Sunday, October 22, 2017
Contemplation
A blogger friend of mine who has a gift for poetry and profundity, Thomas Sutherland, said "Success is not an outer but an inner state of being. To find your strengths and still embrace your weaknesses, to know you are whole and worthy no matter your circumstances. Be love. Be joy." ts
My Comment: I agree. If only we could do that easily in the conspicuous consumptive nation that we are. It is hard to not personally measure your own worth by all those unimportant yardsticks that our culture uses to judge your value because in the end it will not matter. When and if one can reject that I think the truth of existence will be attained and it is not I believe by how much money you have, how gorgeous you are, if you have an Ivy League degree and Wall Street connections or if you married the "right" person.
In the end none of that to me should matter. What matters to me is if through whatever medium I can use I am an advocate for the poor, the elderly, the handicapped, the dispossessed, the lonely and for those who have not attained what society says they should have to judge one's worth. I want to do so in a way that is possible for me.
The earth, we persons of truth through the evidence of science know, is 4.5 billion years old. Think on that and see the vastness of life and as the Hubble telescope has seen how infinite the universe is as well. We are but an ink spot in tapestry of time. Our sun will die out as all suns do. The only things left for me in the cosmos will be the atoms of kindness I sow here on the gorgeous planet earth for those who feel left out.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
What Trump has wrought. "They are all active white supremacists; two of them are violent felons."
These Are The Three Richard Spencer Fans Arrested For Attempted Homicide In Gainesville
They are all active white supremacists; two of them are violent felons.
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. ― About five hours before his companion allegedly fired a bullet
toward several protesters, and a day before police charged him with
attempted homicide, Colton Fears, in an interview with HuffPost, laid
out the grievances that had brought him to town. “Basically, I’m just
fed up with the fact that I’m cis-gendered, I’m a white male, and I lean
right, towards the Republican side,” said Fears, 28, wearing a pin of
the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. “And I get
demonized if I don’t accept certain things.”
According
to the Anti-Defamation League, Colton Fears is the “least active” of
the three Texas men charged in Thursday’s shooting, which happened after
Richard Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida. Fears’ brother,
William, 30, and Tyler Tenbrink, 28, were also charged. It was Tenbrink
who allegedly jumped out of a silver Jeep after an argument with
protesters and produced a handgun. “I’m going to fucking kill you,”
Tenbrink reportedly yelled at the protesters, while the Fears brothers
encouraged him to shoot.
Tenbrink
popped off a single round that missed his targets and hit a building
behind them, then got back in the Jeep and fled. One of the victims
reported the Jeep’s vehicle tag number to police. Officers from three
different law enforcement units caught up with the trio later that
evening on Interstate 75 and took them into custody.
Even
before their arrest, the trio were known quantities ― Tenbrink and
William Fears in particular. They are fairly representative specimens of
the sort of flotsam that drifts through the the so-called “alt-right”
and, increasingly, trails in the wake of any white nationalist
chieftain, even one as snooty as Spencer. They are, in short, surly
groupies for whiteness. Here’s what we know about them.
Tyler Tenbrink
Tenbrink, the man who fired the gun, is a white supremacist from Richmond, Texas. He told
the Washington Post that he came to Spencer’s Gainesville speech
because he received threats from the “radical left” after he was spotted
at the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. But Tenbrink
had been active in the white nationalist scene long before the August
gathering.
In June, Tenbrink participated in a white supremacist rally at the Texas State Capitol building in Austin, according to the ADL.
The ADL also identified Tenbrink at another Richard Spencer speech at
Texas A&M University last December, a white supremacist protest in
front of the Houston ADL offices last October, a private event organized
by the neo-Nazi Aryan Renaissance Society last September, and a white
supremacist protest in front of the Houston NAACP office last August.
Tenbrink
told the Post that all he cares about are the “14 words,” a reference
to the popular white supremacist slogan: “We must secure the existence
of our people and a future for white children.”
Tenbrink
pled guilty to a felony assault charge in Texas in 2014. That means he
now faces additional charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted
felon, the Gainesville Police Department wrote in a statement.
William Fears
William
Fears, from Pasadena, Texas, claims he didn’t even know about the
alt-right until Hillary Clinton condemned the movement in a campaign
speech last August, at which point his radicalization journey began. By
December, he was turning up at Spencer’s speaking events, including one
at Texas A&M where Fears described himself as ”mainly an Internet troll.”
But
Fears was more than a troll. In 2009, he pleaded guilty to aggravated
kidnapping after he abducted an 18-year-old female University of Texas
at Tyler student at knifepoint and “wounded her several times.”
He has also been convicted of criminal trespassing and possession of a
controlled substance. It was while he was incarcerated, he told the
Post, that he had become racially aware.
“I
don’t think any race experiences racism in the modern world the way
that white people do in a jail,” he said. “In jail, whites come last.”
In
May, Fears, who now works in construction, crashed a May Day rally with
other neo-Nazis and reportedly assaulted a man. In June, he antagonized
members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia movement, at a rally
in Houston until one of them put him in a chokehold.
In August, he showed up in Charlottesville to brawl in a helmet, gas
mask and goggles, waving a white nationalist flag and shouting, “Shoot! Fire the first shot of the race war!” In September, he and other neo-Nazis tried to provoke anarchists at a Houston book fair to violence.
“Nazi is like the N-word for white people,” says Fears. “And I just embrace it.”
Colton Fears
Before
coming to Spencer’s Gainesville speech, Colton Fears participated in
the Charlottesville rally and an April counter-protest of a Houston
Socialist Movement event as part of a group of white supremacists, which
included neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right, the ADL said.
After
the Charlottesville rally, Fears posted a 13-minute-long statement on
YouTube. He congratulated himself for attending the event, lamented the
mainstream media’s attack on Southern heritage, and complained bitterly
about being doxxed. He made no mention of Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old
protester who was killed at the rally.
In
his interview with HuffPost, Fears tried to distance himself a little
from the scene around him. He said of Richard Spencer, “I agree with
like 75 percent of his ― he’s not ― he’s kind of a scam artist, in my
opinion.” Asked if he identified as alt-right, he said: “I try and deny
identity politics. That’s why I’m not wearing a white polo and all that
stuff.” But he also served up a word salad of white grievance: “Like,
OK, for one thing, say, you know, gay marriage, that’s cool, whatever,
you know, except — that’s fine, I’m cool with it — well, then, what’s
after that? The next step? This whole transgender movement, right? Well,
if you don’t accept that, you’re a bigot, this and that. Well, that all
goes hand in hand with being a white person.”
