HER NAME WAS SUSAN
A recent diary posted at dKos discussed the remembrances of an old ER doctor in dealing with abortion before Roe v. Wade. That diary had a profound effect on me and forced me to relive an experience from my own medical school days more than 50 years ago.
Her name was Susan. She was young. She was beautiful. She was intelligent. She was articulate. She was dying…
Susan was a 23 year old single woman who came to Los Angeles in the early 60’s to pursue her dream to become an actress. She had played the leads in her high school plays somewhere in Utah. She was runner-up in the Miss Utah pageant. She managed to get a couple of walk-on parts in some B-grade Hollywood films. She was a starlet.
A year or so after coming to the West Coast she became pregnant. The father quickly faded away into faceless LA. Her good Christian parents were humiliated, outraged and wanted nothing to do with her. She was on her own. Broke. Friendless. Pregnant. Scared.
So she took the bus to San Diego, walked across the border and headed to a cheap, dirty Tijuana abortion clinic. Four hours later she was back on the other side of the border, in pain, bleeding and completely debased. By the next day, the pain had become unbearable and she was spiking a temperature. She went to a local emergency room and was hospitalized overnight at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica. She was subsequently transferred to the Medicine unit at UCLA Medical Center, at that time a small teaching hospital in its embryonic stages.
I was a 3rd year medical student in my first clinical rotation at UCLA. Susan was one of my first patients. We were about the same age. I was embarking on my medical career. Her life was ending
Over the next three weeks, I learned how people die from sepsis. Her uterus was perforated. She had developed gram-negative septicemia. Our knowledge of and access to antibiotics was primitive and limited. Eventually she went into renal failure. She burned with fever. She was racked with abdominal pain. The lovely face become sallow, sparkling eyes sunken, lifeless. Her skin turned a sickly bronze color. Her breath reeked the pungent stench of ammonia. After weeks of agony, her frail body mercifully surrendered.
As I recollect these painful images of my brief encounter with Susan, the most outrageous aspect of this experience is not even the way she died. It is that she died alone. During those three weeks, she never had a visitor. There was no boyfriend - he was off to other conquests. There were no parents - they disowned her in shame and embarrassment.
Even worse was the mindset of the medical staff. While she was given the requisite care, there was little, if any, sympathy or compassion for this young woman or her situation. There was always the profound sense that “she brought this on herself,” that she was, in the final analysis, just an unfortunate tramp - Even As She Lay Dying.
It is now 50 years later and I still carry this burden of shame for myself, my colleagues, my society, my country. And to this day, whenever the subject of Roe v Wade comes up, whenever I see and hear the holier-than-thou religious fanatics trying to take away the rights of a woman to control her own body, to make her own choices, to force her into the back alleys of Tijuana, I can still smell the stench of ammonia in the air.
Goodnight, Susan, we will not forget you.
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Out of the Shadows
A friend, a decidedly Progressive one, related the following comment he received on his blog:
Some knucklehead named John Svelt just left the following comment on the latest piece on my blog:
It was a good, even humorous, response but in truth there is nothing funny about this longest hatred or any race hatred. Being Jewish and old enough I know they, the Jew haters, are SURELY out there. When the times present they will seize a rare opportunity to spew their venom of hate and hope for power. In the US, before Trump, these hate groups existed on the political periphery in forms like Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party or Tom Metzger's "Race and Reason" and there were many others. In more modern times many also found life in the Republican Party fringe.
"You're a disgusting race traitor or a goddamned jew."
Here was my answer:
"I am a race traitor. You got me there. Although not a Jew, I am, in fact, an honorary member of the international Jewish conspiracy."
I do not know what kind of pathological cerebral configuration exists in their minds, how they arrived at the ridiculous conclusions that they do or whether it is simply a combination of nature/nurture but these Trumpian times have given a unique opportunity for the so called "Alt Right" to emerge out of the gaseous shadows of their primordial soup into the light.
I believe most of America is basically good but then again so did Anne Frank also believe in her heart that people are basically good. In view of her sad fate in another era we must in ours beware, be vigilant and never let these crackpots gain power. Power is deadly in Trumpian hands. No one will be safe, not you, not I, not your children and not your children's children which is why Trump, who gave these extremist malcontents on the right a forum MUST be crushed. Our nation on November 8 will be fighting for its life. GET OUT THE VOTE EVERYWHERE FOR HILLARY CLINTON.
"TRUMPLAND" -- GETTING OUT THE VOTE!
If any of you saw Larry O'Donnel then you know he had on the great documentarian Michael Moore talking about his new film "Trumpland." I will place the link below for you to view that segment.
Bottom Line: WE CANNOT BE COMPLACENT, WE CANNOT BE RELAXED BECAUSE THE POLLS LOOK SO GOOD. IF WE DO NOT GET OUT OUR VOTE, YES, TRUMP WINS. IN ALL THE STATES BUT ESPECIALLY THE SWING STATES OF STATES LIKE OHIO WHERE THE POLLING IS 45% TO 45% OUR VOTES NEED TO BE GOTTEN OUT. THIS IS A MUST.
