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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

IMPEACH FOR FUN AND PROFIT



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Illustration: Every so often our editor likes to make a statement. 


The Impeachment Show
By
Czar Donic

So, where to start?  Why would we want to impeach Donald Trump.  He has, after all, made every previous President of the country seem competent.  That is quite an accomplishment.  Even Herbert Hoover, Grant, and others look better. 
Trump often quotes Abraham Lincoln, well, actually, refers to him as a Republican.  Perhaps this is where he got the idea that Frederick Douglas is "doing some good things?"  There is a great deal of talk about "reparations" these days and much is made of the fact that slave labor was used in making the White House.  We could do well to remember that Lincoln once invited Douglas to visit with him at the White House, but that the guards would not let him in.  Lincoln had to come down personally to have the guard let him in.  Lincoln never really understood how to be a Republican, so they shot him.
So, maybe it is worth taking a look back.

I had a friend who was on the ship Israel attacked just off of Gaza in '67. Golda Meir did it, and then turned the war into a fundraiser!  She stated, in a semi-Yiddish accent that she had no business using as she came from Milwaukee:  "You don't know how much a war like this costs!" And then asked for contributions.  Every little bit helps, you goyem.  After all, it's only been a quarter Century since the Holocaust.  Never mind that 30 million Russians were killed.  Does anyone else still get those mass mailings about a Jewish bag lady in Israel who is a holocaust survivor with no pension plan?   If you do, forward them to the White house.  After all, why not cut out the middleman?  Anyway, she did support our adventure in Viet Nam, but of course LBJ did a great deal of arm-twisting, after all.  Such arm-twisting is how Medicare got passed.  Obama could have learned at least that much from him for the "public option".
The first person to be signed up for Medicare was a President who had tried to start it in the first place: Harry Truman.  That's right – they did not have such a good retirement arrangement back then. 
I'm not sure as to how many countries have mass demonstrations regularly now.  I can cite France, Algeria, Chile, Portugal (giving target practice for the troops), Hong Cong, Lulu having to leave Brazil, etc., all accomplishment of our governments, just off hand and there are many more.  We supported a coup in Bolivia and got rid of the pesky Morales.  Saudi Arabia has a housing shortage in its jails as does Egypt.  This is considered an efficient way of reducing complaints, as does chopping up American Newsmen in its embassies.  It also makes money for U.S. arms dealers as the Saudi's buy all sorts of weapons in order to bomb wedding parties in Yemen.
People find our primary system a bit puzzling, but it works this way.  We only have two parties, essentially, despite the fact that just about anyone is free to create a party of their own.  These two parties are called (pardon the expression) Republican and Democratic.  So, if anybody wants to run for an elected office, they have a pre-election wherein anybody (within limits that vary with the winds) can run for the nomination.  Take for example our last Presidential primary. 
The Democrats could nominate either Bernie Sanders (whose ideas are now adopted by a majority of present candidates) or Hillary Clinton (whose main credentials seemed to be being a grandmother, a female, an ex-first lady, a past member of the Wal-Mart board of Directors, and experience as Secretary of State, and engineering the Maidan massacre (the overthrow of the Ukrainian government, much to the irritation of Vladimir Putin).  She had support from corporate interests (she was, after all, despite her past as a Goldwater Girl, a "moderate") and Sanders had support from small donors who were tired of establishment politics.  (To be fair, Obama was liked because of his intelligence and ability to speak English, but suffered eventually because he was black).  He serves as a model for Trump's office as Donny will ask, "What would Obama do?"  Once told, he would do the opposite.
Just about every poll I have seen indicates that Sanders would have defeated Donald Trump for President, but he clearly did not appeal to the big money interests.  Now he has the support of most of the more popular Democrats, but that support is diluted by the fact that others plagiarize most of his ideas and one is a woman, and one, an ex-vice President, poses as a moderate.  The problem comes in when all of these candidates snipe at one another rather than at Donald Trump, a much more deserving target and who is impervious to attack from his "base," some 20 to 30% of the American population that is militantly stupid.  Now Bloomberg registers in Alabama.  I know it was the deadline, but I could not help wondering, "What kind of base does a guy like Bloomberg have in Alabama?  Sort of akin to rap music?"
