IS IT? THINK ABOUT IT AND BE HONEST

  With deference to two young ladies whom I dearly love, who expressed some difficulty in absorbing some of the messages and its words of transmission via some of my postings, I have decided this might be a good time to simply pose some questions, maybe along with some answers. See if we can reach some kind of understanding, and perhaps submission, admission, acceptance and/or refusal and denial as to what we think, right or wrong, as to what we can observe, absorb, be it right or wrong. And what we must sit down and have a serious talk with our inner selves and come to a realization. What realization, you ask? Who knows, for the human mind is adept at disregarding unpleasant truths or acquiescing in beliefs we hold dear against all comers. Against all evidence to the contrary.

Some of our beliefs and thoughts, our evaluations, are wrong, or partly wrong or right, or totally off the balance beam of sanity in one way or direction or another. Or we might find ourselves dithering, caught in a moment of confusion and perhaps denial as to the truth of the current state of affairs. Perhaps, in asking and answering these questions, having the courage to dig deep within, one might actually find some relief and justification that we have been seeking for a long, long time. Maybe. Maybe not. But worth a try. 

Is it true that the United States is in one of its most difficult periods ever in its history.

Agree or disagree? What are the reasons you believe this is so, or not so? Try them out. Weigh and apply the facts, the details, of events and statements. What fits and what rings loud, interfering with thoughts, jangling, irritating. Which you must address. And neither silence nor justify against all logic and evidence otherwise. 

Is it true? What people say, are beginning to say, or are saying more and more? That our President has entered a land of delirium and dangerous manic behavior? Where he claims royalty and privileges denied to the common people. Who is equally as threatening as those who dream of a World Caliphate and wreak havoc as they attempt to make it a reality, even as this man and his coterie of baa, baa black sheep is actually consolidating his powers, climbing rung after rung to complete control in an autocracy such as we have never thought nor believed to be possible, certainly not in The United States of America!   

People in this nation, people all over the world. have empowered him with what should never have been given, not and never his. Acting upon fear of his blustery words, but when pushed back, he did, does, what all bullies do. They retreat, seek out acceptable and convenient scapegoats, blaming it all on them, incorrect information and advice and he is innocent of all blame and responsibility.     Now he is beginning to claim that he spoke what he did, acted as he did with Greenland because he had been given false information. Once again, he absolves himself from blame and throws his scapegoats under the wheels of that homicidal bus.  Absolved of all the blood and the harm that he has left behind. 

 His rule grows stronger and stronger with each capitulation of others to his demands. Every time. the legislators of this nation bow down before him and refuse to condemn him for his violations of the Constitution. For his egregious offenses against the ethos of this nation. We step ever closer to total and complete annihilation of the entity known as America, the standard bearer for democracy. As nations give validity to his insane utterances and ambitions, as they so futilely engage in attempts guaranteed to fail, for he knows no boundaries and exercises no restrictions on his ambitions, so entrenched in the world of his own making that he hears no one and never will, unless and until we use the power of the law, it's awesome power there for us, to impeach this man,  remove the world from the peril he poses to all via his insanity. No blood, some muss as for sure there will be those in this nation who already are engaged in inciting Civil War, using barbaric methods to inflict harm upon those who displease their Leader. Use the law to bring him and his damage, his erroneous ambitions, down and out. Use the law against this man and save the nation and the people within, all legal and the best way in which to turn us back to the proper paths through life in the least threatening manner.

Or is it true that we are misunderstanding of this man? Perhaps when the future looks back onto our time of today, he will be designated as a great man who was ahead of his time. Or seriously lacking in the mores of sane and civilized society. A man who literally and figuratively engaged in the destruction of the most powerful democratic nation ever, in the history of mankind and tore down its physical monuments as well. You research and think. 

Is this president a man of his words? In which case he can be trusted. Even to the point of endangerment to our very lives. Or is it so very clearly, manifestly outrageous to do that, to commit oneself to a man who in fact poses great peril to all who cross his path and displease him. 

Is it true or not, and please back up with actual events, that this man is in the midst of subverting. the basic foundations of this nation. Causing us to crumble day by day. Bit by bit. More and more. What will emerge at the end of the crumbling? Is it true that no one can actually see that clearly through to the end? Too difficult to comprehend? To accept as the path of our history? Inevitable and unstoppable.

Is the quarrel that this man has picked with our allies of NATO, our allies in keeping this world in one piece rather than shattering, able to remain sane in any which way? Country against country. Tribe against tribe. Man against Man. The inevitable ending for those who cannot see their way clear to the truth, unpleasant as it is, but so desperately in need of remediation.

In other words, is it right? Is it acceptable? Implicitly understood. That a powerful nation might feel, mistakenly or not, that it can take on the world, can impose its desires, its greed and hunger for Lebensraum for itself on others? As if history has taught us nothing!

Are we hearing the truth about our economy and the realization of what is actually happening, rather than what seems to be happening. We are now living off the benefits of what came before. Of the strong economy we had. Even though prices had risen, prices are rising again. But they are disguised, buried under the tariffs. Claiming that we are not being affected by it. 

So very, very erroneous in that thinking. All overseen by a man openly disdainful of obeying laws of a nation, who engages in his own financial deals, forbidden to do so by our laws, But, I guess, it is never mind, for those laws he is so brutally breaking, he is putting the world on in yet another historical wrong path of trade wars in which case no one wins, for all are losers. We must make him and his realize that the true power of the laws remain with us, in our hands, subject only to our courage or cowardice with regard to the legal and lawful manner, way overdue, to an impeachment, indictment, conviction and removal from office. Sent out to a gentle pasture while we organize ourselves and get back on track.  

The famous words of President Abe Lincoln warned us that a house divided against itself cannot long stand. Certainly not in strength, not in any certainty of survival. When great chasms splinter a nation into ever smaller and smaller fractions, the outlook for survival is dim, to say the least. Each fraction insisting on its viewpoints, opens the door for worse to come. We are looking at that moment, at the end of a once great nation. Through the centuries we have seen the collapse of great empires. We are not immune to the meaning of that history. To its truth. We in the United States of America of 2026 are not immune to the lessons of history, even as we have absorbed all the wrong messages and lessons of history and decided to wade our way through the inevitable muck. And we will find nought but woes and disappointment at the end of it all.

In fact, is it true, that we are now at the beginning of the end? That we have systematically crossed off path after path of possible revival. Of acceptable truths. And despicable lies. We wildly burn every bridge, every tunnel behind us. Forcing us to go forward. Into what is simply not there. To contemplate the actuality and truth of what there is out there, has proven to be too difficult for us to accept, so we act ignorant and plunge ever deeper into the morass we have made of our national life. 

Even if all this, all these questions, carry at least a modicum of truth, and acceptance of that truth, whether we like it or not, whether we wish to think that way or not, accept that or not, is it permissible to publicly, in the media or some form of communication, attack those who have wrought this condition? Settled it upon us. And then go blithely on their merry old way, deaf and dumb  to what they have caused. Or worse, congratulatory to themselves for their rather dubious achievements.

Is it the way of civility to honor not necessarily the man or the woman in office, but the office itself? In other words, even if one has the highest level of contempt and concern, must we temper our reactions and criticism in the name of the office?    Or is it better, in fact, to let it all hang out. To see, to hear, to speak, to know. To act. With and upon truth.

And the key question in particular is whether or not can we trust the word, the promises, the “guarantees” that emerge from this mouth but somehow never find their way to completion in reality, to the end promised. To the middle and means promised. How many times has he sworn to bring down the wrath of hell upon Hamas, Hezbollah, any entity which refuses to obey his every command.

 How many times has he opened 'war' on Iran? Promised the brave Protesters that he has their back, so continue with their actions. And left them to be shot, to be killed, to be tortured and imprisoned by the thousands, literally thousands.  Read the promises he has made to Israel, that they were free to go in and finish the job should the terrorists violate the cease fire? Which never actually ceased fire. And yet. Israel has been told to restrain from the promises given and wait - for what? Only Trump knows, it seems. Or, more rightly so perhaps he himself does not know. Nor does he care for anything, in fact, other than proving and exercising his power. His might. And the achievement of all he desires, salivating at the mouth at the thought.  

Few and far between are the number of people and nations who can see through the clouds of obfuscation round his every word. It seems there is no limit to the number of leaders he attempts, and too often succeeds, in bringing down to the floor in their fear of him and his wild outbursts and claims of legitimacy for his oh so very illegitimate perversions of the machinery of government and possibilities of actions. It is the rare nation and cadre of leaders who can see clearly past his blustering, who can slog through all of the filth, all the lies, and understand his exact ambitions and goals and how far he can be pushed back, forced to reset and relent, finding others to blame, for he is eternally blameless.   