POLITICO has identified 11 states where the 2016 election will be won and lost: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
IF YOU CAN IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE REACH THESE SWING STATES TO GET OUT THE VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON THEN PLEASE DO SO. YOU CAN DO IT IF YOU CAN GO TO ANY OF THOSE STATES AND CANVASS, YOU CAN DO IT BY GETTING IN TOUCH WITH HILLARY HEADQUARTERS IN YOUR TOWN AND ASK IF YOU CAN DO SO BY PHONE/COMPUTER HOOK UP, YOU CAN DO SO BY MORSE CODE OR SMOKE SIGNALS, BY HORSE OR ON FOOT BUT DO SO. ALL OF THE STATES LISTED ABOVE NEED GET OUT THE VOTE ACTION FOR HILLARY CLINTON.
IF SOMEONE NEEDS A RIDE TO THEIR POLLS GET THEM ONE, IF SOMEONE NEEDS PERSUADING DO SO AS LONG AS YOU DO SOMETHING. AS MICHAEL MOORE SAID THE US IS FILLED WITH GOOD PEOPLE BUT WE ARE ALSO A COUNTRY THAT ELECTED NIXON TWICE, WE ELECTED A SECOND RATE ACTOR REAGAN TWICE, AND WE ELECTED AN INCOMPETENT GEORGE BUSH TWICE AND ARE SUFFERING FROM HIS PRESIDENCY TO THIS DAY. DO NOT THINK THIS THING IS WON. IF YOU DO IT IS THEN THAT WE LOSE AND THE UNQUALIFIED TRUMP WINS. GET OUT THE VOTE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON HERE IN BLUE MASSACHUSETTS BUT GET OUT THE VOTE IN SO CALLED RED STATES TOO. THE STAKES ARE HUGE, THE NATION'S LIFE IS AT STAKE; YOUR LIFE AND YOUR CHILDREN'S LIFE AND THEIR CHILDREN'S LIFE IF THERE IS A PLANET ON WHICH TO LIVE IS AT STAKE. PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY AND GET OUT THE VOTE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word
Bottom Line: WE CANNOT BE COMPLACENT, WE CANNOT BE RELAXED BECAUSE THE POLLS LOOK SO GOOD. IF WE DO NOT GET OUT OUR VOTE, YES, TRUMP WINS. IN ALL THE STATES BUT ESPECIALLY THE SWING STATES OF STATES LIKE OHIO WHERE THE POLLING IS 45% TO 45% OUR VOTES NEED TO BE GOTTEN OUT. THIS IS A MUST.
POLITICO has identified 11 states where the 2016 election will be won and lost: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
IF YOU CAN IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE REACH THESE SWING STATES TO GET OUT THE VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON THEN PLEASE DO SO. YOU CAN DO IT IF YOU CAN GO TO ANY OF THOSE STATES AND CANVASS, YOU CAN DO IT BY GETTING IN TOUCH WITH HILLARY HEADQUARTERS IN YOUR TOWN AND ASK IF YOU CAN DO SO BY PHONE/COMPUTER HOOK UP, YOU CAN DO SO BY MORSE CODE OR SMOKE SIGNALS, BY HORSE OR ON FOOT BUT DO SO. ALL OF THE STATES LISTED ABOVE NEED GET OUT THE VOTE ACTION FOR HILLARY CLINTON.
IF SOMEONE NEEDS A RIDE TO THEIR POLLS GET THEM ONE, IF SOMEONE NEEDS PERSUADING DO SO AS LONG AS YOU DO SOMETHING. AS MICHAEL MOORE SAID THE US IS FILLED WITH GOOD PEOPLE BUT WE ARE ALSO A COUNTRY THAT ELECTED NIXON TWICE, WE ELECTED A SECOND RATE ACTOR REAGAN TWICE, AND WE ELECTED AN INCOMPETENT GEORGE BUSH TWICE AND ARE SUFFERING FROM HIS PRESIDENCY TO THIS DAY. DO NOT THINK THIS THING IS WON. IF YOU DO IT IS THEN THAT WE LOSE AND THE UNQUALIFIED TRUMP WINS. GET OUT THE VOTE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON HERE IN BLUE MASSACHUSETTS BUT GET OUT THE VOTE IN SO CALLED RED STATES TOO. THE STAKES ARE HUGE, THE NATION'S LIFE IS AT STAKE; YOUR LIFE AND YOUR CHILDREN'S LIFE AND THEIR CHILDREN'S LIFE IF THERE IS A PLANET ON WHICH TO LIVE IS AT STAKE. PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY AND GET OUT THE VOTE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word
Friday, October 21, 2016
More than Fear Itself
Click on retired Justice Souter's (H.W. Bush appointee) video (link below) that Rachel illuminated last evening. It was given FIVE years ago. It is so prescient for our time you will not believe your ears. What a master of jurisprudence and a master of history Justice Souter is. It is an amazing video. What do we REALLY have to fear more than fear itself? Listen and you will learn what we as a culture must fear the most.
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Thursday, October 20, 2016
WHY I AM PRO CHOICE
The following is a public posting of a woman who had the heart wrenching experience of a late term abortion. It is exactly why I am a fierce advocate for choice specifically because of people like she. I thank her for sharing her very personal experience and allowing it to go public as the reality of abortion, most especially a late term one, is NEVER as the anti-choice rightwing religious fanatics say it is and as Trump described it in woefully ignorant fashion for political expediency to court Evangelicals watching the debate last night. Abortion, in this case a late term one, is usually fraught with the difficult emotions she had to endure and late term abortions usually accompany a medical lifesaving emergency that necessitated it. Others should bear witness to her story. This is from a women in Utah, who happens to be Mormon. In my opinion her story MUST be told and is told in her words she wants others to share. Her story is as follows:
"I HAD A LATE TERM ABORTION. IT IS NOTHING LIKE DESCRIBED BY TRUMP. PLEASE DON'T BASE YOUR VOTE ON THE FEAR MONGERING HE IS DOING. PLEASE READ MY EXPERIENCE:
I had to have a late term abortion. It was the worst moment in my life. What made it even worse was the State of Utah had made it illegal. I had one dead twin. The other had severe Spina Bifida, and would only have lived with life support, in great pain, for a few days.
