All the president's men -- Watch this space

MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Larry O'Donnell were amazing last evening. This is the greatest political show on earth I have ever seen and will be studied for decades in colleges, universities, the Ivy Leagues and in high schools too as it is much much more serious and complex than Watergate.  It is similar to Watergate in many ways but on steroids.  

 

I was addicted last night and couldn't stop watching -- Three things sum it up that Larry O'Donnell illuminated: FAME, MONEY AND SEX.  That is the essence of Trump's character or lack of it.  That is what he wanted from the presidency he did not think he would win.  Why on God's earth would anyone with as much nefarious baggage as he had want to win the most fishbowl office in the world?  It was a business deal he wanted with Russia for decades and went there numbers of times to cultivate.  Now his family and many others Trump touched including counsel are in the soup.  Ironically, Trump loves gold and it is his symbol but everything and everyone he touches turns to dust.  

 

This will be to be continued tomorrow, tomorrow and for many tomorrows to come.   Much more will come out and Mueller the Magnificent has it all without leaking a word.  This is the most amazing story ever told!  The so called president of these United States is a horrible man of zero character and even less honesty. He is everything evil that our nation has produced -- inside and out ugly beyond words!

Here is what one blogger wrote which I thought has merit:

The possible bribe (50 million dollar penthouse suite in Trump Moscow Tower) offered to Putin himself to help this deal go through. American companies that offer bribes [any valuable item, favor or such] to foreign officials to grease the wheels of a deal, is considered a breach of the The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Trump is claiming the Russian "deal didn't go through". Well, under the FCPA, it's the mere act of offering or even knowing about a bribe to a foreign official, even if that bribe is turned down, that can be enough for an indictment. His ignorance of this law is amusing. Maybe, he figures that as POTUS, he is immune to indictment. I suggest he talk to a competent attorney about the 7 year statute of limitations. Cohen says Trump knew about the deal to offer Putin valuable favors, including a multi-million condo in the building, in return for approving. That offer, even if turned down, can be considered a violation of FCPA.

As Rachel would say: "Watch this space!

A thinking blogger

A BLOG SOMEONE SENT TO ME. Okay so it's a pipe dream but one can still dream it. It's correct in so many ways. Money big money is the nature of the beast and its total corruption in this nation. Trump is simply a symptom of capitalism gone haywire. In my opinion though revolution is out of the question especially a violent one. The beast, will never be tamed in the way the blogger would want it to be ... ever but I thought it fun to read anyway. At least someone is thinking.

BLOGGER:

"The real issue isn't hunger, or illness, or the cost of living or the cost of education. The real issue is capitalism. We have opted for an economy and a government at every level that is controlled by corporations. We have a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations.

And those corporations, with their lackeys in the controlled media have brainwashed the people into thinking that there is very little poverty in the US and that the poor seeking help are lazy, good for nothing, ne'er-do-wells.

This neoliberal capitalism is destroying our country, causing untold suffering for millions and creating the most unequal society in the developed world with the highest rate of child poverty and greatest number of poor people in prison in the developed world.

We need a revolution. We have to take break the corporations' grip on our government and on our daily lives. We have to start breaking all these businesses up once they reach a certain valuation, we have to greatly increase their taxes, make it impossible through taxation for one more billionaire to be made in the US.

And most of all we have to start insisting that every cent be taken out of politics and enforce term limits for every office, including the SCOTUS and Congress. Then we have to insist that government cease its working for corporations and insist it work for us, the people, by adequately funding the things people need instead of shoveling trillions into the sewer of the military industrial complex and fighting endless wars all over the globe."

Mueller's Microscope

A microscopic analysis of the corruption of Trump and his cronies who helped in all his nefarious ways is, in understatement, overwhelming not because one cannot do it but because there is so much of it. Where does one start? One wonders if even Muller can see the light at this endless tunnel of Trump's lies and fraudulence.

I suspect Trump is hoping that sheer exhaustion of his so called "enemies" will work in his favor. I hope not as his and his administration's corruption is in full view for all the nation and even the world to see.

