8-year-old Guatemalan boy dies in US custody on Christmas

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/25/us/guatemalan-boy-dies-in-us-custody/index.html

AT LONG LAST, TRUMP, HAVE YOU NO SHAME!?

Why this Jewish woman loves Christianity

The messenger of hate, Trump, has plowed the hoards of hate into our "give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" nation.  He is a man so cruel, so mean, so mendacious and so disordered but has been given the reins of extreme power by know nothings who literally know nothing and are fooled by his con.  Because he is the extreme narcissist and because he has built a sadistic room in his Republican Party for the kings of cruelty whose main mission in life is to exclude and/or kill the other especially if their skin is brown or their ethnicity Jewish; because his main objective in his dogmatic rule is to eschew democracy and embrace authoritarians; because he wants to build a wall to keep a suffering humanity out and not welcome them in to save their lives from certain death; because he leaves democratic allies in the dust for them to go it alone and face certain obliteration at the hands of much stronger despots; because he writes in concentration camp form numbers on the arms of brown children captured seeking asylum at the US border and keeps them jailed in the dessert separated from their parents with no end of this cruelty in sight; because the ugliness that spews out of his mouth that can speak nothing else; because his eyes do not read and his brain does not question; and because his heart does not empathically feel, I am, like few other times at a loss for words strong enough to condemn this beast of madness nor can I explain how those who claim to love this nation turn their back on the precepts for which it stands and for which so many have bled. 

I thought of writing today, Christmas Eve, what I said as a fifth grader when the teacher asked us to tell her what Christmas meant to us.  Being a Jewish girl I knew or rather my parents told me that we did not celebrate Christmas but even in my ten year old mind that soaked up the culture around I knew Christmas was not really about the collection of material goods nor was it about ostentatious superficiality. I knew Christmas was about Christ and that Christianity was about his message.  How did a Jewish girl who was not supposed to celebrate Christmas understand the true meaning of the day?  The answer to that is I don't know but I did, I loved it and, in its pure form, I still do. 

The truth is, as I see it, Christianity without its man-made political extremes hell bent on waging war against Muslims, against Jews, against Buddhists or against anyone who does not believe as they do is about turning the other cheek when someone offends you; it is about forgiving those who hurt you; it is about the thief or the prostitute being promised redemption; it is about curing the sick, feeding the hungry and clothing the naked; it is about loving the least of those who cannot fend for themselves and it is about finding a way, a truth and a light directing mankind from a path of destruction to a path of construction; it is about the acceptance of the stranger.  It is about treating your neighbor as you would want to be treated yourself.  In truth and ironically, Christianity is really about everything that Trump is not.  The Prince of Peace if he were alive today would expect you to reject hate and embrace love.  That is the Christianity I love. I believe Christ's Christianity would would expect nothing less.

The Dreyfus affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair

AntiSemitism is in the marrow of French bones. For that matter it is in most of the marrows of most European and Eastern European states including and most especially Russia. It is The Longest Hatred!

This time Jews will NOT go down without a fight and we make no deduction that Antisemitism is just a passing phase. It is NOT passing it is permanent and so is our opposition to its hatred!

Our stable genius acts again

On a 3:00 a.m. whim our idiot president makes Vladimir Putin, Iran, Turkey, Hezbollah, Assad and ISIS think they died and went to heaven. Without telling anyone the idiot Trump says he defeated ISIS therefore withdraws entirely 2000 American troops leaving the Kurds (our allies) and others vulnerable to slaughter. He makes Putin jump for joy.

Trump keeps 6000 troops on our southern boarder falsely protecting us from those who are escaping certain death from gangs in Central America! The stable genius works again. This is insanity and I am no war monger. I am usually against American military action but I support it IF it saves innocent lives. At the end of WWII we kept and still do keep a military vigilance both in Europe and Japan. We do it because it is necessary.  Bad actors can create bad theater anytime they are ready to write a play. ISIS is not dead.  What happened to American leadership post WWII? It died and we are left with a vulnerability that can perpetrate a 9/11. God forbid it happens again!

