YA' COULDN' T RESIST, COULD YOU?

  You couldn't help yourself, could you? Like a child with a secret to hold, unable to resist its temptation, seeking importance, despite the ugly truth it revealed, there you went again. At some point in time your carelessness in revealing the truthful goals of your crazed policies and MuskRat activities, will finally coalesce in some minds and your fan ever dispersing falsehoods and damaging policies will truly be challenged. It will attempt to remain standing in the face of the huge onslaught of long denied truths, but, as usual, no matter how long delayed, the truth will inevitably out. 

The ugly blister on this nation's soul will burst and out will spill all the nasty ugliness within. Your capitalized words bearing witness to your oft denied ambition will lead the way. No eyes will be able to turn aside. Hopefully this nation will understand and know what they must do. Then we will turn the dial to the right point and MAGA will be true, as we thrust aside this bizarre era, this national aberration, and indeed, Make America     Great Again.  Properly. Humanely. Adhering to the ethos of this nation, to its proper role and responsibilities in the world, so long trashed, denied and set aside. We will find and revitalize our denied "Americanness" and be true to the precepts and motivations of this nation.

It is too long a time that the public has turned blind eyes and unhearing ears to the truth. Once again, we muted the shrieking alarms, the tolling of bells, and in less than a century we have allowed ourselves as group and as individual selves to be caught up in sociopolitical trends of the times, with much intentional and collateral damage, both literal and figurative, both domestic and international. It is now up to us to spread the truth, open eyes and ears and souls and peacefully and promptly deny the ambitions of a man so diametrically opposed to what America is, what it represents, what it means for the world and for the future of humanity.     

Here is the clear and present danger you and yours are to this nation. In loud strident voice and false denial, you rammed the bulwarks of our nation. You and Elon and the MuskRats and all the sniveling, fearful cowards who fell in line, who sold their souls to you, the Devil's representatives on this earth, conspired to break this nation over your knees. To deny all that America is and meant to be.

Here is what is on your plate, the ugly detritus of a horrid meal - the heart of this nation.  

Destruction of a federal workforce which has enabled this nation to function since its founding.

Enabled the return of destructive policies: nepotism, the spoils system, the rewarding of influence and the termination of Merit. 

Bribery reinstated as a viable tool of the corrupt and those who corrupt others. 

The politicization of departments of this government and the destruction of a three branch form of government which served us well and kept those with unholy ambitions at bay, limited in their reach. 

The vile criminal use of this nation as we deny or openly boast of conflict of interest to improve the wallets and estates of those meant to serve this nation and the people within.

Shredding Abraham Lincoln's vision of a country running under the principle of by the people, for the people, of the people. Challenging the achievements of FDR and spitting upon the honor of George Washington as he refused the crown.  

Single handedly contributed to a huge rise in unemployment and the dashing of hopes of economic improvement for literally millions of households of this nation. 

Employed brutal, inhumane, immoral tactics to enforce hateful immigration rules and keep a broken system in place, to use politically, rather than to apply all efforts to improve it and make it work, always honoring the promise of the Lady of the Harbor. The promise that drew so many here - including ourselves.  

Threatened the social safety net of this nation: Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, food aid, health care, safeguards for workers, for blue collar, for white collar and for any collar in between. 

Turned back the clock on climate change awareness and the desperate race we must win against our own self destruction of the planet upon which we live. 

Spurned any avenue of success down which we walked so proudly, always remembering to seek improvement, to make it better for us, a primary nation and leader of the world. Now canceled. 

Encouraged and used the ugly, poisonous thorns of hate and openly encouraging rebellion against this nation, attempting to overthrow its government.

Shamed this nation before the eyes of the world as you appease Putin, endorse his lies, pull away from our allies and responsibilities to this world.

 Failed to acknowledge within your rather limited mind and intellect, your inability to know that the "great blue beautiful ocean " will not enable us to safely isolate ourselves from the rest of the world and in fact, that has long been the case. You have forgotten the butterfly effect.  

You have encouraged incompetence with your appointments to posts of this nation. Hence, turned your back to the people of this nation 

Endeavored to turn upside down the founding    principles of this nation in so many ways, too many to delineate in one posting. 

And here is you, ugliness uncovered. You finally did it. You could not hold nor keep that not so   secret, secret. The child you are, always seeking fame, is what you have been and always will be.  

The now out in the open secret?  You stuck your nose and your fingers into places where they most emphatically do not belong and employed a quid pro quo political dirty tactic in New York City and State, boasting that you saved the city as a result of your edicts.  You boasted - in print - online - "New York you are SAVED". City and State. You boasted and signed off with your now not so secret, secret, the depths to which you have fallen and your crazed ambition to reach and take the highest position over all others, individuals and nations. Your unholy ambitions, you dirty soul, are broken open in your own words complete with your obsessive capitalization. 

For all to see and know.

 You boasted and signed off with -

"LONG LIVE THE KING". 

And there it is and there it has always been.  Admirer of and appeaser to the fascist Putin and of all authoritarian rulers. Quick to hijack all within his reach, already using the Royal Prerogative, issuing royal edicts currently termed Executive Orders.   He wages war against his own nation and all the people of the world as well. He has no boundaries in his inhumanity even to the point of imprisoning children, detaining them in most inhospitable places.  

Thanks to you and yours we have lost our souls. We have fallen willing victims to the siren cause of Lola and given Lola whatever she wants 

Yes, you couldn't resist the moment. And I am happy for that as perhaps now people will wake up and understand what you mean for this nation, for this country, to those who fought for it, died for it. Those who helped build this nation. No longer at peace, all rolling in their graves. Lost in nightmares they had fought so hard to prevent.

No, Donald, you will not be King Donald I. This nation will not succumb to your poison, not allow the poisonous fangs of you and yours to sicken this nation and make it as dust in the air. 

Not yesterday. 

Not today. 

And certainly not 

On the Morrow.  

SHIRI, ARIEL, KFIR, AND ODED

Today is a day when the heavens themselves open their gates, greeting the souls of yet four more victims of hate as an entire nation mourns. The monsters have struck at the very core of civilization. They waged specific intentional war upon the elderly and the young, attacked both ends of the lifeline of humanity and all in between.

Purity and freshness of an innocent baby. A sweet youngster. A terrified mother clutching her children to her breast. An elderly man in the twilight of his years. Degraded. Tortured, ripped from their families. Murdered in cold blood. Even as history repeated itself yet again, and the world stood in silence with hands dripping blood, or worse, stood and cheered for the deaths of these four and so many, many more. 

The very fact that the vile creatures of Hamas were gifted with the name of militants rather than the terrorists they are does not bode well for the future of this earth. The very fact that the world conflates the vicious, brutal attack of rampaging beasts of nature upon citizens, children, parents, grandparents, holiday celebrants, dancers celebrating sunrise and its beauty and hope for a better day, a better time - conflated with the defensive actions of Israel, determined once and for all to bring their people home, to stop this eternal cycle of hate and murder. To forbid the slaughter of its people. Conflated!

The battle fought against Hamas, so cruelly and inhumanely, dismissive of their own people, this conglomeration from Hell's lowest levels, of monsters in human clothing, cynically, intentionally, used their people as a weapon of war and a tool of propaganda. Their own brothers and sisters. And the world bought it. Hook, line and sinker. Every act of brutality. Every horror perpetrated upon children. Upon parents. Upon people sleeping in their beds. Or praying. Or dancing. All whitewashed and deemed these aggressors, these initiators of a war that should never have been, as the victims!!!  

The world stood still once again or cheered this abomination. We, the Jewish people, the nation of Israel are still reeling under the consequences. So many dead. So much rancid hatred tainting the world. Mere days ago, a vicious attack by a mob of Hamas supporters upon a group of Jews living their life in a very Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Barely a mention in the news. And if so, always with accompanying excuse, calling these creatures of brutality, these abominations, "militants and activists" rather than the true name of terrorists and murderers. Refusing to acknowledge that they are terrorists.  

Today's release. of four bodies of people who should never have died under these circumstances is indicative, clearly so, of the inhumanity of Hamas. They prepared yet another stage with which to strut their ugliness, denying their complicity and responsibility in all they began on Oct7, 2023. all the planning and the diversion of funds to their war goals, all that followed, that continues to follow.   Such brave warriors fighting infants and elderly. Blaming resultant deaths of the war they initiated as not of their causation. And the world bought it.

