Instanly

N. KOREA MISSILE FAILURE: Someone on a blog read that Trump was getting his team together to talk about striking N. Korea back even though they failed with a ballistic missile test and not a nuke test. This is very risky. Our MOAB -- so called Mother of All Bombs but really termed a Massive Ordnance Air Blast --  was exploded in Afghanistan the most massive conventional weapon tonnage other than a nuke in our arsenal of catastrophic weaponry. In my opinion, it was useless. Yes, it packed a big punch but killing 36 ISIS even leaders is nothing and there are more where they came from.

Likewise, the 59 missiles lobbed in Syria allegedly in retaliation for Assad exploding dastardly chemical weapons but, in truth, more to impress President Xi Jinping from China sitting right next to Trump at Mir-a-lago when the missiles struck. It was another of Trump's ego weapons that a sickening Brian Williams called "beautiful." Is a weapon exploded ever beautiful? The Passover Haggada, the book read on the sedar nights, says no pleasure is taken from killing even one's enemy. I am sure the 51 strikes had collateral damage about which you will never hear but I hear reports that the US killed the "good guys"-- the rebels -- allegedly on our side fighting Assad. Trump will use these strikes as propaganda like Kim Jong Un uses his parade to show off his horrific penile weapons. They are both demagogues.

One can never believe Trump. He will spin any event to suit his purpose and appeal to his base who will buy all of it. Massive bombing of N. Korea should not be attempted. It should be the hard work of negotiation to which Trump is allergic. Many nations (some allies and some adversarial) have nukes including the US which has hundreds to wipe out the earth many times over. The US even possesses hydrogen nuclear weapons which make Hiroshima look like a walk in the park.

Everyone should look at the Youtube Hiroshima blast and see for yourself what the Enola Gay -- the B59 airplane -- that dropped the first nuke ever used by a nation in combat. You will see what a nuclear blast looks like and it is devastating effects beyond words. One should look so you will know what Trump may have in mind. One should view on YouTube the Hiroshima bombing itself and the after effects of the blast -- the flash one cannot look at or one goes blind, the sun-like heat, the horrific mushroom tornado-like cloud, the instant total destruction from the blast, human beings vaporized, the fires, the burns and massive injury with few doctors to treat them or their infections and needed skin grafts. The horrific radiation ensues across national boundaries, this time a blast may approach Seoul and Japan with 28,000 US soldiers aboard, China and even the western US. 

People in Hiroshima/Nagasaki of that era had and those who lived still have DNA damage. Cancers come from radiation and many die sooner or have died later from cancer. Life stops at the day of the blast. There is little help, no food, no safe drinking water nothing. Hiroshima killed 20,000 immediately. Nuclear weaponry in present time will kill millions instantly leaving the rest to suffer seemingly to the end of time.

The blast Youtube:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY9VwCE_Dsg

96% Who Knew? I Did!!

I received my DNA results from Ancestry.com but there are TONS more things I can explore with it. It is fantastic. If you care about Jewish roots -- you or a loved one's roots -- you will absolutely love this. If you are not Jewish you will love Ancestry.com too. One can get pictures, too, of ancestors as they traveled and also traveled into the US.

They sent a pie chart but I cannot cut and paste it as it does not allow for that but it gave me percentages as well as the Genetic Communities where a connection is likely. NO SURPRISE at all -- Except for the Iberian peninsula which would be Spain. My father always said we were Jewish as far back as he could ever remember! I called it Jew blue. No no blue blood at all though. Seeing my Jewish percentages made me cry ... seriously not kidding especially because of the Holocaust, all the anti-Semitic acts now around the nation due to oh yes you guessed it who else but Trump and Spicer's comments about Hitler not using gas and calling death camps "Holocaust CONTAINERS" made me see red as my blood pressure soared. Hitler only gassed between 6 and 10 million Jews--ONLY! Can one even understand that number? Fenway Park holds about 40,000. Think about it and compare that to 6-10 million. So when Ancestry sent me what I knew to be true it put my heritage into science and it tugged at my heart strings. The Jewish story is sad but many of us have had a happy ending here and elsewhere -- so far. How brave were our grandparents or great grandparents or great great grandparents? VERY!

