Condolences to the Muslim Community

Dear Brothers and Sisters:  I want to express my sincere condolences to all those who suffer and are in mourning because of murders in the two mosques in New Zealand by a right wing white supremacist racist.

I, a Jew, am struck by the senselessness of the demented perpetrator and the deep sadness he inflicted on Muslims and, indeed, on all the world.  It is clear both of our peoples should be allies to fight discrimination and hate wherever it exists because we both have suffered from it.  Count me as one of your allies with the hope that the better angels of our nation and the world will come together for our mutual security and love for the humanity of us all.

As-salamu alaykum

Shalom

Boeing Crashes

The Boeing crashes -- Trump and his administration are the most corrupt, unethical, unsympathetic, cruel, bestial administration in US history. The US was the last to ground the Boeing Max planes. Trump and his corrupt administration and cronies MUST be taken down lawfully and electorally and FAST before they literally kill us all.

Statement from the former Commissioner of Consumer Protection 2-13-18

"After the 2nd crash I could not believe that the Max planes were not grounded. And even though there was an Israeli, Israel will continue to support Trump.
Even though there is now a temporary grounding in place, can we trust President Trump, knowing Boeing’s president was one of the parade of supplicants who visited him at Mar-a-Lago, knowing that he has installed a former Boeing executive as the acting secretary of defense, and knowing Boeing gave $1 million to his inaugural committee? 

That is where we are in this country right now. The Republicans who have controlled the federal government these past two years have been so maniacally focused on “deregulation’’ that they refuse to see how critically important federal safety regulations are to each of us individually and to our economy as a whole. And in their zeal to deregulate, they have allowed the very industries most in need of uniform safety regulations to take over the federal agencies formed for the purpose of protecting consumers. 

The result is stark: 

We no longer trust the words or actions of our federal safety agencies to protect us in the ways we have come to expect over the past many decades. The chaos in the White House and Congress over the past two years has provided a distraction from the administration’s steady and frighteningly effective destruction of consumer protections in most of our federal agencies, whose very purpose for decades has been to protect American consumers. The foxes are definitely in charge of the hen houses; the regulated control the regulators...

...Marietta S. Robinson was commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission from 2013 to 2018...."

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