Wednesday, August 29, 2018

A Lone Holdout Juror Actually Made It More Likely That Paul Manafort Will Go to Jail Even if Trump Pardons Him - Slate

Here   Well, there's that. Mr. Trump. And pardoning him is going to make you look so incredibly and indelibly bad. And then, he'll still probably go to jail for a very long time. So, there's that. A lifetime of corrupt decisions catches up to people oftentimes.

"A reckoning could be coming for Trump"

Here   "There's also little doubt that Tuesday's legal stunners, and the news that White House Counsel Donald McGahn testified to Mueller for 30 hours, have seeded new dark clouds around the President that could manifest themselves in ways impossible to predict right now."

"I believe in the wisdom and the good faith of the American people," Norm Eisen, White House ethics czar during the Obama administration, said on CNN International.
"Let's let it unfold. He is going to meet his day of reckoning."

Friday, August 24, 2018

John McCain halts treatment for brain cancer, family says

Here  I've always thought John McCain is a decent man, and particularly for a modern-day Republican. He thought torture was wrong, and tried to protect the environment with Lieberman. When the GOP demanded that their people get behind torture and to endlessly destroy our environment for fossil fuel profits. For that, and staying true to himself, and against the stain that is our current "President" and "administration," I'll say a heartfelt thank you John McCain. And again, thank you, thank you, thank you.



In July, he excoriated Trump for his cozy summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, blasting the encounter as "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."
 
"The damage inflicted by President Trump's naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake," he said in a statement.

Friday, August 17, 2018

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt

Here   Below speaks for itself. Congrats again, Donald Trump. And head's up.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

Teddy Roosevelt, The Kansas City Star, 7 May 1918

Former intelligence leaders: Trump attempting to 'stifle free speech' by revoking Brennan's clearance

Here "(CNN)Over a dozen former senior intelligence officials -- a group that includes officials who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents -- are denouncing President Donald Trump's decision to revoke former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance as "ill-considered" and "unprecedented."
With the exception of Brennan -- and excluding those who served under Trump -- every CIA director since George Tenet, who took over the agency in 1996, signed the letter."
 
Doing great Donald Trump. Cementing yourself as the most dishonorable shill to ever hold high office in the US. What a fool, and what a corrupt fool.

Monday, August 6, 2018

And Meanwhile "Trump spending his days watching, bragging about his own taped rallies"

Here  See below. Meanwhile... "Trump [is] spending his days watching, bragging about his own taped rallies."

History will howl with laughter at this imbecile and corrupted plant we had occupying the White House. In the meantime the joke is on us.

"If anything, his staff is probably grateful he spends so much time parked in front of the TV-mirror, because it means there's less time for him to foul up his day job."

#ImpeachTrump #Treason

Trump Doesn't Believe in Man-Made Climate Change: Europe is Sizzling

Here "PARIS — In Northern Europe, this summer feels like a modern-day version of the biblical plagues. Cows are dying of thirst in Switzerland, fires are gobbling up timber in Sweden, the majestic Dachstein glacier is melting in Austria.

In London, stores are running out of fans and air-conditioners. In Greenland, an iceberg may break off a piece so large that it could trigger a tsunami that destroys settlements on shore. Last week, Sweden’s highest peak, Kebnekaise mountain, no longer was in first place after its glacier tip melted.
Southern Europe is even hotter. Temperatures in Spain and Portugal are expected to reach 105-110 degrees Fahrenheit this weekend. On Saturday, several places in Portugal experienced record highs, and over the past week, two people have died in Spain from the high temperatures, and a third in Portugal.

But in the northernmost latitudes, where the climate is warming faster than the global average, temperatures have been the most extreme, according to a study by researchers at Oxford University and the World Weather Attribution network."

Great job Mr. "President". Keep supporting the fossil fuel barons and cement your legacy as the biggest fool and grifter to ever hold high office in the United States. To TRUMP is destined to be synonymous with FAIL.

Sunset, Venice 12/20/2012

Sunset, Venice 12/20/2012
I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.

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