CNN Report -- WHY THEY HATE US -- narrated by Fareed Zakaria

This should be required viewing of everyone who cares about mayhem in the Middle East and how US foreign policy figures into the dynamic. It is important, it is necessary to know, and it is life-saving IF we the people want to have some -- albeit ANY -- control on the nefarious things our government does in our ignorance accounting, ultimately, for the rationale behind the massive loss of life here and explosive upheaval around the globe.

Watch and learn what our government has done in our name and maybe one can make sense of the nonsensical!

I paste the link here and below. [There are short commercials within the documentary] or click on the specific short videos below it. Better still search for it within your cable system to watch on your TV.
I also paste text which gives an even clearer accounting of US actions in the Middle East bringing into focus the etiology of so much of the historical hatred against us. Salon gives, perhaps, the best accounting that explains the mayhem and our historical part in it.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/08/opinions/why-they-hate-us-zakaria/index.html

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/18/this_is_why_they_hate_us_the_real_american_history_neither_ted_cruz_nor_the_new_york_times_will_tell_you/

A Profundity

This is linguistically and cognitively challenging but it is a challenge on which I thrive. In other words: I love it. I urge those who see this link below to wade through it and absorb what are its profundities.

And then, of course, work for Democrats -- ALL Democrats -- to win in November. It is the only choice we have.


http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/22/1528098/-The-sociological-imagination-racism-and-Donald-Trump?detail=email&link_id=15&can_id=43868f2bdc18a23209a08fcec3703cec&source=email-donald-trumpa-psychiatrists-opinion-and-concerns&email_referrer=donald-trumpa-psychiatrists-opinion-and-concerns&email_subject=donald-trump-a-psychiatrists-opinion-and-concerns

Loving

"In 1967, interracial couple Mildred and Richard Loving made history when they helped strike down the law that made their marriage a crime (Youtube below.)" taking their case Loving v. Virginia to the Supreme Court.

What a Dickensian name Loving is for a couple the marriage of whom was all about love and the racist edict in place that prevented their marriage ironically was all about hate. In the 1950's, the glorious time to which Trumpites would love to return and make their nation great again, one could kill a person of color with impunity, but love between black and white human beings could quite possibly get one killed or, at the least, land one in jail.

June, 2017 will mark the 50th anniversary of that monumental decision.  Imagine, it required a Supreme Court finding to allow two people to love each other.  When one thinks of this nation's horrific racist past from slavery even unto this day as certain states still try to deny persons of color the vote and a Roberts Court weakens the 1964 Voting Rights Act, one sees we are not so far from our 1860 Civil War historical past.

Yet again, in different ways from literacy tests and grandfather clauses, states in our time of the now Republican south and elsewhere in this nation try mightily to make voting more difficult for persons of color and the poor.  Moreover, in many states, persons of color have been killed with impunity for often the least offensive non-violent crime, no crime or the crime of simply being black.  We have taken baby steps in the panorama of over 300 years in the nation's efforts toward inclusiveness of persons of color, brought here against their will and in chains, only to find Herculean mountainous obstacles to happiness and the prohibition of rights whites take for granted. The case, Loving v. Virginia is one of the most flagrant examples of entrenched racism that still finds a home in the sinew of a nation which continues to attempt to deny the vote and sometimes even the life of a person of color.

The phenomenon of Trump is the latest example against a besieged people and other minorities – citizens of this nation.  I do not care if FIFTY Trumps are elected, quoting Ted Kennedy from his 1980 Democratic convention speech: "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." The indelible stain of racism in a nation allegedly all about freedom must be, as the civil rights song says, "overcome one day" permanently erased from our nation’s racist past and present-day shame.

https://www.facebook.com/PopSugarCelebrity/videos/10154238616269824/

VOTING DEMOCRATIC IS ONE'S MORAL OBLIGATION.  GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE OR TRUMP WILL BE THE NEXT RACIST REALITY!