One disturbing element is that there seems to be a desperate effort to get some sort of "moderate" nominated.  Right now, many, many corporate sponsored or owned media companies are filled with "experts" talking about the need for someone more "centrist" in this next election.  One asks, is Donald Trump a centrist?  The response seems to be, all too often, that only a "centrist" could beat him.  Both Sanders and, yes, Warren seem to have far more support and we know that Standers would have defeated Trump in the last election.  The terror that the powers that be, the billionaires, have is palpable.  (A couple are even running themselves to further dilute the field.)
It seems that they would much rather put up with four more years of Trump than elect someone who has such progressive ideas – ideas that would seem moderate to the rest of the developed world.   If the Democrats do nominate a "moderate" Trump will be re-elected, despite the well-deserved ill will he has earned by the majority of the country.
Another "moderate", the openly gay Mayor from Indiana, Major Pete seems semi-popular.  Would someone please work out the pronunciation of his last name and transcribe it to the IPA?  I'll even accept ɶ as the ligature as it is the closest I've been able to find on my keyboard.)
In another development, Jim Jordan, the wrestling coach and Trump supporter, has now been named in a lawsuit about sexual abuse that happened while he was a coach at that same University.  He was just appointed to replace a weaker Republican on the committee doing most of the impeachment hearings in order to bring more a more aggressive defense to the cause of Donald Trump.  Look for his on television during the hearings.
Somehow, it seems appropriate to talk a bit about our foreign policy tendencies, as they seem to be the only thing that might get Trump kicked out, out on his ass.  Our foreign policy is based mainly on money, both for the fossil fuel industry and, more urgently, the weapons manufacturers.  There seems to be no other consistent explanation.  To simplify, we can move straight to recent history, skipping the "World Wars" and Korean "Police Action".  It is worth pointing out that the new network programs always proudly announced, during Korea, that they were shipping cartons of cigarettes to our soldiers.   Let's skip directly to Viet Nam and end there. 
There actually was no real war in Viet Nam for us at first.  Even when JFK was President, we had only 20,000 soldiers there, all volunteers, and all called "advisors".   So, that seemed to leave about 15 years or more since we had a nice, real, war, (we called it a "Police Action," kind of what Mayor Daley enacted in 1968 Chicago), but JFK did not seem very interested in one.  Obviously, he had to be disposed of.  JFK also did not like Alan Dulles' lying to him about issues, and he therefore fired him.  So, JFK was disposed of and replaced by LBJ who, it is important to point out, ran as a peace candidate.  The opposition party, the Republicans, ran a guy named Barry Goldwater who loved the John Birch Society (which was sponsored by the father of these who started the "tea Party), promised to bomb North Vietnam into the Stone Age, and do all other sorts of manly things.  Since the targets would not be white guys, many thought this would be a good idea.
Well, he was knocked out of the race for re-election by a senator from Wisconsin, named McCarthy.  As a result, brother Bobby (RFK) decided to run as well.  It seemed that he was likely to win, so he was killed.  We have to remember that the so-called Warren Report on the assassination of JFK was really headed by Alan Dulles, that's right, the guy that JFK fired a year before. 
RFK was killed by associates of J. Edgar Hoover, by proxy, three bullets into the back of his head.  Sirhan was at all times in front of RFK.  This fact was never mentioned at his trail.  (His rehearing was opposed by Kamela Harris when she was Attorney General of California).  At any rate, this war was the first to cause a real emigration problem as many Americans left this country for a more sane Canada, only to be pardoned later on by Jimmie Carter (taking notes?  There will be a test.)   His administration actually invited Arlo Guthrie to the inauguration.  (Alice's Restaurant, in case you forget or need to look it up.)
Well, Vietnam did not prove very popular with people who were supposed to go and kill these brown skinned people.  At the same time, black skinned people in our own country were still having difficulties.  They had MLK to lead their demonstrations, which were supported by many white people as well.  There were cultural difficulties, of course, but by and large, all groups joined together. 
There were many black leaders, not just MLK.  Malcolm X was around and a very inspirational leader.  His radio broadcasts were centered from a radio station in Evanston Illinois just off of Howard Avenue (or was it St.?).  Many whites at the time thought they would like to sign up with him, but he led the Black Moslems and was unlikely to welcome white people to be members of his congregation.  He was very religious and principled and, therefore, soon ejected from that particular church.
Well, we need to go back to cultural differences and MLK who at least seemed open minded about "white folk".  Unfortunately, he did not completely understand either Chicago or Richard J. Daley.  There had just been a race riot after the fire commissioner turned off all the fire hydrants in the blacker sections of the city.  It was a very hot summer and that was the only place the kids had to get into the water and cool off. 