I don't know why Hamas did what they did. Their behavior is inexplicable. At least to the people who believe in humanity and decency. Other than to terrorize the world and hold an entire nation's people hostage, I see no purpose. No other motive.  Their excuses, their twisted thinking, are not valid. None.   

 Hamas took upon itself the role of the Angel of Death, as if carrying out the orders of the Lord. But they were serving the Devil. Emboldened by the unbelievable outrageous support of people round the world calling for the deaths, the   continuation of a genocide aimed specifically at the people of the Jewish nation wherever they live. To deny them a future. How do we know the truth of their goals?

Hear the world. See the four bodies today. Simply look at the title. Shiri. Ariel. Kfir. Oded. Four lions of the Lord. Four more martyrs to the unending hatred of the world. If that does not penetrate your head, your heart, your soul, then read the names again and again and again. Think upon who they were. Think what who they could have been. Their families. Their people.  

Israel is a nation united in sorrow. The face of the enemy is horrific indeed. Nary a whiff of decency or humanity visible.  The Jewish nation round the world wonder why yet again the Lord has allowed his people to be chosen for horror.  

No more of our beautiful children are to be more Kfirs and Ariels. Slaughtered by the hands of beasts, of monsters. No more versions of Amalek.    No more to serve as a deflection from the problems of the world. No more to be the target of ignorance and hate. No more streams of blood from our people. To silence the cacophony of screams of pain, of sorrow and agony rising high unto the heavens. 

Why, G-d, why? 

We pray for a time when nations will not take up arms against other nations. No more necessity to learn the ways of war. When weapons of war will become antique museum relics and provide the material to create tools of productivity, of ingenuity, of brotherhood.  When we break bread with each other and share the same beneficial goals. Together to ensure the continuation of humanity, A deserving humanity.  

 Shiri. Ariel. Kfir. 0ded. May your memories be for a blessing. May you now reside in peace and harmony with members of your family and your people who have gone before. Stand before the Lord and demand an accounting. Ask why your   sacrifice. We stand with you always and forever and may you always stand with us. 

On a personal note, find my grandson, Yitzy, torn from the world he knew at the age of 13. May you all retain your innocence and generate smiles on the face of the adults around you. Always be free of pain and the threat of war. 

As for us, we are now crying, sobbing from deep within, frightened, angry, confused. Deeply immersed in that lake of sadness. But you are home again and will remain so now forever. 

 May your memories be for a blessing.  

May you live forever in peace.

May your deaths bring some understanding to the world and soften the hard souls and blackened hearts of the world.

If not today, then perhaps 

On the morrow.

Shiri. Ariel. Kfir. Oded. 

 

WANTED: GRAVEDIGGERS OF LOW INTELLECT

Actually, there is an addendum missing. These new employees must be amenable to days and nights of employment with nary a break. So states Executive Order #67,234,409. In addition, they must be cleansed, devoid of any remaining taint of morality, of humanity, of decency. The final decision will be based on the answer to a loyalty test. In fact, that is the most important qualifying requirement.      Rights have no place within the new crop of those hired. A must, though, is a demonstrated ability to climb and claw one's way to the top without any qualms or compunctions or concerns of any sort re harm to others along the way,  

The iconic tale of American dreams and possibilities has now been trashed, declared both antiquated and treasonous. So Executive Order #67,234,410 states.   Any person desirous of joining the demented team of Muskrats oh so busily employed in the destruction of America must be able to recite the new version without any hesitation and with full compliance. 

Scenario #1: Daughter: Father, I want to be the best I can be. What should I see as a proper ambition?  

Father: Daughter, no woman can aspire to any higher or more important goal than to serve the nation, obey all Executive Orders, be subservient to your husband, and be a respectful worshiper of the royal family. Serve your husband, the nation and raise children who will grow up wanting only to serve the Royal Family.    

 Scenario #2: Father, I wish to be President of AmeriKa. What is the best path forward? Do you have any fatherly advice for me?   

Father: Surely. Create a life plan creative and careful in your choice of felonies and misdemeanors, of violations of the law, your contempt for it, and the oh so clever manner by which you escape any and all negative consequences. Do that successfully long enough and you will gather round you an ever-growing crowd of deluded social misfits with nary a whiff of humanity or decency within, who care for naught other than their own ambitions and their need to find a leader. Any qualms are quickly submerged under a flood of excuses and lies and justifications.  Your own version of our Sacred Muskrats is a necessity. Go for it; make me proud. Serve well the most Royal Majesty King Donald I. Our founder.     The standards are challenging but rewarding. Be the very best Teflon criminal, a la King Donald I and you will go far. Have at it and make me proud. 

America gone, shattered, misshapen and false.

Apocryphal? Maybe. Realistic? Growing ever more so as our President of the obscene Executive Orders runs through hundreds of pens daily as he proudly signs those abominations. Perhaps not for as long as he thinks it will be. Opposition is found within the growing voices, raised louder and louder. More and more. Protesting against his tactics, the twisting until unrecognized of the three branches of government we are supposed to have. 

His political machinations shred our Constitution. The Executive branch is false to its purpose, overstepping legal boundaries, egregiously so and oppresses the other two branches. The two houses of Congress are now merely. a weeping, sniveling. bunch of quivering. cowards afraid to stand up to a miscreant. A bully. They have ceded their powers to the executive branch. They, for the most part, are needful of a vacation of long duration and replacement in their place of employment. The third branch, the Judiciary, is meant to keep all on the straight and narrow and adhere to the idea that no one is above the law. Well, that is kind of withering on the vine as the most famous convicted felon in our history, our immoral offensive self-declared Ruler in all but formal title, sits in the Oval Office. The number of judges willing and strong enough to combat the perversion of the justice system, of our nation, are few and we must support them as they are facing uphill battles. And yet they more than anything can be the savior of this nation. If, and only if, we insist that the President and all others follow the law, and the decisions of non-co-opted judges will we have a chance to right ourselves once again. 

We can be heartened by the growing physical protests. The demands to Dump Trump. It can't come soon enough. The tariffs are already rending economies round the world. Crops remain unpicked, rotting in the fields as pickers and workers are gone. Deported in a frenzy of xenophobia and deflection. No place to send them as tariffs block that opportunity. Money grows ever tighter, and foods are vanishing from the shelves of supermarkets. Costs are growing astronomically. National Parks, especially in the Western states are highly endangered but these rampant mad budget cuts continue to wend their destructive path through the nation's populace. Health care, the safety of the drugs we take, the vaccines we need, the medical care we need - all scrapped. Greatly limited thanks again to you know who. The economy comes to almost a standstill as products cannot be completed for lack of parts. Parts blocked. Punitive crazed system of tariffs instituted by yup, you got it.   Representatives, governors, Senators, all well concerned as their states begin to tumble down into  a state of economic crisis. You may rest easy as we can assure you that the Muskrats are doing just fine. And thank you for your concern.

Nor are we alone in our misery for all nations around the world are falling down into that same pit in the vicious never ending. cycle. We are losing them politically as well, as we refuse to pay them respect and friendship. Instead, we now tend to hang tight with our traditional enemies. We urge European countries to welcome far right extremists into the national spectrum of acceptable political parties. W threatened NATO and cancel other mutual agreements.     

America is now facing a rough present and future with all that has gone awry, accidentally or on purpose. Life for our children, our hope and belief that they would have better lives than we do, gone! Pfft!!! It will be worse. And please, all of us, go look in the mirror and see the cause of it all. We have refused to acknowledge the disaster now upon us. We refuse to acknowledge our democracy is under attack by aim and by apathy. We have allowed hatred to grow, to be used as a political tool. We have misrepresented and misunderstood that to oppose someone is not to hate someone. For example, I and perhaps others like me have been accused of hating Republicans and not hating others deserving of hate. That is both ridiculous and childish. To disagree with someone does not mean to hate them. Yes, there are people in this world, in this nation, that I do detest. I hate Hamas with a deep passion, inhumane and barbaric as they are. But that does not mean that if one I do detest is Republican, that I detest all Republicans. In fact, in my own family, in dearly loved members of my family, I have Republicans (unenlightened of course). On the other hand, I'm not crazy about Democrats. I can't see the world divided by the straight, rigid lines based on nonsense, based on negative aspects, based on destructive thoughts, based on a lack of following the thread all the way through.  