With such as he as heads of nations, with the power and the future in their hands, it is imperative that we all reset. Find those better equipped to handle the necessities, who understand truth. We are in dire need of such. People who know how to talk, to compromise, to be positive and forward looking. Who reject the constant turn to violence or "little" wars solving nothing.  We need peacemakers who understand the complexities of being such, and the rewards as peace, fair and equitable, breaks out. Those who are good peacemakers also will be good leaders at war, but prefer peace and goodwill, for a well-tuned world, rather than one constantly embroiled in warfare.  

Is it true, in fact, that we have lost our way? That we have compromised our integrity. Trashed our principles. And based new ways of thinking upon walls which will bear no weight of any consequence, have no possibility of remaining structurally sound under the truth of the pressures of the world today.

The world of yesterday had many troubles. It was not perfect. We repeated error after error, refusing to see our way clear into the lessons learned from history. As a result, we have heaved ourselves into a today most clearly dangerous to the survival of mankind. or even if to survive, it would be in conditions most hostile to our hopes of a better tomorrow. One where we can reach out, discuss and compromise, seek to understand rather than impose.  

We have walked down a long way on the road to perdition. The way back is too far in the distance to espy a tiny little bit of light. The darkness ahead is unable to be pierced, is intimidating beyond description. How do ever find a way out or is it in fact way too late for that possibility and we will have to forge onward and deal with what we must. Who knows? Perhaps it will be a Back to the Future in a good way!

Perhaps we will actually come to understand at least a bit more, know how we have fallen to this level. How we have in pathetic manner fallen to the lowest levels attributed to mankind. We have chosen immorality rather than that which is tight.  Discarded altruism. Embraced selfishness and greed.  We have ceded control of our lives to the most undeserving.  Mortgaged our futures. To the most unqualified bankers.  

Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

Time. To sit up. To stand up and speak out. For the future.  For what we know is right, and reject those who have already rejected us, forfeited our todays and tomorrows for the ugliest parts of yesterday. .

What the hell are we doing?

What the hell have we done?

Is it the truth we are denying?

Is it the truth we must accept if we are to find our way out? And soon.

Yesterday, today, tomorrow. 

All so confused.    

So much more difficult, disturbing and discouraging. 

On us, folks.

All on us.

Ours to fix; ours to lose.

All on us. 

TARIFF KING PEACEMAKER DESTROYER OF NATO AND EU INVADER OF NATIONS DICTATOR AND THE DEVIL INCCARNATE

  And the Destroyer of the once upon a time praised and powerful nation. The legendary much admired and emulated democracy, a role model for the world, setting a standard so high, of such height that one wondered how it was ever attained and maintained. Nations of the world looked towards it for support, for advice, for straight thinking and talk, for compassion and advice, with proper goals for all to attempt to imitate. 

It was a country held up as a savior, a rescuer of the world in gravely threatening wars and conflicts which had engulfed the world, to the point of a vast change in the world order. Via its extraordinary efforts, manpower, equipment, determination and     strength, it took on even a larger role in the life and wellbeing of this globe and directed much of its path through the years. It contributed a great deal to mankind in every field known to man and was a leader in many of the areas of concern to humanity, investigated and researched for a better life for all.

It was a nation welcoming of all, for all, accepted all into its ranks, were grateful for their contributions from the sciences to the arts and everywhere in between. We became that which all aspired to and was greatly appreciated for the defense we presented against the evil nations of the world who wished only to convey, impel, and inflict all that was wrong on nations they deemed weaker, open to being conquered, dominated, and face defeat and death at their cruel hands and selfish goals.

Then something terrible happened. We lost our way. We became selfish. Forgot that we were one nation. All together. We became selfish beyond any possible expectation. Once we were a country, a nation composed of those who thought the way we had been taught to think. To respect our founding principles. Our ethos. To better the world for our being in and of it. To accept with open arms and good wishes, positive feelings for and to all who wished to be part of us, join with us to facilitate their dreams, and ours, and to continue to benefit other nations with our efforts and beneficial aims and goals.

Our ways became selfish and self-seeking. We became greedy and overpowering, too sure of what we thought, as the only right way, and we began to impose our will and wishes on others, caring little for their needs and aims. In short, we forgot who we were and who we were supposed to be. 

But far worse was coming our way and all of our own making. We began to mistrust those who were brighter and more responsible than we were and/or wanted and settled for people of lesser quality to take upon themselves the roles of leaders. They were so not what they purported to be. Some   actually were benign, but the spiral was a descending one and the quality never leveled off at a doable level but continued on its perpetual descent and look what we got out of this mess. The worst platoon of pseudo leaders this nation has ever gotten together at one and the same time. 

Most of us would be hard put to come up with the names of five or 10 people who actually take their duties and responsibilities to the nation seriously. Most of us would be hard put to come up with the names of any legislators of quality who were able to remain in office despite being named as targets of the worst president ever, who weaponized the entire administration to carry out attacks upon any and all who dared to disobey him or contradict his words. To double the problem, he appointed morons of the first order to head departments of which they knew nothing and continue to know even less.  

And so, we have ended up with the man who takes many names from the title, and we are certainly not blessed in that occurrence. Not at all. 

Not yesterday, not today, and tomorrow looks even worse.

More on the morrow.        

VENTING iii -- I WISH IT DID NOT HAVE TO BE

Does it ever end? Will it ever end or is there no end to the malfeasance and dementia of this man. This pathetic man who pats himself on the back for weird and dangerous statements and policies, for paragraphs that amount to complete word salads and grins like a Cheshire Cat as he holds the stolen/blackmailed meaningless Nobel Prize from a peace activist who had to escape from her native land in order to collect it.

 In a staged photo of him holding the Prize, standing beside the true and deserving awardee, with one of his ugly prissy grins, smug in what he thinks he has done - pulled the wool over the eyes of all, convinced they would believe he won it, fair and square. But know this fact: None of the eight wars he claims he has ended, brokered a permanent peace, have actually ended their wars and in fact have resumed them almost immediately upon his departure, even raising the temperatures on those battlefields to higher than they had ever been, before his meddling, destructive interference. 

So, say goodbye to those attempted hallucinations, to convince all of his goodness and righteousness, of his meaning to do well for this nation, and on to the rest of his criminally careless and confusing verbal attempts to foil all that works, all that is good in this world of ours, all that tries to implant some optimism, and meet with success in these efforts. To generate hope and faith in the possibility of and for a safe and pleasant future and a fair and equitable conduct to all, from all. 

If one is desperate or foolish enough to find something with any kind of a positive overtone and wish to imply a connection, an overtone to this   highly dangerous man, this opponent of any possibility of a turn to the good, to the positive, they had better shake their heads powerfully and regain their senses and the truth of what they see, and know, that corrective actions are desperately in need of immediate STAT and ASAP remediation.

And it doesn't end there, folks. No way does it end there. The news media is overwhelmed by the crap he lays out upon this world and the people who live within. The reality of Civil War within this nation, grows ever stronger, looming ever closer to a realistic horrid, frightening historic event. People have laid odds, betting that this will indeed happen.

He eggs on his beasts of ICE. To become even more brutal. Crueler than ever before and congratulates them when they increase the level of fear and hurt, to frightful levels of violence, even death. Worse than that is how many people have joined in eagerly, wading into the bloody melees with vigor and enthusiasm, well equipped with weapons, how many are willing, eager, to believe the worst of the victims, the targets of these brutal    instigators, hoodlums all. 

People forget that this nation was built upon and with the energies and enthusiasm of immigrants, how we welcomed them into our midst, intermarried with their offspring. We have forgotten or disclaimed the truth that we too descend from immigrants, are proud of that heritage, and from that we created a vibrant society, a united society. Until we allowed the filth within the haters of others to permeate our nation, heeded the voices and perversions of the lowest of the low, and allowed this all, their inner ugliness, their blackened souls, to corrupt ours, the air we breathed, allowed this corruption to filthy up and influence our ways and thoughts. 

All these wrong steps we took, the giant steps into the wrong paths, the nasty ways in which we treated and related to each other, added up to a gross debit and turned this nation into what it is today. A nation of people who expected and   accepted the worst out of us, out of and from themselves. We spurned and rejected our own history, demeaned and denied it. Trashed our own history, the pride we once had in it. We tore into our Constitution and befouled our Declaration of Independence. We turned against our own principles and refuted the values of the nation, its proud history and instead heaped all the stinking mud the wrong among used to bring us down to the shameful level we have 'gifted' to ourselves.  

We must page through our yesterdays,

"Rediscover the pride we so righteously and   deservedly had in ourselves, in our todays.

Take pride in the tomorrows we can and must rebuild, to heal this wounded nation and the world at large. 

 

 

SPITTING MAD - VENTING #2

Between ever constant in your face news broadcasts and TV crawl, and along with the conversations with friends and colleagues, with neighbors - and strangers as well- one is never at a loss for information re this troubled world forever in turmoil. Always more to add to the mix so that the ever-constant meetings often cause an overload, a Tilt in the brain and the thoughts and the words refuse to come together. Thoughts do not adhere to the topic, and the words do not form proper and rational sentences and paragraphs.