Before we get into that fiasco, let me point out that he did make one statement in favor of separation of Church and state.  When the Catholic Church, which was powerful in the City, tried to censor certain films and told Daley he should ban them, he said "Ya wanna tell me wut ta do wid dis city, den pay the property taxes like all da citizens."  That ended the religious movement in government in Chicago.
Well, MLK came to Chicago to meet with the mayor.  King talked about segregation, discrimination, education, none of which went over very big.  (To be fair to the Mayor, and to explain a bit about Chicago, redlining would be imposed anyway.)  In one instance, there was a riot when a couple tried to move into the wrong neighborhood.  Was it race?  Well, the fact was that a Lithuanian couple tried to move into a German neighborhood.  People in Chicago took these things very seriously.  However, there was one proposal that Daley liked.  At least turn the hydrants back on.  Now, Daley liked that idea.  He even rounded up kids from those neighborhoods and bussed them to the appropriate beaches on the lake!  Over and over again.  Why, Chicago's black children were at least the wettest minority group in the United States.  Dick Gregory mentioned this once.
MLK was eventually killed right after making a speech against the Vietnam War.  (Ah, nostalgia, don't you love it?)  It is worth pointing out that some of the more principled of Daley's advisors quit and, when asked why, "Ahk, he started believing some of da stuff he wuz sayin!" 
Now, many years later, we have a total idiot running the country and we are in the process of impeaching him.  He is far too stupid to make a coherent defense, so he makes a shifting, moving target.  But this is going to be fun, at least.  I hope some of it is run against the reality shows on Prime Time TV.
It actually seems kind of stupid to keep this thing publishing.  What's the point?  Well, maybe some day I'll figure out something.  For now, however, I will leave you.  Have fun watching the impeachment hearings.  Oh, and watch out for that Jim Jordan – keep him away from the younger men.


Monday, October 21, 2019

Bernie Back: Corporations Crumble



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I had another illustration in mind, but this one came up today!  Helps explain why we are the country with so many mass murders.

BERNIE IS BACK

BY
CZAR DONIC

I am not going to say much this issue.  I've been looking for a transcript of this for a while and could not find one, so then this one came on.  I found Moore's comments especially refreshing.  I should point out that there is a great deal of anger levied at him recently with many idiotic charges.  Only idiots would be ready to accept them, but then the networks are ready to spread them.

[Just a final question: why the hell should so many people be hugging bitch Hillary for attacking Tulsi?  Why would the Russians be supporting someone with a 1% rating in the polls?  Surely Putin is not a fool, certainly not as much a fool as Hillary or Donald?]

Here it is.

Vermont independent senator and 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held the largest campaign rally of the primary season so far on Saturday. An estimated 26,000 supporters packed into Queensbridge Park in New York City. The event was held in the shadow of the nation's largest public housing development. It was Sanders's first campaign rally since he suffered a heart attack earlier this month. Sanders was joined on stage by three prominent supporters: Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico; filmmaker Michael Moore; and Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who volunteered on Sanders's 2016 campaign before being elected to the House of Representatives in 2018. Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Sanders at the rally.