Asked
about the pin he was wearing during the interview, Fears said “it’s
basically just like an SS thing.” Explaining the significance of the pin
would require an extensive conversation about World War II, he said.
“And it’s my heritage, I’m German.”
Thursday, October 19, 2017
SUPPORT IF YOU CAN THE DEMOCRAT DOUG JONES FOR US SENATE FROM ALABAMA. DOUG JONES ACTUALLY HAS A VERY GOOD CHANCE OF WINNING!! Here is a web page: https://dougjonesforsenate.com/ Doug Jones, the Democrat, winning this would be a STUNNING defeat for the Republican ugly and cruel theist Roy Moore. Surely some donation for Doug Jones can be spared. If so I implore you to give. Either hit the link I provided or Google Doug Jones for Senate! I live in hope. Pass this on to anyone you choose.
Doug Jones for U.S. Senate
I’m running for U.S. Senate because our leaders have lost sight of what it means to serve — to make a positive…
dougjonesforsenate.com
I paste the story below:
Moore was given $1000 donation from a Nazi Group. The Foundation to Defend the First Amendment was founded by avowed white supremacist Willis Carto.
By Paul Blumenthal
WASHINGTON ― In 2005, the foundation run by Judge Roy Moore, now the Republican nominee for a Senate seat in Alabama, accepted a $1,000 donation from a group founded by Willis Carto, a white supremacist, Nazi supporter and World War II vet who famously said he regretted fighting for the U.S instead of Germany.
The Foundation to Defend the First Amendment is one of several nonprofit groups Carto used to shuffle money around to his anti-Semitic and racist conspiracy publications, to fund Holocaust deniers, and, apparently, to donate to Moore’s nonprofit. The Carto-founded group touts its support for Moore and his Foundation for Moral Law on its web site. The contribution to Moore’s group stands out as one of just a handful it has made to organizations not explicitly involved in Holocaust denial.
The people who run the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment have an ideology that is, “Total Nazi; and notice I didn’t say neo-Nazi,” Todd Blodgett, the former head of the white supremacist record label Resistance Records — and later an FBI informant — told HuffPost.
The contribution to Moore’s nonprofit from Carto’s group was found after a HuffPost review of public tax documents. There is no evidence that the nonprofit returned the check.
Moore’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment. His foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Scott Olson via Getty Images Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama, is shown at a campaign stop before the primary election that he won.
Carto, who died in 2015, was one of the most notable leaders of the racist and anti-Semitic far right in the U.S. after World War II. Through his Liberty Lobby political advocacy group and its attendant publications ― including American Free Press and SPOTLIGHT magazine ― he spread racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories to his readership.
Carto supported former Alabama Gov. George Wallace’s segregationist presidential campaign in 1968 before founding the Populist Party, which gave a political platform for noted racists like David Duke. In 2004, he signed the Duke-penned New Orleans Protocol, which advocated for the mainstreaming of white supremacist ideology. Carto’s publications included those where the white supremacy was watered-down in an effort to target paleo-conservative supporters of Pat Buchanan. Other publications explicitly promoted Nazism and fascism.
In addition to donating to Moore’s group, the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment provided tax-exempt donations to Carto publications including The Barnes Review, an explicitly white supremacist magazine that in 2004 ran an article stating that Adolf Hitler should have won the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize.
But most of the nonprofit’s donations went to support Holocaust deniers, in particular those who faced prosecution in Europe or Canada. In 2005, the same year the foundation donated to Moore’s nonprofit, it also gave $1,000 to Ingrid Rimland, a Holocaust denier married to Ernst Zundel, who himself had been imprisoned in Germany for promoting Holocaust denial. The foundation also gave $1,000 that year to Germar Rudolf, whom the U.S. extradited to Germany to face Holocaust denial charges in 2005. The Canadian Association for Free Expression, a white supremacist group headed by Paul Fromm, also received $1,000 from the foundation in 2005. Two other $1,000 donations in 2005 went to a 9/11 truther group called Reopen911.org and to Police & Military Against New World Order, a far-right wing conspiracy organization. The latter group, however, returned the $1,000 donation in 2006.
At the time the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment donated to support Moore’s nonprofit, the group was headed by a Carto protege named Jim Tucker Jr. Tucker, who died in 2013, was a writer for both SPOTLIGHT and American Free Press with a specialty in conspiracy theories related to the Bilderberg Group, an international collection of leaders in business and government. Other individuals who sat on the board of the nonprofit at that time included Christopher Bollyn, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who claims Israel was behind the attacks, and American Free Press author Pat Shannan, who believes both 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing were committed by the U.S. government with Israeli help.
“The basic goal of every editorial board meeting for Carto was to find out what’s upsetting people and find ways to blame it on Israel,” said Blodgett, who frequently sat in on editorial meetings at both SPOTLIGHT and The Barnes Review.
Moore, a controversial figure even within Alabama, has emerged as a favorite of the far-right wing in the U.S. and earned the endorsement of former White House chief strategist and Breitbart head Steve Bannon. A former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Moore was kicked off the court in 2003 for refusing a court order to remove a statue of the Ten Commandants that he placed at the state courthouse. After winning election to serve as chief justice again in 2013, Moore was suspended in 2016 for refusing to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling that legalized same-sex marriage across the nation.
Moore has called for the criminalization of homosexuality; said that Muslims should not be allowed to serve in Congress; believes, without any evidence, that some parts of the U.S. live under Sharia Law; claimed, like President Donald Trump, that former President Barack Obama is not an American citizen; blamed the 9/11 attacks on gays and abortion; and lamented the divisions between “reds” and “yellows,” an apparent reference to Native Americans and Asian-Americans.
Scott Olson via Getty Images Former adviser to President Donald Trump and executive chairman of Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, speaks at a campaign event for Roy Moore.
Moore is “much closer to our ideal Alt-South candidate: Southern, Christian, populist and nationalist, slashing and willing to defy the federal government,” Shannan, the 9/11 truther who sat on the board of the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment when it donated to Moore’s nonprofit, wrote in an endorsement of Moore published last month. “The White vote in the South, which was splintered during the late 20th century, has reconsolidated like it was in the Jim Crow South.”