We need to shake ourselves and wake ourselves up. We need to understand what is happening. We need to know that we cannot allow the destruction of this nation or the shattering of its democratic roots and structure. What is happening now is definitely not conducive to a good future. Not at all.

Time to move ahead, folks. Time to face the facts and decide on an action. If we act now, if we are strong in our opposition, if we take back the nation, help people understand the danger, the impact of what they voted for, then perhaps, just perhaps, they will understand the situation and know the truth of this: Be careful what you wish/ vote for.   You might just get it.

We can do better. We can improve. We must. The alternative is not very appetizing. Censorship of books, of free speech, the acceptance of hate speech, tantrums thrown by adults - not acceptable. Bribery.  Nepotism. A return to the spoil system. The disregarding of the merit system. Union rights. Miseducation. State and religion mixing.  Address and repair NOW!!  

So. What will it be, folks? What will we choose? Will we have the courage and honesty we once had?  How shall history analyze and categorize us?   How do we answer our children when they ask what we did during the era of destruction. I hope you, we, will have a good answer.

If not today, then perhaps...

On the morrow.   

 

SO THEY ALL ROLLED OVER AND ...

 ...more than one fell out. For sure true as it pertains to the current situation in the USA. Too many have been rolling over and over and over again. Too many are either dead or playing dead or wishing they were dead, suffering as they are in the shame of this self-initiated extremely contagious horrific disease, suffering with severe cases of Trumpian caused dementia. The awful visible symptoms are ugly and mirror the ugliness of the soul, long abandoned by those with the most severe cases.  

Painful and hideous lip blisters from kissing ass.   Knee problems from constant kowtowing. Back pain from bending backwards so as to not see the truth straight on. Constant runny noses among these sniveling creatures.  Medication not available at this time and in fact, will never be. The demented. RFK Jr. has denied the efficacy of said vaccine, deeming it too extreme and detrimental to the   status of those poor suffering victims - not -. He is correct in that, for it would mean cause a total cleansing of all contaminants and a return to sanity and dignity, a total revamping of their minds, of their souls.  

Those fired from the nation's health systems have done independent research. The cure is here and simple, beneficial actually as tethers to reality, to human dignity and empathy are reconnected. They intuit the cure - replacement or displacement of those who lead the charge against all that made and kept this nation - America. It will be an epic battle to regain the power ceded to the two usurpers - one elected via illusion and Big Lie campaign and the other, self-appointed shadow behind the throne, salivating to take it over completely, along with his rabid hit squad of Muskrats. It is then that the transformation and final defeat would take place. A democracy of a once shining nation, an example to the world, for the world, is filthied up, demeaned and discarded, destroyed, as authoritarian   government emerges. And in place is the ugly sight of a repulsive creature of no morals whatsoever, loyal to himself only. Rest in peace, America. 

This scenario must be stopped dead in its track. America must wake up and become the sleeping giant so capable of doing the right thing and be victorious in its endeavors. It has done so before and can do so again. There will be damage to take into account, but then again, liberty is worth fighting for, is it not? Freedom should be cherished. and defended. But is there no other way than violence to resecure our national ethos, our pride, our unity, our dignity? Are we that forgone? Perhaps.

But there is no other way or rapidly becoming so.  Frankly, I was both most surprised and not so surprised. when I opened the TV as a news analysis and discussion was underway, with both moderates and conservative representatives on board, all well known, respected. bright and intuitive. When one person actually used the term revolt as something that the populace of the nation would have to do, there was no gasping of shock, though there were nods of the head. It has come to that point. The unthinkable point grows ever larger before our eyes. Americans will have to revolt openly. That is a frightening thought. But perhaps inevitable. 

But it should be a last resort, hopefully never to be reached. Demonstrations across this nation have already begun, demanding Musk be outed. Banned from government. Those in Congress, those in state legislatures must see and hear those demonstrations. They must understand that the stains of filth and dishonor upon this nation can only be cleansed. by the total replacement of the crooked minions of this administration. When the federal employees ousted brutally from necessary positions, severed from employment, from life as they knew it, illegally will be reinstated. When the judiciary system will cleanse itself, shed all of those judges who are so partisan they can only see the world, the cases before them through the perverted lying eyes of Trump, Musk, et al. When the Trump train will have its brakes stomped on, halting the ugly government of bribery, nepotism, incompetence, a loyalty to Trump, not nation, a revived spoils system so enriching for Trump and his top henchmen.  

 Chief Justice Roberts warned us that we are becoming a nation ignoring justice and troubles await. He is part of the problem, though he forgets that. All those who cozy up to Trump. All those who cater to their pockets ignoring heart and soul.   All those who have selfish streak running up and down, side to side. All those who think they can remain apathetic. Well, let's draw a line under that and understand the truth. 

The truth is, we all need to be there. No one can stay home. We prove true to ourselves, to our dignity, to our rights or we are lost as is the future. I sincerely hope and pray not. I hope we come to our senses quickly, bring justice to where it is necessary, and call out for heroes and actually have those who answer the call.

Legal and peaceful - before it is too late.  

Legally.   If not, there will not be a pretty picture awaiting to appear. Let us come to our senses before too late and be able to choose the proper road  

I deeply hope and pray that we can. That we can avoid violence.     

The truth will come out. At times it takes a bit longer. but eventually it is seen. The truth will out like it or not. It will out, whether you accept it or defy it. It is there. It cannot be denied. Push comes to shove. 

No more rolling and falling.  

...on the morrow. 

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YES, NOTHING HAS CHANGED, AND ...

 ...it has already begun.

So rather than write a totally new blog, I'm going to tweak yesterday's, worthy of a reread or two after you read today's posting.  The words and intent and concern have not mellowed overnight and in fact grow more concerned than before - if that is possible. Just a bit of a fresh addendum to further the cause and a plea again to open eyes and minds to the reality as it is, not as we wish and imagine it to be. 

A garnishing or two aids clarification of our situation.

 "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law," Trump proclaimed on his Truth Social network."  Napoleon, King Louis XIV? ..."Spoken like a true dictator," 

  'Donald Trump’s spin Sunday on the Daytona International Speedway track in the presidential limousine... flyover of the track aboard Air Force One...money spent on Trump’s trip last weekend to watch the Super Bowl." Uh, DOGE? Goose and gander? Apparently not. Royal privileges? Uh-huh!!!  

Vance's "historic" speech pressing for approval of a neo-Nazi party in Germany and for that matter anywhere in Europe, and Rubio's response in defense - “Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews, and they hated minorities.” So carefully glossing over the ugliness of the words of the Nazis, their use and perversion of democracy to get a foot in the door and then take the entire abode and then some!! Nor does he mention the hate ginned up in this nation with the words, actions and clear intentions of Trump et al in blatant exposure and indecent posturing.

Mass firings particularly of any and all capable of keeping this nation functioning, properly, held to the straight and narrow, no loyalty tests necessary. Quite clearly aimed at any and all who have the task of overseeing the nation's bureaucracy and uprooting all manners of crooked government, all that Trump et al, his butt kissing servants who obey the master and the other one too! Moral turpitude. Bribery. Sexual harassment (so dear to the hearts of his Cabinet appointees and their deputies.) Nepotism. Incompetence. Lack of civil rights. Attacks against unions. Roll back the clock on collective bargaining. Cancel all protective rulings for workers, for teachers, for small business owners, for consumers, for children. A dearth of judges with the backbone to deny the "perversion" of those 64+ EOs and their unconstitutional aspect along with the dangers posed in enforcement and application. I.e. - a transgender child with cancer -no treatment according to Trump's immoral edicts. In fact, what real and true health system and treatment will there be under the twisted RFK Jr? 

Think, folks, think long and hard and follow the threads of his abominations. See where they end and their effect upon you. Upon yours. Upon this nation. Upon this world. Have we changed so drastically that we endorse inhumanity, condone starvation, constant warfare, as long as we seem to remain above it all? We are so not safe nor immune to the toxicity of a Trumpian world.     