TRUMP/PUTIN; TRUMP PUTIN.  Why don't they just marry and unite their fortunes.  Trump must be removed from office post haste before there is no nation here to defend!

Hypocrite-in-chief

While Trump's mission in life is to deny innocent people with brown skin and their children seeking asylum in the US fleeing certain death in their own countries; while his mission in life is to write numbers on children's arms to mirror Nazi policy in concentration camps;  while his mission in life is to separate infants and the young from their parents; while his mission in life is to deny medical care for children even if they court death because of it; while his mission in life is to empty water left by humane human beings for other human beings crossing an unforgiving desert; while his mission in life is to scramble ports of entry so those who have walked 2000 miles cannot gain entrance; while his mission in life is to condemn thousands to life in a tent in the desert risking all types of transmittable diseases; while his mission in life is to commit children to a prison without end our sad excuse for president of the United States is the subject of 17 -- let me say that again 17 -- Trump/Russia investigations. 

Our so called law and order president is being investigated for the following:  Russian government US presidential election collusion, Wikileaks, Middle Eastern influence, Paul Manifort's activity in Russia, Trump Tower Moscow Project, Campaign Transition contacts with Russia, Obstruction of justice, Campaign conspiracy and Trump organization finances, Inauguration funding -- search for unaccounted 40 million dollars ; Trump Superpac funding, foreign lobbying, Russian operative Maria Butina and her NRA connections, Turkish Influence, tax fraud, Trump Foundation the shut down of his personal charity in the wake of a succession of scandals and a looming lawsuit which exposed a “shocking pattern of illegality,” Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova chief accountant of Project Lakhta, a sprawling Kremlin campaign to influence politics in the U.S. and European Union -- ongoing, Emoluments lawsuit.

If Donald J. Trump is not our hypocrite-in-chief then I do not know what else he is.  Shame on those who gave him a life in the oval office and shame on Republicans who have not a shred of conscience or decency to remove this hypocrite post haste!

I cried this morning--Seven-year-old girl who died at border did not receive medical care for 90 minutes

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/seven-year-old-girl-who-died-border-did-not-receive-n948071

Yes, I could not stop my tears; This story above took my heart and squeezed every inch of life it had within it.  This nation, my nation that was supposed to stand

for goodness, justice and the American way put to death a seven year old innocent when all she needed was probably some Gatorade the kind they give to football players

when they are thirsty but could not find any of for a 7 year old Hispanic girl who walked with her father across 2000 miles of dessert since life in their own country meant certain death.  This small little Guatemalan girl who died needed one thing:  some water with electrolytes something easy to get at a corner store.

What, in God's name have we become?  Border guards with glee dump out water the humane among us have left for the parched crossing the dessert to save their life.  The guards were happy and laughing like the Nazi's who cut old Jews' beards off for a joke.  How is this possible in a land that lost so many fighting fascist tyranny?  The Trump milieu in which we live is Nazi like.  I do not think this analysis too extreme.  Democrats won but Republicans are doing all they can to create legislation that ruins the poor, ruins their healthcare and ruins everything President Obama did that could help those of us who somehow, through an accident of birth, lost this American life's lottery that relegates them homelessness, soup kitchens and by the edict of one single Texas hard hearted judge leaves them with no healthcare to boot.  It other words many will share the fate of that 7 year old little girl who died on a bus from dehydration because no one cared enough to give her water. I do not recognize this nation anymore and the Democratic House we just elected cannot come fast enough, I fear, to save us.

Donald Trump and his cronies including his family need to pay a  heavy price.  As he celebrates the holidays in splendor more 7 year old children will die.  Trump needs to be impeached, convicted then prosecuted when out of office.  He and his henchmen have committed crimes against humanity and should pay the price for the most unethically egregious  conduct and the highest of crimes an American administration has ever committed.  Start with the murder of that seven year old sweet girl who thought she was walking to freedom's light but died instead at freedom's door.  