Shannan added that he declined to endorse Moore until after the primary, because “it would have been fodder for a media narrative that ‘white supremacists support Roy Moore’ and would have been an unnecessary distraction in the race.”
The receipt of a contribution from a bonafide pro-Nazi organization is far from the first controversy surrounding Moore’s Foundation for Moral Law. The nonprofit paid more than $1 million to Moore between 2007 and 2012, far more than the group reported on its tax disclosures, according to the Washington Post. Moore’s group also hosted two events at its offices by neo-Confederate, pro-secession groups, according to a CNN report.
The foundation’s largest known donor is Michael Peroutka, a Maryland county commissioner who used to sit on the board of the League of the South, a white Christian separatist group, according to Talking Points Memo. The League of the South was one of the organizers of the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, that ended with the killing of a counter-protester.
When HuffPost called the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment, the phone was answered by an operator who stated the location as American Free Press. HuffPost’s call was then directed to Chris Petherick, the editor-in-chief of American Free Press and current head of Carto’s foundation.
When asked to explain the group’s 2005 donation to the Foundation for Moral Law, Petherick responded, “That’s Roy Moore.” Then he hung up.
Doug Jones for U.S. Senate
I’m running for U.S. Senate because our leaders have lost sight of what it means to serve — to make a positive…
dougjonesforsenate.com
I paste the story below:
Moore was given $1000 donation from a Nazi Group. The Foundation to Defend the First Amendment was founded by avowed white supremacist Willis Carto.
By Paul Blumenthal
WASHINGTON ― In 2005, the foundation run by Judge Roy Moore, now the Republican nominee for a Senate seat in Alabama, accepted a $1,000 donation from a group founded by Willis Carto, a white supremacist, Nazi supporter and World War II vet who famously said he regretted fighting for the U.S instead of Germany.
The Foundation to Defend the First Amendment is one of several nonprofit groups Carto used to shuffle money around to his anti-Semitic and racist conspiracy publications, to fund Holocaust deniers, and, apparently, to donate to Moore’s nonprofit. The Carto-founded group touts its support for Moore and his Foundation for Moral Law on its web site. The contribution to Moore’s group stands out as one of just a handful it has made to organizations not explicitly involved in Holocaust denial.
The people who run the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment have an ideology that is, “Total Nazi; and notice I didn’t say neo-Nazi,” Todd Blodgett, the former head of the white supremacist record label Resistance Records — and later an FBI informant — told HuffPost.
The contribution to Moore’s nonprofit from Carto’s group was found after a HuffPost review of public tax documents. There is no evidence that the nonprofit returned the check.
Moore’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment. His foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Scott Olson via Getty Images Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama, is shown at a campaign stop before the primary election that he won. Carto, who died in 2015, was one of the most notable leaders of the racist and anti-Semitic far right in the U.S. after World War II. Through his Liberty Lobby political advocacy group and its attendant publications ― including American Free Press and SPOTLIGHT magazine ― he spread racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories to his readership.
Carto supported former Alabama Gov. George Wallace’s segregationist presidential campaign in 1968 before founding the Populist Party, which gave a political platform for noted racists like David Duke. In 2004, he signed the Duke-penned New Orleans Protocol, which advocated for the mainstreaming of white supremacist ideology. Carto’s publications included those where the white supremacy was watered-down in an effort to target paleo-conservative supporters of Pat Buchanan. Other publications explicitly promoted Nazism and fascism.
In addition to donating to Moore’s group, the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment provided tax-exempt donations to Carto publications including The Barnes Review, an explicitly white supremacist magazine that in 2004 ran an article stating that Adolf Hitler should have won the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize.
But most of the nonprofit’s donations went to support Holocaust deniers, in particular those who faced prosecution in Europe or Canada. In 2005, the same year the foundation donated to Moore’s nonprofit, it also gave $1,000 to Ingrid Rimland, a Holocaust denier married to Ernst Zundel, who himself had been imprisoned in Germany for promoting Holocaust denial. The foundation also gave $1,000 that year to Germar Rudolf, whom the U.S. extradited to Germany to face Holocaust denial charges in 2005. The Canadian Association for Free Expression, a white supremacist group headed by Paul Fromm, also received $1,000 from the foundation in 2005. Two other $1,000 donations in 2005 went to a 9/11 truther group called Reopen911.org and to Police & Military Against New World Order, a far-right wing conspiracy organization. The latter group, however, returned the $1,000 donation in 2006.
At the time the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment donated to support Moore’s nonprofit, the group was headed by a Carto protege named Jim Tucker Jr. Tucker, who died in 2013, was a writer for both SPOTLIGHT and American Free Press with a specialty in conspiracy theories related to the Bilderberg Group, an international collection of leaders in business and government. Other individuals who sat on the board of the nonprofit at that time included Christopher Bollyn, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist who claims Israel was behind the attacks, and American Free Press author Pat Shannan, who believes both 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing were committed by the U.S. government with Israeli help.
“The basic goal of every editorial board meeting for Carto was to find out what’s upsetting people and find ways to blame it on Israel,” said Blodgett, who frequently sat in on editorial meetings at both SPOTLIGHT and The Barnes Review.
Moore, a controversial figure even within Alabama, has emerged as a favorite of the far-right wing in the U.S. and earned the endorsement of former White House chief strategist and Breitbart head Steve Bannon. A former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Moore was kicked off the court in 2003 for refusing a court order to remove a statue of the Ten Commandants that he placed at the state courthouse. After winning election to serve as chief justice again in 2013, Moore was suspended in 2016 for refusing to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling that legalized same-sex marriage across the nation.
Moore has called for the criminalization of homosexuality; said that Muslims should not be allowed to serve in Congress; believes, without any evidence, that some parts of the U.S. live under Sharia Law; claimed, like President Donald Trump, that former President Barack Obama is not an American citizen; blamed the 9/11 attacks on gays and abortion; and lamented the divisions between “reds” and “yellows,” an apparent reference to Native Americans and Asian-Americans.
Scott Olson via Getty Images Former adviser to President Donald Trump and executive chairman of Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, speaks at a campaign event for Roy Moore. Moore is “much closer to our ideal Alt-South candidate: Southern, Christian, populist and nationalist, slashing and willing to defy the federal government,” Shannan, the 9/11 truther who sat on the board of the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment when it donated to Moore’s nonprofit, wrote in an endorsement of Moore published last month. “The White vote in the South, which was splintered during the late 20th century, has reconsolidated like it was in the Jim Crow South.”