The choice is ours, yours and mine. The future we risk is not ours to risk for it belongs, rightfully so, to our children and grandchildren. It is a trust we are currently betraying. Read what came yesterday. Put it all together. and see where truth resides. Where we should reside. Ours, along with the responsibility to make the proper choice. Push back against those who wish to trample you and your rights underfoot. 

Let us employ the myriad legal tools arrayed before us. Make the most of those courageous enough to stand against all that is so, so dangerous within a Trumpian world. Sidestep the mewling cowards and fix our nation. See through the fog of obfuscation of the Trump administration. See clearly through to the truth. Understand the peril in which we are now deeply immersed. Read and heed the words, written and spoken, voices of intelligence and warning.  Up to us. Either do what must be done or cede our rights and independence to those who wish to keep them in their hot little hands. 

And so, we return to the words of yesterday, just as vital and true as those above.

 Today, folks, for on the morrow might be too late.

NO, IT CAN'T! OH YES IT CAN, AND IN FACT .

  ...it has already begun. 

 Yes, it has already begun. No more waiting to see if the rotten egg bursts its shell as noxious odors escape their weakened containment and pollute the air in ever expanding eddies of filth and despair. How has this happened? Why did this happen? Why are we now facing the biggest existential crisis we have ever faced as a nation, other than the American Revolution itself and the Civil War, approximately 8 decades later. Not even during the national crisis of the years of the Vietnam War have we ever come so close to dissolution, violent and pervasive, ever growing, as we are at present. 

Yes, like it or not, believe it or not, want it or not, accept its truth or not, we are here. Check the positional map of present status of our nation and there, in large, bold letters, you will find the ''x'' and the statement "You are here." And yes, there we are, in the foothills of the tragic mountain range we are to face and climb or die trying, if not already tackling the lowest segments of the range itself, the foothills long ago faced and we did not score any victories there. Certainly, none of any duration.

 The range before us and under our feet, so blatant and challenging in its height and massiveness, is to be the period of last stands of the nation as she is.     We are in the midst of a battle for our lives, for our America to remain in existence, vital and fulfilling the promises made at the time of its birth. We are losing that battle's initial stages. We are facing deeper losses, more serious losses, almost to the end, closer than we think, closer than we wish to acknowledge. We've almost cavalierly negated the sacrifices of those who gave their lives during the Revolutionary War, during the War of 1812, during all the wars throughout the centuries fought to keep our nation and the world safe and on the right path. We have spit upon the bravery of our immigrant ancestors - yes, immigrants - even as many of us are ourselves. 

We strayed often off the proper path, at times of varying duration and seriousness. But always we managed to return, perhaps a bit battered, but to retrace our steps to the point where we went wrong and fix it and so we did.  We the people of our nation, the legislators of our nation. were and are not perfect, but the impetus, the desire to reform, reformat, and create a nation of which we can all be proud always remained. Battered but wiser, ever more determined to do that much better, to continue to be the standard to which every nation. aspired, for which all peoples of the world hoped for themselves. We managed to do that despite often intimidating challenges. However, at present, the situation has changed drastically.  

We have allowed ourselves to be kidnapped, hijacked and taken down a long pathway, so long that we have lost sight of any possible point of exit. We have allowed our ship of state to rot in its moorage, and then sent it asea, to founder in hostile waters. We obediently trudged along those dangerous byways of life, refusing to see the truth before us. Willfully blind or blinded by others did not make a difference. We remained apathetic, grew even more so, grew accustomed to the numerous dings and dents, even to the more serious impacts upon our lives.  Upon the very possibility of retaining that which we were given, this nation, a bastion of democracy, an example, an encouragement to the world that yes, government of and by and for the people is an achievable maintainable goal. 

We are at present, deeply immersed in dangerous waters, exhausted along paths leading nowhere other than to more loss. We have lost and are losing more of what makes us America. Our grit is gone. We have turned on the very structures which enabled our success. We have shredded the Constitution and demeaned the Declaration of Independence. We have allowed for the branches of government to be chopped away from the Tree of Liberty, denying it sustenance. And so here we are. 

We have, much to our shame, opened the gates of Hell. Hideous poisonous snakes emerged to strangle us, to deny America, to deny the privilege and responsibility of being American. We have already ceded much of the game to those who cheat, lie, steal, to those who despise us, who think of us as weak, able to be conquered, hoodwinked, to the point of no return. How and why? One day historians will write huge tomes dissecting this period of our history. Will it be a discussion of a revitalized America, or a eulogy? Another Camelot gone? Ours to decide. Our efforts or lack thereof.  To abandon its people, to desert the world? I know what I think. Do you?

Perhaps I am naive and must grow up and accept the harm to our nation, the almost hopeless task to correct and redirect back to its proper pathway. To calmer seas. Perhaps, but then again, this is still America, is it not? We can demand a chance to make amends, to fix the damage done. We can oppose those who wish to cancel the nation and rip it apart. We can conquer the dangerous peaks and craggy edges which threaten us. We must screw our courage to the sticking point and know what must be done -and do it. Period. No more excuses. Open eyes and minds. Acknowledge errors and fix it.

FIX. IT. 

The alternative is too awful to contemplate and   not good for our kids and for our people.   

 Here is an incomplete listing of some of what this madman and his unelected puppet master have brought upon this nation. There is more to come, almost on an hourly basis. We had better understand where we are and what must be done if we are not to lose it all. Hear the shrieking alarm, blaring its warning. See the flames of the fires engulfing us. Act accordingly. Rescue our nation from those who have hijacked it.  

Allowed an unelected civilian to determine the future of this nation.

Allowed this fraudster, this immoral man with fingers in every dirty pie round the world, to dissolve this government. Illegally, immorally.

He has appointed the most incompetent dangerously unknowing, moral perverts and most cooperative henchman to dissolve this government's working force, a dangerous move for our survival. 

He has endangered this nation via peremptory firing and dismissal or forced retirement, of employees in charge of the safety and distribution of our nuclear weapons. 

He has weakened our government with a massive loss of those who actually make this nation function. 

  He has defiled the Constitution and our sacred structure of three branches of government to check and balance each other and keep us on the road straight and true.

  He has given himself powers over the other two branches. Powers which are denied by the Constitution and illegal. 

He has created. havoc within this country as he emasculated the Congress to the point where they are simply emulating the Reichstag in blindly without question, endorsing and approving and voting for anything that Hitler/Trump/Musk wanted. A true fascistic government. 

Furthermore, he weakened this country by denying the judiciary its rightful powers and simply refuses to follow any of the rules and decisions they make. No decision is accepted unless it is the decision that he wants. 

It is a nation now without legal definition, sans guidance or leaders, without structure. Perfect for takeover.  All already kowtowing to the Leader and his alternate, Musk.

Gangs of crazed entitled and empowered children rampage through the halls and files of government. wreaking havoc and violating the privacy of its citizens and upending the payment system of the nation. So wrong, So dangerous. So fascistic. All brought to you via Trump/Musk and servants. 

We are quickly becoming a nation ruled by a fascistic dictator and those who serve him. We have a nation writhing with fear, unable and unknowing of what is to come and what to do.   

To state 80 years after American soldiers liberated Dachau, an infamous slaughterhouse of the Jewish people and opponents of fascism, Vance, (and his boss) actually urged, promoted, for acceptance of a political party that many Germans consider to be the befouled offspring. of Nazism,

 A man who colludes with our enemies, taking upon himself the right to decide the fate of other nations.  Engages in rampant alienation of our allies. 

Woe upon us if we do not act while we still have the capability to do so, while we still have some courageous, untainted judges willing to stand up to Trump and his allies. While we still have some in Congress able to remember who they are, what they stand for and who they ought to serve. Before all of this disappears, we must act. We must pelt this present government and its president with legal actions, one after the other. Unstopping and unstoppable. We must make our representatives in Washington and in state houses hear our voices and know where the true power resides. Woe upon us if we do not act.

