom’s Tidbits- Can the Mail save Representative Democracy?

Posted on November 8, 2016 by tomdwyer

Aristotle saw two ways of maintaining societies with great wealth discrepancies: either reduce the inequality or reduce democracy. By and large he thought reducing inequality and increasing participation (except, of course, for the poor, women and slaves) was the better … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 November, Newsletter Columns, Newsletters, Tom's Tidbits | Tagged Corporatocracy, democracy, electorate, income inequality, inequality, mail, Middle class, oregon, tidbits, Tom's Tidbits, verifiable, verified, verify, vote by mail, voter registration, voting, wealth | Comments Off

Tom’s Tidbits- Trump may be smart, but we need to be smarter.

Posted on September 29, 2016 by tomdwyer

Greetings! They say that when you point one finger, three more point back at you. With that in mind I’d like to talk about three seemingly unrelated events… the Clinton/Trump debate, the ongoing criminality of Wells Fargo bank, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 September, Newsletter Columns, Newsletters, Tom's Tidbits | Tagged clinton, corporatism, cost benefit, dapl, government, law, north dakota, politics, standing rock, tax, tax evasion, tidbits, Tom's Tidbits, trump, wells fargo | Comments Off

Endless war. Endless squandered opportunity.

Posted on August 25, 2016 by tomdwyer

Greetings! America is currently at war with between 0 and 134 countries. Constitutionally-required Declarations Of War may be passé, but our war machine limps along vigorously under endless “authorizations for use of military force”. However, war can only be a … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 August, Newsletter Columns, Newsletters, Tom's Tidbits | Tagged america, aumf, authorization of use of military force, budget, Corporatocracy, declaration of war, endless war, military industrial complex, peace, pentagon, pentagon budget, war | Comments Off

What’s happening to the Rule of Law?

Posted on July 28, 2016 by tomdwyer

Greetings! The Rule of Law, the quaint idea that societies should be governed by objective laws instead of the whims of individuals, dates back at least to the Code of Hammurabi in 1750 BC and predates democracy by about 1200 … Continue reading →