The cherry on top is the wonderful guests for the weekend - a freshly married pair of grandchildren who need attention and pampering, and hence we arrive at yet another late posting to the blog. At least I do not get graded on this with tardiness resulting in failure. Please forgive me and on I go with my Venting II, and try to do my very best, despite all the pitfalls and the strong emotions re the topics of venting - and please note that does not include my adorable set of newlyweds.

That man never fails to disappoint me in my expectations of his follies and in the perils posed by him for us. Day after day, hour by hour, even second by second. His thoughts are constantly awhirl and a twirl, never consistent and highly perfused with self-aggrandizement and self-pride, rants and rages, constant words of insult and disrespect, with no one immune or exempt, not even family of the first degree.

However, I believe even more dangerous to the entire world, as too many buy into his words, are the words which spew out of his mouth in a constant flow of boasts and false promises, empty threats, ad quite false in duration. Depending on all that verbal tripe and building, with hope, with surety and certainty that these plans will come to fruition in a positive manner, in as simple and cooperative a project as possible, will prove to be a sad, even terrible outcome of it all.  

How many words of promises and threats have we heard re Gaza, and their horrifying fate if they failed to obey his deadlines? How many times has he put forth all kinds and levels of terrifying fates to the terrorists, to Hamas, to Islamic Jihad, to all those who live to destroy Israel and all Jews, for that matter, if they refuse to obey and meet his deadlines? They had to disarm, within the time allotted and if not, the ceasefire would be null and void and Israel would be free, encouraged even, to go in and finish them off. All the hostages, dead and alive were to be returned with the same threat hanging over them, but Ran Gvili is still there, his family, his friends, the entire nation waiting to give him the honorable burial he deserves. Long time past due and still, Hamas and Islamic Jihad attack, raid, shoot rockets, and kill. 

Same empty threats; same meaningless promises.

 What about the ominous words he has spoken  to Iran, to bring down the wrath of ultimate disaster,  of terrible fates and then, today, the next day, it is nope, as he maintains that Iran has stopped killing the protesters, they said so and he behaves as if it is the truth rather than an outright lie and an extension of time available to kill, for after all, they had 'only' killed 800! 

            Blatant lies;  Continuing Horror.  

         Same empty threats; same empty promises. 

However. Our oh, so, dear, President, our most unequipped for the job president, is an equal abuser. He is also endangering the very country he is supposed to protect. He has already negated themes of our existence, of our foundation. He has assumed powers that do not belong to him; Power that places our democracy in grave danger, condones the murder of citizens slaughtered by brutal ICE agents, beasts in training for the prison and concentration camps of an inevitable future unless we stand strong against his diabolic plans and goals, building upon what is already here. 

Think not that this will not happen - it is already with us.  Based on vicious lies and barbaric temperament, ego outsized beyond belief and lies egregiously outrageous and initiative of great harm, he is now, in real bloody life, at this moment, waging war against our own citizens. 3000 brutal ICE agents, masked, armed as if they were SWAT or DELTA force, jammed into Minneapolis, to hurt and harm, even killing an innocent woman, blaming her for her own death.  But the truth is there, out front, up close and center, as he has threatened to bring in more, to punish them, to invoke a law which is to be invoked only in times of great crisis and war but not a crisis of Trump's own making and incitement. 

His behavior embarrasses us before the world. He not only demolishes who we are - spiritually, emotionally, politically, inviting great, divisive chasms to form between the citizens of America, even as he pushes this nation to a Civil War. He turns on our allies, placates truly nasty people, and threatens numerous nations re their land and their integrity as independent entities. And there will be much more of this ugliness.

 He demolishes all he touches. Our beautiful existential sacred and treasured well balanced White House now has one wing of it gone, taken down without permission of those he should have asked, had to have asked. Now it is a messy   construction zone, food for his overblown ego as he solicits bribes and the nation's money. The other wing, which was to mirror it in balance, now has him walking around on the roof thinking he should add another floor on there. 

His first ugly business that he did with our valued treasured areas was when he paved over the beautiful Rose Garden that Jacqueline Kennedy  had put in, that we have kept as a memorial to her and to her assassinated husband., a true hero. He paved it over and made it into another cheap looking umbrellaed patio, a mirror of the same thing in Mar a Lago, his palace.

He has called upon the army to parade for him, to celebrate his birthday, to waste millions upon millions of money to do this - for his conceit, and wastes the taxpayers hard earned money, money not earned through cheating. From taxpayers who know and practice proper moral stance. People who respect others, as fellow humans.

He has foisted upon us the incompetent, insufficient endangering people to head departments within this government.  And we are paying the price for it. He has weaponized the departments of government to go after all those who disagree with him and we are losing the battle in this particular war, and I hope we do not lose the battle nor the war.

He has stripped much of America's dignity with his conceited arrogant behavior. He has condoned murder of our own citizens and of migrants, legal and illegal, naturalized and not, lies about them, even though for the most part, they have built lives. They have obeyed the laws. They have built businesses. They are critical in our agriculture. They are critical in construction And this man sends people out to murder them, separates families, even to kill for they have died within our system as we held them prisoner. He has separated children from parents, lost some of them permanently, it seems. And he has during the time that he is in office, which is not done, he has stripped the beauty of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts as he stuck his name on it, demeaned it with his choices, caused the opera and famous orchestras and people of the arts  to cancel  their dates there. He has named an institute the Trump Institute of Peace. What peace? He makes believe eight wars were ended, by him- that he didn't. But for that, he wants the Nobel Prize. and has practically blackmailed the Nobel Prize winner for Peace to give to him. He has named a class of warships called the Trump Class. He has Trump Gold Card He has Trump poor taste gilt all over the White House. Trump Rx. A proposed Trump coin. A Trump Passport for beautiful national parks.

No, this man has no right or place or ability or humanity to hold the Office of President of the United States America. Not at all.

Not yesterday.

Not today.

Not tomorrow.

And we put him in that place.

For shame.

We have the legal right and obligation to fix our wounds and shortcomings.

We owe a debt to those who defended and built our nation.

We owe it to ourselves.

And we certainly owe it to our descendants. 

ONCE MORE THE EFFECT OF TIME

  Once more into the crunch of not enough hours in the day. On Sunday I will post a long piece, possibly good for two postings and with mulch emotion, and strong words, and deep worry and concern for our America, for Israel, for the best part of the good people of the globe.

Come back Sunday and again, please forgive my absence from today's posting.

I wish you all a good day tomorrow and hope the post on Sunday will cause people to think long and hard.

  

VENTING TIME!

  And you might be thinking well. if this is venting time, then what has been happening in all the previous days of this blog? To be honest. 99% of it was and will remain venting. Where else can I safely let out some of that within which demands outlet. If not in existence, I wouldn't be surprised if steam did in fact shoot out of both my ears! 

Seriously. one must find an outlet these days, for the pressure within is high, almost unbearable at times. Particularly. if one sees no improvement or any indication that the temperature of a hot situation appears to be heading into a somewhat cooler area where madness, the madness that suffuses this world, will not boil over. At least not then.

But how does one find these areas? The truth is so buried beneath the lies, the misunderstandings. The exaggerations and the omitted. That it is nigh onto impossible to dig down to the truth. To the honesty beneath those words of bluff and hate. It appears to be that the leaders of this world, such as they are. believe that purposeful misunderstanding and obfuscation of true meaning and intent of words and actions are the ways to go. Perhaps they feel that honesty makes one appear weak. Or gives away too much. 

Of what?  Whatever they feel the enemy must not know, lest they find a hole somewhere within their defenses which they had not caught themselves and the foe will then make use of that information in any which way possible to aid their situation.  With boots on the ground or the equivalent. In some way leverage it to the fullest degree possible. any which way, so as to avoid any deterioration of their own situation and to possibly increase the likelihood for a foe more open to discussions to end the conflict.   

In the meanwhile, the slaughter continues. The waste of war. The horror of it. Natural irreplaceable resources destroyed. Billions and trillions of dollars spent, expended on 'better weapons', oh so much more efficient at killing and shredding yet another irreplaceable resource. Humans. Those who could and would otherwise contribute to their nations, to the world in positive manner. People who would be able to live normal lives. With a bankable assurance of the safety of their families with confidence that the lives they build with their homes, with their families will we safe and not liable to be gone in one moment of madness among the people of this earth. A moment which negates the positive that had come before and denies the assurance of a future we all wish to see, as we fantasize of the better life our children will live.   

One of the saddest things to see are the sights and sounds of people mourning their dead. We speak of war as “only” involving our uniformed forces, and of course the undercover agents. But we forget, unfortunately, that war being what war is, it is nigh unto impossible to keep "collateral” damage to a dull roar. That is, to limit the destruction of the infrastructure of a nation and its ability to rebuild. Even better, to keep to a minimum the unbearable cruelty and harm to the soul of losing family members and friends who are not involved in any of the fighting. even as we see ourselves hardening in our minds and hearts to the deaths of humans on the other side of the battlefield. Human beings. Lives changed irreparably. By this war. Any war.