Waiting round the corner are those who voted for Trump and his crazed maxims and promises. The truth will out. There will be no laborers, no workers to fix, to mend, to sow, to be lawyers, serve as doctors and nurses, teachers and professors, farm workers and construction workers. And why? Because they have all been sent away, deported. smeared by libel and vile untruths. Or perhaps incarcerated in Guantanamo in a broken-down prison, and that would include minors too. When they cannot get food because it is simply not there because it has not been picked or packed, when they cannot have their own crops picked and packed because there are no workers to do so. When the tariffs raise the prices of food and items so high that it is absolutely unattainable. When medical care disappears, when the social safety net disappears. When there are no customers in their stores or for their services. When there are no funds for infrastructure needs. What then? At what temperature will the pot boil over? And what will it sear when it overflows the rim of the pot? 

 It is ugly to contemplate and uglier yet if it happens, if we do not prevent this. Only we can do this. But now, while we continue to have some legal edge to do so.  

Time to act. Time to protest. Time to know the truth.

 I am not the only voice in this matter.    

Who are we and whom do we wish to be in our future?  The choice is ours. Would that we make the correct one.

On the morrow - or even today.

"WHAT A MESS?"

  And no, it is not okay. Not at all. Not by the least scintilla and, in fact, is the very opposite of ok? In fact, it is an intolerable mess. Moreover, untangling this mess demands the finding of the ends with which to begin to untie it. They are, however, hidden from sight, deep within the mess.  This unbelievably challenging knot has no arm, no sword, strong enough, valiant enough, courageous enough to wield it and cut through to the very heart. Exposé the truth of the knot and its originators and sever the spell, render it powerless, destroy its power to mesmerize and frighten all those who venture too close.  Portray the false self-proclaimed emperor and his manifestly greedy ambitious co-ruler, as the true dangerous madmen they are and the imminent danger they pose to this nation. DEFCON - NOW!!!    

This once proud united nation is now in the throes of a state of destruction almost beyond any attempt, any true reality of success, to halt its trajectory straight to perdition and return it to a possibility of recalling its past, remembering without distortion the words and documents of the Founding Fathers and temper their acts, motivations and goals accordingly. Actually, a long walk over the border, any which one. Hell, send them first class! never to return. 

No muss, no fuss, the best ending. After that we could, must, roll up the proverbial sleeves and get down to serious work, return sense and sensibility to the people, reconnect with allies and shed the shameful partnerships with enemies. We must stave off the imminent collapse of this nation as a democracy, an example and inspiration to the world. We must support those within authoritarian and fascistic nations who fight for the end of those regimes and the establishment of democracy within those nations, to be free of threats of harm and even end of life. To build lives with possibilities. 

At present we are growing by leaps and bounds in the growth of our reputation and practice as an anti-democratic nation. We now have a self-declared king who rules with an unelected co ruler who is actually. the power behind the throne, as the self-crowned king is naught but a dangerous fool. These two and their emasculated cohorts, are very busy feeding this nation into the shredder, its teeth biting deep and permanently. Once the shredding is done, very soon at the present pace, there will be no reprieve. Certainly not an easy one. Certainly, at great cost of blood and life and infrastructure.

At present, all these sniveling suck ups, all the bewitched and hoodwinked, all those desperately hanging on by their fingernails, all those reluctant to admit their error in supporting this man and his ideas, all those desperate that he does the right thing in the right way with Israel - are all very busy. Knowingly and unknowingly, they are negating our Constitution, denying the Declaration of Independence. Perverting its inner soul. Denying the national ethos. Ignoring our history, changing. and denying our history.  As for Israel, my other nation, I worry. Thís man changes his mind without that proverbial dime. The determining factor is his benefit. All else are of little, if any, importance. He abandons his supporters as he deems necessary and beneficial for his goals.   

This convicted felon, a fraudster, a man with no morals, is buoyed by his cabinet of equally morally challenged beings, toadies of the first degree, ceding their souls to the two rulers of our present nation. The guiding principle of government is now "all hail to the king" and "all obey his puppet master". Incompetence is now a desirable trait. In fact, it is apparently a requirement.

Overall, the nefarious illegal and immoral plans of the administration to create havoc and unemployment in the ranks of federal employees was absolutely correct in the statement of the judge who called for  a halt - It is. a mess. and it is not OK. 

It is not OK to violate those regulations which have long been set in place decades ago so as to avoid crooked, corrupt, incompetent workers in a crooked incompetent corrupt administration. The clear and ultimate goal of this administration is to turn civil service at every level of this nation into a reward for loyalty to the man. Not the nation, not the people, to the man, to the man only. 

It is not OK when this ignorant man who barely knows how to read and certainly knows no rules of writing, takes upon himself a new crown. Crown of the Chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Any day now, I expect him to rename it for himself. Yes, he is an actor. Quite skilled or practiced at it. He has the innate natural falseness, the ability to be a chameleon, so valuable to any actor. 

It is not OK that he dismisses any and all who do not bow in obeisance to him. Who do not negate their selves. and replace their souls with his and adopt his blackened heart as their own.  

It is not OK when he turns on our allies and instead befriends and openly admires our enemies.

It is not OK when he interferes in education, which obviously did not take on him. Nor is it okay for him to censor books and thoughts. His lack of   ability to think properly and sensibly does not mean the rest of us have to be the same.

 It is not OK for a convicted felon to be president of this country when felons in some states are barred from voting, so how is it that a convicted felon, unrepentant at that, is now at the head of this nation?

It is not OK that he demands to impose his thoughts and beliefs on others in their health plans. Not for transgender care. Not for women and abortion. Not for anyone. Whether one approves or not is not the determining factor. 

 Nor is it ok for him to rename geographic entities simply because his ego demands it.

 Nor is it ok for him to decide that he can unilaterally take on Panama, Canada, Mexico, Gaza, and Greenland as adjuncts of this nation nor to make Israel a puppet natron as he makes decisions for her. 

No, this nation is not OK. Not by a longshot. Unless we stand together as one and deny his attempts to trash democracy, consistently, and search high and low for some GOP legislators with some honesty within, well. suffice it to say that not okay will be the greatest understatement ever.   The tainted snowball gathers momentum and adherents daily. Time is short. Will we even last till 2028? There are serious doubts.

Perhaps we can effect change, resist the harm to this nation? 

Perhaps -

 On the morrow. 

IS ANYBODY HOME?

  The plaintive voices of many folk singers sent forth the words of the iconic song "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"  We all sang it. With such great emotion, such longing, so much passion and earnestness. Around campfires and at get-togethers. Over the radio. Knowing that this destructive streak of humanity must end.  And yet, here we are. All those many decades, yet more ugly cycles have been completed or sent into new ever worsening spirals. We can even more forcefully and truthfully repeat the words to that song, for in fact the truth remains.  

"Where have all the flowers gone? To the young men. And where have all the young men gone? To the graveyards, everyone." A never-ending stream.  We grieve so deeply as individuals and as nations   with deep sorrow. Its weight burdens our shoulders and our inner beings. It will never dissipate, without such possibility as we continue to add to the heaps of shattered hopes and dreams, of bodies gone or maimed, of futures, of families, destroyed.

 Once again, ever again, truthfully sans any true ending, on continuous rewind, the brave souls of Israel are under hails of rockets and missiles, threatened with physical death and or exile - again. The death, the denial, of a dream of over 3,000 years, our survival through horrendous times of persecution, the agonies and losses of the Holocaust, the deaths of terror in Israel - when does it ever end? And why do the nations of the world conflate the deaths of civilians with the deaths of terrorists, merge and then lie about the origin of war and the inevitable consequences, the appropriate shares of blame laid at the feet and on the shoulders where it belongs. 

  Mistreated, brutalized, starved tortured. Such is the fate, the living conditions of the hostages stolen from their homes, from the nation. Did not the entire world see those time travelers from the Holocausts returned to us? Where are the wails of sorrow and the accusations against the perpetrators of this renewed horror? So obvious a war crime, a blemish on the soul of humanity. 