And now for the drum roll I am sure you cannot wait to read: [If you are interested about getting your DNA read go to Ancestry.com] There are a million more things to learn and connections one can make.

So for me it said--SCROLL down--all the way down:

Hundreds of years ago

Genetic Communities™

Jews in the Russian Empire

Connection: Very Likely

Jews in Western Ukraine, Moldova & Eastern Romania
Connection: Possible

Thousands of years ago

Ethnicity Estimate
96% European Jewish (seriously?)  Yep!  :)
2% Iberian Peninsula
1% Caucasu

From Generation to Generation

YES, I BELIEVE EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THIS HERETOFORE UNSEEN FILM "NIGHT WILL FALL" (LINKED BELOW) THAT WAS FILMED BY ALLIED TROOPS LIBERATING THE DEATH CAMPS AT THE END OF WWII AS TESTAMENT TO HISTORY OF THIS UNTHINKABLE OCCURRENCE. THIS FILM WAS OVERSEEN BY THE GREAT ALFRED HITCHCOCK.

I DO NOT THINK THAT EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THIS OUT OF A SENSE OF MORBIDNESS BUT OUT OF A SENSE THAT THE WORLD SHOULD NOTE AND NEVER FORGET ITS HAPPENING AS HISTORY'S TIME FADES MEMORY. IN MY OPINION, IT SHOULD BE SEEN BY EVERYONE EVEN OR, PERHAPS, MOST ESPECIALLY, BY MATURE YOUTH AS WELL AS BY ALL ADULTS SO THAT THOSE IN POWER LIKE A STEVE BANNON OR SEAN SPICER AND, YES, THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF WHO EITHER NEVER CONDEMNS OR CONDEMNS WEAKLY THE NAZI MENACE ALIVE TODAY IN THE WHITE HOUSE OPENING THE DOOR TO A NATIONAL ALLIANCE THAT RAISES ITS ARM IN A NAZI SALUTE TO TRUMP. HE GIVES THEM CREDENCE BY HIS OWN WELCOMING ARMS.

WATCH AND LEARN AND NEVER FORGET SO THAT WE AS A NATION FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION NEVER EVER ELECT A MENDACIOUS MALEVOLENT SPEWER OF HATE INTO THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE AGAIN!https://www.theguardian.com/…/holocaust-film-too-shocking-t…

The Holocaust film that was too shocking to show

In 1945, overseen by by Alfred Hitchcock, a crack team of British film-makers went to Germany to document the full horror of the concentration camps. Despite being hailed as a masterpiece, the film was never released. Now, after 70 years, the full…

theguardian.com

Anti-Semitism Continues In America — And Trump Is Silent Again -- see link at the top enclosed

http://forward.com/opinion/368631/anti-semitism-continues-trump-silent/?utm_content=opinion_Newsletter_MainList_Title_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Opinion+-+automated+-+wednesday+2017-04-12&utm_term=Opinion

Trump is SO full of xxxxx it's coming out of his ears. All of a sudden NATO is a bulwark against tyranny when during the campaign it was expendable. Now Putin is a problem when in the campaign he would not criticize him if he excreted on his Mir a Lago lawn. He had an interview where he got the name of the nation he bombed with 59 missiles as Iraq when it was SYRIA.  He changed his position 180 degrees on Syria. THE SCHMUCK DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING!! He is so AWFUL there are no words.

Trump's father had Nazi sympathies about WWII and Trump is not far off. Although I don't think he's thought out historical positioning anyway. He knows NOTHING and I fear that his vile entourage especially Bannon and Spicer Nazis-like creeps will direct policy by whispering in his ear.  The conflicts and treason in his administration add up exponentially.  It is MADNESS worse than Bush worse than anyone ever no matter how bad one is holding the office of the presidency Trump is worse ... MUCH worse. My TV is lucky I haven't smashed it when Drumpf is on.

He is the biggest JERK ever to hold that high and powerful office with nuclear weapons no less.  The electorate in their infinite wisdom bought the con and made him president. God help us indeed!!