 War breaks out always with a warning. Tensions are high. Hostilities are heating up. Violations of borders, even non approved, not ordered clashes take place. But there is always a warning; it does not come out of a true peaceful moment in time. Both nations or more nations that are involved, should be awake at the wheel, paying attention as they drive through life. As the hurdles and blockades present on the road they are traveling appear before them. However, too often they do not, based on inner personal and national hubris. Thinking nobody could ever surprise them. Where they would certainly overcome any invaders. Or the hopeless, helpless, useless thinking that their enemy does not mean business. Or that their own business will inevitably bring them to the point of explosion for there will be no other way for themselves to remain as their own integral nation, their people safe for the foreseeable future, and war is the only remaining option, very unfortunately. 

However, of late, there has been an ugly trend in the customs of modern warfare. The weapons are so powerful and plentiful, and too often aimed at 'soft' targets, those for civilian usage, rather than armed opponents, a loathsome tactic all the better to depress the battered attacked nation, increase their pleas for peace, drowning in blood and tears, and calling out strongly with cries for revenge upon those who are killing them. To kill their citizens as they are killing ours, all the while ignoring, denying the ugly truth of the matter: the guilt for the civilians killed in large numbers lay at the feet of those ordering this terrible thing, a cold and brutal method of waging war.

 The leaders, civilian and military, barely a space of air between them, ordered civilians to remain in place, used them as shields, as purposeful collateral damage, to arouse the ire of nations supporting them in the travesty they have supported, to be perpetrated and waged upon that nation. They build, deep within the civilian infrastructure of the nation - community centers, schools, hospitals, civilian homes, including rooms of children - their own places of refuge, military armories, hospitals taken solely for use for their wounded, training, dungeons for their kidnapped victims so brutally tortured, thus forcing the enemy they had attacked to kill them there, along with the hapless, and often cooperative  civilians. and attached families. War is where the enemy takes it.

Buildings were destroyed, people died, families lost loved ones, food, while plentiful, was stolen by the terrorist armed forces and civilian collaborators and sent out false reports -of starvation and famine, and the world bought into these lies, egregiously false and evil accusations, drenched in hate, reeking of evil, with staged pictures sent to the world as 'proof".' Awful, planned accusations which the world bought into, adopted accusations of genocide, adding salt to the wounds of a nation which had and continues to be the target of too many and too close attempts of genocide, for 3,000 years, since the first Jew, Abraham, walked this earth.

Even now, this ancient JewHatred has burst its shell, and the poison was now free again, approved, reinvigorated, and spread out, infecting and infesting the world, as nation after nation glommed onto its newly permitted toxic viral ugliness of soul. A Hate so insane that its vicious violence could neither be contained nor halted, with all seemingly only desiring to grow it, into violence and attack, murder and arson, burning and campaigns urging the death of Jews, their entire people, and their one tiny state for them. 

A haven for their safety and survival, which has, in fact and in deed, rescued so many since its reemergence and reinstatement as the legitimate recreation of a G-d given and promised land. A protection against those who would cheerfully kill them to the last one, infants, children, men, women, the elderly. A Hate against a people who had and continue to do naught but good for this world and all who live in it, since the beginning of time.  Murder and terror perpetrated against the Jewish people grew, exponentially, and once again, we are attacked, subject to terror and fear, accused of all one can think of, accused and cursed, we the long term benefactors to the world, contributors of advances and gifts in all areas, from science to the arts, from politics to philosophy and psychology, from space to agriculture and the bottoms of the  seas.

Now, once again the target of crazed villains and those who enable, and those who stand by, silent and/or indifferent, uncaring or so suffused with evil that you cannot or refuses to see clearly through the horror, its inhumanity, refuses to acknowledge its poison of 3,000 years, its insanity, and its potential and actuality of dragging the world beyond ability nor possibility to repair and reap its rich and vast harvests, there before us, a gift from its Creator, Our  Lord. I plead with you, for you and for me, for your people and mine, for the entirety of humanity, seek out the best within you, for we all have that ability within, yet another gift to us from the One Above to His Children. 

Believe in the potentiality within us for good. Adopt it deep into the atoms of your heart and soul. Know that we have the will and the capability if we so wish it. Best of all, is to be the best one can be, to strive and try for it, achieve it and bring out the best from all, for all. Be a leader for the good rather than for the evil. You will be all the better for it. As will the world.

Think how we can take the best of yesterdays, improve it in the todays we live, and guarantee the best tomorrows possible.

Up to you.

Up to me.

Up to all of us.

No one else.

All on us.    

NO POSTING TODAY

 Life has once again interfered with my ability to post today. Sorry. See you on Thursday

DO NOT REALLY KNOW, BUT ...

  What don't I know? I don't know lots of things. Particularly in silence and math, where I am still trying to comprehend quadratic equations or those annoying mathematical problems re two trains coming at each other! Or in understanding of the circuitous roads and byways we have been traveling on of late - in fact, the entire world seems to have gotten lost somewhere and are proving incapable of discovering a way out. Nor can all the technology within our navigating devices direct us to safe harbor. Nor how to explain that failure.

That failure to navigate ourselves and those accompanying us to a place of relative safety is actually the failure of ourselves and the most incompetent leaders we have foisted upon all of us. So much so that there is a dearth, perhaps a complete condition of such, that we cannot find a single one with the knowledge, the charisma, the wisdom, the courage and nobility within and the ability, desire and strength to do so. We seem to be bereft of any such candidate, not even coming close.  Better yet, where have they all gone? 

That certainly is a question of the day which begs an answer. Which demands an answer. And unless we do find an answer, we will not be able to address the matter with any kind of meaningful success. Asked a question yesterday, as to why the older generation feels so strongly about the current world situation, particularly within America, why so, yes, afraid, my curiosity was piqued.

 Truly. How the hell did we arrive at such a place. Rife with anime. Of strong emotions. Of demands so loud, thundering within our ears and hearts, that   we do not hear each other. In fact, perhaps we do not want to hear each other, certainly not anything which might change some of our preconceptions and long held beliefs which stand as steel walls against all intruders.

However. This is not a problem unique to the older generation. It is a problem of all the generations of the world today. We don't want to hear each other. We refuse to hear each other. We refuse to share with compatibility and patience. Mankind has been here so often, and it boggles the mind that we still have no idea as to how to solve this ever recurring disconnect among the generations. Such a skill would save us a whole lot of trouble and allow for a much better functioning world and citizens within. Who would not only see and think of the me, me, me, but rather of the you and me. 

So, from whence does this ever-recurring division, this conflict of emotions and attitudes among the generations derive? It breathes and grows, I believe, from the normal differing viewpoints of the generations. The oldest generation, the most life experienced generation, grows impatient with the next generation or two down the line. Here they are, ready and willing, eager even, to share the knowledge of the experiences they have lived, even as those younger generations do not want to hear. They know best, they feel, for themselves, 

It goes into a situation of a we have seen it, lived, know it, and all its foibles and wobbles, how so instantly things can change. From wonderful to OK. To just bearable. To too awful. How society becomes a motley collection of hate bearing people who know not why they scream invective at others but do so because all else are doing it. The division and misunderstandings grow apace, deepen beyond repair, and here we are in one aspect of this generational war.  

However. In the midst of this attention grabbing and conflict, constant arguments, tempers rising and falling, but always at a higher pitch, enters yet another variable. The younger generation. Those who think they are capable of thinking for themselves. Of knowing better. They are not the people, the generation which has lost its idealism, starry-eyed people who have outlived their usefulness and ability to make things right. Their wisdom? Useless in the current world. And the generations between have lost their Ideals. If they ever even had them to any meaningful degree. Ever. They discarded their morals alongside the roads, into the ditches to be ignored. These in between generations gave up the right and engaged in other arenas of combat: material success. The youngest generations scorn them for this desertion. Even as their parents are hurt, for hasn't it all been for their families? 

This greatly bothers the younger generation.  But. standardly, the young challenge the older in society. The current conditions they have been given without any input upsets them and offends their arrogance of the young. Certainly, they feel, we know better. We have not lost our enthusiasm. We have not lost that sense of idealism. And we know we can change the world for the better. But to do so, we must first tear it down. And rebuild from scratch. And so out they throw themselves. Biting, kicking and screaming. Impatient with those older than they are who do not see the true structure of society, who resist it. Enter stage ...  

And the interplay and the rivalry and alliances grow more complex and divisive. At times a compatibility between the older and the younger generation can grow. Once upon a time that generation was also full of vigor. Considered themselves to be the forefront of a new world. As soon as they got rid of the old one. And so, the two generations commiserate with each other. Both untie in wonder at the vices and faults of the in between generations. 