I cried this morning for that seven year old girl, I cried for the immigrant children locked up separated from their parents some forever and I cried for the country I thought I knew but cannot recognize any more.  I  am still crying and cannot stop.

How I see it: The markets a small stream of thought

We have to take care of ourselves if one is in the market.   Trump is tanking the market with his gd trade wars that are ruinous. All that so many Dems and Repbulican middle class too have saved will be in the swamp. This recession coming, as I can feel it, will be worse much worse than 2007 because no one in power in Republicanland has our back. We are on our own. All that we worked so hard to gain back from the last recession is, in my mind, at grave risk.

I am scared about what is happening to our economy. Trump with his lousy tax cuts took care of the top 2% wealthiest as they won't have to worry, not that they had to worry anyway, but now they really do not.  The tax cuts someone might want to clue the Republican middle class are for the top 2% richest and are PERMANENT for those who need it the least -- but for the middle classes it is a mere pittance that will evaporate in a recession because Trump and his Congressional Republican lackeys did not make ours permanent!!  Worse you will not be able to deduct your property taxes. 

All should spread that reality and maybe just maybe next time Republicans will be crushed in the Senate as they now have been in the House.  If we elect a Democratic president they will rue the day that they had the stupidity to elect, as Mitt Romney said, a con man.  I only pray he and his entire thug family and friends are monetarily eviscerated and end up in jail!  That is my wish, my hope and my prayer.

Treason, the Rosenbergs and Trump

I was thinking about the Rosenbergs, Julius and Ethel, executed here in 1950 for handing over to the Soviets some, probably banal secrets the Soviets already knew, to build a nuclear bomb.  The US, at that time, was the only nation which possessed a nuclear bomb and, as witnessed by the horrific destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was willing to use it.  Julius Rosenberg's rationale for working with the Soviet Union then, some have said, was to prevent a nuclear holocaust that more than one nation having the bomb would obviate. Whether they did that for which they were executed or not is the subject of continuous controversy but it is clear, at least to me, that Julius did commit treason. Whether Ethel did or not is still subject to debate.  This opinion, however, is not about a debate as to the guilt or innocence of the Rosenbergs but it is to compare their acts for which they were executed to the acts of a president of the United States, Trump, and his many minions suspected of conspiracy with one of our most adversarial nations, Russia, to hack into Democratic computers and emails to defeat Hillary Clinton and elect Trump in the 2016 presidential election.  The Russians were successful beyond their wildest imaginations and Trump I believe contributed to their success.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Larry O'Donnell's creative analysis of a largely redacted sentencing memo by Robert Mueller on former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn they had just received about Flynn's actions allegedly colluding with Russia including the breach of the FCPA (the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) by not admitting to his paid connection to the foreign nation of Turkey and its president Erdogan was brilliant.  Because Flynn has cooperated with Special Counsel Mueller (including 19 hours of testimony) so quickly, fully and truthfully the sentencing recommendation of Mueller was near zero imprisonment time in hopes that others, perhaps many, of the Trump administration would agree to do the same.

The scope and the depth of Mueller's investigation into Trump's alleged conspiracy with one of this nation's most adversarial powers, Russia, and its President Putin is mammoth.  Many in Trump's orbit, including Trump himself, could be pulled into the center of gravity of the investigation which is already two years old but is far from over.  In my opinion, it makes what the Rosenbergs were accused of and executed for look like child's play.  The Russians struck at the heart of our democracy itself and, at least for the 2016 election, killed it. 

Trump allegedly has done one of the most evil, treacherous, mendacious and, indeed treasonous actions by betraying this nation he says he loves for 40 pieces of Trump Tower gold and used Flynn's motive to defeat Islam as his phony rationale. The Russians truly must be laughing themselves silly.  This is the biggest compromat the Russians have successfully ever gotten -- a useful idiot US President Trump allegedly acting on their behalf in order for the Manchurian candidate Trump to make billions. If the Rosenbergs were executed for treason for their crimes then the allegedly treasonous Trump should be impeached, successfully tried by a Republican majority senate and convicted for his.  The American electorate should be screaming for nothing less!!