DOUBLE NO TRIPLE NO QUADRUPLE TROUBLE--DEEP DEEP &^%t

Major no double major things are happening. The thread has been pulled! This is NOT going away. Google Rachel Maddow as I have no time to explain the minutiae if I even could. It is such a complex web and Rachel Maddow if you Google her (the GREATEST most brilliant TV journalist in history with a staff second to none!!) it will be explained. In short (very short) and first Carter Page, Campaign Advisor to the Beast, is in BIG BIG BIG BIG trouble for alleged Russian collusion as an agent for Russia. It will be if it is not already is lawyering up time for him. It will be trial for him soon if indictments are handed down. He will, ultimately, be jailed in my humble (or not so humble) opinion if the allegations are proven true and if he does not cut a deal. The FBI has set up a special office for Drumpf/Russia collusion. Wonder who the traitor is now?!

How ANYONE with the conflicts of interest Trump has could EVER on planet earth think he could run for president and that sooner or later things would not be revealed, I have no idea. The fact that he has SO many conflicts all over the world but specifically with Russian oligarchs, Putin and allegedly other Russian mafia types with an adversarial nation that his campaign team would think that is not a problem is insanity. Trump, by his own admission, has the BIGGEST brain in history that knows more than the generals is knee deep in scandal with his big brain in charge. Save me. Where were his children who are supposed to be smart and one married to Jared in charge of the entire globe from N. Korea to Iran, to Iraq, to Syria to changes for all veterans and more? What a guy! His "team" does not realize Trump should have pulled out of the race and chalked it up to his stupid mendacious mantra of a faux election?!

In my entire life of watching politics I have NEVER on this planet seen a presidency SO FILLED with anti-reason and anti science crackpots. I would not care but my life, your lives, your children's lives, your granchildren's lives and the lives of future generations who may never get to see life if this sickening, corrupt, disgusting presidency is allowed to continue. Trump needs to resign, and I need to swallow hard and accept ANOTHER crackpot Pence with his religious wingnut ideas taking rights away from those who fought so hard for the rights they have. 2018 -- Republicans need to be Congressionally CRUSHED and the 2020 presidency won by the Democratic nominee--Obviously!! It MUST happen.

The Drumpf administration is in DEEP DEEP @#$t!

Bending Toward Hate

Spicer claims in his  insipid press briefing comment that Hitler never used chemical weapons.

The Anne Frank Center released a scathing statement saying Spicer should be fired to which I concur.  It said:

"On Passover no less, Sean Spicer has engaged in Holocaust denial, the most offensive form of fake news imaginable, by denying Hitler gassed millions of Jews to death. Spicer’s statement is most evil slur upon a group of people we have ever heard from a White House press secretary,” the center’s executive director, Steven Goldstein, said. “Sean Spicer now lacks the integrity to serve as White House press secretary, and President Trump must fire him at once.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. said "We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice; not in love with publicity but in love with humanity."

It simply staggers the imagination that we now have a president who attracts and places in prominent positions people like Spicer and Bannon too.  There are surely more added to the Trumpian cause whatever that cause may be.  No one on planet earth could make such an ignorant comment unless in his heart he has an ideological Nazi-like bent.  I believe in his heart and many others in this polluted and corrupt administration believe exactly as he said too.  It is why the Alt Right in a forum stood with outstretched Nazi-like arms yelling hail to Trump. 

Instead of Spicer's heart bending toward justice it bends toward hate.  

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/assad-hitler-chemical-weapons_us_58ed19cfe4b0c89f91221b5a?

U.S. to Move Carrier Strike Group Closer to Korean Peninsula

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-move-carrier-strike-group-closer-korean-peninsula-n744271

 

Carriers, USS Carl Vincent Carrier group and USS Nimitz aircraft carrier  moving in to the Korean Peninsula and Trump's minions want South Korea to have nuclear weapons.  What could possibly go wrong with Russian and other carriers moving into the mix and hot of the press of a Syrian strike?  Thanks, America this is for whom you voted.  I feel like prey on the ground watching vultures encircling above waiting to move in for the kill.  Imagine how the South Koreans and the Japanese feel!