Is anybody home out there? Is anybody answering the doorbell? Or the thunderous pounding upon the doors?  Is anybody home inside there? Is anybody up and alert or caring? Why are homes round the world shrouded in an inky blackness barring all vision? Where has the sun gone? Why do we appear to be in a dark, inky black tunnel with no lights at all? No end in sight. In fact, I believe we have barely penetrated this tunnel, though we have already traveled long and no relief in sight creates a truly disheartening and desperate situation. Our elders tell us we have fallen into the deepest, darkest heart of Hell and relief will be a long time in coming and in short supply at that. The only chance of success is for a mammoth reawakening of the people of this world, to feel individual pain as our pain. To know and understand that we are not alone on this earth and had better stop acting as if we were.   

Why have we all left home? Or if we remain at home, why do we deny, ignore and even forcibly push away those who wish to come in, to share with us and create a better life for us all. Light up the world rather than contribute to its darkness. Together work to improve the world situation. Why have we not yet learned that ignoring a problem does not make it go away; it only gives it food to grow on and sunlight. When that problem so well-nourished gives forth its buds, the result will be powerful rank weeds capable of, desirous of choking the life out of all that is good and beautiful within the garden of earth. We will have enabled the destruction of a treasure entrusted to us, into our care. In fact, we have made a mighty big start down that path, have we not?  

 Robin Williams called out in his iconic movie, "Good morning, America!" Multiply that call. Sing it out loud and strong. Wake up the world. Call all of humanity to understand what we have done. We have destroyed our home. We have been most definitely bad guests and ungracious hosts. The Huns are at the gate. Civilization, such as it is, is under siege. There remains one narrow way out. The back door. The only way for reform and reformatting of this world and of our attitudes. 

We have failed ourselves along with the rest of the world. Cull through the roster of leaders, seeking a true wise great caring one.  I dare say, you will find nary a soul. Courage, stamina, a keen and working brain, an open heart, a set of working balls or equivalent. To know that which must be done, proper priorities, and the will to go forth and inspire others to follow. Male or female. It matters not, though personally, I believe a capable woman is the better option.   

Israel has been in a fight for its life. Hamas has but one end goal in mind and that is it. It's clearly evidenced in the faces and the bodies and the minds of those who are lucky enough to have been released from where they never should have been in the first place. Israel will most assuredly not simply give up and walk away. The world needs to know this. The world needs to accept into its respective hearts, into its collective heart, that we, Israeli Jews and Jews round the world, are not the enemy. Whether we live in Israel, our ancestral home or in the scattered nations of the world. The world needs to know when to leave things alone. When to keep its mouth shut. When to support. When to stand simply by, acknowledging by your presence that you stand with Israel, that you stand with decency, that you stand against evil.

Over the past 16 months the masses of the world have ignored all of the awful fighting, the deep   starvation within Africa, it's perpetual wars and bloodletting. The crimes against women caught up in these fields of war. Instead, they have focused their attention on this one. Begun by terrorists in a mass of encouraging not so "innocent" civilians, (and for that I refer you to the pictures and sounds of pressing mobs against the hostages being released.) As they held these hostages in their own private homes and tormented them as much as did the beasts in the tunnels below. The nations of the world were, for the most part, negative, encouraging to Hamas, demonized the hostages and belittled the slaughtered of Oct7. War damage and deaths within Israel, the deliberate targeting of civilians within Israel. All ignored even as Israel was criticized whether civilians were asked to move or not.  Lies of Hamas were accepted as words from on High, as in the "imminent' famine, never arrived. Never real at all, but the world stood by and bought into it.  With great enthusiasm.    

 The rending of this world into fighting bits and pieces of territory is growing rapidly.  The ranks of leaders are depleted, actually were never filled to begin with.  All these tragedies around the world, starving babies held in grieving arms of parents. Mothers helpless to protect their children. Sons and fathers and brothers slain or taken prisoner. Many children pressed into being child soldiers. Women running from crazed men at war who see women as legitimate war booty. Children unloved, insecure, always in danger. Hungry, uneducated. No socialization. No future. No one gains anything in this world for even those amassing a fortune from wartime economy will have nowhere to spend it. No safe way or path to walk.  Hatred   approved, with a calculated callous use as political points.    

Horrific to contemplate a world of a near future, totally at war. What the hell are we doing? What are we doing? When will we come home? When will we heed the calls from without? What are we doing? What are we doing?

  Is anybody home? Planning to return home? Is anybody up and on their feet? Where is everybody? How has this happened? The greatest nation of the world has turned back the clock to times of governments of corruption, favoritism, bribe taking and giving, injustice. Class warfare. The practice of reward for blind loyalty to person, not nation. Choosing one made of the coarsest clay to follow and deify. A philosophy of us versus them.  

The poor little bird of hope squeaking out of her confining box is tired. Her wings weary. She needs a place of haven. But she is caught in the hostile winds of nations denying haven and refuge. And so gradually her tweets of hope are dying down, barely heard, and so is the hope within us. She is down to knocking weakly on doors but finding no one home. No one asks her in or provides her food and shelter outdoors.  

Can we change that situation. Simply by paying attention to the world, understanding and acknowledging that we all have much at stake. 

 Do we even want to? Do we know the way to do that? Will we, against all odds?

Can we change?

Perhaps. Maybe.   

On the morrow? 

Come home. Leave your hiding places. Open the hidden doorways into your arms and hearts, to each other and to yourself as well. Come home. Wake up If not today. then please ...

  -on the morrow.

POTS AND KETTLES AND OFFANDONANDONANDONANDONANDONANDON

  ... to infinity and beyond? A stinking reeking of evil creeping crud is overwhelming this nation. It has apparently never come up against a wall it cannot conquer. The results are quite clear. The only ones who cannot see them are those willingly blind or firmly implanted within this crud. It is a soulless phenomenon. and crushes the souls of any who concede to it. Already lost is much of America, her ethos, her brash American confidence that it had what it needed to solve the world's problems, to overcome its mistakes made at home. 

The world is America's oyster. Unfortunately, however, the slime within this edible creature began to overwhelm and compromise the enjoyment of it. In direct proportion to the increase in the slime, was an increase in the corruption of those who ruled this nation, as it slimed its way down the ranks to the everyday people. Drowning in acrimony and induced despair, not knowing where to turn, to find truth, they simply began to hear only what they wished to hear and see.

Falling willing prey to the bread and circus events and rants of that unqualified, dangerous, demented leader, Trump, ever so crafty and sly in his madness, the situation grew worse and grows worse day by day. Every day yet another outrage and another, and another, and another. No off switch.  The puppet ropes held in the greedy hands of Musk, fortified by his horrid Muskrats, go unseen. These abominations have no space between them and their goals and the goals and behavior of the Hitler youth movement, or the Red Guards of Mao, or the Pioneer groups of Russia and North Korea. Indeed, any child sold on the perversion of the antidemocratic forces within their respective nations becomes a lost soul and their disturbed nation merely a battleground ever greedy for more blood. Whatever pleased the dictator killers was the order of the day, a nation at perpetual war, always hungry for more fodder for their war machines, 

Unfortunately, success breeds more success. and as time goes on people become inured to what is happening. They can no longer discern truth from lies. They struggle in a daily life so harsh, to simply survive and keep the family safe. Not always successfully at that. Social criminals and standard criminals now find welcoming places within the developing powers. They begin to overcome the sane, the emotionally stable, the generally honest people who usually make up a typical government. Unfortunately, the government of this new dictatorship is corrupt from the ground up. It has no respect to the judiciary. It sets upon those within that judiciary who challenge their usurpation of the branches of government. True judges are much fewer on the ground and the legislators are puppets, bobbleheads, who shake wherever directed to do so.   

Religion becomes corrupted and the version is deemed "true Christianity”, becomes the religion of the nation, or so we are told. It begins to intrude into the classroom, into the libraries, into the arts and sciences, into the intelligentsia, into the courts, into every home and institution of this nation.  Voila! A new nation.  Wonder how we got here? Just take a look backwards and see and understand and know how low we have fallen. How difficult the task to regain, retrieve, all that we have lost, and the almost impossibility to go even further in the right direction on a proper ladder.    

Acquiescence is demanded, even necessary for survival. Incompetence and corruption rule. Morally bankrupt people are placed in charge Their goal only to amass wealth and power and obey the words of the leader or his representatives. Or the puppet master. 