However., as the world turns, as it tends to do, until we finally toss it off its axis, the older generation tries to moderate their younger partners, their compadres in the efforts to fix the world. They know that nothing happens overnight. It all takes time. However. These kids have no patience with this. They want it now. As they have gotten everything now throughout their lives. All they had asked for or felt entitled to. Their enthusiasm was commendable but illogical in thermal world. 

Reality punches its way in, and trouble grows between these former allies. Disillusionment and impatience grow as they realize others do not realize nor accept how different and special they are.  But it was obvious to all, was it not, how they would create success where before others had only failure. They would engender enough force to instill all their idealistic thoughts and goals within the societies of the day. Just watch! 

Their allies, the older generation, wishing to save them agony. tried to moderate their goals. To channel their enthusiasm. And to lose their arrogance. They could not fix the world. Certainly not in one vast single effort. Begin the changes, move them further along. Aoid all that agony of the soul which came with the conceit of youth, their know-it-all attitudes, and the inevitable deep hurt of an inevitable failure to do it all. 

Their attempts to make the world a better place arrived exactly where all overblown attempts go, only perhaps worse, as it is right now. Every day we seed more woes and disagreement. Threats of war and war itself. A world finishing itself and endangering itself. Carelessly, sans forethought. The older generation becomes concerned, as this ugliness grows and intensifies. With one vital difference. They feel and remember all from when they were the younger generation. As I do.

For much of our rebellion we wished to include all. Throw a blanket of acceptance to all. Invite them into the tent rather than cast any out. As they became disillusioned, impatient, and impotent in any forward movement, at least to their satisfaction, their anger grew and intensified. Why were their idealistic viewpoints not accepted? In their weariness at fighting for something that appeared to be unachievable, this older generation, (when young), simply opted out. 

Some tuned out. Some got lost in the drug fog, or in the hippie movement and some just realized they had to get on with life. Until such time came that they found themselves suddenly those middle generations and wondered. Where had it gone; why it had gone? But then, never mind, for it is the today we must pay attention to, rather than the past. As for the future, perhaps as we go along, or perhaps just leave it to the younger ones coming up. We were there, did our part, and now it is their turn. Leave the improvement of the future for the young; we did our part and now it is the today we must address.  And so, the seemingly critical issues faded away in the pressure and concerns of the todays we then faced and got on with what was the immediate needs to be addressed.    

Ignored was the fact that this younger generation is not buying into that way of life, that evolution of the generations. They do not tune out. They do not grow a sense of brotherhood and unity. In fact, those values have never actually been very much present at all. Instead, has been a unity of hatred, a most divisive unity. It is a frightening contradictory, oxymoronic agreement within to unite in ways and means and actions of hate, pure, ugly hate.

Whereas we, the older generation, began our revolution? Rebellion? Quest for Change? as did most of the generations before us, as we all moved at different paces with achievement of our goals - equity, brotherhood, an end of war, especially the brutality of Vietnam, that of this younger generation is highly different. This version began in a world of ugliness, of acceptance lies. With a resurgence of all the ugliness of our yesterdays. All that the world had learned and vowed to spurn, for the horror that it perpetrated upon humanity was too awful to contemplate. We hoped that the proponents of this terror had been kicked out of   the door and forbidden to return. But they have, have they not? Worse - they have returned via a path never thought to be open for them - the supposed to be idealistic youngest generation, those who fought traditionally for positive and humanistic change. For a better mankind. Not for a new generation of hate and violence.  

So, we have a tripartite segmentation of the societies within the world today. Actually, there is a 4th. The youngest of all. Children absorbing what is around them. Confused. Wondering. And the oldest generation sees these occurrences and trends, observes the youngest turn sour when exposed to the ones just above, and are frightened by what appears to be a terrible repetition of history, one they never wished to see ever again. 

The world of dictators and violence. Of hate and destruction. They wish to share all that their lives have taught them but find not an open door, only ones tightly shut and locked. the world remains hostile to their knowledge and their fear and apprehension grows by leaps and bounds. For they have lived the changes which come about under similar circumstances. The change from democracy to autocracy. To situations of sudden arrests and disappearance. Of violence from those who are supposed to ensure safety for the citizens of the land. They have seen and know and lived the loss of rights, the ugliness and hopelessness of corrupt individuals and groups at the head of the nation. 

They know. Firsthand, many of them. They wish to help. They fear its return - here, in America and round the world. And so few wish to hear their words. 

The middle generation does not want to hear. They saw how their parents wasted the years. How they had to juggle to support families. How they had to spurn old beliefs, lose their idealism and crush their dreams. Thus, most probably in reaction, they directed their steps in other directions. They turned off the dials connected to the outside world and its concerns and blemishes, the concerns of the day. They are too busy. Striving. Seeking more and more success. More and more things. Outdoing the competition. They don't know and they don't want to know and feel they are above it all. I believe the older generation finds their indifference more fearsome and worrisome for they have lived through the consequences of people playing unaware and uncaring of the truth under the sun. Indifference burns all in the end.

And finally. Once again. History repeats itself with that younger generation. Demanding change? Demanding not hope but instant obedience to their wants. To what they 'know'. To fix the woes of society only their way. Through their vision. For all the other ways have failed, have they not? And in their arrogance. In their impatience. They embrace stronger emotions. Of hatred and violence. And here we are today. With crowds of young, screaming for the deaths of those they disagree with. They cry out fiercely against the people of the Jewish nation. They hear lies and propagate them. Never mind that they are incompatible with each other, with the truth. 

And here we are. The kids who are watching?  Confused. What is the matter with these adults? And so, they take their first steps down the road of their own rebellion, their own conflicts with others. The Next Generation. And we wonder.  Have they reached the point of disillusionment? Will the world survive until they do? Or has the toxic acidity of their world already overcome and destroyed much of their chances to understand the importance of keeping the links between generations alive and healthy. 

The generation we had such hopes for; such dreams and expectations have never outgrown their disillusionment. They have remained tuned out in various manner and instead turned their might and mind, their attention and efforts to much of self-aggrandizement, selfish goals, along with   intermittent realization that there is more to life than this. They are becoming wiser and less self-focused as they age and grow older and wiser.   Better able to understand the sum of their experiences and their life learnings and begin to engage in more altruistic thinking and actions. 

However. even as they do that, we continue to wonder about that generation below, as their violence and invective grows. Even as they seem to espouse worse rather than better. We wonder. Will they too grow into their parents, cut the connections to violence and grow more peaceful and indifferent?

We, the older generations, do not know those answers. We can hope for what we believe. We can be optimistic. There is a path for change and that one day we will all get it. All the people of the world will get it. And the waste of this anger and this conflict will disappear. At least some of it. But until that happens we worry here.

Now back to the original question. Why is this older generation seemingly more worried than ever before? Because we have never had this kind of. deep conflict, these boiling, roiling emotions. This adoption of hate by a generation that should be more idealistic. In fact, we wonder where is their idealism? There appears to be none. They have skipped steps, broken barriers and do not portend nor foretell of a better future. 

So, we wonder. Will the horrid yesterdays return to taint our todays? Fractured as they are already, is there a realistic possibility for a willingness and   strength to reconnect with their idealism and manage to build for better tomorrows? Their tomorrows.   When will they realize that? Or is it already too late?

That is why we worry.    

AND THE FLY HAS SPOKEN

 So, what has the fly to say to us today? From the 1986 film, The Fly, we hear the rumblings of this: "Be afraid. Be very afraid." How very apropos these days, all these many years later. It is sometimes used as a comic underlining of some event or meeting a person, in actuality nothing to have any fear generated or felt because of it. However, there are times when the meaning is exactly what the words say. Oh, yes. Be afraid of what is coming down the track. In fact, be more than afraid; it is that ominous. 

Hence, the double enforced warning, and here we are today, awaiting the next pronouncement to emerge from that gaudy demeaned distasteful Oval Office from the equally disgraceful man with abominable taste, who has downgraded this once dignified office into a cheap huckster's selling location. 

Most of the "Truths.” emerging from this tainted office are presented on that oxymoronically titled Truth Social. For the most part, its contents consist of mad rants, rambling wanderings, are poorly written, with incorrect grammar aplenty.  And, of course, is replete with lies and exaggerations. I must admit, though, that there is one positive aspect to this personal site. It is that we now know that whatever emerges from there is generally one of two things - a lie, or a hint of what is to come. In that case, remember to 'Be afraid. Be very afraid '. Of course, there are also those exciting moments when he lets loose and hauls off on anyone who has displeased him in some unknown unfathomable manner.

Truly, a full service all around disappointing man.

Actually, we do need to be wary and concerned about this planet of ours, his definitely negative plans for it and its survival in habitable condition for mankind, for the plants and the animals which sustain us. Today, I read an article reporting how close we are to hitting the rising temperature notch which will spell doom and gloom for us. No chance of turning back the clock at that point. Conditions of life will be greatly changed, far more difficult and challenging. 

The weather will be cataclysmic more often and hostile to any kind of reassured feeling re the safety of our families and homes.  Furthermore, there will be vastly increased extinction of species, and I would not think it unlikely that the human species is in danger as well. Extinction of mankind is not merely to be feared and fought in the movies. It needs to be fought here and now or perhaps we are already late to the ballgame.

But then again, what hope can we hold out when Trump tells one and all of the 'beauty' of fossil fuel? Cancels projects for alternative sources of energy. What can one say when the president, asked about the reality of global warming, states, " It's a hoax. A scam. And a con job". A professor at Dartmouth College, who researches climate variability, summed it up quite succinctly. 

"Emissions will be higher. Trump's greenhouse gas emissions will cause Trump's heat waves. Trump's droughts. Trump's floods and Trump's wildfires."

He will be leaving us other things as well. From yesterday to today and well into our now questionable tomorrows. Members of his administration who have not one original thought amongst themselves, simply parrot his every word and copy every sentence. There is no one there to help create a steady foreign policy as it fluctuates daily, sometimes even hourly. And many times, these pronouncements are contradictory.

One such area is this 'criminal' crackdown and violent round up of all he has deemed immigrants. Actually, they could be naturalized citizens. Actually, they can be the Dreamers, children who were brought here by their parents at a very young age and who know no other country other than this one, Have loyalty to this nation.   And yet, Trump curses them. Deems them all criminals. Condones violent behavior even up to the point of killing them. Consigns them all to the category of subhuman.  

Sends armed forces by the thousands to catch these oh so 'terrible; people, little people doing their jobs, living their lives, becoming part of this nation built on immigrants and their gifts to us. Yet, in an interview, he states that immigrants are good people. They do hard work. And he would so dearly love to make them all citizens as they wish to be. And allow the Dreamers to finally live in peace. 

But he needs at least a year to gather and consolidate his thoughts.  Until such a time, if ever, he continues to denigrate the immigrants. Puts them down in vile and crude language. Denys their rights. Sends hordes of masked people, well-armed and vicious, in training to serve as our future concentration camp guards, and loaded for bear, gives them permission to kill these oh so terrible people. So terrible that he allows them to continue to work in agriculture, in hospitality. In meat packing factories. In kitchens, because he and his buddies need them there.  Areas where immigrants can stay, and in fact ICE gets yelled at if they go after them.  All these are places where labor is critical, where many Americans will not do work, and well, people have to make a buck, do they not!

This is the chaos of Trumpian America. This is what we have to fear, from this challenged America for our future. A land where law is variable. Where politics call the shots. Where money talks loud, over everything and all else.  One can separate families. One can freely kill people who are other than the approved variety. And one never knows- what will come next? 

So.

So yes. 

As the Fly warned: "Be afraid. Be very afraid."

"I THINK, THEREFORE ..."

 Therefore nothing. At least these days and too many years prior. Seemingly among the majority of the population. Certainly, among the population of the United States of America. In fact, at least among the majority of the leaders of the nations of the world as they kowtow to a bag of hot air. To that being which has no thoughts in his head, in his pea sized brain which functions as his motor. The exact motor, in his own words: "I function according to morals. To Morality. Whose morality? Mine. and mine alone." 

I kid you not and may the Good Lord Above extend to us many Hands of mercy and as many times as   we will have need, so that we might get through this man and remain somewhat intact, sane and able to restore even a bit of a normal nation, able to function as such and serve her  population.- if that is at all even possible by some remote luck, chance, maniacal determination and most of all, with Your bountiful and kind aid. 

But Dear Lord, another three years of this insanity?  Is this even a possibility?  

This is a leader that our faulty, fragile level of thinking enabled the worst, most unqualified, unfit. person to sit in the chair behind the desk in the most powerful office on the globe, the Oval Office. Or at least once it was. We actually had people to occupy that chair who had a brain, a working heart. Who were not, for the most part, handicapped by dwelling in the long dark ever failing throes of dementia. Along with a physical deterioration as well. Clearly visible to all. 

Yet denied by so many. Even as they were Johnny on the spot to shoot down another president whom they accused of having the same faults. As selfish as most politicians are and perhaps must be, to a degree, this man has them topped. Way over and above. 

In fact, of all the presidents of my lifetime, so far this man is not only the worst in so many ways. He is the worst in the worst way. In keeping this nation safe. In fulfilling his duties and responsibilities. In fact, to obeying the laws of this nation. Keeping true to his oath. To serve and protect this nation. Above and beyond all else. According to the Constitution, tradition, and, of course with utmost loyalty and the innate knowledge to uphold the dignity of this office. Never to demean it by using it as means and method to enrich himself. To pay attention and honor to the traditions and all things held sacred by the people of this nation.

Most. Certainly. Never. Ever. Incite. Foment. Lead. Create. An Armed Rebellion. Of. Murderous.  Treasonous. Intent.

Yes, there it is in a nutshell, folks. The rest is all detail. All the many ways in which, via which, he demeans this nation. His office. Our ethos and. fabric, our infrastructure and underpinnings, the very basis of both our raison d'etre and being. He disrespects all those who gave of themselves, even their very lives, in defense of this nation. To keep its legacy alive. 

A man of no morals. As well as immoral. A man we cannot explain to the world. To ourselves.  Certainly not to our children as to how, why, he was elected to office? And then again. His second term far worse than the first. Far more dangerous to every single being on this earth. Dangerous, in fact, as well, to the physical existence of this nation and of this planet. As he refuses to admit that a combination of Nature and Man and the Interplay and Interaction between them, the non-heeding of Man to the emergencies we now face almost daily round the world, the nonhealing of the wounds inflicted upon her, this Earth of ours, this small orb in a vast universe is in existential danger. 

How to explain to historians of the future. To universes beyond ours, universes not yet discovered, or ones G-d will substitute for ours.   To survivors, if any, of the godawful disaster we are perpetrating upon this earth. And on ourselves. That for some reason we all gave up thinking at the same time or embraced stupidity and cupidity as the most powerful and true gods, who govern our lives to    the point of self-immolation. 

 The few who remain with thinking capability were and are being outvoiced, outplayed, outvoted, and in the end will undergo the same disasters as those who caused it all, suffer the same consequences. All driven by the impetus of the moronic, selfish, disaster causing man. The Man and his Baa, Baa Black Sheep and those of the brainwashed flock which ceded themselves and their minds, the capacity and desire to think for themselves.

To maintain even an iota of independence.  Fell victim to the unbelievably contagious garbage, sheer tripe, rotten already as it was and is spoken, sickening those who hear him, gave ear and eye to it, to all that this man spewed forth. All the lies. All the demented behavior and contradictory mannerisms.  Even his open and clearly displayed defiance and contempt for others, for decency, how to be a human being. Nothing was able to stop this man. and his marching band. Stomping and tromping upon all who opposed. Until finally, as the Borg would intone, "Resistance is futile". 

So much power has he, all held in his grasping little hands. So terrifying is he to others. And I cannot figure that out. Bullies always give in if pushed back. Why have we not done that? Why have we not cooperated to disillusion those who fell for him and his insanity. Unless those people with the legal power, might, and right to remove this man from office, and all who would follow in his mad, ugly, crazed footsteps and goals, indeed do so, and quickly, before we are totally enmeshed in the wars he is promulgating upon us all, we will have lost it all.  

 Where is the sane reasonable person able to repair the holes in the fabric. To regain and refresh our reputation. Restore honor to the nation, to the office of President. Who knows how to talk to people and negotiate, rather than threaten, invade, insult, demean, and empty the pockets of others.

Are there any such left?

Can we find them soon enough? 

Once upon the time we found them, in our yesterdays.

Once we even had some remaining courageous enough to do the job in our todays, to save them. 

Will we find them soon enough to ensure our tomorrows, earned, good, righteous, and precious ones?

Dear Lord, I would not blame You if You gave up on us. But please, just a bit more time and patience and guidance. Help us find that so desperately needed leader.  It is that important.

SICK AT HEART

  Sorry for being late again. But I simply could not drag myself to the keyboard and stare at that screen, waiting for me to fill it with words. My heart was, is, breaking. Everything that I have been warning about. Everything that I have said since this man first came on to the political forefront. Everything I predicted. Of his ambitions. Of his anti-democratic viewpoint and goals. Everything of which I spoke about. His nastiness. His insanity. His lack of humanity. It is all here. It is on the front page of every newspaper around the world. It is on every panel, every news broadcast. And yet. Nothing ever seems to get better, does it? In fact, it seems to march on steadily along the path that he is digging. For the death of this nation. For the death of democracy. And who knows, perhaps for the death of this planet?

Where have our souls gone? When did we all lose our minds? Or cede them over to him and his disgusting flock of baa, baa, black sheep, those with hearts equally as black and corrupted as his. Why have we given up on a brave new world, not that of dystopia, but of one heading towards a beautiful place to live. Where we do not corrupt the earth along with the corruption of our souls. Where we do not engage in power struggles and power games which never end well for anyone. Why have we given up the dream and substituted a nightmare for it instead.

This is a man who has substituted his voice, his authority for that of the people. He has dismissed, for all intents and purposes, our Supreme Court. Has made trash of both Houses of Congress. He has demeaned good people and taken on instead      people who are ignorant of that which they are tasked to watch and to keep safe for the generations to come. We have an education department which opposes education. We have a health department which endangers the health of every single citizen within this nation and among others as well, for we   helped many nations with their medical needs. which benefited us as well. We have armed forces that are roiling within themselves, caught with nowhere to turn, between a crazed commander and the commands given, verging on the cusp of illegal and immoral.

We are turning into a nation ruled by a dictator. A    militia which supports him. A dictator who listens to no one other than his own sick mind. And to those who only wish to gain favor with him. For their own benefit and advancement. He is destroying our physical plant as well as our moral stature and composition, destroying our ethics, our very history. 

The buildings and the people which we held sacred, integral to the ethos of this nation, are being smashed or covered with the poor and distasteful taste of an ignorant boor who violates his own limits on an hourly basis. He is an equal opportunity abuser of all that comes before him.   Almost all he touches deteriorates into trash and mistrust and uncertainty. 

This morning alone, the news from yesterday, printed at length in the papers, to peruse at leisure, or expounded upon in panels and podcasts, took their responsibility very seriously and ruined today as well. Within one afternoon he defamed a woman who had done nothing but engage in peaceful manner to allow immigrants to pass by, distance themselves from the brutes of ICE. When told to leave, when an ICE officer stuck his hand inside the car to try to pull her out, she very carefully reversed and turned to the right so as to avoid any confrontation more physical than had already occurred.  For those efforts, she was shot and killed. 

Not satisfied with demeaning her, he took the day to cancel our nation's membership in dozens of international organizations meant to preserve this planet and safeguard the lives of its inhabitants. It was to serve as safety precautions, as fences, against the deadly, selfish incursions of humanity onto the physical integrity of this planet. It was meant to keep fighting, at least to a dull roar, so that we did not blow ourselves up when engaged in our own stupidity. 

He boldly took occasion to remark that there was only one voice on this earth that he listens to. HIS AND HIS ALONE.  He not only seemingly has adopted the position of dictator for this nation, but dictator for the world at large. There are very few people throughout history who had the temerity to consider themselves as such. Neither they nor he were qualified.  

 There is much more ugliness and danger to follow. from this man and those who follow him slavishly. Robots without even the capability of having a chat box conversation.  Do we really think that if we allow him to continue in this path, that the nations of the world will not unite? In defiance of him and his maniacal behavior? For their own safety and in responsibility to their citizens?  Well, think again, for the inevitable end along this road is WAR.

War raged upon us, at us. 

 You, me, everyone we love.

No more yesterdays. 

No more todays.

No more tomorrows.

"And the world was in Chaos"

"In the Beginning ..."

AND SO?

  "Another fine mess you've gotten us into." I can just hear the classic comic duo going at each other for exactly that. Another mess of their own making through which they had to navigate safely along with an ending which pleased all and left nothing with a bad taste behind. Good clean laughter. Always a positive feelgood ending.

However, that is not the way of real life, is it? Watching Laurel and Hardy go at each other, one knew there would be a happy ending. They were two best buds, and nothing could ever sever their tie. Abbott and Costello. The Three Stooges. All followed a similar path. And America laughed. All would be well. But she is not laughing today. 

While we have stooges aplenty within the administration, too many, we have nary a one who can reach out, would reach out, to the people of this nation and be heard. That would require trust in the speaker and where is such a being now? We now sit in our homes and wonder. What is the future after these rash, mad deeds of Trump and his flock of sheep?  What will be forthcoming presently? 

How will this nation handle the tension, the dissension? Can it even begin to try, let alone succeed? Are we safe. and more importantly, are our kids safe or are we going to have a Vietnam era once again, where the streets roil and boil and myriad numbers of our young men leave the nation, refusing to fight in a war which never had to take place? Think this is over the top? Think not so, for any number of online news site are already discussing the draft process?

Is this unilateral unannounced to the nation and Congress, Declaration of War enough to be the final step, the final nail needed to permanently exile Trump from politics? Now. Unfortunately, I doubt that would take place. This nation is not prepared to do that. Not when we have the likes of Senator Markwayne toeing the line. Praising a briefing granted to a bipartisan committee, albeit late in its taking place - after the deed was done and after more such deeds were suggested to follow.

Sure, why not go after Greenland and Denmark, bust up NATO and then what? Perhaps we will all learn Russian and Chinese for the New World.   Or we have the likes of Josh Hawley. He who ran away like a frightened chicken when his compatriots of the same political outlook chased after him. Just as much as they chased after anyone who knew the whereabouts of Nancy Pelosi or Mike Pence. Anyone they deemed a traitor to Trump in his thankfully defeated aborted   rebellion. 

This nation has been torn asunder for the past decade, if not longer than that. But it has come to a head during this decade. We have a consummate liar at the top of the heap. A man who rattles off dangerous inanities. A man who spouts words of hate. A man who is a foe of democracy? A man who runs this nation as a dictator. Seeking to benefit his own needs and desires along with those of his buddies. A man clearly in the throes of a growing dementia and a declining state of physical well-being. 

Now there are rumors that way back when he was promised by Putin to make a trade. Venezuela for Ukraine. Aha, if so, this actually makes some sense of what actually has occurred over the years and is still occurring today. It makes me shake when I wonder if he has made similar long-term deals. For example, he stands by Israel, then allows it to weaken, and then appears the deal made years before. To desert Israel, abandon her to the hands of some Arab nation or another and he gets whatever he desired in that trade. I shake at the thought. But anything is possible within his twisted mind and soul. Simply take a look around and see with clear eyes what he has already wrought and sent into motion.         

I don't know; I just do not trust that man. Neither do millions within this nation. And add to that those around the world who agree. Winds of mistrust and distrust flow violently round this world of ours and the future is unclear as the winds batter all and the future is not rosy at all.  

An observer from outer space watching what is going on now, listening to the words being bandied about, would be justified in thinking that this must be an epic.  A remake of those iconic books of dystopian times. 1984. Brave New World. Even Animal Farm. Yeah, that's what that is. It couldn't be real. It must be movie making. That makes sense. For certainly the nations of the world would not cede their freedom and democracy so easily. 

But that is not so, is it? We had a once upon a time strong democratic nation which wavered. Fell in line. Confused. And that strong once role model of a nation, not perfect, began a process of deterioration and disappearance.  Other nations followed and a return process, a healing pathway, has not yet been perfected nor successful.  

Trump and his followers are totally inimical to the continuation of a strong, safe, confident Democratic nation. The word democracy has already shifted from that capital 'D' to the small 'd'. I am beginning to believe, unfortunately, that the population of this nation does not contain within it a solid core of those who would resist the transformation of this nation from democracy to autocracy. There are too many who revel in Trump's new strictures. In the deliberate allowance for ugliness and hate to spew forth, to be praised. These haters are rejuvenated by and with their newborn freedom, the license to be deliberately offensive and hurtful of others.  By the violent expression of this hate. Approved of and urged on by no less than the federal government.   They beat about themselves with well-oiled sticks of brutality. They pull out their guns easily, along with all the weapons available to them. Powered pressurized water hoses. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Stink bombs. Violent arrests. Even to the point of disappearing some people, including children.

Who are these people? These are men and women who perhaps needed a job. So why not? These are men and women who perhaps needed an outlet of violence which allowed them to reduce their inner pressure. Or are these people who are simply nasty, inborn bullies, who now glory in the permission they received to do whatever the hell they want. To spew forth whatever lies they can concoct. And have the President and his lackeys back them up.

There were those who say that perhaps this is the time to take it all down. Rebuild it from the very start. From basement level. Once again. But we cannot afford to do that. We must take other steps quickly now. We must, in the next elections, oust those who would toss out America. We must make it very clear to those who run for office that they had better understand the people of this nation. That they had better take their temperatures right and get it right. Immediately. 

We need to pursue the course of justice and take those who rebelled against this nation, those who refused to admit their guilt, take those who allowed a president to go wild and broke the bulwarks of the law, the Constitution, to break before their charge to face the consequences of their treachery.          

And finally, not only the people of this nation, not only Americans, but people of all the nation states around the world, be it Great Britain. Bosnia or Slovenia, Canada or Mexico, or the Netherlands, or the Seychelles it matters not. The choice is the same all over. Will we, the human species, understand our responsibilities to ourselves and to others? Do what is right. What is a must? And take our nations back. Exile those leaders who mean us only harm. Fight against tyranny. And stand for democracy. Will we finally stand up and say loudly, clearly, positively and determinedly - Enough. 

We had all this yesterday. We thought that today would be a different time. Now we are finding out that tomorrow is also broken. That is, unless we act. Unless we take the proper steps. The quicker we do it, the cleverer our use of legal means, the sooner we will be better off. And safe. Trusting once again to the rule of law. And to the return of democracy to the nations of the world which once had and to those who are seeking it.