God, if there is one, help us!

 

Beautiful

Brian Williams is catching hell for describing the Syria bombing as "beautiful" and comparing it to a lyric of the late Leonard Cohen. Why am I not shocked? Because so many of the broadcasters wax EUPHORIC about war. They said that when Bush invaded Iraq comparing it to the 4th of July. It turned into a disaster that keeps on growing into the longest war in US history. GET THESE INSENSITIVE BRUTES OFF ESPECIALLY MSNBC SUPPOSEDLY THE PROGRESSIVE NETWORK THAT CARES ABOUT FEELINGS. GD IT, BRIAN, WE ARE TALKING WAR HERE NOT BEAUTY .... THE DEATH AND THE CARNAGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS NOT "BEAUTIFUL" IT IS TRAGIC. HE QUOTED LEONARD COHEN MISERABLY AND COMPLETELY LOST SIGHT OF WHO LEONARD COHEN WAS AND WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO SAY AND IT WASN'T THAT BOMBS BLASTING A PEOPLE WAS OH SO BEAUTIFUL. I THINK BRIAN IS MISTAKING LEONARD COHEN FOR OUR STAR SPANGLED BANNER'S ROCKETS RED GLARE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR ETC.! LET'S CHANGE OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM TO "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL!"

THIS STRIKE ON SYRIA WILL DO NOTHING AND HERE WE ARE AGAIN IN A PLACE TRUMP SAID WE WOULD NOT GO BUT YOU ELECTED HIM, AMERICA, NOW LIVE WITH IT AS MORE OF OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WILL OCCUPY SPACE IN ARLINGTON!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brian-williams-leonard-cohen-syria_us_58e76c44e4b058f0a02e12b1?5xc&

CROCODILE TEARS

Trump sheds crocodile tears over Syrian children suffering the horrific fate of Sarin gas used against them by Bashar al-Assad (link below) when he actually said in many of his rants to take out terrorists' families. Moreover, he tweeted multiple times to NOT become involved in Syria but now is critical of President Obama, of course, for not crossing the red line even though President Obama asked Congress for authorization to use military force in Syria. The Republican controlled Congress never acted. Now all of a sudden Trump says he's "flexible." Flexible my posterior. Trump cares NOTHING for the suffering of others as his policies and executive orders to date prove declaring war on the planet, polluting our environment, repealing regulation of poisons and incredulously allowing the mentally ill to buy and carry guns. He is a HYPOCRITE of Everest proportions and he is NOT my president. I hate that man more than any other politico who has assumed power in this nation.


He is the Hitler of our time and I do NOT ever use that comparison lightly. Wait until he explodes the first nuclear bomb since Nagasaki. Wait until he declares marshal law, wait until the planet breathes its last breath, wait until climate change is ruinous to us all, wait until the middle class is taxed to death while the top 1% pay nothing and the national debt skyrockets, wait until another Great Depression, wait until all of us who are critical of him are at risk of arrest, wait until there is no one else to round up!

Martin Niemöller, a 1933 concentration camp captive and a German Lutheran pastor said it best in his most famous quote:

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

The American electorate has placed the most unqualified, unfit, mentally unstable cruelest of beasts in the highest office in the land and the most powerful office in the world. I pray to a higher power that, it seems, does not hear: Please God take this curse from our shoulders and remove him from this land. RESIST!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/world/middleeast/chemical-attack-syria.html?emc=edit_na_20170406&nl=breaking-news&nlid=75028030&ref=cta

PRESS FAILURE YET AGAIN

Again the press failed to ask the appropriate questions at Trump's "press conference" with King Abdullah of Jordan. What was CONSPICUOUSLY absent regarding the Syrian gas attack on innocents was Russia. NOTHING BUT NOTHING was said about Russia. Russia may have if not perpetrated the attacks for Russia's ally Assad, stood by and looked on as Assad mercilessly did so. Russia MUST be addressed when policy toward Syria is made but Trump cannot as he holds conflicting financial hands with the head of the Russian bullion, Putin, to the point of treason.