How can we right this sinking ship of state, bring the mountain of guilty to justice and restore the rule of law? I hope Mueller and his team of electron microscopes have an inkling of how to do that because I, individually, surely do not. 

 

Onward, Mr. Mueller. Save the nation. Our lives and our nation's life depend upon you!

In the face of human cruelty just say no

For an allegedly Judaeo-Christian nation this country does no justice to the Books many allege to be its truths:

"So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt."

Deuteronomy 10:19

"Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?"
³⁷ Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.
³⁹ And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
Matthew 22-40
 

If the Holocaust taught one thing it is the sin of silence while the innocent are being tortured.  A blogger said: "It's being done because at this moment the will of the American people is not defined on this issue [immigration].  Like many other issues the public is silent. There should be 1 million citizens on the border supporting human rights."

What  is being done in this nation to the least of these who seek refuge from certain death is this nation's great sin.  It is an example of humanity at its very worst -- one step away from the Nazis who laid siege to 1930's Europe.  The Nationalist, which Trump claims title for himself and the extreme right an extension of it, simply do not care.  In fact, I aver, most Nationalists and right wing extremists would kill all the asylum seekers if they could. We ask how could Nazi Germany have happened. You do not have to look far for the answer.  "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)"

If Nuremberg taught us one thing it taught us to say no in the face of human cruelty, injustice and the diminishing of a single human life.  

Dead whale had 115 plastic cups, 2 flip-flops in its stomach

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/dead-whale-had-115-plastic-cups-2-flip-flops-in-its-stomach/2018/11/20/ed3e0f32-ec9d-11e8-8b47-bd0975fd6199_story.html?fbclid=IwAR0cJUaDB8mhNWQOQ6UDgYffOL2aXBnr7NoedlgWG6TVCEthqhL5r3ZFY1E&utm_term=.33fcd8ac2d08

The plastic has washed up over many oceans all over the world. It's an abomination but the plastic found in the dead whale's stomach is certainly evidence of plastic killing sea life as if we couldn't guess that it does. It is a tragedy and affects all of us but the stupids are in plastic pollution indifference and they are climate change deniers to boot with a president chief of the deniers who says it's so cold out so where is global warming. Another so called "conservative" senator said the same thing when he brought a snowball into the Congress as proof of the so called climate warming "hoax." 

 

 Bottom line: They are simply too stupid to understand or they just do not care and want their coffers to keep filling up with Republicon cash. Sad!

"How Extreme Weather is Shrinking the Planet" a must read

This article was sent to me by a friend. It is prescient, smart with science climate change depth.  Scientists even have named an era made for our time: Anthropocene (A world made by man.)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-extreme-weather-is-shrinking-the-planet?utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit

 

Here is a short sample from the beginning.

"It is most well written and captivates with its veracity. Here is the sample: Thirty years ago, this magazine published “The End of Nature,” a long article about what we then called the greenhouse effect. I was in my twenties when I wrote it, and out on an intellectual limb: climate science was still young. But the data were persuasive, and freighted with sadness. We were spewing so much carbon into the atmosphere that nature was no longer a force beyond our influence—and humanity, with its capacity for industry and heedlessness, had come to affect every cubic metre of the planet’s air, every inch of its surface, every drop of its water. Scientists underlined this notion a decade later when they began referring to our era as the Anthropocene, the world made by man.

I was frightened by my reporting, but, at the time, it seemed likely that we’d try as a society to prevent the worst from happening. In 1988, George H. W. Bush, running for President, promised that he would fight “the greenhouse effect with the White House effect.” He did not, nor did his successors, nor did their peers in seats of power around the world, and so in the intervening decades what was a theoretical threat has become a fierce daily reality. As this essay goes to press, California is ablaze. A big fire near Los Angeles forced the evacuation of Malibu, and an even larger fire, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, has become the most destructive in California’s history. After a summer of unprecedented high temperatures and a fall “rainy season” with less than half the usual precipitation, the northern firestorm turned a city called Paradise into an inferno within an hour, razing more than ten thousand buildings and killing at least sixty-three people; more than six hundred others are missing. The authorities brought in cadaver dogs, a lab to match evacuees’ DNA with swabs taken from the dead, and anthropologists from California State University at Chico to advise on how to identify bodies from charred bone fragments."