And once again, a reminder. The power of tyranny remains strong only when those who must resist it do not do so. We must have the will to do so. And we must find that will now. There is no longer any time to wait. I and most others would prefer to do this bloodlessly. With arms open to welcome those who truly regret their misdeeds. We truly wish to avoid that. It's Trump and his bagatelle of sheep who are pushing for violence. They had one try at it and will go at it again. They want to push us to the barricades. 

We must avoid that. 

We must. 

But time and determination are of the essence.

WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD

  What new world? This is the same old world, is it not? A very tired Earth. Wobbling around the sun. Wondering how long it has until it implodes or explodes. Whichever comes first? Whichever, cancels out the long-term problems with which it has been plagued for ever so long, and increasingly problematic and resistant of solutions.   

Well, yes and no. This is the same physical planet, though clearly not at the same grade level. Between natural deteriorations contained within Nature, and    their glaringly obvious, increased rate of occurrence and the level of their strength and impact, the problematic compromised ozone layer, the increased lack of water resources and disappearing other natural resources and add to that the damage inflicted by mankind upon this poor besieged planet.  what have we got - major existential problems which, mind you, we are not so eager to fix at the moment. But ignoring a problem is never an answer. 

However. Be that as it may. As it might. We do have some people understanding that the physical problems of the Earth must be addressed. Perhaps it will be later rather than sooner. Most probably there will have to be some major adjustments of life, possibly not particularly pleasant, as we live in a changed planet. 

However. A huge, however. That is not the problem that is eating away at my soul. That has me shaking my head, banging my head, saying how could this be? This cannot be. Being aware of a problem, certainly helps to address that problem, does it not? Making believe it is not so, does not make it go away. And accepting it as a matter of truth, as a given =NO!! 

No. I cannot, I cannot accept this. It boggles the mind. Beyond any kind of level of belief and understanding. How could this be happening? We all attended similar schools. Covering similar content. We studied the American Revolution. What led up to it, and what followed? We read of the. Movements throughout the lands of the globe, throughout the centuries. Edging, pushing, yearning, fighting for Democracy. For freedom to raise their voices, to cast the vote. To run their lives and the country in which they live. Enough. With the rule of the elites. Enough. With the ever-growing distance between the haves and the have nots. Just as always, The United States of America stood in the forefront of these movements. Lending their enthusiasm, their expertise and their resources. Standing tall and proud when the American national anthem came on. 

Not so today, is it? And if we continue on this path, it will only get worse and worse. Until we are finally not to be living in the same nation. If that nation even continues to exist in whatever manner, shape or form. We will no longer be living in a democracy. We will no longer have the choice as to whether we will stand up at the national anthem. Or remain seated. In fact. we will have nary any choice in our lives. All will have been taken away by an autocratic. dictatorial political machine in a man eats man world. The leader of this fractured nation will be a Leader for Life, or a Monarch, or the Great Leader or some such accursed term that will have been foisted upon us.

Let's get a bit more into specifics. Via our Constitution, we know that war must be made with the acquiescence of Congress. At the very least. they must be notified, along with the people of the nation at the same time, as did FDR and others during our history. Not this time. 

This lack of transparency, lack of including the people within the government of their nation is growing by the second. It seems that more and more, the business of the government is conducted in secret. Decisions are made in secret. Opinions are not solicited. Nor is the political structure of this nation concerned with their positions. They could care less.

No, what only is cared for here is what the master wants. Who is the master? Donald J Trump. This is a man who should never have been elected to this office. This man is a consummate liar. And a fascist at heart. He has no concern for anything, for nothing, for naught, unless it somehow works for his benefit. Not the country's benefit, his benefits. Increasingly so, this nation is being run as a private fiefdom, and he is the Lord of the Manor.  

 What the hell are we doing in Venezuela? They did not attack us. Perhaps they enable some drug shipments, very possibly could be so. But to invade a nation? An independent integral nation? On a flimsy accusation along with a false one that the head of it was the leader of a cartel which actually never was, never existed? This, my friends, this is a violation of international law. 

To compound the offense. this man then struts his butt in public, his prissy gleeful smirk on his face, so pleased as he pulls yet another illegal action, so proud of his accomplishment. Then adds salt to the wound by boasting that we will "run" Venezuela. I don't want this nation to take over another nation, nor do most people. One of the benefits, we are told, will be that we can take all their shipments of oil. Folks, that is highway robbery. On both sea and land. And an obscene step to take. There are other Ways and Means to impose pressure on a nation if it offends and harms our nation. 

That is the purpose of diplomacy. There are also limits on both sides crossing those lines, and we did so, escalating the situation into war.  Nothing more, nothing less than war. A totally unjustified war. A war in which you can be sure that none of Donald Trump's grandsons, or granddaughters for that matter, will be on the frontline. For sure they will probably have the same bone spur that he had.

However, we are not done yet. Trump and his baa, baa black sheep will not be satisfied until they force that war upon the nation. And in fact, upon the world. But this war will be different. It will be foisted upon us via blatant lies of a crooked man. Because this man talks of running a foreign nation, stealing their oil, and then stating how we will be able to use that money. This is merely the same old crap that comes out of this man, day after day after day. Year after year after year. Obscene as ever. Where do you think that money will end up? Not in your pocket, not in mine. Not into a plan to improve the health situation. Not anywhere other than into his pockets, his family's pockets. And those who enable him to commit these crimes, these moral and legal crimes to which he has never been held to account. In fact, he should be in a cell right now if justice was upheld.

Venezuela is not enough for this greedy, immoral man. No, he needs more. He is the little piggy who turned into a big piggy. Whose appetite is never sated. Always, this piggy has an eye out for more and more and more. No matter the consequences to others. So why does our little piggy sing? He is seeing Greenland. Whose image he warps. on a map. And states it really belongs to us. How, in the name of all that's holy, or in the name of all that's not, does Greenland belong to the United States of America? It does not. It never did. And if we remain true to our ethos as a nation, it never will. It is open hijacking of a piece of a nation. Another nation. No different and no less than the intentions and actions of Putin with Ukraine. No different in motivation and deviant behavior than Hitler with Sudetenland and Austria and Czechoslovakia? No different than China and Tibet or Nepal. Are we presently to send boots on the ground into South America and say these countries belong to us too? Because they are close in distance? Are we going to do that to any other islands out there that touch upon us or we say, well, we're including it within our sphere of influence? Tough!

Along with his warped vision of the world. this fascist at heart talks of cancelling elections because his sheep might not be elected. He deems all elections wherein he or his lose as crooked. He continues to deny his loss in 2016 and is grossly attempting to wipe clean the stain of his attempted rebellion, his treason, against this nation. He has pardoned some of the worst felons, white collar buddies, and the traitors who broke into the Capitol with blood and violence in heart and twisted soul, to hang several people who had displeased Trump and to reinstate Trump as president, even though he had clearly lost the election. 

We all must wake up and smell all the multiple urns of coffee being brewed. We must understand how close we are to the edge of that crumbling cliff. This man has no end to his chutzpah. To his megalomaniac plans? He is a mega narcissistic person who bodes no good for this nation. And G-d willing we should get a new Congress finally honest and willing and courageous enough to opposes this man and do what should have been done years ago. willing to follow through and punish him for his crimes. His treason. His perverted sexual behavior. His stinky deals with banks and businesses and alleged extortion of money for access and influence even as he now damages our nation and its history with his lowlife changes in Federal buildings sacred to the nation.

Yesterday.

Today.

Tomorrow.

This is not who we need in office, in position to serve the nation.

 Our political structure is presently mainly   benefitting those who go along with the man who calls for the death of those who oppose him. Who just called for the death of a senator. Who frightens those who disagree with him into "retiring.” forced out by pledges of retribution fierce and real enough to frighten them off.  

No, this man must be impeached. Sent out to pasture. He is a huge threat to the soul of this nation. Would that we can find among the members of Congress, those with the courage to do what should be done, what should have been done. Those who will not fall by the wayside, subdued, cowed by his threats. Come into the open. Let people know what he does. Save this nation from itself. 

Unless we act, the future of this nation does not bode well for its inhabitants.

Donald Trump. I appreciate what you did to help Israel in its moments of dire need, and for the release of its hostages brutally stolen from their lives. I will forever be grateful.

However, it does not excuse nor make up for the plans for this nation and its citizens, for the destruction of our democracy, nor for the shameful manner in which immigrants were rounded up as cattle. And sent away as if all were criminals. As if there were no criminals before they ever even arrived on our shores. 

Denying the truth of the Emma Lazarus poem. upon the Lady of the Harbor, the Statue of Liberty, wherein we welcomed immigrants to our shores. Including your grandfather.

  We are a nation of immigrants and/or the descendants of immigrants.

And blessed for that fact, that blessed truth. 

You, too, Donald.  Even you.