All of a sudden Trump is an internationalist when all his previous tweets going back years said no involvement with Syria. Now he sounds like he will enter the fray COMPLEX as that fray is without saying one thing about how he will go about perfecting Middle East policy and what kind of military force will he use and for how long.

Dare I wait to hear what this know nothing president has to say about China and North Korea. He says not to worry about actions as he will choose what he will do without telling anyone. Great escape clause.
 
 Is this all war all the time? Syrian gas attack, he says did not cross a "red line" but crossed MANY lines? So what the hell does that mean? God help us as Russia's useful idiot continues to lie and lie and obstruct ALL the time!

Frozen

I listened to Rachel Maddow last night and could not help but scream and then cry about what she conveyed.
 
 If you are not frozen in fear and incredulity that Drumpf signs things with no cameras or reporters present behind closed doors when he knows the electorate would hate what he is signing into law by executive order then you must be hiding your head in the tar sands. Even his own supporters would hate these signings. Do extremist "conservatives" not have children or grandchildren? Do they not even care about the risk to their family's health and their own health?

For example: If you can believe this he signed an Executive Order so that guns could be made available to the mentally ill.

He signed an Executive Order so that restrictions be lifted of a certain chemical poison that is used by, for example, Dow Chemical and I am sure other corporations. Dow's president and others stood behind the president behind closed doors smiling and applauding. I wonder if they or their children or someone they know and/or love are poisoned by it or contract a case of cancer from it how much will their smiling stupidity remain on their faces?

He signed an Executive Order increasing the emissions that could spew from corporate smoke stacks.

He signed an Executive Order that now the Internet providers can use all of your information from sites you visit and sell it off to other corporations taking your information without your knowledge.

He approved the Canadian oil pipeline flowing with the dirtiest tar sands oil stretching across the US to Louisiana. In the end it will keep 35 jobs and the oil will not go to the US. What could possibly go wrong? Piping leaks anyone?

He signed legislation ending a key Obama administration coal mining rule. The bill quashes the Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule, a regulation to protect waterways from coal mining waste that officials finalized in December.

He signed an order reversing Obama's efforts to address climate change. Drumpf says climate change is a hoax. Have you seen weather events in California, the west and the southwest and around the entire globe that proves the insanity of Drumpf's position on climate change? He and it are idiocy.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Stay tuned. Only one word comes to mind RESIST!!!

 http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/donald-trump-environmental-policy-explained

A New Hypothesis and What I Fear

A new hypothesis: First, a friend of mine said: "Think it was Bannon who riled trump with misinformation to divert/ distract the public from what was going to be revealed about Flynn. When Bannon realized his lies were getting them in deep sh&^ he used Nunes . And then used those two young WH administrators."

My Comment:

There was a post on Huffington from billionaire Mark Cuban who knows Trump but is NO supporter of Trump who said that Trump was "too clueless" to think about colluding with Russians. I am reformulating my hypothesis thinking my friend is right about the Obama spy episode and that Trump would not think of that because he is too stupid which I have thought all along. That the idea was, I now think, in fact, Bannon's who used Nunes as the useful idiot and the other two experienced jerks in the WH who should NOT be privy to national security info because they are so inexperienced were used as useful idiots by Bannon too. Bannon the white supremacist is ruling the roost. Trump is drowning and in way over his head. He is unfit for the presidency as we who loathed him always said.

How anyone even if they are "conservative" would ever want to be a part of this theater of the absurd I will never know. Pence is now going out there and spouting the mantra of jobs while it is said Drumpf is hunkering down avoiding the scandal. One could even say they are ALL using Drumpf only to acquire power and money. The cabinet posts taken are inconsequential to them as Tillerson, for example, I have read, hides out, won't make eye contact with those in State who are career professionals and someone like Rick Perry destroys an office, Department of Energy no less about nukes. He knows not one thing about nukes and did not know what that department even was about.

In the final analysis the WH remains inoperative and we the people are left SO vulnerable at risk. Even infrastructure something that we need so desperately this "president" so weakened by it all and, even if he wasn't, the so called "Freedom Caucus" will never go, for example, for infrastructure spending. Trump's budget they will not condone.