This New Yorker article should be read by everyone. ... Yes, I said everyone! 

"Khashoggi Murder Reportedly Prompts Some Saudi Royals To Turn Against Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman" Justice, justice, justice

Justice, Justice, Justice. This heinous of all crimes, literally tearing a permanent US resident journalist into body parts, torturing and murdering him MUST be met with justice. This is an awful thing which should stun the conscience of the world!!

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jamal-khashoggi-murder-mohammed-bin-salman-family_us_5bf3ad63e4b01909c808d4ae

Is Trump country really better off under Trump? No. It’s falling further behind.

The lies are endless from preventing the CA fires by raking leaves to Republicans did swimmingly great in the mid terms as Republicans gained seats in the Senate he says never done before. WRONG done in the GW Bush admin and climate change caused the CA fires.

How many more never-ending lies can we take? Dems win in the House better do something as I still look for that window from which to jump if they do not. Every time I see Trump's orange face and hear his mendacious mouth tears well up in my eyes as we face the prospect of Matt Whitaker, Trump's new "interim attorney general" appointment, who thinks Mueller has gone too far.

If Mueller gets fired the window from which I will jump is not far away. It is impossible to state the height of his noxious lies that are killing this nation.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/11/18/are-trump-voters-better-off-than-they-were-two-years-ago-especially-compared-to-clinton-voters/?utm_term=.e0f3bb0f5f3d&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

The World They Lost: The Golden Years of Weimar Germany

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/14/1812938/-The-World-They-Lost-The-Golden-Years-of-Weimar-Germany?detail=emaildkre

Human progress and the democracies necessary for it is NOT preordained as the above link about Germany reveals. The progressive Weimar Republic ended not because the Nazis were so strong but because Weimar was too weak and allowed Nazis a place in the political arena.  

A culture must work on maintaining a free state and never let hard times bring the corruption of war mongering extremist Nazi-like fascists to power nor bring the corruption on the extreme violent left either.  These political forces will do or say anything to bamboozle an electorate into thinking strongmen can bring the prosperity and calm we all crave. 

They cannot.  They bring cruel, brutal, inhumane killer regimes that could now in our nuclear age end life on earth as we know it.  If the Trumpists prove anything they prove that.

KEEP RESISTING.  RESISTING WORKS.  SIMPLY LOOK AT THE NEAR 40 SEATS CAPTURED BY DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE EVEN IN ORANGE COUNTY WHICH COMPLETELY TURNED BLUE.  WE OVERTURNED AT LEAST IN THE HOUSE THE POLITICS OF HATE, THE ENEMY OF DEMOCRACY.  DO NOT SNATCH DEFEAT FROM THE HANDS OF VICTORY.  STAY UNITED. NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER GIVE IN AND  ON TO 2020 AND LET'S WIN THEN!!

Nancy Pelosi--There is no one better qualified for Speaker of the House

When Seth Moulton first ran I was in awe of his background and although he was not in my district gave him a contribution. Had I possessed a crystal ball to see him among those who would subvert Nancy Pelosi for Speaker I would have thought again before contributing to his campaign. I even thought him at that time presidential material. I withdraw my support of him for president.

Representative Moulton, shame on you for disappointing me by trying to work against a woman who has given us perhaps a 40 vote Democratic lead in the House. If she does not deserve the Speaker position she once held then I do NOT know who does.

I call on you to restore my original opinion of you and end this challenge to perhaps one of the greatest Speakers of the House to ever hold that position and deserves to serve as Speaker now!

Science rules -- 631 MISSING in CA Fire

I imagine that most of the missing are dead.  This is heart breaking and what happens when people deny science and the science of climate change. The Cretans Trump in power beholden to big oil put some phony idea into those who are not that bright that climate change is a hoax. It clearly is not.
It matters not what people think but deny science at your peril because it will do what it wants to do through its laws of physics. Climate change is real. All the hundreds and maybe now even thousands of severe weather events from droughts to hurricanes to tornadoes to floods and more in this nation and across the world are related to it. 