Shannan added that he declined to endorse Moore until after the primary, because “it would have been fodder for a media narrative that ‘white supremacists support Roy Moore’ and would have been an unnecessary distraction in the race.”
The receipt of a contribution from a bonafide pro-Nazi organization is far from the first controversy surrounding Moore’s Foundation for Moral Law. The nonprofit paid more than $1 million to Moore between 2007 and 2012, far more than the group reported on its tax disclosures, according to the Washington Post. Moore’s group also hosted two events at its offices by neo-Confederate, pro-secession groups, according to a CNN report.
The foundation’s largest known donor is Michael Peroutka, a Maryland county commissioner who used to sit on the board of the League of the South, a white Christian separatist group, according to Talking Points Memo. The League of the South was one of the organizers of the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, that ended with the killing of a counter-protester.
When HuffPost called the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment, the phone was answered by an operator who stated the location as American Free Press. HuffPost’s call was then directed to Chris Petherick, the editor-in-chief of American Free Press and current head of Carto’s foundation.
When asked to explain the group’s 2005 donation to the Foundation for Moral Law, Petherick responded, “That’s Roy Moore.” Then he hung up.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Trump Told Army Widow Her Husband Knew ‘What He Signed Up For,’ Congresswoman Says.
My Comment: Trump's comment was DESPICABLE. My thoughts are that Trump had NO idea or certainly did not think about the four soldiers (green berets) who were killed in Niger until the pressure of the press forced him to think about it and make those four calls to the families of the soldiers killed in action.
Before the issue blew up in the press I believe this know nothing excuse for a president did not even know WHERE Niger was on a map. What he said to the widow of one of them was unthinkable. My link to a book yesterday says it all "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" by Bandy Lee, M.D. M. Div Organizer of the Yale "Duty to Warn" Conference. To encapsulate what these 27 eminent psychiatrists think: -- Trump is diagnosed by them a "malignant narcissist" and has empathy for no one. Attention good or bad must be placed in his mind only on him.
My diagnosis is he is sick! What he said to the soldier's pregnant widow was unthinkable. Adding salt to Trump's serious self inflicted wound he said that President Obama never called the family of a solider killed in action or so he's been told. That is, of course, a lie and a massive one, something this president finds it usual to tell. I hate to answer that statement thereby giving it the attention it does not deserve. As so many know President Obama called an infinite number of families of soldiers KIA, wrote personal letters to families and greeted those flag draped caskets of the fallen as they returned home to their final rest.
Shame on you, Donald Trump, you are our nation's curse!
The article below:
Trump Told the Army Widow Her Husband Knew ‘What He Signed Up For,’ Congresswoman Says
“I said this man has no feelings for anyone. This is a young woman with child who is grieved to her soul,” Rep. Frederica Wilson says.
A Florida congresswoman described President Donald Trump’s phone call to the widow of a soldier killed during an ambush in Niger as “insensitive” after the president reportedly said the man “must’ve known what he signed up for.”
Rep.
Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) was in the car with Myeshia Johnson, the
pregnant widow of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, when Trump called her
Tuesday and spoke for about five minutes, according to South Florida’s NBC affiliate.
“Sarcastically
he said: ‘But you know he must have known what he signed up for,’”
Wilson recounted to NBC6. “How could you say that to a grieving widow? I
couldn’t believe... and he said it more than once. I said this man has
no feelings for anyone. This is a young woman with child who is grieved
to her soul.”
Wilson, speaking to CNN, said her community was angry about the comments and described Johnson as a local hero.
“We
don’t have many heroes in our young men in Miami-Dade County, but he
was a hero for us,” the congresswoman told host Don Lemon. When asked
what her immediate reaction was, she said: “I asked them to give me the
phone, because I wanted to speak with him. And I was going to curse him
out. That was my reaction... I was livid.”
The White House declined to comment on the account in statements given to The Washington Post and an ABC affiliate.
“The
president’s conversations with the families of American heroes who have
made the ultimate sacrifice are private,” an unnamed official said in
the statement.
Four Green Berets were killed in an ambush
in Niger earlier this month, and two others were wounded. Following a
question about why he hadn’t spoken about their deaths publicly or
called troops’ families, Trump said Monday that he had written personal
letters and that he planned to call later. He then used the opportunity
to falsely assert that his predecessors “didn’t make calls” themselves.
Former President Barack Obama frequently called the families of soldiers killed in action and visited those wounded during his administration. President George W. Bush visited troops at the Walter Reed medical center 16 times before he left office.
White
House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed on Twitter late
Tuesday that Trump had called all four families of those killed, saying
he offered “condolences on behalf of the country.”
Trump returned to the subject Tuesday, using the death of Chief of Staff John Kelly’s son
in 2010 to illustrate Obama’s record on calling bereaved families,
saying his predecessor did not call in that instance. Obama invited
Kelly and his wife, Karen, to a breakfast in 2011 for Gold Star families
who have lost children in combat. They were seated at a table with
first lady Michelle Obama.
Wilson on Tuesday described Trump’s call as “insensitive” in an interview to a local ABC affiliate. She was with Myeshia Johnson and her two children, ages 2 and 6, as she watched the casket carrying her husband arrive at Miami International Airport.
“He should have not have said that,” Wilson told ABC 10, before repeating, “He shouldn’t have said it.”
Monday, October 16, 2017
Suicide is NOT an option -- the right to live
I
am going to be 69 in a few days. I can say that admitting who I am was
the singular most difficult process in my life. I "figured" things out
decades ago and the trajectory of my life changed in an instant. It is
one (among many) reasons I so despise Trump and all right wing extremist
zealots who lack thought, kindness, empathy and understanding; who
refuse to offer, at minimum, help to those who so desperately need it.
It should be the mandate of government to provide it.
For
those in our generation who were homosexual suicide was then an option.
But it got better -- much better. Now for this instant in time we
secured many rights including everyone's basic right to marry whom they
love but those rights can be, in a nanosecond, taken away. Freedom from
religion not of religion should be etched in stone as our Founders knew
and it is why the separation of church/state clause is Constitutionally
mandated
.
Believe what you want but let others believe what they may; looking to
social change and not to a 5000 year old document written
in cement by those who knew nothing about a lot science has debunked and much less of human sexuality nor its variation.