"She is as fit to be president as Trump is not" -- Why Hillary by Richard North Patterson

An excellent opinion on point: Here or below:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-north-patterson/why-hillary-clinton_b_9829044.html

In case you have a penchant for Republicons

DUMP TRUMP bumper stickers, et al

For those who loathe and detest as I do the thought of Trump walking into the oval office below is a link to Amazon where you can purchase bumper stickers. Can also get T-shirts etc. if you search for it there. 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_1_1_hso_sc_smartcategory_3?rh=n%3A15710001%2Ck%3Adump+trump&keywords=dump+trump&ie=UTF8&qid=1463921344&sr=8-1-acs

GETTING BURNED

Sorry all my compatriots who are Bernie lovers, I am now completely not one although I see his appeal among many progressives. If Bernie truly loved the nation and truly did not want to see Drumpf, God forbid, in the oval Bernie would bag his ego, take the influence he has had on the Democratic Party which is huge and soon get out of the race. He needs to take the concessions the Democratic Party is offering him and throw his support STRONGLY to Hillary as well as to other down-ticket Democrats knowing it will keep the horror that is Trump from the halls of power. It will, perhaps, return the Senate to Democrats ensuring a progressive Supreme Court justice replacement for the devastation the now deceased Justice Scalia caused. It will keep all the humane policies Obama created safe from the clutches of those who want to repeal his entire presidency and plotted to do so from the very beginning of it. This must not happen.

Politicians (and Bernie is a politician) often care about their own ego before anything else like the good of the country. Bernie has run so hard he cannot stop even though he must to unite the Democratic Party. If he does not unite the Democratic Party and the Democratic split is responsible for a Trump win Bernie will forever be relegated into the ignominious ash bin of history as Ralph Nader was sixteen years ago ultimately handing the nation 9/11, thousands upon thousands of deaths and a fractured volatile Iraq-driven Middle East courtesy of the know nothing Bush.

The chances of Bernie getting the policy he craves with a Trump presidency is zero. Hillary has been forced to run to her left and that is a good thing. Bernie's candidacy did that. It is time to stop, take stock of one's chances, see that they are zero and unite the Democratic Party. Most especially there can be NO violence lest a Republican Nixonian result occur as it did in 1968. There is NO OTHER WAY but to unite the Democratic Party. I do not care how idealistic one is -- reality speaks! When the doctor says someone is sick and gives one a prescription to get better one does what one is instructed. Getting electorally burned again is not a prescription for wellness. It is a prescription for the cancer that is Trump and the Republican Party returning power to reactionary Republican hands. This is unacceptable. Unite the Democratic Party and save the nation from a fatal burn!

WORK FOR AND UNITE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO SAVE THE NATION FROM THE CANCER THAT IS TRUMP!

FRONTLINE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF ISIS

WHY DONALD J. TRUMP CANNOT BE ALLOWED WITHIN 2 FEET OF THE OVAL OFFICE.  FRONLINE'S EPISODE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ISLAMIC STATE SHOULD BE VIEWING FOR ALL.

THE COMPLEXITY OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS PROOF POSITIVE WHY A KNOW NOTHING TRUMP SHOULD NEVER BE ELECTED PRESIDENT IF YOU WANT YOUR NATION TO SURVIVE.  I AM NOT BEING OVER DRAMATIC. I AM BEING TRUTHFUL AND ONCE YOU VIEW THIS EPISODE YOU WILL SEE WHY! DEMOCRATS MUST UNITE!



Here or below.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/

TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH NBC NEWS!!!

NBC: Tell the whole truth about the Clinton v. Trump polls: 

RCP Average 4/22 - 5/17 -- -- 46.2 42.3 Clinton +3.9
FOX News 5/14 - 5/17 1021 RV 3.0 42 45 Trump +3
Gravis 5/10 - 5/10 1574 RV 2.5 48 46 Clinton +2
PPP (D) 5/6 - 5/9 1222 RV 3.2 47 41 Clinton +6
CNN/ORC 4/28 - 5/1 890 RV 3.5 54 41 Clinton +13
Rasmussen Reports 4/27 - 4/28 1000 LV 3.0 39 41 Trump +2
IBD/TIPP 4/22 - 4/28 814 RV 3.5 47 40 Clinton +7

All General Election: Trump vs. Clinton Polling Data -- Rasmussen and Fox News are traditionally conservative polls but the rest tells a better story!!