In the end our government will be shut down and the rational have no ally in the White House. The only silver lining I see in this horrific administration and do nothing Congress mess is 2018. I think they could all including the "Freedom Party" in large part be voted out. Problem is if the Executive branch can't be cooked until 2020 we are all at risk as this nation's enemies are lying in wait from now until then to strike. That is what I fear.

"Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Still Benefiting From Business Empire, Filings Show" + a blogger and my comment

Here is the link to the NYT article referenced in the title above https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/us/politics/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner-still-benefiting-from-business-empire-filings-show.html?emc=edit_na_20170331&nl=breaking-news&nlid=75028030&ref=cta&_r=0
 

I also post a blogger (ExCook) response to that article which I thought was very well thought out and on point. I place his opinion and my comment to it below.

ExCook:  Of course, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with wealth. I'm sure criticism of the Trump aristocrats can be interpreted as class resentment but there are serious constitutional and legal problems with this current situation. It seems that the lexicon connected to political ethics is irrelevant today -- "disclosure" "transparency" "conflict-of-interest""recuse""beneficiary" "trusts" "limited liability" "filing" "real interest" "ownership" and my favorite, "nepotism."  The elites who are now filling the top levels of our government are immune to or will simply ignore all of those pesky legal entanglements the rest of us (little people) must endure. They are being allowed to set up a whole new set of rules in order to avoid legal/constitutional accountability.

I clearly recall the era of Newt Gingrich back in the 90's, when one of the popular conservative retorts against the "liberal elites" was that they were acting like the old-world "aristocrats." Funny, where's all the concern and outrage from all of those same conservatives today? More disturbing is the fact that more Americans aren't more concerned that the Federal Republic is looking more like a banana republic every day.

MY COMMENT: ExCook, your post is a very well thought out.  You are exactly right as you hit the conflicts of interest worry "little people" have as megga wealth at the top usurps all power in the White House.  Accumulating all that wealth at the top is one thing but wanting to scoop it up in its entirety through the creation of policy as easy as putting a pen to an executive order rolling back corporate and environmental regulations is another.  Placing foxes in charge of all the hen houses is still another.  Corporate tax loopholes at the top means it is all for them and nothing for those at the bottom who could benefit from a small slice of it with help from government policy that favors their interests too.

This is America in 2016 where the accumulation of wealth for the top 2% is huge and the middle class pays for it.  The imbalance of wealth and power between the 2% at the top and the rest of us below keeps growing larger. Yet the electorate keeps electing Republicans into office.  Republicans are smart to lie to the middle class and the poor that they are the ones who care about us.  They don't.  One need only look at NYT stories like this one (posted at the top) discussing Trump family wealth to see this is so. 

Securing the seat of president of the most powerful nation on earth while not holding Trump and his minions to account for that conflict of interest wealth will ensure the gap between the top and the bottom will keep growing apart as the top 2% take it all.  Yes, all for them and nothing for anyone else.  Sad.

Chris Hedges Delivers the Ultimate Trump Takedown--Excellent talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLaoJrg80JQ

Hawaii Judge Extends Order Blocking Trump ‘Travel Ban’

Comment: Of course, worried about SCOTUS reversing so many many USDC rulings hard as it is to fathom.

The fact that they would not even give President Obama the respect to have an up or down vote on the very very eminent SCOTUS pick of Merritt Garland is DISGUSTING! Gorsuch will be voted in by the Senate. I am hoping beyond hope he is in the Justice Kennedy mold, often fair and NOT rightwingnut ideological.

Yet again, Democrats get cheated out of positions of power. If the shoe were on the other foot Republicans would be explosive! IF Obama did 1/2 of the unethical -- strike that 1/8th of the unethical -- things Trump and his team have done there would be a Vesuvian eruption and Republican heads would explode!

Obviously what is good for the goose is not good for the gander. The nepotism, emoluments clause violations and corruption of Trump are staggering. He MUST NOT be allowed to get away with these unethical, unconstitutional and potentially criminal acts! RESIST!