I
never on planet earth thought it could get so much better for me. My
relationship of 32 years, I can unequivocally and proudly say, sets an
example and should be the envy of so many whose relationships and
marriages are/were so destructive. It was not I who had the problem it
was our culture and what it said we should be during those excruciating
Leave it to Beaver times.
Trump
and his minions are poison to those of us who are different and do not
conform -- no strike that -- CANNOT conform to what those Cretans say we
must. They want to turn back the clock to an age where we had zero
rights and suicide was the only option for so many of us who could not
live a lie. Trump's minions are ignorant and like Trump have no desire
to understand and to learn.
Howard
Zinn said to me long ago it matters not what those in power who oppose
us say. We must fight with the grass roots and never give in because
power emanates from the bottom up! If right wing extremism
wins
we
all lose in more ways than simply the right to marry. Those of us who
are not among the richest 2% will and some are now losing health care.
Worse, the possibility of nuclear war post 1960 is again in the
conversation. No one can win that. In the end if Trump and his
minions
have their way
many will die. The right we all deserve is the right to live.
RESIST AS YOU HAVE NEVER RESISTED BEFORE
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Treason thy name is Trump
Trump is fatally wounding the Affordable Healthcare Act by eliminating the CSR (cost sharing reduction) payment to carriers. It is sickening -- pardon the pun -- (see link posted below for the story.) It will affect particularly the poor millions whose healthcare payments will skyrocket as insurance companies raise rates to satisfy their bottom line. The poor because of Trump's evil deed will again be without healthcare potentially killing the millions who need it.
Trump is the cruelest of men, a mean and mendacious juvenile who simply wants the man he secretly would love to be as smart as knocked down by eliminating every piece of legislation perfected by his predecessor president. Trump does it for spite no mater how inhumane and/or dangerous what he is doing is. It matters not to him how many he will hurt and even kill by his actions. If I were an Evangelical Christian I would call Trump the anti-Christ for his eradication of everything humane created and/or passed for the least of these our brethren. What President Obama has in his fingernail Trump knows Trump does not posses in his entire body. He is, in the end, a mean, stupid, incurious man who knows something about building Trump Towers but knows little else. Worse he does not want to learn the many things he does not know.
Yes, President Obama used the Executive Order. The difference between Obama and Trump's Executive Order is that Obama used it to try to help the middle class and the poor with access to healthcare they never had by creating the Affordable Healthcare Act. Trump uses it to hurt millions especially the poor by taking it away and exacting revenge against the former president whose intellect Trump knows Trump cannot match.
Trump is a danger to civilization with his combustive small hands on the nuclear codes. He must be removed from office post haste. God knows there is enough to impeach and convict him for the alleged high crimes and misdemeanors he has committed. If we are lucky we can "lock him up" for Russia-connected treason! He cares about one thing -- himself. He is, in the final analysis, a traitor to this nation.
Trump is the cruelest of men, a mean and mendacious juvenile who simply wants the man he secretly would love to be as smart as knocked down by eliminating every piece of legislation perfected by his predecessor president. Trump does it for spite no mater how inhumane and/or dangerous what he is doing is. It matters not to him how many he will hurt and even kill by his actions. If I were an Evangelical Christian I would call Trump the anti-Christ for his eradication of everything humane created and/or passed for the least of these our brethren. What President Obama has in his fingernail Trump knows Trump does not posses in his entire body. He is, in the end, a mean, stupid, incurious man who knows something about building Trump Towers but knows little else. Worse he does not want to learn the many things he does not know.
Yes, President Obama used the Executive Order. The difference between Obama and Trump's Executive Order is that Obama used it to try to help the middle class and the poor with access to healthcare they never had by creating the Affordable Healthcare Act. Trump uses it to hurt millions especially the poor by taking it away and exacting revenge against the former president whose intellect Trump knows Trump cannot match.
Trump is a danger to civilization with his combustive small hands on the nuclear codes. He must be removed from office post haste. God knows there is enough to impeach and convict him for the alleged high crimes and misdemeanors he has committed. If we are lucky we can "lock him up" for Russia-connected treason! He cares about one thing -- himself. He is, in the final analysis, a traitor to this nation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/us/politics/trump-obamacare-executive-order-health-insurance.html?comments&_r=0#permid=24427096:24433252
Kim Davis Cell Block Tango--Randy Rainbow--BRILLIANT
To the tune "He Had it Coming" from the great musical "Chicago"!
Randy Rainbow is brilliant click the link below
Thursday, October 12, 2017
So you will know and never forget
This multiplied by many is what we have placed in a mentally disturbed man's hands; a man who cares nothing for anyone but himself. I have posted before both the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but like the Holocaust we MUST be reminded of its devastation lest it happen again. This time we are thirty seconds to midnight. This is not a game played by youths in their backyard. This is real life, real culture, real innocent human beings who will yet again be blasted into oblivion if the impulsive and sick evil that is Trump gives an order no one can reject.
This time more nations than simply the US have the bomb. Some are friendly and some adversarial. What could possibly go wrong? Everything! I urge you not only to watch the Youtube below but send it to everyone you know. Let them decide if this presidency of a severely sick utterly immoral mendacious man is worth saving at the risk of the elimination of hundreds of thousands and maybe millions more innocents. 35,000 or more US troops are in S. Korea, Japan and Guam. They will bear the impact too. Once a blast levied at North Korea is made a response will be demanded by China and even Russia its allies. No one will survive a nuclear war. It is unwinnable.
This time more nations than simply the US have the bomb. Some are friendly and some adversarial. What could possibly go wrong? Everything! I urge you not only to watch the Youtube below but send it to everyone you know. Let them decide if this presidency of a severely sick utterly immoral mendacious man is worth saving at the risk of the elimination of hundreds of thousands and maybe millions more innocents. 35,000 or more US troops are in S. Korea, Japan and Guam. They will bear the impact too. Once a blast levied at North Korea is made a response will be demanded by China and even Russia its allies. No one will survive a nuclear war. It is unwinnable.
Watch so you will know and never forget!
The Aftermath Of The Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima
White House Briefs Congress on Iran Decertification Plan. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
I post below the White House press core link to the story above.
My Comment:
Iran, is complying with the Obama administration-forged nuclear agreement
and has been internationally
verified
not
to be building
nuclear
bombs
.