Split????

Are you kidding me? A violent split has opened up among Democrats who what are jealous of Republicans because they split their Party in two? At the Democratic convention in Nevada fights broke out allegedly between environmentalists and labor which prohibited Barbara Boxer from speaking. How democratic!

I was witness to the 1968 split in Democratic ranks. You know what it brought us? If you said Republican Richard Nixon you would be right. We are still feeling the effects of that as Republicons gained more muscle reshaped their base and took advantage of the general electorate hating violent so called "hippies" in the street.




Is that what you want? You want to hand the presidency to Trump the most unqualified and demagogic woman hating candidate ever? That is what you will do IF we don't unite. Bernie Sanders supporters and Hillary supporters in the end MUST MUST MUST unite.

Do not make me want to jump off a bridge if that carnival barker takes a walk into the oval office. We will lose the Supreme Court for generations, will lose control of our own bodies, will lose health care and have a foreign policy loaded for bear and the bear is nuclear weapons.

HEED WHAT I SAY. THE CANDIDATES MUST MUST CALL FOR UNITY. THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE. REPUBLICANS LOOK AT A SPLIT IN DEMOCRATIC RANKS WITH GLEE AND ARE SALIVATING AT THE MOUTH. DON'T GIVE THE DISLOYAL OPPOSITION OBSTRUCTIONIST REPUBLICAN PARTY THE SATISFACTION. UNITE!!!!

KUDOS to Charles Blow NYT editoral: "Trump's Asymmetric Warfare"

If there is a better editorial writer than Charles Blow I do not know who they are. The article entitled above was brilliant.

He is the best of the best in commentary!

I paste it below for your enjoyment!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/trumps-asymmetric-warfare.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fcharles-m-blow&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE.  I SAY THAT IN MY SLEEP.  IS THERE ANYTHING MORE IMPORTANT?  ANSWER: NO!!!

Loving the McAuliffe Library -- Freedom's Feast

I was persuaded to take a look at the new Christa McAuliffe Branch Library on Water Street in Framingham. If you have not had the supreme pleasure of seeing it I wholeheartedly suggest you do. It was a tremendously gratifying experience. The library inside and out is gorgeous. A walk inside, where everything is on the first floor, is simply as wonderful as it is beautiful. It has state of the art everything from computers to books and many books on tape to borrow. It is staffed by host of lovely people willing to help answer any questions you may have. Best of all it is, of course, free. One should take advantage of one of the supreme gifts the public can enjoy. It is truly our First Amendment working for all of us at freedom's feast.

I was reminded of a non-fiction book that was the subject of a book discussion group I ran. It was entitled: "The Promised Land" by Mary Antin. The synopsis of the book on Amazon said it best:  

"Mary Antin arrived in the United States from Russia in the 1890s at the age of 12. Her memoir vividly recaptures scenes from both Old and New World cultures, chronicling the poverty and oppression of Czarist Russia as well as the excitement and challenges of her assimilation into American life at the turn of the twentieth century.

Although she arrived without knowing a word of English, Antin wholeheartedly embraced her new home. "A kingdom in the slums," her Boston neighborhood afforded freedom and intellectual riches in the forms of a secular education, public library, and cultural activities ..."

Her amazement as a young girl at the sight of a public library where she, a Jewish girl, could actually read books for free was emblematic of her amazement at and love for this nation.

The Christa McAuliffe Branch of the Framingham Public Library is fine testament to one of our town's most notable and beloved women, Christa McAuliffe. I am sure Mary Antin would think so too.