The end result is a broken 4th world nation whose mighty history, its graciousness, its errors, its history. its contributions, fade. wither away, blown away by the wind. The seeds fail to re implant themselves. Suddenly we have become a segment of a chapter in a textbook on nations that once were and are not any longer. Perhaps an essay for a high school class.  

Are we at that point? We are not there yet. I repeat yet, but every day we grow closer and closer. Crazed empowered youngsters raid the workplaces of the federal government. They pry into every aspect of our lives. Privacy, lost. Gone with the wind. The same winds that are blowing away anything decent that remains within this nation. Seeds contributing beauty and oxygen fail to thrive while the weeds grow tall and dominant.  

If nations had mood rings ours would present a dark, bottomless depth of blackness. It would consist of the heap of crumbled souls and discarded morals. It would be sprinkled heavily with the broken dreams. Or the social safety nets withered construction crumbled useless. Corruption and greed will rule the day, and we are well along the way to that. Principles and morals are words only, no flesh beneath. So many, too many, are being sucked into this crazed world.

 America? Where are Americans? Where are the people, the beliefs we once had? We have apparently fallen into a pit of negativity, of hatred for others, never realizing that we are the others to them. We do what must be done. Will we, in fact, screw our courage to the sticking point and do what we must, clean out the filth of corruption, and hold all to account who partook in the ravaging of our country? Can we rebuild strong enough in a new and improved version? And how will we ensure that this never ever happens again? Of most importance, where will we find the leaders we so desperately need?   

I have no answers. Only questions. Way above my pay grade. But at least I do have a presence of mind to understand and recognize what is happening to our nation and in fact, to this world.  Think not that you are impervious if you turn off the news and refuse to read papers. No one is immune to the vagaries of life and the dangers posed by nasty, crooked people.  Ever.

Can we improve? I hope so. Simply look to our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren and understand the offense we have committed in endangering their lives and its quality. Perhaps that will induce us to look with sharper eye and see the truth of the matter. Do I have hope? Well, let's put it this way. It is not in plentiful supply. Will it be on another day? Can it be? Maybe, but not ...

On the morrow.

   

       

MH DAY

 Good morning, Folks

Got up and decided that I need an MH day as I am very tired. Will be back on Wednesday

MORTAL DANGER/MORAL DANGER DOES THE LETTER MAKE THE DIFFERENCE?

Does the presence or absence of the letter T make a difference? Is there a huge air gap between what is mortal and what is moral? Actually, I think not for moral is part of the word mortal. To be mortal is to be human and to be human carries with it the responsibility of being, to being, moral. To be the best, not necessarily in a profession or talent, but the best a human can be. To feel within the connection all mortals have with each other. To act accordingly, and hence make this planet, this home of ours a better place for all. When mortals forsake the moral part of their heritage, then mortals fail, at times abysmally to the point of existential threat to life and all that makes life worth living. 

My journey, my efforts to find a place for myself within our frantic world too often brings me slam into uncomfortable brick walls! Where is that wall? Where am I? All those decisions and steps of our lives, the paths we have chosen, all have affected, narrowed, for good or bad, what comes after, what we have enabled or denied. We pranced merrily through life, either unaware or uncaring of the strings of life and are greatly surprised when we face plant against that wall. BAM!! How the Hell   did we land here and now what?

It is precisely then, as we look around and see how we are one among many, all so different yet all the same. We have, hopefully, an understanding or the beginning of such, of the lines, the threads of life which connect all of us. How ignorant we have been in ignoring that, how responsible are we for that which has gone wrong on this earth. Have we played our roles and cards dealt to us, properly, positively, or have we indulged ourselves with the invective of hate, of prejudice of catastrophically wrong decisions? Have we become the spoiler in the bunch, the rotten apple and to what degree. Can we fix things, make amends or is it too late and our choices now limited in scope to those which aid us in atonement and amelioration of past misdeeds?  

There are too many times during which it is impossible. to fix that which is broken, which we have broken. It is a difficult bar or standard we must strive to reach, but always, it is. absolutely necessary that we understand and act upon that knowledge, that the moral must be strongly interwoven with the mortal. To deny that, to act and believe otherwise, is to pursue evil, waste and harm. The ugly dominate with their misthinking and misbehaviors and good is shoved aside, demeaned, demoted, devalued. 

We are at present in such times. We have made bad decisions, chosen incorrectly with consequences   abysmal and dismaying. When Tom Brady and Snoop Dogg have to engage in a shouting match at each other to highlight how ridiculous the words and the excuses for hate are, how blatantly ugly is antisemitism, what have we done? When a rapper has to chide the President at a Super Bowl half-time, what have we done? No, not the rapper at fault, but us, the rest of us too frightened and/or too much in agreement with this dangerous man now at the head of our government. Nor do I think    women have to take to the air. to remind all that it is a "yes, we can and yes, we will" response to Trump and his misogynistic policies.   

We have empowered that man and his flying monkeys, his horrendous hit man and puppet master, Musk and the Muskrats, his manchild crew of Robo Rats, mindless, programmed to destroy, demean, and disrespect and shred this nation to the point of no return. How, in fact, is it possible that a man not elected to office, with a made-up vague title, with his filthy fingers in every filthy pie round the globe, given free rein to break this nation over his knees and bleed us out from the wounds from his barbed, forked and lying tongue. 

 Have all Republicans in government misplaced their balls? Are they satisfied with their third-class position in government?  Have they left it to Liz Cheney, that courageous woman to man up and take them and their misbegotten leader to task? Are they to leave it to the remaining endangered species of independent non fearful principled judges to oppose Trump and his unconstitutional illegal maneuverings? Woe upon this nation. Our false leaders are weak, suck ups to a madman. We are lost in a trackless never-ending morass of our own making, and our GPS and Waze systems are broken with no repairperson in sight.   

Before you remind me that Trump is just oh so good for Israel. Think again. Where is the Hell he promised? It is way past his inauguration day, yet our people remain in conditions emulating the worst of Hitler and his concentration camps.     Powerful words? Meaningful threats and follow through? Only found are the echoes of taking credit where none is due.  Our hostages remain. The bodies remain. More will die before release. Even as the world conflates our hostages with the terrorist animals and beasts held within Israeli prisons, released in unconscionable number for each and every hostage stumbling out of the dark, dank tunnels. Skin and bones. Skeletonized people.

 Israel gets words of condemnation and outrage as Trump speaks his preposterous remarks. All the rest is a deadly thunderous deafening SILENCE from the world with the accusations of injustice, and accusations directed at Israel, who, may I remind you, did not begin this war. Did not slaughter 1200 civilians and that would include Infants and children, the branding of these children. and the maltreatment of the others and of the elderly and everyone in between. Such brave, "innocent civilians" who gather to share in the joy of threatening and crowding and pushing of the hostages lucky enough to be released from Hell.           

Trump. Where is Trump? Mouthing words of "sound and fury, signifying nothing". Busy playing golf, doing business on our time, appointing incompetents and worse, and shaming the once noble role of President of the United States of America. Remember when we were truly the image of the tittle? Gone.   

Where the hell is the world? Absent again unless engaging in an amusing repartee, oh, so witty. All of condemnation of Israel. May God curse their miserable souls.   

When the moral contribution to mortal is thrust aside, deemed of little value, harmful to one's chase after wealth and power, nothing good is actualized, certainly not for the people at large, only for the immoral mortal and only temporarily at that.  The moral part of mortal is easy for some to discard, but the wheel of life rolls around and that brick wall awaits patiently. 

Perhaps one day humanity will learn, take to heart, the consequences of setting aside the moral component of mortals. That to separate the moral from the mortal is a dangerous step to take and the piper will always be paid.

Maybe one day, but not today.

Perhaps ...

On the morrow.     

WHO'S ON FIRST? WHAT'S ON SECOND?

And as for third base and beyond, well, I don't know. Nor will I know today or tomorrow or certainly, or because or why, and indeed all the rest of the most famous baseball team ever as per the well-known Abbott and Costello comedy routine. However, as troubling as some of the names are, and the hearty laughs garnered by this most glaring miscommunication, the one most troubling to me, most pertinent to the atmosphere of this nation today, is I Don't Give A Damn or the more succinct I Don't Care, perhaps the most dangerous name of all.