Thus,
severe economic sanctions against them were lifted. If this utter non-comp
s met
i
s imbecile, jerk president
Trump
with zero ethics and zero morality does something to decertify the Iran Agreement forged by Obama
administration
and European experts (which I am NOT sure
Trump
can do but let
s say he can) then Iran will begin again to build nukes, will in fact build them, ally with N. Korea
which has them
while Pakistan, too, has the bomb. These nations plus Russia
,
which has a
huge stash
of nukes/hydrogen bombs,
are ALL adversarial or semi-adversarial nations
to the United States
. What could possibly go wrong
?
The rippling effects are mind numbing.
Feast your eyes
at what the California Wine Country climate change related fires have
wrought. See the thousands of homes and acres burned to the ground
eradicated from the face of the earth with people incinerated in them.
The land there is rather like what a Hiroshima size bomb did and what
the land looked like after it was dropped. The thousands of nukes and
hydrogen bombs the US, Russia and other nations have now carry a thousands
of times larger payload and destructive power. Once exploded, aside
from the massive damage they would inflict, they would carry radiation
poisoning into future decades. Those humans bombed, if they survive,
would have burns and wounds all over their bodies with no hospitals or
doctors to treat them. Future cancers will develop and will emerge in
genetic generations later assuming there will be any generations later.
Those bombed die, too, from disease as infrastructure is erased.
Radiation will spread all over the world and parts of the earth will be
bombed into the Pleistocene Age.
I urge, again, all to view the Hiroshima explosion. Google it yourself
on Youtube. I paste one still picture of it underneath the Wine
Country burning to see the devastation of the nuclear blast dropped by
the US (the only nation to have dropped a nuke) showing you in real time
what this means.
In
summation: The nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs some nations possess
today could inflict thousands of times more massive damage than the
Hiroshima bomb did which was small by modern standards. This is what
this unfit for the presidency, crackpot, president Trump will create--a
part of the world bombed into the Pleistocene Age!
STOP Trump and his Republican Congress before he and they eradicate us all! Send this to anyone you choose.
RESIST AS YOU HAVE NEVER RESISTED BEFORE!
California Wine Country burning
Hiroshima August 5, 1945 Sunday, at 6pm Eastern Standard Time
Sunday, October 08, 2017
Thursday, October 05, 2017
Paper towels -- Puerto Rico, Houston and Las Vegas
The obstacle I face today is a lack of descriptive words to reflect the insanity that is Trump and his shameful presidency. After the eloquent and capable President Obama comes a simpleton, incurious, unethical, and smarmiest women-abusing man to ever occupy the most powerful and most prestigious office in the world. I do not know what to say anymore that effectively describes my disgust for him and the cringe-worthy acts by him that will compose each day. Each morning I fear to turn on the news. Who can effectively explain every new behavioral idiocy of this incompetent, unfit and malevolent excuse for humanity whose finger rests on a nuclear button that can eradicate our planet and the life on it? I am ashamed and I am embarrassed at what I know will be his next stupid act for all the world to see and to laugh at. I do not laugh. I cry that this demented mendacious man is at the helm of our government with his small hands near a button that could obliterate billions of amazing evolutionary years that produced our magnificent planet earth. Our fate hangs with this incompetent, explosive know nothing leading our nation and I feel powerless to get this flypaper that is stuck to our body politic off!
There has been no action yet that sparks as much incredulity as Trump's visit to the Hurricane Maria devastated once beautiful nation of Puerto Rico in his feeble attempt at consoling inconsolable grief. Our president says, though, they should be happy that it was not Katrina. He says he will forgive Puerto Rico's debt. Don't -- forgive the pun -- bank on it. The lack of empathy that is Trump is staggering. It forces me to wonder what was done in to him in his youth to make him the most pathological president in our nation's history and one who has zero capacity to feel for less fortunate others who were not born with a proverbial gold spoon in their mouth. One's station in life sometimes, in part, is created but sometimes it is simply directed by luck. Donald Trump was lucky he was born into inheritance wealth and through the corrupt machinations of his own doing built an even greater fortune on the backs of others he did not pay or, in the alternative, when his businesses failed he merely filed for bankruptcy to avoid the loss.
His actions upon visiting Puerto Rico were, for me, the telltale icing on his poisonous psychological cake. The gall to actually throw paper towels at the Puerto Rican people as if he were throwing fish to a seal at SeaWorld was jaw dropping. Just what did he want them to do with those paper towels?
All of our modern day weather tragedies, as I have iterated many times, can be laid at a Republican Party's feet and its treacherous feeble Republican presidents' continual denial of climate change and the lack of development of technologies to rectify it. Denying this science creates the monstrous hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, fires and floods we see all the time. The damage and upheaval to lives is massive. Blame can be laid at a Party that denies the science that decades ago, based on evidence, predicted those awful weather events would occur.
The shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada was done by a sick man who could get his hands on weapons of war and attachments to make those weapons into more lethal rapid fire ones because he could. It is as easy as a Google click away or attendance at a private gun show held continuously throughout the year for someone to create another 1929 Al Capone St. Valentine's Day Massacre except this time on a Vietnam War scale.
What can we do with those paper towels Trump threw at the crowd? We can dry the tears of those in Puerto Rico as they bury their dead and try to reconstruct a new life, soak up the water flooded streets in Houston and wipe up the blood of 58 innocents because a sick man could get his hands on explosives and weapons of war without anyone blinking an eye at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Gun regulation in Nevada and many states is lax. Because it is lax many more people will continue to be slaughtered by guns. That horror could happen to any of us.
I think paper towels are not up to these clean-up jobs. Perhaps someone should have told Trump that before he insultingly flung them into the crowd in Puerto Rico! Shame on him and those who support him. I suggest you stock up on paper towels, you may, in fact, need billions of them.
RESIST AND SAVE THE NATION
There has been no action yet that sparks as much incredulity as Trump's visit to the Hurricane Maria devastated once beautiful nation of Puerto Rico in his feeble attempt at consoling inconsolable grief. Our president says, though, they should be happy that it was not Katrina. He says he will forgive Puerto Rico's debt. Don't -- forgive the pun -- bank on it. The lack of empathy that is Trump is staggering. It forces me to wonder what was done in to him in his youth to make him the most pathological president in our nation's history and one who has zero capacity to feel for less fortunate others who were not born with a proverbial gold spoon in their mouth. One's station in life sometimes, in part, is created but sometimes it is simply directed by luck. Donald Trump was lucky he was born into inheritance wealth and through the corrupt machinations of his own doing built an even greater fortune on the backs of others he did not pay or, in the alternative, when his businesses failed he merely filed for bankruptcy to avoid the loss.