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hawaii-judge-extends-order-blocking-trump-travel-ban-n740396

Glenn Greenwald's article from The Intercept is entitled.

"Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised." I link it below


My Comment: My yardstick for the morality in war has always been the Holocaust. More than the oft counted innocent Jewish dead of 6 million the more probable number was 10 million shot, tortured, medical experimented on, "living" in appalling conditions, diseased, starved and worked to death or sent to gas chambers -- men, women and children alike. The number is so large that either six or ten does not matter. What matters is the morality of either number. If one counts the dead in the entire theater of World War II a number more on the order of 50 million is fact. Add to that terrible number the destruction of history's once most beautiful geographical landscapes and the cost becomes incalculable. Man's inhumanity to other men knows no boundaries.

The most important question for me is what did WWII teach us if anything. The massive incalculable loss must have meaning or all those deaths are in vain. It taught me that there is an obligation for each of us to say no to those acts or orders that are so barbaric and so cruel where the powerful target the innocent powerless simply because they can. This must be eschewed and for me, has universal applicability whether the life is Jewish, Muslim, Palestinian, Iraqi or anyone else. As Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said of pornography "I know it when I see it" so in war or in any human interaction I know immoral barbaric acts when I see them.

The film "Judgement at Nuremberg" focused on prosecuting the Nazi hierarchy for the atrocities they committed. The film of those atrocities was actual footage taken from the concentration camps and shown to the courtroom. A most poignant scene occurred outside of the courtroom, however, when one American judge excused the German perpetrators with the I-was-just-following-orders excuse. Richard Widmark, the Allied prosecutor of these crimes, said to him what I thought was the essence of the film and the gravitational force which should guide us all. He answered: "Just what was this war about anyway, just what was it the hell about?"

I know immorality when I see it indeed!



https://theintercept.com/2017/03/26/trumps-war-on-terror-has-quickly-become-as-barbaric-and-savage-as-he-promised/

Evil

Watch Rachel Maddow again tonight. She is on numbers of times tonight but also online at the Rachel Maddow show. The revelations of utter corruption of this administration collusion with Russia are eye popping and she, as usual, is brilliant. The question becomes can this nation survive this evil man Trump as Representative Lieu characterized him? He and his entire administration are utterly and irredemptively corrupt. Trump is just plain awful.

He should be impeached, convicted and then tried for treason. He could be brought up on impeachment charges seven ways to Sunday. When is Congress going to save a nation which is under assault and losing around the world day by day. Take a look at what this nation is doing in the Middle East, specifically Iraq and Afghanistan. The US is breaking the laws of war every day, killing civilians by the carload. Because of this insipid, incompetent and pure evil man Trump expect a new wave of ISIS attacks. I hope not but I fear it will happen. It is STUNNING! The nation should be in revolt against this fool Trump 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

The world is not the world of our forefathers who did not know the power and threats of nuclear armed nation states. This is the first time in my life that I am truly afraid.

RESIST before there is no nation for which to resist!

A Speech Revisited

I revisit MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech often. It is one of the greatest speeches in American history equal, in my opinion, to "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address." I cry when I hear it and post it today for justice. Justice is what progressives seek; not prize possessions nor great wealth and the privilege it engenders. My ire surrounds justice. It is not fair for now a congressional majority Party, the Republican Party, to encourage Jim Crow-like voter suppression for persons of color and not encourage voter inclusion for all. It is not fair for the leadership of that Party to encourage hacking of Democratic computers to, in essence, try to sway an election for one candidate and not the other. It is not right nor just to seek collusion with a totalitarian state and its authoritarian leader responsible for murders of his opposition. Justice is what I seek. Justice which should be a part of a nation whose Constitutional premise is: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice ..."

Listen to MLK's speech and make his plea all of our pleas. It is as Dr. King states the "fierce urgency of now" which commands the arc of freedom bend toward justice and not away from it. Listen, if need be again, to Dr. King's speech and if that speech does not motivate you to work in any way you can for justice then nothing I could ever say would.

It is a speech revisited because my goal is empathy for all human beings who sit in sunlight's shade; who through an accident of birth exist in poverty and the darkness of war. We can do better; we must do better and dare I say we will do better if man wants to exist and wants this planet to survive.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm



Martin Luther King, Jr: I Have a Dream Speech
Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech text and audio
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EMERGENCY

THE SAVING OF OBAMACARE WAS WONDERFUL BUT WE KNOW THERE ARE SOME FIXES TO IT NEEDED. WE REALLY NEED TO ADVOCATE FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE LIKE EVERY MODERN NATION HAS BUT SHORT OF REPUBLICANS HAVING THEIR BRAIN SHORT CIRCUIT THE ACA NEEDS SOME TWEAKS. ANY OTHER NORMAL REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT WHO DOES NOT WANT TO SEE PEOPLE DIE WOULD HELP WITH DEMOCRATS MAKE THOSE CORRECTIONS NEEDED BUT, OF COURSE, CRUEL, SICK, VICIOUS TRUMP WILL NOT DO THAT. HE WILL, AS HE HAS SAID, LET OBAMACARE DIE ON ITS OWN ALLOWING MILLIONS BACK INTO THE POOL OF THE UNINSURED TO DROWN. HE COULD IF HE WANTED HELP FIX WHAT IS BROKEN AND SAVE HEALTHCARE. BUT THIS MEAN, CRUEL, DESTROYER OF LIVES WILL NOT DO A THING AND DERIVE GLEE FROM THE SUFFERING IT WILL CREATE OR HE WILL NOT CARE ONE WIT ABOUT IT.

WE MUST, THEREFORE, STAY VIGILANT AND HOLD HIS FEET TO THE FIRE. WE MUST MONITOR HIS EVERY MOVE. LIE NUMBER (WHO KNOWS I LOST COUNT) DEMOCRATS DID NOT DEFEAT HIS UTTERLY INFERIOR HEALTHCARE BILL. HE DID. AS USUAL HE BLAMES SOMEBODY ELSE BUT NEVER HIMSELF.

IN THE END HE LOVES TWO THINGS ONLY: WINNING AND REVENGE. ABSENT A WIN ON TRUMPCARE HE WILL NOW CONCENTRATE ON REVENGE CAUSING THE MOST SADISTIC PAIN HE CAN BY NOT FIXING OBAMACARE WHEN IT NEEDS IT THEREBY LEAVING MILLIONS UNABLE TO GET THE LIFE SAVING MEDICAL TREATMENT THEY NEED SO THEY WILL SUFFER AND EVEN DIE. HE WILL BLAME THE DEMOCRATS FOR THAT.

TRUMP WILL BE ABLE TO EXACT REVENGE ON THE NATION AND THEN BLAME DEMOCRATS FOR NOT HAVING VOTED FOR HIS INFERIOR BILL. THAT BILL WOULD HAVE KICKED 24 MILLION OFF HEALTHCARE AND MADE OTHER OUTRAGEOUS CHANGES RETURNING THIS NATION TO AN EVEN MORE DRACONIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM THEN THEY HAD BEFORE OBAMACARE. DO NOT LET HIM DO THAT. STAY VIGILANT, TELL THE TRUTH AND RESIST!!

A National Nightmare

I fear and I am afraid. I know so many -- even the majority -- loathe Trump as much as I do. The damage to this nation this unfit-for-the-presidency monster and his merry men have inflicted upon this nation is so huge I simply hope Democrats, some normal Republicans and our national security forces can keep this nation together.

I am afraid that Trump is leaving this nation vulnerable alienating ALL those who keep us safe, alienating our long-time allies in NATO and alienating other friends who have spent blood to help us overseas. Trump now is making us ripe sowing division for an adversary to hurt us.

I pray the normal ones in Defense with our CIA, NSA and FBI are keeping us safe while this Manchurian monster president, his team with help from the money of the 1% are trying to kill us, usurp the spoils leaving nothing for the rest of us while Russia emerges as balance-of-power top dog taking this nation down. This is a national nightmare. I am hoping that I will wake up, it will not be true and there is sanity in the White House, Congress and the Courts again.