DONALD TRUMP MADOFF

Anyone with one half a brain has understood from the beginning that nearly everything Donald Trump says could be proven a lie.  Those who count the lies candidates make have said during the debates and on the campaign trail at least 71% of what comes out of the carnival barker Trump's mouth is a lie.

Now that he is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party his statements, his life and the lies he tells will be microscopically analyzed by the Fourth Estate (hopefully) and regurgitated for the scrutiny of public review.  Running for the presidency in the general election we know is a lot different than running against fellow Republicans in a primary campaign.  Trump will be subjected to a layer-by-layer microscopic examination of his life.

It has begun as I write this since we now know the picture of the presidential race.   Today, the Washington Post revealed that Trump for a long time had called into talk radio programs with various descriptions of what was going on in his private life including his sexual prowess and indiscretions pretending it was not Trump who was calling but someone else revealing the dirt about him.  The tapes were, in fact, ALL Trump and -- don't be stupid, Trump supporters, -- tapes of one's voice can be subjected to the analysis of science which has already occurred.  The voice on the tapes is, in fact, Trump's voice because science has said it is.  He cannot deny it.

The financing scam of his primary campaign is just as it was revealed by savvy politicos months ago.  One merely had to read.  Trump said -- no he bragged -- that his primary presidential campaign was self-funded beholden to no superpac thus not compromising his "policy."   We now know for the general election this has changed and that he is accepting outside funding. In fact, for the primary Trump took out a $36 MILLION dollar loan which now that his campaign will be accepting outside funding from Pac money for the general election the $36 million he borrowed for the primaries can be paid off by the general election funding that he will receive.  That's legal except he did not want the electorate to know it.   To put it another way, Trump waited until the general election before raising funds from Pacs so that his debt in the form of a $36 million dollar loan for the primary election could be paid off in the general election courtesy of Pac money he will accept.  Could this be robbing Peter to pay Paul?  Who could have guessed? Cute very cute even Bernie Madoff would approve.

Then there are his taxes.  He refuses to release them as he says they are being audited.  He is counting on the low level intelligence of his know nothing supporters to accept what he says even though he does not have to wait for an audit to be completed to release them and, indeed, can release other years of his tax reports that are completed.  If he had nothing to hide and was telling the truth he would reveal his tax reports as it would add to the veracity of his campaign.  I aver there probably is something, even many, bombshells to hide. By his own admission he pays as little taxes as possible while you, the middle class, carry the national freight.  The abominations add up.  No doubt there will be infinitely more. 

The Republican elite knew of Trump's deceptions and worked hard to form a Never Trump third Party campaign but alas they were too late.  Apparently, those who work for and support Trump do not think any of the plethora of the lies he tells will matter.  Except in national and international policy they will matter and their consequences will be life threatening and even, potentially, nation ending. 

Donald Trump, there are few places where one can hide anymore.  If you are not on tape you will be on video.  You can run but you cannot hide.  I hope your legs, Mr. Trump, are bigger than your tiny hands because you will need them to run away from the truth as fast as you can. 

The butler, Senecal, with a _____, in the White House

For those of you who remember the game Clue you will recall it was a game the final goal of which was to determine who committed a murder, what they used to commit it and where the dastardly deed was perpetrated. The end looked something like this: The murder was committed by 1. Colonel Mustard 2. with a wrench 3. in the library. There were numerous names, tools and places from whom and from which to choose as one progressed to the final revelatory goal and the win.

The heinous, unspeakable Facebook rants of Anthony Senecal, Donald J. Trump's one time butler elevated by Trump to family historian, come complete with disgusting profanity, murderous desires and unspeakable sentiments calling for the assassination of President Obama and equally vile insults of the First Lady, Michelle Obama reminded me of the game, Clue.