The Grinch Drumpf comes along and kills this nation in many ways. Denying climate change, man's contribution to it and pulling out of the climate agreement that most every nation signed is but one big way.   It is really tantamount to murder.

RESIST: DEMS HAVE TAKEN BACK THE HOUSE BIG TIME AND THUMPED TRUMP -- GREAT WORK.  NOW RESIST BY FOCUSING ON THE SENATE AND THE PRESIDENCY.  GIVE THESE VILE SPECIMENS OF REPUBLICAN INSANITY A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE EXCEPT THIS TIME HUMANITY WILL BENEFIT!

My Prayer

I cannot watch election coverage yet.  It makes me too nervous because in reality no one really knows until the day the majority of the vote is cast.  I am not going to let myself get excited if the media says a certain Democrat is ahead nor am I going to want to kill myself if I hear a horrible Republican is ahead of a Democrat whom I think is so good.

Beto O'Rourke, charismatic candidate for the US Senate from Texas, is excellent by anyone's standard and Ted Cruz, the Republican whom he is running against, is policy rancid and ugly on the inside to boot.  If Texas passes O'Rourke up they are simply, in my opinion, nuts.

Back to the Patriots football game.  If the Pats begin to lose big I'm onto Columbo my program of sanity preservation.

Say a brocha, cross yourself or pray to Allah.  We need to cover every base and hope that if there is a God he will want to save this nation, the last great hope for democracy, from the worst most disgusting, sickening, crude, rude, and corrupt swamp Trump that ever landed on the American political scene!   

How did Trump happen?  There will be analysis of that for centuries.  For now we can only do what we can do.  Pray, hope and then vote Democratic to save the nation's life, your life and your children's lives.   

The watch words of the Jewish faith are: Sh'ma Yisra'eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.  I hope others will say their meaningful prayers or meditations and that it will help.  I will say one Tuesday morning and hope there is a higher power which loves justice, hates injustice and that the corrupt unjust swamp of Trump will get its just reward -- a sentence to the ash heap of history and roundly experience the defeat it so justly deserves! 

Send this to anyone you choose!

President Trump: ‘Barbed Wire Used Properly Can Be A Beautiful Sight

What kind of a sick bastard says something like that?

Yes, I am sure the mothers and children with their binkeys will just love the barbed wire. HE IS SICK!!!!!

VOTE DEMOCRAT AND STOP THE SADISTIC PATHOLOGY!!!!

https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/03/president-trump-barbed-wire-beautiful-sight/

Why Democrats MUST take the House and why taking the Senate would be even better: Daily Kos:"I may be losing my ability to speak, but I will not stop fighting for life-saving health care."

Please read the link below about the reference above and if that does not convince you why Democrats must be elected then I fear nothing will.  Understanding paralysis my heart aches for her.  Please pass this to all you know.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/3/1809662/-I-may-be-losing-my-ability-to-speak-but-I-will-not-stop-fighting-for-life-saving-health-care?detail=facebook fbclid=IwAR3sM7nU96e55B4y-tvM-PHaE5T_bdFNa7DJPIKBy_eqg0xaOG5JVMckMPk

The Caravan of Central American human beings

The psychologically sick Trump is sending 15,000 troops to the south western border to shoot humans in the caravan even if the asylum seekers dare throw a rock.  Mostly women and children will be met with overwhelming fire power and barbed wire, Trump's  attempt to keep the other out.  Biblical verse says it all.  Republicans and Evangelicals, so called orthodox believers, you would do well to heed:

Leviticus 19:34 "The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."

Nothing more is required to be said.

RESIST THE SINNER.  VOTE DEMOCRAT ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2018.

Chris Hedges -- America the Fairwell Tour

Worth Listening To:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJDWK2kmD5k&fbclid=IwAR046Xq8ZNwPuUhP1REqmEAqkPeel6pYP8SoX2ZLOxlhPcV9XKIQLyYKsgE