His actions upon visiting Puerto Rico were, for me, the telltale icing on his poisonous psychological cake. The gall to actually throw paper towels at the Puerto Rican people as if he were throwing fish to a seal at SeaWorld was jaw dropping. Just what did he want them to do with those paper towels?
All of our modern day weather tragedies, as I have iterated many times, can be laid at a Republican Party's feet and its treacherous feeble Republican presidents' continual denial of climate change and the lack of development of technologies to rectify it. Denying this science creates the monstrous hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, fires and floods we see all the time. The damage and upheaval to lives is massive. Blame can be laid at a Party that denies the science that decades ago, based on evidence, predicted those awful weather events would occur.
The shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada was done by a sick man who could get his hands on weapons of war and attachments to make those weapons into more lethal rapid fire ones because he could. It is as easy as a Google click away or attendance at a private gun show held continuously throughout the year for someone to create another 1929 Al Capone St. Valentine's Day Massacre except this time on a Vietnam War scale.
What can we do with those paper towels Trump threw at the crowd? We can dry the tears of those in Puerto Rico as they bury their dead and try to reconstruct a new life, soak up the water flooded streets in Houston and wipe up the blood of 58 innocents because a sick man could get his hands on explosives and weapons of war without anyone blinking an eye at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Gun regulation in Nevada and many states is lax. Because it is lax many more people will continue to be slaughtered by guns. That horror could happen to any of us.
I think paper towels are not up to these clean-up jobs. Perhaps someone should have told Trump that before he insultingly flung them into the crowd in Puerto Rico! Shame on him and those who support him. I suggest you stock up on paper towels, you may, in fact, need billions of them.
RESIST AND SAVE THE NATION
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
The Essence of Gun Control
An email friend of mine sent me her nephew's post:
> The first car was built in the mid-1880's, at approximately the same time that the first fully automatic gun was made. Approximately 15 years later, when cars started to become more prevalent, Chicago and NY required testing before being allowed to drive cars. The first age restriction was placed for driving cars in 1909. It took the US, in total 15 years to start getting serious about determining who is qualified to drive. From there, we now have restrictions on the size of engines, speed limits, vigorous training and licensing testing, and regular license renewals, with testing. While at the same time, it took nearly 55 years to enact the Federal Firearms Act, which began the firearm dealer licensing system. Seems logical, after all, back then cars must have been used on what seems to have been a regular basis to conduct mass killings, whereas guns must have been there so people can shoot out the tires of those trying to run them down.
>
> I agree with the right to bear arms. Most argue against the slippery slope of regulating or taking away parts of that freedom. Really? That ship has sailed. Why not bear nuclear arms? Oh yeah, they weren't around when the second amendment was written, and that would just be plain old stupid. But what about people having cannons in their front yards, after all, cannons were around then? Oh yeah, we have that thing called common sense. But let's get back to cars. Clearly since regulations were faster there and have better evolved. If I have a couple of drinks and happen to be pulled over, even though I haven't hurt anyone or intended to hurt someone, I can have my license pulled and be put in jail. I have no clue if similar laws exist where gun holders in public have similar consequences. If someone leaves a bar with a gun, and a police officer sees them, is the gun confiscated? Is their right to use a gun is taken away for a while? Does the gun owner goes to jail? I really don't know the answer to that, and don't feel like looking it up right now.
>
> I'm tired of going into movie theaters and looking at the exits, not so I know where to possibly run in the event of a fire, but in an event of a shooter. When going into a theater with my family, I literally run through options of where to run, and how many of them I can get on the ground and lay on top of to shield them from gun fire. This is not normal. Why do my kids have to go through active shooter drills at school? Somehow we look back at ducking under desks as crazy, but we are back at it, for a much more real and random scenario. The first thing in every college tour these days has the tour guide boasting about not being anywhere on campus without having at least two emergency call boxes visible. At a recent freshman orientation I literally listened to the head of public safety who was previously a chief of police for one of the largest police forces in the world, discuss active shooters and other safety concerns. He even had the head of the local FBI field office in attendance. This is not normal!!!
>
> So here's the solution. Stop playing partisan politics. Stop feeling like the answer always needs to be in the extreme in order to protect something. Give me a break. If a hunter needs an automatic weapon to kill a bear, they are not a good hunter. Enact stronger gun controls. Background checks, safety testing, regular license renewals, restrictions on number of rounds, restrictions on types of weapons, no silencers. If a gun is allowed out in public, open carry must be required. What's the point of a concealed weapon? If a bad guy sees someone with a gun, they may think twice before shooting. Why have them start shooting and then realize that there is going to be a shootout.
>
> Enough is enough!!!!! I can't even imagine what my kids will have to deal with when they have kids.
> The first car was built in the mid-1880's, at approximately the same time that the first fully automatic gun was made. Approximately 15 years later, when cars started to become more prevalent, Chicago and NY required testing before being allowed to drive cars. The first age restriction was placed for driving cars in 1909. It took the US, in total 15 years to start getting serious about determining who is qualified to drive. From there, we now have restrictions on the size of engines, speed limits, vigorous training and licensing testing, and regular license renewals, with testing. While at the same time, it took nearly 55 years to enact the Federal Firearms Act, which began the firearm dealer licensing system. Seems logical, after all, back then cars must have been used on what seems to have been a regular basis to conduct mass killings, whereas guns must have been there so people can shoot out the tires of those trying to run them down.
>
> I agree with the right to bear arms. Most argue against the slippery slope of regulating or taking away parts of that freedom. Really? That ship has sailed. Why not bear nuclear arms? Oh yeah, they weren't around when the second amendment was written, and that would just be plain old stupid. But what about people having cannons in their front yards, after all, cannons were around then? Oh yeah, we have that thing called common sense. But let's get back to cars. Clearly since regulations were faster there and have better evolved. If I have a couple of drinks and happen to be pulled over, even though I haven't hurt anyone or intended to hurt someone, I can have my license pulled and be put in jail. I have no clue if similar laws exist where gun holders in public have similar consequences. If someone leaves a bar with a gun, and a police officer sees them, is the gun confiscated? Is their right to use a gun is taken away for a while? Does the gun owner goes to jail? I really don't know the answer to that, and don't feel like looking it up right now.