The exception, of course, is Clue was a game and these are real life thirsts placed in writing by a longtime friend and employee of the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for President, Donald J. Trump. Senecal has been known to and employed by Trump for 30 years. I think that is important because Senecal stands in line with host of hateful rightwing nationalists, white supremists and extremist supporters of Trump including but surely not limited to David Duke, the once former grand wizard of the Knights of the Klan whom Trump claims to not know conveniently forgotten by him now. He did know him and said so at another time. There are many others with similar ugly hate-filled political sentiments that gleefully support the unqualified-for-the-presidency, Trump.

My mother used to say a person is judged by the company he keeps and Trump keeps a host of noxious advocates who make up the lowest common denominator and character of part of our national politics. The recessive hateful gene which exists in the national DNA sitting unexpressed and simmering, waiting for the right moment to violently strike or for the right candidate to support its ugly advocacy.

Trump can disavow knowledge of a variety of hate organizations and crackpots who support him but he CANNOT claim ignorance of a man who was employed by and known to him for 30 years. This time the answer to the Clue mystery could be the butler, with an unknown weapon in the White House.

one can be sure if a Democrat had employed someone for 30 years who wrote as Senecal did against a sitting Republican president and that candidate did not disavow and fire him he would never have seen the inside of the oval office and neither should Trump.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/trump-butler-anthony-senecal-facebook-kill-obama

YOU KNOW WHAT MUST BE DONE -- GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE ALL OVER THE NATION OR FACE A NATION SATURATED WITH THE POLITICS OF HATE!

This is with whom Donald Trump hangs around and why he is so dangerous! Never read anything so disgusting

If you wonder why rightwingnuts like David Duke and the KKK love Trump wonder no more. Read the following if you can stomach it!

BUTLER BOMBSHELL!

Longtime Trump Staffer Calls For Obama's Execution... Trump Camp: 'Has Not Worked At Mar-A-Lago For Many Years'... NYT Profiled Him Two Months Ago... Estate's 'Unofficial Historian'... 'Close To The Trump Family'...
LAST JUNE: Trump 'My Employer And Friend'...

Anemic Pink

It's weird here. That is spring has not sprung but has limped in.

It is slow BUT worse than that my gorgeous flowering cheery tree that always flowers in spectacular deep floral pink with BIG flowers this year I label them anemic pink. The tree still flowered but the flowers are small, dying more quickly and look an unhealthy light pink.

Is global climate change to blame? My personal opinion: A RESOUNDING YES!! What would a Donald Trump win do for the obvious weather disintegration of our nation and the planet on which we reside? NOTHING because the narcissistic blabbermouth says he does not believe in climate change. Why? I suspect not because he holds that view. I am sure he does not care and will hold any view that can get him elected. In this case his know nothing supporters do not believe in the climate change that 99.999% of global climate change scientists do, say climate change is REAL and that the evidence indisputable.

Trump says he loves dumb people. WELL HE'S GOT THEM and PLENTY of them; know nothings trying to elect a man who will go in for the oval office kill and, if he gets there, will dismember our nation. Trump is an abomination. This narcissistic fool MUST NOT get near the oval office if one wants a nation left! He is disgustingly profane and an embarrassment in front of the world. The part of our nation that thinks he's the next thing to Nirvana and heaven is in one word DUMB, the cerebral status he says he loves. We who love science, value rational thought and like to think of ourselves as humane say DUMP TRUMP!

Like Columbo would say -- just one more thing: Can you see 11 MILLION human beings allegedly "undocumented" some who have lived here for generations establishing a family life -- leaving their children born here or taking their children with them going quietly into the night while they are scooped up by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) with probable military assistance to be repatriated? What could possibly go wrong? This nation would then lose a trillion GDP bucks while the markets sink. Those workers actually contribute to our nation and spend the money they make!

Force Trump aka Drumpf to release his gd taxes and then when one sees his avoidance of paying them as the middle class does DUMP him like a bad dream into the ash bin of history!

I CANNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH: GET THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE OUT AND THEN PRAY THAT STUPIDITY DOES NOT WIN THE DAY INSTEAD OF SANITY AND RATIONAL THOUGHT!