I lay on the hospital floor, bawling hysterically, for twelve hours, waiting for an ethics committee of the health care corporation to decide my case justified what had to be done. My health was in danger due to the dead fetus. My husband and I consulted our LDS Bishop, who assured me I needed to do what I had to do, that it was even within LDS guidelines to do so. He reminded me I had six kids at home who needed their mother to live.
The abortion was terrible. It was done very gently, by Caesarean section, leaving the babies in their amniotic sacs. The living baby passed very quickly.
It was horrific. I think it even affected my dear physician, as he had never had to end a pregnancy before. I developed PTSD for which I had to be treated for years, mostly because of the fact I had to have it at all.
No woman should have to have the state have a say in the most painful decision she will ever make. Nobody is tearing babies apart in late term. They are always humanely done, only in situations where there is a non-viable or severely defective fetus and/or the mother's health is at risk.
Please don't vote for a candidate or a party that would make these decisions for the women who will die or be forced to carry unviable fetuses to term. This is a decision that is so painful and so terrible. Only the parents of the baby and a physician should be involved in the decision."
My Final Answer
The excruciatingly-to-suffer seemingly endless
debates are mercifully over and the election is in the home stretch.
Yes, the presidency is the most important office in the
nation and, one can make a case, even for the world since our powerful
reach extends around the globe. Other nations are watching us
with shivers that this alleged model of democratic decorum has
descended into a Trumpian Fascist madness. Hillary has remained
presidential and above the fray for it all. Her vast experience and
intellectual abilities shown bright along the way and did so last
night. She is eminently qualified for the office and Trump is decidedly
not!
Yes, those who critically analyze Hillary Clinton's candidacy have a right to their opinion and, indeed, I will never say any candidate is perfect. The ever so contentious emails have been litigated endlessly both by the FBI and the Republican controlled Congress. The FBI made the correct decision not to prosecute as there was absolutely no nefarious intent by her. She held up under withering onslaught that would have felled many but she endured and showed Trump's lack of stamina accusation of her to be false. Further, she apologized (more than Trump would ever do for his never ending lies,alleged unethical and even criminal actions.) Benghazi was masticated beyond recognition. In the end it was NOT her fault and admitted by the then Republican Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy done to electorally discredit her. Requests were made to enhance security in Benghazi but were rejected by a Republican Congress of no. Hillary is NOT responsible for every blessed thing that goes awry in an administration. No administration can be policy perfect every time and the Middle East was fractured a long time ago under a Republican administration. The repair of it will be generational if it will occur at all. Yesterday, it seemed as if he would blame her for a rainy day. Trump's look was, well, I will say it, Un-American. The Mussolinian Trump could not manage even one smile as he gulped water to moisten his dry seemingly nervous mouth.
There is not enough time within a debate to play "This is your Trumpian So Called Life." I am sure there was a lie counter and fact checker last evening. Trump never fails to lose a debate as he drowns himself in wheezes, lies and unethical business practices. Trump is a loser in business bankruptcies galore, a loser in a "charitable" Foundation to which little charity was given except to the charity named Trump and most of all, he is a loser in character. The man has none just ask the women whom he sexually harassed. There is not only the evidence of those claims of abuse by the woman themselves but those who knew about it after its happening and came forth to report it to the media. The Billy Bush tape of Trump's admission to his love of groping women's genitals and kissing women on the mouth all without consent because as he stated "they let you do it" was simply the vehicle that put one nail in his electoral coffin. It was nailed shut by his own words refusing to accept the validation of the American electoral process if it went against him. It was a rejection of the heart of the democracy upon which the Republic itself stands. His presidential aspirations died in that moment.
Yes, those who critically analyze Hillary Clinton's candidacy have a right to their opinion and, indeed, I will never say any candidate is perfect. The ever so contentious emails have been litigated endlessly both by the FBI and the Republican controlled Congress. The FBI made the correct decision not to prosecute as there was absolutely no nefarious intent by her. She held up under withering onslaught that would have felled many but she endured and showed Trump's lack of stamina accusation of her to be false. Further, she apologized (more than Trump would ever do for his never ending lies,alleged unethical and even criminal actions.) Benghazi was masticated beyond recognition. In the end it was NOT her fault and admitted by the then Republican Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy done to electorally discredit her. Requests were made to enhance security in Benghazi but were rejected by a Republican Congress of no. Hillary is NOT responsible for every blessed thing that goes awry in an administration. No administration can be policy perfect every time and the Middle East was fractured a long time ago under a Republican administration. The repair of it will be generational if it will occur at all. Yesterday, it seemed as if he would blame her for a rainy day. Trump's look was, well, I will say it, Un-American. The Mussolinian Trump could not manage even one smile as he gulped water to moisten his dry seemingly nervous mouth.