This routine, so successfully funny and appealing is not so funny when taken as a piece of social commentary as meant to be. A nation at that time was troubled just as the nation of today. However, there was no doubt then that the nation would survive, a bit battered, a bit torn, but survive it would in good. shape. Unfortunately, today, our nation stands on a crumbling cliff 's edge and for sure there is no certainty as to its survival. Certainly not in its structure as a democratic state.  

In fact, reading of the contents of the activities of the President et al of this nation over the past 47 days has seen us fall, as the cliff was unable to bear the weight, and the never-ending blows rained down upon it by the very ones who were meant to be its guardians. "Et tu Brute, the unkindest blows of all, to paraphrase a famous political commentator of his time. 

The nation has now become fearful, frightened by a demonic madman and his chief honcho. Too paralyzed to act in its defense, our future as a democratic nation, a leader of the free world, is almost at the point of no return.    

Our rather challenged baseball team, so aptly named, are seeking amongst themselves for the proper questions and answers, not knowing to whom to turn, until finally all gather round the shortstop, perilously close to home base and adopt his attitude of "I don't care. I don't give a damn". And here we are today. A writer to an editor has phrased it quite well, certainly for me and for those who see and acknowledge the truth as it is - not as we paint it.  

 She writes "I am angry, but even more so I am deeply fearful of the path our country is currently walking down.”  So too am I and so are more and more people, recognizing, understanding our state of being, the perils present and growing in magnitude. Accepting that we all must share, accept and acknowledge our responsibilities, to shift from audience to participants. To emulate the skill and the confidence. of a nation of many a Bob the Builder, emulate his confidence and skills and rehab this nation until it is once more the show model of and for the world.

We must prepare to take this nation back. To gather our courage to the sticking point. To use all that we have and turn this nation around, back into a positive, confident democracy, using all the tools at hand, a properly functioning three branch government, guided by the Constitution with true interpretation. With a strong moral nonpartisan unbribed judiciary. With an executive branch who recognizes boundaries and limits. With a legislative branch strong enough to do the right thing, to face fear and defeat it. To stand up and be the heroes we need, not the craven sniveling kowtowing corrupt    cowards they are at present. 

Who's on first? What's on second?  Pertinent   questions for third base of I Don't Know is our true state of being at present. Who in fact is on first, the base of the President? Second base should be for advisors. Unfortunately, today we have a situation in reverse. In fact, this nation is now being governed, run and undermined by a man who has usurped the role of president, stolen first base. He has become the puppet master of the president and the ruling hitman. He is the initiator of abominable acts of destruction of the nation's ethos, its entire structure. Frankly, so anti-democratic, so anti moral is this misbegotten power hungry being, that only a trial and sentencing to a lifetime in prison, a traitor to this nation would suffice. Even then, I am not sure it would be sufficient, so egregious are his actions and intentions re this nation and its future.     And we can throw in the homegrown Red Guards busy playing the flying monkeys of the evil Wizard.  

Invading the files of every department of this government. violating the privacy of every member of this nation-that includes you, for no one and nothing is sacrosanct.  

The Department of Education is emasculated. Its new head given the job of dismantling it.  School curriculums are censored, limited and falsified as deemed necessary by the flunkeys in charge. 

The Department of Defense meant to serve and defend this nation is to be used against its residents. It is to be shredded and reformatted. An armed force of only straight white men is the goal. All else to be dissed, vilified, categorized as useless or worse. To be used as shock troops of this nation, replete with bigotry, callous, and aiding and abetting the immoral so wrong raids upon homes and schools, places of work and worship, taking away those deemed unworthy of this nation though they have contributed much already. 

On the topic, let me bust your bubble. Immigrants are not to be seen as disease ridden criminal types only anxious to inflict harm and trouble upon all else. They are people, even as we are. They are people as our ancestors are, as they too immigrated to this nation. The same kind of immigrants we have had throughout our entire nation's history, looking for a better place, a better future, a place of hope and possibility.  

In fact, if one is looking for criminals why not look to where we know they are for sure? Look to the present administration. Look to its heads. Look to Musk as he violates this nation. Looking for convicted felons? Seek no further than the Oval Office. Looking for sexual perverts? Simply take a look at most of the appointees. No, we have a plethora of criminals. We need not look for them where they are not. And if they are there, those are deserving of deportation.   

The shredding of the IRS and the sanctity of its records. And yes, I hate filing taxes just as much as anyone else. However, think of a government without revenue. What then?  

Tampering with all research., medical and every aspect of research - societal, political. All limited and censored. New findings, new medicines, all have become verboten. Judged only by political. loyalty.  Our own replica of a Mao book of rules. So proud we must be. 

Bias allowed, particularly when well disguised, though increasingly out in the open, more brazen than ever.

Women to be forced back into kitchen, church and children, all rights abrogated, cancelled, annulled, shredded to smithereens.

Homosexuality to be criminalized again. Marriages annulled. Arrests to be made again, and restrictions and employability questioned. Once again, the government in our bedrooms. Missionary position only. 

 Increasing pace of destruction of sites and papers meant to be available to the people of this nation and to serious researchers and governmental figures.

The layoffs and firing of federal workers and appointees, to be replaced with loyalists - not to the nation, but to Trump and Musk.   

The hiring principle that the more ignorant the person is, the more likely to be appointed to a most unfitting office, to be dedicated to destroying that department rather than improving it. Confirmed they are by the worthless Congress.   

 An increasingly negatively differentiated world between the Haves of the capital H and the have nots, with little hope for advancement and positive change.     

Broad out of control unlimited censorship with disastrous results and inadequately prepared citizens of a future world. Burn the offending books? Burn the offending people?  

Roundups of people deemed Untermensch. Ominous revival of frightening terms. Once again - Deportation. Resettlement. New jobs. Pack little as we will provide for all.  

Concentration camps. By any name still stinking, reeking of evil, death and inhumanity. Ghostly echoes of Hitler resounding ever stronger ever more prominent.   

Destroying the three-branch system. Corrupting the judiciary, emasculating the legislative, and disregarding the boundaries of the exective. 

 Trashing entire departments meant to aid people. The EPA, US Aids. Government funding for research, for schools, for infrastructure, for health. Throwing out all of the babies with those bath waters. Disregarding the continued value of those babies and the remaining heat of those bath waters.  

Censorship of media in all manifestations, via funding or office space denial, particularly those who do not swear loyalty to Trump and Musk, the puppet master and skillful hitman. 

 Censorship of all data deemed dangerous to the administration. Never mind the danger that denial poses to the electorate.

 There is more, so much more. But there are also the morrows. Many deficiencies remain. Many perils remain and grow anew. If we continue to disassociate ourselves from this evil reformatting of our government, we will reap what we sow. We will be fed the weeds we refused to pull out. We will pay for our pride.

There is yet time remaining to offset this flood of evil and negativity. But action must happen soon. Reality must be seen through clear glasses. These words of mine along with the words of so many, along with the growing dissatisfaction and disillusionment of those who voted for Trump, who now are dismayed by his wild directives and the emerging damage - well, is that enough to nudge you off the dime? Let us join together to right the wrongs, do we what we can, what we must if we are to thwart the evil intentions of Trump and Musk, puppet master extraordinaire. We can negate him with the laws of our nation, but quickly before they vanish. 

We need to insist on courage and loyalty to nation and electorate from our judiciary and legislative branches. Only with them, by them, can the citizenry of this nation take it back again. Before it is too late. We have the legal weapons to put this in place, if only we will it so and act accordingly, to make it so.  

Hello? Are we there yet? Are you there yet? Have you seen the reality through clear lenses?

Perhaps on the morrow? Hopefully -

On the morrow. 

 For our hostages freed and those still remaining in concentration camp environment with concentration camp results and deaths, pray for them. Pray at the same time for the eyes and the hearts, the souls of the world to awaken. To see and know what they have done wrong. What they have once again allowed. How to atone. To know the immediacy of proper action, so long delayed.

Mene, mene, tekel oohpharsim. Your actions have been seen, judged and weighed. Payment is due and will be made. 

From the Bible so many profess to follow.

WELL? WELL?

On the morrow is likely to be too late.