America the Unexceptional -- Excerpt from "American Power Under Challenge" (link below)

"The next target of the sledgehammer was Iraq. The U.S.-UK invasion, utterly without credible pretext, is the major crime of the twenty-first century. The invasion led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people in a country where the civilian society had already been devastated by American and British sanctions that were regarded as “genocidal” by the two distinguished international diplomats who administered them, and resigned in protest for this reason. The invasion also generated millions of refugees, largely destroyed the country, and instigated a sectarian conflict that is now tearing apart Iraq and the entire region. It is an astonishing fact about our intellectual and moral culture that in informed and enlightened circles it can be called, blandly, “the liberation of Iraq.”

Pentagon and British Ministry of Defense polls found that only 3% of Iraqis regarded the U.S. security role in their neighborhood as legitimate, less than 1% believed that “coalition” (U.S.-UK) forces were good for their security, 80% opposed the presence of coalition forces in the country, and a majority supported attacks on coalition troops. Afghanistan has been destroyed beyond the possibility of reliable polling, but there are indications that something similar may be true there as well. Particularly in Iraq the United States suffered a severe defeat, abandoning its official war aims, and leaving the country under the influence of the sole victor, Iran."

"The sledgehammer was also wielded elsewhere, notably in Libya, where the three traditional imperial powers (Britain, France, and the United States) procured Security Council resolution 1973 and instantly violated it, becoming the air force of the rebels. The effect was to undercut the possibility of a peaceful, negotiated settlement; sharply increase casualties (by at least a factor of 10, according to political scientist Alan Kuperman); leave Libya in ruins, in the hands of warring militias; and, more recently, to provide the Islamic State with a base that it can use to spread terror beyond. Quite sensible diplomatic proposals by the African Union, accepted in principle by Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, were ignored by the imperial triumvirate, as Africa specialist Alex de Waal reviews. A huge flow of weapons and jihadis has spread terror and violence from West Africa (now the champion for terrorist murders) to the Levant, while the NATO attack also sent a flood of refugees from Africa to Europe."

"Yet another triumph of “humanitarian intervention,” and, as the long and often ghastly record reveals, not an unusual one, going back to its modern origins four centuries ago."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noam-chomsky/american-power-under-challenge-who-rules-the-world_b_9866204.html?utm_hp_ref=yahoo&ir=Yahoo
 
NO NEED TO SAY WHAT A DONALD TRUMP WOULD DO IF GIVEN THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM.  MAKE SURE HE DOES NOT GET THEM!

AN EXCELLENT POST BY A FELLOW BLOGGER

"I kind of wonder how the Republicans will feel after they realize that they have done their "party" in for good. The chickens are coming home to roost. They have spent their political capital over the years gerrymandering districts, making it harder for people to vote and pushing a failed ideology. Before I get jumped all over about that failed comment, keep in mind; conservative Ideological purity in both Kansas and Louisiana have left both states near bankrupt, unable to provide the very basic services a state needs such as medical care,hospitals and education. Even the football program at LSU is under the knife due to lack of funding. Cant help but notice that all those wealthy individuals who benefited from the huge tax cuts that caused these problems are not trickling down to save these or other programs. We only prosper as a nation when we all prosper. So they will run against Trump because he is not a "principled conservative", subvert the will of millions of (r) voters and lose anyway. The idea that they could get 270 electoral votes in this scenario is as delusional as, well, they are."

Sue Brief fellow blogger and compatriot!.

King Coal

EXCELLENT article by Scott Leigh in the May 8, 2016 Boston Sunday Globe entitled "Trump and Clinton campaign in Coal Country" linked here or below. Secretary Clinton's opinion on coal said in West Virginia to miners may not have won the day when she said it and Trump may now be considered King Coal but Clinton speaks the undeniable truth that coal is losing jobs and will be losing more for a reason and the reason is man's reliance on fossil fuels, including most especially coal, that cause global climate change. West Virginians, of course, did not want to hear that. If the media played the rest of Clinton's speech they would have heard that she wants to turn lost miners' coal jobs into other clean energy and infrastructure jobs to compensate for the loss of coal jobs in W. Virginia. But the media sounds bites are geared for the average American attention span of about 10 seconds and its love of sugarcoated happy ending stories. Myth will serve them just fine. Reality check: Trump will NOT return coal jobs to W. Virginia because science has the last word on everything no matter how hard one wants to deny its truth.