There is not enough time within a debate to play "This is your Trumpian So Called Life." I am sure there was a lie counter and fact checker last evening. Trump never fails to lose a debate as he drowns himself in wheezes, lies and unethical business practices. Trump is a loser in business bankruptcies galore, a loser in a "charitable" Foundation to which little charity was given except to the charity named Trump and most of all, he is a loser in character. The man has none just ask the women whom he sexually harassed. There is not only the evidence of those claims of abuse by the woman themselves but those who knew about it after its happening and came forth to report it to the media. The Billy Bush tape of Trump's admission to his love of groping women's genitals and kissing women on the mouth all without consent because as he stated "they let you do it" was simply the vehicle that put one nail in his electoral coffin. It was nailed shut by his own words refusing to accept the validation of the American electoral process if it went against him. It was a rejection of the heart of the democracy upon which the Republic itself stands. His presidential aspirations died in that moment.
The Huffington Post headlines sum the debate up for me: "Trump Disqualified Himself from the Presidency last night ..." Conservatives Aghast: 'Disgraceful', 'Beyond the Pale,' 'I Hope He Loses all 50 States, ...' 'Astonishing, 'Damaging' ... 'A Statement of Disloyalty Without Precedent since the Civil War...' Andrew Sullivan (conservative): Unfit for 'Any Office in the United States'
Trump resoundingly lost the third and last debate and took his electoral chances with it. As a friend so accurately assessed, since yesterday was my birthday, Hillary delivered the best birthday present of all to me -- the 2016 electoral win. That is my final answer.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Monday, October 17, 2016
FULL FAITH AND CREDIT
Trump is ramping up his know nothing
base claiming the GOP, the Democrats and Hillary Clinton are rigging his near
certain loss for president. There is, he says, an international banking
conspiracy to do so. Where is the
evidence? As in the president's foreign place of birth he still questions even
now despite his tersely weak statement saying otherwise, he has none. Seldom does he say most things with proof.
In Trump's world truth matters not but the eternal lies he tells are infinite and
accepted by his followers without question. This minority threatens to
overthrow our government if Hillary is elected, arrest her and summarily
execute her. Vandals firebombed Republican
headquarters in North Carolina. It was Democrats who gave $12,000 to rebuilt it. Who are the real patriots?
Trump has no one to blame but himself urging his adherents
on to a fevered pitch threatening to never accept the electoral outcome of the
2016 presidential election. The protestation offshoot of this is right wing
extremist violence. In the end the GOP created the monster Trump and he has spawned
the fascists who compose his ranks.
Trump’s minions are warned not to threaten violent overthrow
of the government unless they do not mind dying at the hands of the army, National
Guard and other forces the US has in its arsenal to defend itself from sedition
something so alien to all we know as a modern nation.
I reject most all Republican policies but I accept, when
necessary, Republicans’ elevation to power. Verbally and in written word I
protest their policies and hope for change. Sometimes I get it and sometimes not. I accept it even if unhappily so. The full faith and credit of the American
government will not be destroyed. A rational democracy must be our way of life
to survive as a people, it is the American way and it will be the radicals' way whether
they like it or not!
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Steve Schmidt (A smart Republican I very much like) on the Republican Fallout
This Republican intellect's words defining the state of
the Republican Party and Donald Trump are succinct, authoritative,
piercing and correct. I urge you to click on it and listen!
This Republican intellect's words defining the state of the Republican Party and Donald Trump are succinct, authoritative, piercing and correct. I urge you to click on it and listen!
This Republican intellect's words defining the state of the Republican Party and Donald Trump are succinct, authoritative, piercing and correct. I urge you to click on it
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This Republican intellect's words defining the state of the Republican Party and Donald Trump are succinct, authoritative, piercing and correct. I urge you to click on it and listen!
This Republican intellect's words defining the state of the Republican Party and Donald Trump are succinct, authoritative, piercing and correct. I urge you to click on it
Preview YouTube video Steve Schmidt on the Republican Fallout
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Friday, October 14, 2016
The Hope
The political arena is explosive. I and am sure you are
so tired of listening to anyone about it anymore but it is like a bad
accident -- I cannot look at it and I cannot look away. We have only two
weeks left. Either we elect a sane woman with excellent credentials
who has, I believe, the most valid academic and professional experience
to lead us the most powerful nation on earth or we plunge our nation, perhaps, into civil war with global
consequences as a psychopath will be entrusted with an arsenal of
nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction.
This psychopath knows how to dupe the masses. I loathe political comparisons to Hitler but the Trump phenomenon makes this appropriate comparison necessary to evoke. His Hitlerian tactics, like the Hitler rallies at Nuremberg (1923-1938), are staggering. It defies credulity that Trump gets as much support as he does BUT his opposition has more IF we vote. I know why it is said and he is alleged to have a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed. That is, for me, believable.
Please, please, please, tell everyone you know to reject the charlatan Fascist-like liar and sexual predator proven to be so over and over and over again. The women who have stepped up to tell the truth about him are, perhaps, the bravest of all putting themselves at great risk. The groups driving Trump's "campaign" trying to capture his deplorable base are the most virulent panoply of rightwing extremists and shock jock conspiratorialist crackpots ever assembled. Those who are in love with the NRA and follow Trump are capable of great violence toting the assault rifles they say they love so much.
Trump offers, as his defense of his bestial behavior against women, nothing but lies. He denies them but video tells the truth. His no policy policies are buttressed with the old Protocols of the Elders of Zion antiSemitic canards long debunked as pre-revolutionary Tsarist Russian propaganda that has plagued the Jewish people throughout history culminating in the Holocaust killing of the 6 million. Trump is a Fascist-like demagogue who will bring chaos to our nation and nations around the globe if he ever gets to the White House which I believe he, IF WE VOTE, will not. He insults Muslims and Jews, Gold Star parents, judges, persons of color, Hispanics, women, the disabled and many more. We have ALL heard the proof for ourselves running 24/7 on cable news and we have seen videotape of his rallies that are infused with lie after lie after lie. He simply cannot tell the truth and he simply must not win.
This psychopath knows how to dupe the masses. I loathe political comparisons to Hitler but the Trump phenomenon makes this appropriate comparison necessary to evoke. His Hitlerian tactics, like the Hitler rallies at Nuremberg (1923-1938), are staggering. It defies credulity that Trump gets as much support as he does BUT his opposition has more IF we vote. I know why it is said and he is alleged to have a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed. That is, for me, believable.
Please, please, please, tell everyone you know to reject the charlatan Fascist-like liar and sexual predator proven to be so over and over and over again. The women who have stepped up to tell the truth about him are, perhaps, the bravest of all putting themselves at great risk. The groups driving Trump's "campaign" trying to capture his deplorable base are the most virulent panoply of rightwing extremists and shock jock conspiratorialist crackpots ever assembled. Those who are in love with the NRA and follow Trump are capable of great violence toting the assault rifles they say they love so much.
Trump offers, as his defense of his bestial behavior against women, nothing but lies. He denies them but video tells the truth. His no policy policies are buttressed with the old Protocols of the Elders of Zion antiSemitic canards long debunked as pre-revolutionary Tsarist Russian propaganda that has plagued the Jewish people throughout history culminating in the Holocaust killing of the 6 million. Trump is a Fascist-like demagogue who will bring chaos to our nation and nations around the globe if he ever gets to the White House which I believe he, IF WE VOTE, will not. He insults Muslims and Jews, Gold Star parents, judges, persons of color, Hispanics, women, the disabled and many more. We have ALL heard the proof for ourselves running 24/7 on cable news and we have seen videotape of his rallies that are infused with lie after lie after lie. He simply cannot tell the truth and he simply must not win.
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
I cannot prove it but I just know it's true
Bill Maher has a segment: I can't prove it but I just know it's true.
I will leave it to others to finally get the truth out. I cannot prove this yet but I just know it's true: There is collusion between Trump and Russian hacking. Some emails are not as they were written deducing someone trying to reprint them and doing so incorrectly. The technology map leads DIRECTLY to Russia of that there is surety no matter how the LYING BEAST tries to spin it. No one can believe one thing that orange faced gorilla says!
I will leave it to others to finally get the truth out. I cannot prove this yet but I just know it's true: There is collusion between Trump and Russian hacking. Some emails are not as they were written deducing someone trying to reprint them and doing so incorrectly. The technology map leads DIRECTLY to Russia of that there is surety no matter how the LYING BEAST tries to spin it. No one can believe one thing that orange faced gorilla says!
The Book of Life
Today, for the Jewish people, is the holiest most meaningful day of the year. It is a day asking forgiveness for those vows we have broken, an erasure of our past transgressions and a promise to do better in the coming year so that we may be inscribed for another year in the book of life.
I ask that for ALL those of good will and for our sadly divided nation to stay strong and to be inscribed in the book of life too.
I ask that for ALL those of good will and for our sadly divided nation to stay strong and to be inscribed in the book of life too.
Trumpette Calls for Revolution
Revolution?
It is UNBELIEVABLE the psycho pathetic construct of this human being
monster Trump Republicans have created. He will NEVER accept the
outcome of the election no matter how scientifically valid it will be.
He wants to throw our nation into chaos. The most dangerous candidate
in our national history. When will it stop?
One of his beasts called for "revolution" if HRC is elected. I say fat chance, honey. I do NOT think the army, the National Guard, the FBI and every other militarized group that protects the nation will defend Trump and his deplorables. To that woman: "YOU ARE DONE" forgetaboutit!
One of his beasts called for "revolution" if HRC is elected. I say fat chance, honey. I do NOT think the army, the National Guard, the FBI and every other militarized group that protects the nation will defend Trump and his deplorables. To that woman: "YOU ARE DONE" forgetaboutit!
The most diverse generation of voters in American history could save us from Donald Trump
My Comment: We know that Republicons in the form of Trump and desperate-to-hold-what-is-left of-their-Party-together Republicans, in any form, will keep hitting Secretary Clinton wherever they see an opening to do so. It is emotionally impossible for us to continually keep the emergency lights on for every sensationalized hot-off-the-press story against Secretary Clinton especially because the myriad of ad infinitum waste-of-taxpayer-money Republicon investigations of Clinton have, in history and in present time, been endless. They have turned up ZERO during her thirty or more years in the political limelight.
Therefore, we, the electorate, must focus our attention away from the cacophonous ear splitting sound of Republican mayhem and turn our efforts toward GETTING OUT THE VOTE FOR HILLARY AND DOWN BALLOT DEMOCRATS EVERYWHERE. IF WE GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE ESPECIALLY FROM EVERY MINORITY GROUP THAT SUFFERS UNDER THE REPUBLICAN JACKBOOT, WE NOT ONLY CAN BUT WILL WIN. The story below demands just that of millennials.
Further, Democratic operatives in the field in every state MUST monitor the security of the vote everywhere to guard against unethical Republicons who will stop at nothing to defeat Democrats by any means -- unethical, illegal or otherwise necessary and LIE ALL THE TIME about it. We must focus our attention on that and GETTING OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE EVERYWHERE with all deliberate speed!
You may send this to anyone you chose both here and around the nation.
http://www.dailykos.com/…/-The-most-diverse-generation-of-v…
The most diverse generation of voters in American history could save us from Donald Trump
Bashing millennials, the youngest cohort of voters, is a recurring trope among many journalists . Yet despite their perceived cultural flaws, millennials hold the most…
dailykos.com
Therefore, we, the electorate, must focus our attention away from the cacophonous ear splitting sound of Republican mayhem and turn our efforts toward GETTING OUT THE VOTE FOR HILLARY AND DOWN BALLOT DEMOCRATS EVERYWHERE. IF WE GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE ESPECIALLY FROM EVERY MINORITY GROUP THAT SUFFERS UNDER THE REPUBLICAN JACKBOOT, WE NOT ONLY CAN BUT WILL WIN. The story below demands just that of millennials.
Further, Democratic operatives in the field in every state MUST monitor the security of the vote everywhere to guard against unethical Republicons who will stop at nothing to defeat Democrats by any means -- unethical, illegal or otherwise necessary and LIE ALL THE TIME about it. We must focus our attention on that and GETTING OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE EVERYWHERE with all deliberate speed!
You may send this to anyone you chose both here and around the nation.
http://www.dailykos.com/…/-The-most-diverse-generation-of-v…
The most diverse generation of voters in American history could save us from Donald Trump
Bashing millennials, the youngest cohort of voters, is a recurring trope among many journalists . Yet despite their perceived cultural flaws, millennials hold the most…
dailykos.com
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Scandal! WikiLeaks reveals Hillary Clinton to be . . . reasonable.
Her remarks to Wall Street are generally unremarkable.
Donald Trump is the GOP’s chemotherapy -- George Will
My comment: EXCELLENT COMMENTARY in the Washington Post by George Will. I always did wish this brilliant man of articulate excellence were on my side of the political spectrum. That's okay I can appreciate and there is room in my universe for great human intellect no matter where it resides!
George Will:
What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night? His dignity? Please. His campaign’s theme? His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally for Republicans whose three-word recipe for making America great again was the shriek “Lock her up!” This presaged his banana-republican vow to imprison his opponent.
The St. Louis festival of snarls was preceded by the release of a tape that merely provided redundant evidence of what Trump is like when he is being his boisterous self. Nevertheless, the tape sent various Republicans, who until then had discovered nothing to disqualify Trump from the presidency, into paroxysms of theatrical, tactical and synthetic dismay.
Again, the tape revealed nothing about this arrested-development adolescent that today’s righteously recoiling Republicans either did not already know or had no excuse for not knowing. Before the tape reminded the pathologically forgetful of Trump’s feral appetites and deranged sense of entitlement, the staid Economist magazine, holding the subject of Trump at arm’s length like a soiled sock, reminded readers of this: “When Mr. Trump divorced the first of his three wives, Ivana, he let the New York tabloids know that one reason for the separation was that her breast implants felt all wrong.”
His sexual loutishness is a sufficient reason for defeating him, but it is far down a long list of sufficient reasons. But if it — rather than, say, his enthusiasm for torture even “if it doesn’t work,” or his ignorance of the nuclear triad — is required to prompt some Republicans to have second thoughts about him, so be it. For example, Sen. Richard Burr, a North Carolinian seeking a third term, represents a kind of Republican judiciousness regarding Trump. Having heard the tape and seen Trump’s “apology” (Trump said, essentially: My naughty locker-room banter is better than Bill Clinton’s behavior), Burr solemnly said: “I am going to watch his level of contrition over the next few days to determine my level of support.” North Carolinians will watch with bated breath as Burr, measuring with a moral micrometer, carefully calibrates how to adjust his support to Trump’s unfolding repentance. Burr, who is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has not received this nugget of intelligence: Contrition is not in Trump’s repertoire. Why should it be? His appetites, like his factoids, are self-legitimizing.
Trump is a marvelously efficient acid bath, stripping away his supporters’ surfaces, exposing their skeletal essences. Consider Mike Pence, a favorite of what Republicans devoutly praise as America’s “faith community.” Some of its representatives, their crucifixes glittering in the television lights, are still earnestly explaining the urgency of giving to Trump, who agreed that his daughter is “a piece of ass,” the task of improving America’s coarsened culture.
Because Pence looks relatively presidential when standing next to Trump — talk about defining adequacy down — some Republicans want Trump to slink away, allowing Pence to float to the top of the ticket and represent Republicanism resurrected. This idea ignores a pertinent point: Pence is standing next to Trump.
He salivated for the privilege of being Trump’s poodle, and he expresses his canine devotion in rhetorical treacle about “this good man.” What would a bad man look like to pastor Pence?
Still, some journalists, who seem to have no interests beyond their obsession with presidential politics and who illustrate Kipling’s principle (“What should they know of England who only England know?”), are so eager to get started on 2020 that they are anointing Pence the GOP’s front-runner. Perhaps Republicans will indeed embrace a man who embraced a presidential candidate whose supposed “locker-room banter” merely echoed sexual boasts he published in a book.
Today, however, Trump should stay atop the ticket, for four reasons. First, he will give the nation the pleasure of seeing him join the one cohort, of the many cohorts he disdains, that he most despises — “losers.” Second, by continuing to campaign in the spirit of St. Louis, he can remind the nation of the useful axiom that there is no such thing as rock bottom. Third, by persevering through Nov. 8 he can simplify the GOP’s quadrennial exercise of writing its post-campaign autopsy, which this year can be published Nov. 9 in one sentence: “Perhaps it is imprudent to nominate a venomous charlatan.” Fourth, Trump is the GOP’s chemotherapy, a nauseating but, if carried through to completion, perhaps a curative experience.
George Will:
What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night? His dignity? Please. His campaign’s theme? His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally for Republicans whose three-word recipe for making America great again was the shriek “Lock her up!” This presaged his banana-republican vow to imprison his opponent.
The St. Louis festival of snarls was preceded by the release of a tape that merely provided redundant evidence of what Trump is like when he is being his boisterous self. Nevertheless, the tape sent various Republicans, who until then had discovered nothing to disqualify Trump from the presidency, into paroxysms of theatrical, tactical and synthetic dismay.
Again, the tape revealed nothing about this arrested-development adolescent that today’s righteously recoiling Republicans either did not already know or had no excuse for not knowing. Before the tape reminded the pathologically forgetful of Trump’s feral appetites and deranged sense of entitlement, the staid Economist magazine, holding the subject of Trump at arm’s length like a soiled sock, reminded readers of this: “When Mr. Trump divorced the first of his three wives, Ivana, he let the New York tabloids know that one reason for the separation was that her breast implants felt all wrong.”
His sexual loutishness is a sufficient reason for defeating him, but it is far down a long list of sufficient reasons. But if it — rather than, say, his enthusiasm for torture even “if it doesn’t work,” or his ignorance of the nuclear triad — is required to prompt some Republicans to have second thoughts about him, so be it. For example, Sen. Richard Burr, a North Carolinian seeking a third term, represents a kind of Republican judiciousness regarding Trump. Having heard the tape and seen Trump’s “apology” (Trump said, essentially: My naughty locker-room banter is better than Bill Clinton’s behavior), Burr solemnly said: “I am going to watch his level of contrition over the next few days to determine my level of support.” North Carolinians will watch with bated breath as Burr, measuring with a moral micrometer, carefully calibrates how to adjust his support to Trump’s unfolding repentance. Burr, who is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has not received this nugget of intelligence: Contrition is not in Trump’s repertoire. Why should it be? His appetites, like his factoids, are self-legitimizing.
Trump is a marvelously efficient acid bath, stripping away his supporters’ surfaces, exposing their skeletal essences. Consider Mike Pence, a favorite of what Republicans devoutly praise as America’s “faith community.” Some of its representatives, their crucifixes glittering in the television lights, are still earnestly explaining the urgency of giving to Trump, who agreed that his daughter is “a piece of ass,” the task of improving America’s coarsened culture.
Because Pence looks relatively presidential when standing next to Trump — talk about defining adequacy down — some Republicans want Trump to slink away, allowing Pence to float to the top of the ticket and represent Republicanism resurrected. This idea ignores a pertinent point: Pence is standing next to Trump.
He salivated for the privilege of being Trump’s poodle, and he expresses his canine devotion in rhetorical treacle about “this good man.” What would a bad man look like to pastor Pence?
Still, some journalists, who seem to have no interests beyond their obsession with presidential politics and who illustrate Kipling’s principle (“What should they know of England who only England know?”), are so eager to get started on 2020 that they are anointing Pence the GOP’s front-runner. Perhaps Republicans will indeed embrace a man who embraced a presidential candidate whose supposed “locker-room banter” merely echoed sexual boasts he published in a book.
Today, however, Trump should stay atop the ticket, for four reasons. First, he will give the nation the pleasure of seeing him join the one cohort, of the many cohorts he disdains, that he most despises — “losers.” Second, by continuing to campaign in the spirit of St. Louis, he can remind the nation of the useful axiom that there is no such thing as rock bottom. Third, by persevering through Nov. 8 he can simplify the GOP’s quadrennial exercise of writing its post-campaign autopsy, which this year can be published Nov. 9 in one sentence: “Perhaps it is imprudent to nominate a venomous charlatan.” Fourth, Trump is the GOP’s chemotherapy, a nauseating but, if carried through to completion, perhaps a curative experience.
Monday, October 10, 2016
BIGGEST LIAR EVER SOLD; BEAST OF A DIFFERENT KIND
There is
simply too much about which to excoriate the Beast that is Trump. I will,
though, say some preliminaries.
This
"debate" did NOT move the needle.
Trump directed his comments to his base and probably succeeded. One cannot, I repeat CANNOT, win a
presidential election with the base number he has and even that number may, I
say may, erode some more as allegedly there is MORE damning tape to be released
about this psycho-sociopathic monster's behavior.
The Beast
Trump, of course, brought up Bill Clinton's sexual issues and not only that had
a stunt staged before the debate unveiling four of the women sitting to each
side of Trump in a conference room. They looked haggard and Paula Jones to
Trump's far left looked, well, like Paula Jones not exactly college
valedictorian. That montage did Trump NO
favors. It was ghastly, adolescent and downright
STUPID. Big surprise Bill Clinton has
had many extra marital conquests. It's
old news and BILL IS NOT ON THE TICKET. We
know Bill Clinton's bad behavior cannot be denied but his wife who endured it IS
on the top of the Democratic ticket. There was even tape that Trump in the late
1990's complimented Hillary as to how well she dealt with this personal
controversy and stated what a good person she is.
Trump IS A
BEAST OF A DIFFERENT KIND. Any man who can incestuously drool over his own
daughter's body even permitting a profanity broadcasted on the air by Howard
Stern sex shock jock about Trump's daughter's posterior is lower than depths of
the sea from whence this ugly creature and bastardization of humanity Trump
came.
His
mannerisms of standing up hanging near and over Clinton clearly were meant to
disrupt her but it FAILED and it did so emphatically. Hillary Clinton tried NOT to jump into the
Trump sewer and did not. She remained
above the fray. Perhaps more of us
wished she addressed more of the Beast Trump's lies more emphatically and we
know he lies ALL the time. Curious how
he called HER the liar. Really Donald,
really? I think NOT. I think Trump is the biggest liar ever sold.
The New York
Times has fact checkers. Clearly Trump
excelled at lying. Case in point: There is TAPE that he approved of the
invasion of Iraq. Let me say that again:
THERE IS TAPE THAT HE APPROVED THE INVASION OF IRAQ. There is tape of all of his statements that
clearly were lies on the debate stage.
His economic plan would explode the debt. It would give a HUGE tax break to the top 1%
like he. Ridding Obamacare would place
MILLIONS without health care doomed to the grave. Does it need fixing? YES and Hillary said it
is just what she will do but to eradicate it is tantamount to murder of those
who cannot afford healthcare like the alleged billionaire Trump. The Beast Trump has zero empathy.
There is
also allegedly more tape that will show worse sexual accosts of women. There is
SO much proof that this Beast is NOT fit for the presidency it is staggering he
has gotten as far as he has. It shows that the Republican Party sealed
its own fate and put the final nail in their own otherwise shabby coffin. They have only themselves to blame. Trump's race hatreds are their hatreds but
the Republican establishment espouses them with a bit more palatable class.
Trump was
sniffing more than ever which leads me to another suspicion Howard Dean raised
that Trump is allegedly a cocaine addict.
It would account for the sniffing he did continuously and it would
account for the EXTREME aggressiveness and vicious anger of this 70 year old hostile
psychopath.
Sure, let's
put his hands on the nuclear codes!
Trump is a Republican death wish for the nation. The white men are losing control of it and
they do not know what to do so they produced the Frankenstein monster the Beast
Trump whom they cannot control and who has fractured the Party maybe beyond
repair.
Most post-debate
polls have Hillary winning albeit not as significantly as the first
debate. The one statement of truth that
Trump maintained is correct. Hillary is not a quitter even where her marriage
is concerned. Difficult as Bill's
behavior was to endure in the end I believe she loved him. Now in the beginning
I can say I'M WITH HER TIMES 10. GOOD LUCK, SOON TO BE MADAM PRESIDENT, I'M
WITH YOU 100%!
Sunday, October 09, 2016
Dealing with Trump's sexual allegations against Bill Clinton
I will say a prayer and positive thoughts for Hillary and urge everyone to send good thoughts for her success tonight.
The beast Trump is going to bring up Bill's sexual issues and Bill has had many of them as we all know including an alleged rape of Ms. Broderick. Many are, though, of the he said/she said variety but, in truth, Bill's bad behavior cannot be denied. Today, like JFK and others before him he might not have made the presidency. I don't know. Social media is the big variable.
Trump IS A BEAST OF A DIFFERENT KIND. Any man who can incestuously drool over his own daughter's body even permitting a profanity to be used on the air by Howard Stern about his daughter's posterior is lower than depths of the sea from whence this ugly creature and bastardization of humanity Trump came.
Moreover, Bill Clinton IS NOT NOW ON THE TICKET and Hillary, while I am sure was furious at the time, did what Melania Trump just said what Melania did -- hate the sin but love the sinner and that is just what Hillary should say and I think, perhaps, is true.
Hillary is not a quitter even where her marriage is concerned difficult as Bill's behavior was to endure. In the end, I believe she loved her husband. Now in the beginning I can say I'M WITH HER TIMES 10! GOOD LUCK, SOON TO BE MADAM PRESIDENT, I'M WITH YOU 100%
The beast Trump is going to bring up Bill's sexual issues and Bill has had many of them as we all know including an alleged rape of Ms. Broderick. Many are, though, of the he said/she said variety but, in truth, Bill's bad behavior cannot be denied. Today, like JFK and others before him he might not have made the presidency. I don't know. Social media is the big variable.
Trump IS A BEAST OF A DIFFERENT KIND. Any man who can incestuously drool over his own daughter's body even permitting a profanity to be used on the air by Howard Stern about his daughter's posterior is lower than depths of the sea from whence this ugly creature and bastardization of humanity Trump came.
Moreover, Bill Clinton IS NOT NOW ON THE TICKET and Hillary, while I am sure was furious at the time, did what Melania Trump just said what Melania did -- hate the sin but love the sinner and that is just what Hillary should say and I think, perhaps, is true.
Hillary is not a quitter even where her marriage is concerned difficult as Bill's behavior was to endure. In the end, I believe she loved her husband. Now in the beginning I can say I'M WITH HER TIMES 10! GOOD LUCK, SOON TO BE MADAM PRESIDENT, I'M WITH YOU 100%
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