>
> I'm tired of going into movie theaters and looking at the exits, not so I know where to possibly run in the event of a fire, but in an event of a shooter. When going into a theater with my family, I literally run through options of where to run, and how many of them I can get on the ground and lay on top of to shield them from gun fire. This is not normal. Why do my kids have to go through active shooter drills at school? Somehow we look back at ducking under desks as crazy, but we are back at it, for a much more real and random scenario. The first thing in every college tour these days has the tour guide boasting about not being anywhere on campus without having at least two emergency call boxes visible. At a recent freshman orientation I literally listened to the head of public safety who was previously a chief of police for one of the largest police forces in the world, discuss active shooters and other safety concerns. He even had the head of the local FBI field office in attendance. This is not normal!!!
>
> So here's the solution. Stop playing partisan politics. Stop feeling like the answer always needs to be in the extreme in order to protect something. Give me a break. If a hunter needs an automatic weapon to kill a bear, they are not a good hunter. Enact stronger gun controls. Background checks, safety testing, regular license renewals, restrictions on number of rounds, restrictions on types of weapons, no silencers. If a gun is allowed out in public, open carry must be required. What's the point of a concealed weapon? If a bad guy sees someone with a gun, they may think twice before shooting. Why have them start shooting and then realize that there is going to be a shootout.
>
> Enough is enough!!!!! I can't even imagine what my kids will have to deal with when they have kids.
Tuesday, October 03, 2017
CHIP Expired Today. Insurance For Nine Million Children...Poof.-- Daily Kos
"While
Trump tweeted about football players and Republicans in Congress
salivated over tax cuts for the already insanely rich, the Children’s
Health Insurance Program expired today.
The GOP cannot govern and MAGA sucks."
Sorry Kids
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children. The program was designed to cover uninsured children in families with incomes that are modest but too high to qualify for Medicaid.From Vox:
CHIP funding won’t simply run out on October 1 because of the way the program is financed. Federal money is distributed as a lump sum to the states annually, and they then have two years to spend it. So most states will have money left over next month, even if no new federal funding is coming in. But it is nonetheless a perilous position for the program, and some states are staring at big funding cliffs soon.Arizona, North Carolina and the District of Columbia are expected to run out of funds by December. Minnesota ran out of funds today.
The GOP cannot govern and MAGA sucks."
Sorry Kids
Monday, October 02, 2017
Guilty -- to some of it but not all.
Nevertheless this is BRILLIANT!
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/10/01/donald-trump-sporting-spirit/1PsCjpb5EyocjzFEdoNneL/story.html
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/10/01/donald-trump-sporting-spirit/1PsCjpb5EyocjzFEdoNneL/story.html
Science and Sanity -- BLAME
I
am going to attach blame for our latest disasters. I blame Republicans
for climate change and man's contribution to it as they advocate for
filthy fossil fuels. I blame right wingnuts denying man's contribution
to this human life and planet destroying science affirming reality.
Houston, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and hundreds more disasters
from tornadoes, to hurricanes, floods and droughts I lay at the feet of
these Republican Cretans so big oil can line Republican pockets. As
usual it is all about the money. The Drumpf presidency is about it as
well. It is milking the US of all the cash it can get away with sucking
at the breast of the US taxpayer no matter how unethical and even
allegedly illegal the conflicts of interest may be!
I blame the Nevada massacre on RIDICULOUSLY lax gun laws. Nevada, the
capital of sin city, has an open carry law except in casinos of
course. Assault rifles are not illegal. NO ONE BUT NO ONE needs an
automatic or semi-automatic assault rifle much less Congress to vote on okaying silencers!!!!
These are weapons of war not for civilians carrying them to create
mayhem on innocent people. The NRA is a moral sewer and Trump is their
biggest supporter. SHAME ON HIM AND THEM!
Can
you imagine Las Vegas if the gd shooter had silencers on his weapons?
If one cannot see the shooter they can at least hear from where the
shots may be coming. A silencer would make that impossible. The remedy
is to take Republicans, defeat them by the hundreds all over the nation
in 2018 and finally let science and sanity prevail!
Sunday, October 01, 2017
"Donald Trump has 'dangerous mental illness', say psychiatry experts at Yale conference Mental health experts say President is 'paranoid and delusional'
Would you want your
son, daughter, husband, wife, relative or friend to die in a war waged
by this deranged malevolent misfit that is Trump?
Recommended viewing
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's "Vietnam" is a 10 part documentary on the Vietnam War shown on PBS. This is one of the most complete, fairly treated, historically accurate documentaries I have ever seen on the Vietnam War as only the great Ken Burns can do it. This one is done with Lynn Novick and possesses the gift for combining the realities of the Vietnam war from Eisenhower through the Ford administrations comprising five presidencies for nearly 20 years and includes the historical, sociological, and psychological aspects of the war with background music from that era of conflict. It is a brilliant work. No matter where one falls on the scale of opinion of the war this documentary will not fail to present a complete and balanced chronology of one our nation's most divisive eras and a war that evokes controversy to this day. One might say this nation really never got over its effects and that our nation has never been the same since it.
The work brought back to me the issues from that era. Both the anti-war movements and those who supported the war are most fairly reflected. There was almost no one who experienced the war who was not conflicted by it.
As one who was involved in the anti-war movement of that time it brought back memories I have stored for all these years and it does it through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it, thought it was worth fighting, as well as those soldiers who joined veterans against the war groups opposed to it. It also touches on figures we remember today such as John McCain a tortured and beaten for six years POW as well as others who fought it and eventually opposed it like Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. It includes the famous opposition to the war such as Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Rennie Davis, Oliver Stone who fought in the war and groups such as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and other groups who were sometimes violently against it. It includes the Kent State massacre as well. It is the fullest most complete rendition of the the historical events leading up to the American involvement in the war and also includes interviews of North Vietnam vets and their perspective on it. It brings you through the present era which shows a relaxed Communist state employing some capitalist enterprise to propel Vietnam economically into the 21st century.
The end of the series will captivate and includes the fleeing of the South Vietnamese trying to get away from the north who ultimately won the war and the creation of the Vietnam memorial in Washington which has one of my own friend's name on it.
"Vietnam" is a beautiful, poignant remembrance of the war and the names on the Vietnam Memorial who died for this controversial cause. I highly recommend viewing it.
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