If coal were the wave of the future jobs would be booming in West Virginia but it's not. Those cheering for Trump deliriously are deluded and sometimes uneducated. I can understand their worry BUT climate change trumps (pardon the pun) all. One CANNOT deny science and 99.99999 percent of all neutral scientists who work in the field of global climate change who say it is real, it exists and there is ample proof for evidence. Gravity exists, bacteria cause disease, vaccinations do not cause autism and fossil fuels cause climate change. Science tells us their truth. Believe what science tells us or believe a carnival barker who cares nothing about you but cares about winning the day for himself. Having a cold winter means NOTHING and why would anyone think it does but extreme weather events do. If one cannot see what is right in front of ones eyes all over the nation and the world (witness the massive explosive fire caused by extreme climate change drought in Canada which is still burning its smoke trailing down to Florida seen from space) then we are a doomed hopeless species.

Vicious weather events will pay a visit to even coal country soon if they haven't experienced it already. But, go ahead all you ostriches who bury your heads and want to hear only things that make you cheer and feel good as horrific droughts, extreme hurricanes, massive tornadoes, and floods galore have already come to our nation en masse displacing thousands costing billions and will be paying a visit to your town and you sometime soon.

DEMOCRATS, PROGRESSIVES AND PEOPLE WITH A BRAIN WE ARE IN TROUBLE IF GOD FORBID A THOUSAND TIMES, TRUMP THE BLOWHARD WINS. DO NOT LET HIM. GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE. YOU WILL SAVE A LIFE AND ME FROM JUMPING OUT THE WINDOW!

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/05/07/coal-miners-struggle-reinvent-themselves/

Dirty Laundry--My NYT opinion online

Today Trump was at an all time INSULTING high from the class act Elizabeth Warren whom he called a "doofus" as this uncouth blowhard insults her, to Clinton's sexual indiscretions and Hillary's "enabling" to insulting so many in his own Republican Party. This guy is a loose cannon for sure who could have his hands--small though they may be--on the nuclear codes. Hillary could not have given a more apt appellation of Trump.I do not mind admitting I am scared when Trump says he wants to conduct a foreign policy that would eliminate our longest most strategically successful alliance, NATO, to leaving Japan and South Korea without our protection allowing them to develop nukes like their sane next door neighbor N. Korea. What could possibly go wrong?

The hypocrite Trump should not talk about the splinter in the other guy's eye when he has a log or logs in his own. Since the Bible is his favorite book one wonders if he has read that thought allegedly uttered by the head CEO of Christianity, Jesus Christ himself. Trump's own sexual indiscretions by his own admission are legion -- married three times, by his wife's own words allegedly raped her, and speaks near incestuous talk about his own daughter. He even enjoyed a stint on Howard Stern's Sirius radio broadcasting his own filth to the immediate world. This coming from a possible occupier of the oval office? Why after listening to his sexcapades do I feel like I need a shower? Trump is disgusting and SO bad I don't know whether to laugh at him or cry. How did someone who is a bully blowhard as neurotically close to psychotic as he get this far? I am embarrassed for other nations to see our dirtiest laundry. Cannot someone please do a wash?

DEMOCRATS AND ALL HUMAN BEINGS WITH AN OUNCE OF HUMANITY ARE IN EMERGENCY MODE TO ERADICATE THIS REPUBLICAN CANCER FROM OUR MIDST LESS IT SPREAD FAST AND KILL US. FOR YOU, YOUR CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN GET OUT THE VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED. VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS AND SIGN UP ALL THOSE WHO NEED TO BE ENROLLED TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN NOVEMBER. THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE!