F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia--A sewer of corruption

First time a president of the United States has been investigated by FBI counter intelligence for working on behalf of a foreign power, an adversarial nation Russia, and not only to get Trump elected president but to work on behalf of Russia against American interests. Can you spell treason, Benedict Arnold, or Manchurian Candidate? Not to brag but I called Trump the Manchurian Candidate when the Republican Party of nefarious actions nominated Putin's puppet. Do you think the Republican cockroaches are scurrying off the ship in search of a Decree Nisi (divorce) before they are besmirched by an investigation for treason? I suspect it is what Putin has on Trump. I am bowled over and yet I should not be as all of his outward signs during the campaign and after the election pointed to it. Imagine what the FBI has to corroborate these impending charges--tapes, emails, texts, wired conversations and, perhaps, so much more! Big surprise: the poisonous Trump is a sewer of corruption!

Jayme Closs Found Alive -- some good news in a sea of bad!

It is beyond belief that this young teenager, kidnapped in her own home October 15, had the will and the intelligence to figure out how to get away from the monster who kidnapped her and killed her parents. Kudos, of course, to law enforcement who kept the story alive and kept looking with their ever present professionalism. Thanks to the public for having Jayme's face etched in their minds so that when the time came the rescuers -- a woman walking her dog and a man and woman in their home -- knew who she was and brought this young battered woman to safety.

How important is it for those who own homes and/or have children to trust no one for whom to open their doors unless they are sure they know who it is. In Jayme's case this beast kicked in the door, shot her parents and kidnapped an adolescent. One can only do what is humanly possible.  We see every day in our weapon saturated society how important it is to transmit to your children never to go with anyone they do not know and the ones they do know are deemed trustworthy. I am sickened when I think of the violence this innocent young girl endured. I am afraid to listen to the entire story. I am nearly sure there existed indecent assault. I hope against hope this is not so.

The government shutdown because of Trump's desire, which changes depending on the second he exudes it, for a fake wall of lies costing cheap money not paid for by Mexico and will do nothing to stop the latest boogeyman from seeking the safety of asylum in a nation known for its diversity.  It is eminently important now to take one's safety into their own hands and be always vigilant. There is need for more attention to be paid by the general public to ensure their own welfare as, for example, TSA airport security call in sick because of a sick president's demand of a wall on the southern border experts say is not needed and will not work.

Jayme Closs gave us the good news an American public starving for some good news needed. Thank you, Jayme.  May her days from this moment be filled with moments of joy she so richly deserves, may the so called president suffer the loss for his border wall experts say is mendacious folly and may the government open up returning federal workers to jobs with pay that keep our nation safe.

Devolution

After Trump’s know nothing speech​ ​​last evening​, boring and full of untruths; after the latest proof of Manafort ​and ​others​'​ connection to conspiracy with Russia ​to ​throw the​ 2016 ​ election to Trump I have seen predictions of Trump's impending doom. I am not so sure. If progressives or even moderates controlled the Supreme Court I ​might​ believe it but now with ​progressive Justice Ginsburg fighting for her health God only knows what the unhappy fate of our nation could be. If the Court is in Trump’s pocket​, which I believe the "conservatives" on the Court are,​ they and only they could reverse the entire Mueller probe.

Mueller has Everest sized evidence ​against Trump and his administration ​that could take all of Trump and his henchmen ​down. Mueller's report​, if allowed to be seen,​ will be scathing but if ​the Supreme Court​ with Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito, ​and ​perhaps, Roberts ​have their way, we ​will be ​in a nightmare ​of devolution into yet another barbaric age. I ​am hard pressed ​​to see ​the end of this ode to fascism, Trump, an​​d ​his ​enablers ​experiencing the justice they so richly deserve​. ​A ​​conservative ​Court majority of zero humanity and human morality, Trump’s centerpiece, ​could​ ​act alone and ​give ​Trump ​​absolution. I​​​,​ the doubter of a Supreme Being pray to one nonetheless in hope that I am wrong. I pray to a God I do not know exists to save us from ​this​ human catastrophe ​that is ​Trump with his endless mountain of 17 investigations of crime that would fell any other oval office occupier.

Think of it: all those human beings ​walking thousands of miles seeking asylum from impending doom in their own country ​– women, children, the aged, the disabled, the sick held captive ​by Trump's insanity ​that condemns them to sleeping under foil or on the floor ​in the cold desert and two Hispanic children dead of sicknesses from which they did not have to die​.​ ​ T​hose​ in this Trump administration ​who represent our nation murdered them. Look at what ​the malevolent ​and always mendacious​Trump has done to our nation, to the world and to our overheated planet​ committing many crimes against humanity​​.  Worse, he keeps on doing it.​  The government shutdown for the expensive wall of no emergency is condemning hundreds of thousands to lives of hardship with no pay some of whom may die.  Moreover, those of nefarious intent can access airports more easily as TSA agents are calling in sick.  He must be stopped.​

Those innocent children held in captivity will be a lost generation​. If​ the better angels of our national conscience ​prevail they will be returning from another ​holocaust ​of a different age ​– dazed, confused ​and ​not knowing what to do​ scarred for life through no fault of their own.​​​

Evolution is a truth of science but devolution is a truth as well. Neanderthal man is alive and well sitting in the oval office of the people’s house ​where men of stature once sat Trump sits ​feet away from a nuclear winter that could cover us all.

"Millions Could Lose Food Assistance If Government Shutdown Continues"

"Does Donald Trump want a border wall badly enough to let struggling Americans go hungry?"

Answer: He does not care.   He does not care if men, women and children go hungry and he surely does not care

if they die as long as he and his family face no hunger and/or death.  What a guy -- a true humanitarian -- NOT!

"For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"  Matthew 16:26.  If one asked Trump,

allegedly such a good Christian and a global advocate of it if he knows from where that profound question emanates, if he knows who said it and contextually if he even understands its meaning.  My guess is no on all counts. 

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/government-shutdown-food-stamps_us_5c31070de4b0bcb4c25c4524

SHUTDOWN PRESIDENT NARCISSIST SOCIOPATH

Mitch McConnell needs to be called out on his refusal to bring up the SIX bills that have already been passed by the house.

If the electorate gets pissed off enough which god almighty they should articles of impeachment will be filed.

This man is an existential threat to our nation, he is a threat to our markets and he is a global threat to the world.  There are thousands of federal workers either working for nothing or not getting paid and this mental midget is threatening that the Trump shutdown could do on for years. 

Garbage is piling up in our once beautiful parks, toilets are overflowing and people have died with no park rangers in sight.  Disease will come next because this gd border wall which is utterly unnecessary not to mention unethical the immoral of all immoral President Narcissist Sociopath has it in his sicko utterly inferior brain that he cannot hurt his base of about 25% of the electorate who are right wingnut extremist Nazis. 

This must stop by any means necessary. 

Interview by Rachel Maddow of Elizabeth Warren

If you have not seen Rachel Maddow's interview of Elizabeth Warren on January 2, do so by going to the Rachel Maddow Show from yesterday's broadcast! Elizabeth Warren was heart stopping brilliant!

8-year-old Guatemalan boy dies in US custody on Christmas

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/25/us/guatemalan-boy-dies-in-us-custody/index.html

AT LONG LAST, TRUMP, HAVE YOU NO SHAME!?

Why this Jewish woman loves Christianity

The messenger of hate, Trump, has plowed the hoards of hate into our "give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" nation.  He is a man so cruel, so mean, so mendacious and so disordered but has been given the reins of extreme power by know nothings who literally know nothing and are fooled by his con.  Because he is the extreme narcissist and because he has built a sadistic room in his Republican Party for the kings of cruelty whose main mission in life is to exclude and/or kill the other especially if their skin is brown or their ethnicity Jewish; because his main objective in his dogmatic rule is to eschew democracy and embrace authoritarians; because he wants to build a wall to keep a suffering humanity out and not welcome them in to save their lives from certain death; because he leaves democratic allies in the dust for them to go it alone and face certain obliteration at the hands of much stronger despots; because he writes in concentration camp form numbers on the arms of brown children captured seeking asylum at the US border and keeps them jailed in the dessert separated from their parents with no end of this cruelty in sight; because the ugliness that spews out of his mouth that can speak nothing else; because his eyes do not read and his brain does not question; and because his heart does not empathically feel, I am, like few other times at a loss for words strong enough to condemn this beast of madness nor can I explain how those who claim to love this nation turn their back on the precepts for which it stands and for which so many have bled. 

I thought of writing today, Christmas Eve, what I said as a fifth grader when the teacher asked us to tell her what Christmas meant to us.  Being a Jewish girl I knew or rather my parents told me that we did not celebrate Christmas but even in my ten year old mind that soaked up the culture around I knew Christmas was not really about the collection of material goods nor was it about ostentatious superficiality. I knew Christmas was about Christ and that Christianity was about his message.  How did a Jewish girl who was not supposed to celebrate Christmas understand the true meaning of the day?  The answer to that is I don't know but I did, I loved it and, in its pure form, I still do. 

The truth is, as I see it, Christianity without its man-made political extremes hell bent on waging war against Muslims, against Jews, against Buddhists or against anyone who does not believe as they do is about turning the other cheek when someone offends you; it is about forgiving those who hurt you; it is about the thief or the prostitute being promised redemption; it is about curing the sick, feeding the hungry and clothing the naked; it is about loving the least of those who cannot fend for themselves and it is about finding a way, a truth and a light directing mankind from a path of destruction to a path of construction; it is about the acceptance of the stranger.  It is about treating your neighbor as you would want to be treated yourself.  In truth and ironically, Christianity is really about everything that Trump is not.  The Prince of Peace if he were alive today would expect you to reject hate and embrace love.  That is the Christianity I love. I believe Christ's Christianity would would expect nothing less.

The Dreyfus affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair

AntiSemitism is in the marrow of French bones. For that matter it is in most of the marrows of most European and Eastern European states including and most especially Russia. It is The Longest Hatred!

This time Jews will NOT go down without a fight and we make no deduction that Antisemitism is just a passing phase. It is NOT passing it is permanent and so is our opposition to its hatred!

Our stable genius acts again

On a 3:00 a.m. whim our idiot president makes Vladimir Putin, Iran, Turkey, Hezbollah, Assad and ISIS think they died and went to heaven. Without telling anyone the idiot Trump says he defeated ISIS therefore withdraws entirely 2000 American troops leaving the Kurds (our allies) and others vulnerable to slaughter. He makes Putin jump for joy.

Trump keeps 6000 troops on our southern boarder falsely protecting us from those who are escaping certain death from gangs in Central America! The stable genius works again. This is insanity and I am no war monger. I am usually against American military action but I support it IF it saves innocent lives. At the end of WWII we kept and still do keep a military vigilance both in Europe and Japan. We do it because it is necessary.  Bad actors can create bad theater anytime they are ready to write a play. ISIS is not dead.  What happened to American leadership post WWII? It died and we are left with a vulnerability that can perpetrate a 9/11. God forbid it happens again!

TRUMP/PUTIN; TRUMP PUTIN.  Why don't they just marry and unite their fortunes.  Trump must be removed from office post haste before there is no nation here to defend!

Hypocrite-in-chief

While Trump's mission in life is to deny innocent people with brown skin and their children seeking asylum in the US fleeing certain death in their own countries; while his mission in life is to write numbers on children's arms to mirror Nazi policy in concentration camps;  while his mission in life is to separate infants and the young from their parents; while his mission in life is to deny medical care for children even if they court death because of it; while his mission in life is to empty water left by humane human beings for other human beings crossing an unforgiving desert; while his mission in life is to scramble ports of entry so those who have walked 2000 miles cannot gain entrance; while his mission in life is to condemn thousands to life in a tent in the desert risking all types of transmittable diseases; while his mission in life is to commit children to a prison without end our sad excuse for president of the United States is the subject of 17 -- let me say that again 17 -- Trump/Russia investigations. 

Our so called law and order president is being investigated for the following:  Russian government US presidential election collusion, Wikileaks, Middle Eastern influence, Paul Manifort's activity in Russia, Trump Tower Moscow Project, Campaign Transition contacts with Russia, Obstruction of justice, Campaign conspiracy and Trump organization finances, Inauguration funding -- search for unaccounted 40 million dollars ; Trump Superpac funding, foreign lobbying, Russian operative Maria Butina and her NRA connections, Turkish Influence, tax fraud, Trump Foundation the shut down of his personal charity in the wake of a succession of scandals and a looming lawsuit which exposed a “shocking pattern of illegality,” Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova chief accountant of Project Lakhta, a sprawling Kremlin campaign to influence politics in the U.S. and European Union -- ongoing, Emoluments lawsuit.

If Donald J. Trump is not our hypocrite-in-chief then I do not know what else he is.  Shame on those who gave him a life in the oval office and shame on Republicans who have not a shred of conscience or decency to remove this hypocrite post haste!

I cried this morning--Seven-year-old girl who died at border did not receive medical care for 90 minutes

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/seven-year-old-girl-who-died-border-did-not-receive-n948071

Yes, I could not stop my tears; This story above took my heart and squeezed every inch of life it had within it.  This nation, my nation that was supposed to stand

for goodness, justice and the American way put to death a seven year old innocent when all she needed was probably some Gatorade the kind they give to football players

when they are thirsty but could not find any of for a 7 year old Hispanic girl who walked with her father across 2000 miles of dessert since life in their own country meant certain death.  This small little Guatemalan girl who died needed one thing:  some water with electrolytes something easy to get at a corner store.

What, in God's name have we become?  Border guards with glee dump out water the humane among us have left for the parched crossing the dessert to save their life.  The guards were happy and laughing like the Nazi's who cut old Jews' beards off for a joke.  How is this possible in a land that lost so many fighting fascist tyranny?  The Trump milieu in which we live is Nazi like.  I do not think this analysis too extreme.  Democrats won but Republicans are doing all they can to create legislation that ruins the poor, ruins their healthcare and ruins everything President Obama did that could help those of us who somehow, through an accident of birth, lost this American life's lottery that relegates them homelessness, soup kitchens and by the edict of one single Texas hard hearted judge leaves them with no healthcare to boot.  It other words many will share the fate of that 7 year old little girl who died on a bus from dehydration because no one cared enough to give her water. I do not recognize this nation anymore and the Democratic House we just elected cannot come fast enough, I fear, to save us.

Donald Trump and his cronies including his family need to pay a  heavy price.  As he celebrates the holidays in splendor more 7 year old children will die.  Trump needs to be impeached, convicted then prosecuted when out of office.  He and his henchmen have committed crimes against humanity and should pay the price for the most unethically egregious  conduct and the highest of crimes an American administration has ever committed.  Start with the murder of that seven year old sweet girl who thought she was walking to freedom's light but died instead at freedom's door.  

I cried this morning for that seven year old girl, I cried for the immigrant children locked up separated from their parents some forever and I cried for the country I thought I knew but cannot recognize any more.  I  am still crying and cannot stop.

How I see it: The markets a small stream of thought

We have to take care of ourselves if one is in the market.   Trump is tanking the market with his gd trade wars that are ruinous. All that so many Dems and Repbulican middle class too have saved will be in the swamp. This recession coming, as I can feel it, will be worse much worse than 2007 because no one in power in Republicanland has our back. We are on our own. All that we worked so hard to gain back from the last recession is, in my mind, at grave risk.

I am scared about what is happening to our economy. Trump with his lousy tax cuts took care of the top 2% wealthiest as they won't have to worry, not that they had to worry anyway, but now they really do not.  The tax cuts someone might want to clue the Republican middle class are for the top 2% richest and are PERMANENT for those who need it the least -- but for the middle classes it is a mere pittance that will evaporate in a recession because Trump and his Congressional Republican lackeys did not make ours permanent!!  Worse you will not be able to deduct your property taxes. 

All should spread that reality and maybe just maybe next time Republicans will be crushed in the Senate as they now have been in the House.  If we elect a Democratic president they will rue the day that they had the stupidity to elect, as Mitt Romney said, a con man.  I only pray he and his entire thug family and friends are monetarily eviscerated and end up in jail!  That is my wish, my hope and my prayer.

Treason, the Rosenbergs and Trump

I was thinking about the Rosenbergs, Julius and Ethel, executed here in 1950 for handing over to the Soviets some, probably banal secrets the Soviets already knew, to build a nuclear bomb.  The US, at that time, was the only nation which possessed a nuclear bomb and, as witnessed by the horrific destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was willing to use it.  Julius Rosenberg's rationale for working with the Soviet Union then, some have said, was to prevent a nuclear holocaust that more than one nation having the bomb would obviate. Whether they did that for which they were executed or not is the subject of continuous controversy but it is clear, at least to me, that Julius did commit treason. Whether Ethel did or not is still subject to debate.  This opinion, however, is not about a debate as to the guilt or innocence of the Rosenbergs but it is to compare their acts for which they were executed to the acts of a president of the United States, Trump, and his many minions suspected of conspiracy with one of our most adversarial nations, Russia, to hack into Democratic computers and emails to defeat Hillary Clinton and elect Trump in the 2016 presidential election.  The Russians were successful beyond their wildest imaginations and Trump I believe contributed to their success.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Larry O'Donnell's creative analysis of a largely redacted sentencing memo by Robert Mueller on former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn they had just received about Flynn's actions allegedly colluding with Russia including the breach of the FCPA (the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) by not admitting to his paid connection to the foreign nation of Turkey and its president Erdogan was brilliant.  Because Flynn has cooperated with Special Counsel Mueller (including 19 hours of testimony) so quickly, fully and truthfully the sentencing recommendation of Mueller was near zero imprisonment time in hopes that others, perhaps many, of the Trump administration would agree to do the same.

The scope and the depth of Mueller's investigation into Trump's alleged conspiracy with one of this nation's most adversarial powers, Russia, and its President Putin is mammoth.  Many in Trump's orbit, including Trump himself, could be pulled into the center of gravity of the investigation which is already two years old but is far from over.  In my opinion, it makes what the Rosenbergs were accused of and executed for look like child's play.  The Russians struck at the heart of our democracy itself and, at least for the 2016 election, killed it. 

Trump allegedly has done one of the most evil, treacherous, mendacious and, indeed treasonous actions by betraying this nation he says he loves for 40 pieces of Trump Tower gold and used Flynn's motive to defeat Islam as his phony rationale. The Russians truly must be laughing themselves silly.  This is the biggest compromat the Russians have successfully ever gotten -- a useful idiot US President Trump allegedly acting on their behalf in order for the Manchurian candidate Trump to make billions. If the Rosenbergs were executed for treason for their crimes then the allegedly treasonous Trump should be impeached, successfully tried by a Republican majority senate and convicted for his.  The American electorate should be screaming for nothing less!!

All the president's men -- Watch this space

MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Larry O'Donnell were amazing last evening. This is the greatest political show on earth I have ever seen and will be studied for decades in colleges, universities, the Ivy Leagues and in high schools too as it is much much more serious and complex than Watergate.  It is similar to Watergate in many ways but on steroids.  

 

I was addicted last night and couldn't stop watching -- Three things sum it up that Larry O'Donnell illuminated: FAME, MONEY AND SEX.  That is the essence of Trump's character or lack of it.  That is what he wanted from the presidency he did not think he would win.  Why on God's earth would anyone with as much nefarious baggage as he had want to win the most fishbowl office in the world?  It was a business deal he wanted with Russia for decades and went there numbers of times to cultivate.  Now his family and many others Trump touched including counsel are in the soup.  Ironically, Trump loves gold and it is his symbol but everything and everyone he touches turns to dust.  

 

This will be to be continued tomorrow, tomorrow and for many tomorrows to come.   Much more will come out and Mueller the Magnificent has it all without leaking a word.  This is the most amazing story ever told!  The so called president of these United States is a horrible man of zero character and even less honesty. He is everything evil that our nation has produced -- inside and out ugly beyond words!

Here is what one blogger wrote which I thought has merit:

The possible bribe (50 million dollar penthouse suite in Trump Moscow Tower) offered to Putin himself to help this deal go through. American companies that offer bribes [any valuable item, favor or such] to foreign officials to grease the wheels of a deal, is considered a breach of the The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Trump is claiming the Russian "deal didn't go through". Well, under the FCPA, it's the mere act of offering or even knowing about a bribe to a foreign official, even if that bribe is turned down, that can be enough for an indictment. His ignorance of this law is amusing. Maybe, he figures that as POTUS, he is immune to indictment. I suggest he talk to a competent attorney about the 7 year statute of limitations. Cohen says Trump knew about the deal to offer Putin valuable favors, including a multi-million condo in the building, in return for approving. That offer, even if turned down, can be considered a violation of FCPA.

As Rachel would say: "Watch this space!

A thinking blogger

A BLOG SOMEONE SENT TO ME. Okay so it's a pipe dream but one can still dream it. It's correct in so many ways. Money big money is the nature of the beast and its total corruption in this nation. Trump is simply a symptom of capitalism gone haywire. In my opinion though revolution is out of the question especially a violent one. The beast, will never be tamed in the way the blogger would want it to be ... ever but I thought it fun to read anyway. At least someone is thinking.

BLOGGER:

"The real issue isn't hunger, or illness, or the cost of living or the cost of education. The real issue is capitalism. We have opted for an economy and a government at every level that is controlled by corporations. We have a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations.

And those corporations, with their lackeys in the controlled media have brainwashed the people into thinking that there is very little poverty in the US and that the poor seeking help are lazy, good for nothing, ne'er-do-wells.

This neoliberal capitalism is destroying our country, causing untold suffering for millions and creating the most unequal society in the developed world with the highest rate of child poverty and greatest number of poor people in prison in the developed world.

We need a revolution. We have to take break the corporations' grip on our government and on our daily lives. We have to start breaking all these businesses up once they reach a certain valuation, we have to greatly increase their taxes, make it impossible through taxation for one more billionaire to be made in the US.

And most of all we have to start insisting that every cent be taken out of politics and enforce term limits for every office, including the SCOTUS and Congress. Then we have to insist that government cease its working for corporations and insist it work for us, the people, by adequately funding the things people need instead of shoveling trillions into the sewer of the military industrial complex and fighting endless wars all over the globe."

Mueller's Microscope

A microscopic analysis of the corruption of Trump and his cronies who helped in all his nefarious ways is, in understatement, overwhelming not because one cannot do it but because there is so much of it. Where does one start? One wonders if even Muller can see the light at this endless tunnel of Trump's lies and fraudulence.

I suspect Trump is hoping that sheer exhaustion of his so called "enemies" will work in his favor. I hope not as his and his administration's corruption is in full view for all the nation and even the world to see.

How can we right this sinking ship of state, bring the mountain of guilty to justice and restore the rule of law? I hope Mueller and his team of electron microscopes have an inkling of how to do that because I, individually, surely do not. 

 

Onward, Mr. Mueller. Save the nation. Our lives and our nation's life depend upon you!

In the face of human cruelty just say no

For an allegedly Judaeo-Christian nation this country does no justice to the Books many allege to be its truths:

"So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt."

Deuteronomy 10:19

"Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?"
³⁷ Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.
³⁹ And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
Matthew 22-40
 

If the Holocaust taught one thing it is the sin of silence while the innocent are being tortured.  A blogger said: "It's being done because at this moment the will of the American people is not defined on this issue [immigration].  Like many other issues the public is silent. There should be 1 million citizens on the border supporting human rights."

What  is being done in this nation to the least of these who seek refuge from certain death is this nation's great sin.  It is an example of humanity at its very worst -- one step away from the Nazis who laid siege to 1930's Europe.  The Nationalist, which Trump claims title for himself and the extreme right an extension of it, simply do not care.  In fact, I aver, most Nationalists and right wing extremists would kill all the asylum seekers if they could. We ask how could Nazi Germany have happened. You do not have to look far for the answer.  "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)"

If Nuremberg taught us one thing it taught us to say no in the face of human cruelty, injustice and the diminishing of a single human life.  

Dead whale had 115 plastic cups, 2 flip-flops in its stomach

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/dead-whale-had-115-plastic-cups-2-flip-flops-in-its-stomach/2018/11/20/ed3e0f32-ec9d-11e8-8b47-bd0975fd6199_story.html?fbclid=IwAR0cJUaDB8mhNWQOQ6UDgYffOL2aXBnr7NoedlgWG6TVCEthqhL5r3ZFY1E&utm_term=.33fcd8ac2d08

The plastic has washed up over many oceans all over the world. It's an abomination but the plastic found in the dead whale's stomach is certainly evidence of plastic killing sea life as if we couldn't guess that it does. It is a tragedy and affects all of us but the stupids are in plastic pollution indifference and they are climate change deniers to boot with a president chief of the deniers who says it's so cold out so where is global warming. Another so called "conservative" senator said the same thing when he brought a snowball into the Congress as proof of the so called climate warming "hoax." 

 

 Bottom line: They are simply too stupid to understand or they just do not care and want their coffers to keep filling up with Republicon cash. Sad!

"How Extreme Weather is Shrinking the Planet" a must read

This article was sent to me by a friend. It is prescient, smart with science climate change depth.  Scientists even have named an era made for our time: Anthropocene (A world made by man.)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-extreme-weather-is-shrinking-the-planet?utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit

 

Here is a short sample from the beginning.

"It is most well written and captivates with its veracity. Here is the sample: Thirty years ago, this magazine published “The End of Nature,” a long article about what we then called the greenhouse effect. I was in my twenties when I wrote it, and out on an intellectual limb: climate science was still young. But the data were persuasive, and freighted with sadness. We were spewing so much carbon into the atmosphere that nature was no longer a force beyond our influence—and humanity, with its capacity for industry and heedlessness, had come to affect every cubic metre of the planet’s air, every inch of its surface, every drop of its water. Scientists underlined this notion a decade later when they began referring to our era as the Anthropocene, the world made by man.

I was frightened by my reporting, but, at the time, it seemed likely that we’d try as a society to prevent the worst from happening. In 1988, George H. W. Bush, running for President, promised that he would fight “the greenhouse effect with the White House effect.” He did not, nor did his successors, nor did their peers in seats of power around the world, and so in the intervening decades what was a theoretical threat has become a fierce daily reality. As this essay goes to press, California is ablaze. A big fire near Los Angeles forced the evacuation of Malibu, and an even larger fire, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, has become the most destructive in California’s history. After a summer of unprecedented high temperatures and a fall “rainy season” with less than half the usual precipitation, the northern firestorm turned a city called Paradise into an inferno within an hour, razing more than ten thousand buildings and killing at least sixty-three people; more than six hundred others are missing. The authorities brought in cadaver dogs, a lab to match evacuees’ DNA with swabs taken from the dead, and anthropologists from California State University at Chico to advise on how to identify bodies from charred bone fragments."

This New Yorker article should be read by everyone. ... Yes, I said everyone!