Transcript
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AMY GOODMAN: Senator Bernie Sanders held the largest campaign rally of the presidential primary season so far on Saturday. An estimated 26,000 supporters packed into Queensbridge Park in New York City. The event was held in the shadow of the nation's largest public housing development. It was Sanders' first campaign rally since he suffered a heart attack earlier this month. He was joined on stage by three prominent supporters: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico; and filmmaker Michael Moore.
MICHAEL MOORE: The powers that be are very unhappy that you're here. They're very unhappy that Bernie is back. And so they are doing everything they can to throw everything they can come up with to get people to think differently about Bernie, to get people repeating their tropes. We know what they are, right? We've heard them. They want everybody to repeat them. They got all the pundits repeating it on the news. And now they want the — they want the average American repeating it. So, what do they say? "Bernie's too old! Bernie's too old!" Yeah, well, here's what's too old: The Electoral College is too old. That's what's too old. A $7.25 minimum wage, that's too old! Women not being paid the same as men, that's too old! Thousands and thousands of dollars of student debt, what is that?
CROWD: Too old!
MICHAEL MOORE: Too old! A $10,000 deductible for your healthcare, what is that?
CROWD: Too old!
MICHAEL MOORE: Superdelegates, what's that?
CROWD: Too old!
MICHAEL MOORE: Fossil fuel, what's that?
CROWD: Too old!
MICHAEL MOORE: That's what's too old. … The next thing they say is, "What about Bernie's health? What about his health?" How about we talk about the health of this planet, that's dying? That's the health I care about.
CROWD: Green New Deal! Green New Deal! Green New Deal!
MICHAEL MOORE: A Green New Deal!
CROWD: Green New Deal!
MICHAEL MOORE: Green New Deal! Green New Deal!
CROWD: Green New Deal! Green New Deal! Green New Deal!
MICHAEL MOORE: What about — what about the health of the kids in Flint, Michigan? What about that health? Talk about that on cable news. What about the health of 40 million people who live in poverty? What about — what about the health of the young black male who's shot in the back by the police? What about that health?
CROWD: Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter!
MICHAEL MOORE: Black Lives Matter!
CROWD: Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter!
MICHAEL MOORE: The only heart attack — the only heart attack we should be talking about is the one Wall Street is going to have when Bernie Sanders is president of the United States! Now it is my honor to introduce to you one of the original, as Trump put it, "nasty women," the brave and courageous and necessary mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mayor Carmen Cruz! Let's hear it for her!
MAYOR CARMEN YULÍN CRUZ: September 20th, one of those days where your life changes forever, two hurricanes, not one, had hit Puerto Rico. Times were hard. There was no food, no electricity, no water, no medicine. Help was not getting there. We were dying. And President Trump was killing us with his bureaucracy and his inefficiency. You know, he said he couldn't get help to Puerto Rico because we are "an island surrounded by water, lots and lots of water, ocean water." That is a quote from the president of the United States.
Now, in the midst of all that darkness, one man came down to visit me. And I have to tell you, I was not a Bernie supporter in 2016. I was not. But I started feeling the Bern when he came down to the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico — no cameras, no show, just a man with a big heart, with a lot of passion and a lot of compassion. And he won me over. …
I'm no climate change expert; I am a climate change survivor I don't know how warm the ocean is going to get or how high the tides are going to go.
CROWD MEMBER: Ask the scientists!
MAYOR CARMEN YULÍN CRUZ: Say it louder.
CROWD: Ask the scientists!
MAYOR CARMEN YULÍN CRUZ: Say it louder.
CROWD: Ask the scientists!
MAYOR CARMEN YULÍN CRUZ: Say it louder!
CROWD: Ask the scientists!
MAYOR CARMEN YULÍN CRUZ: I do know this one thing: Climate change is real. Climate change kills. Three thousand Puerto Ricans did not open their eyes this morning because of a president that was too concerned about looking good rather than doing good. And, yes, we are not going to spend too much time talking about a racist, demagogue, xenophobic, racist, paper-throwing president.
CROWD: Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!
MAYOR CARMEN YULÍN CRUZ: You know what?
CROWD: Lock him up! Lock him up!
MAYOR CARMEN YULÍN CRUZ: You know what?
CROWD: Lock him up! Lock him up!
MAYOR CARMEN YULÍN CRUZ: Let's vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out! Vote him out!
CROWD: Vote him out! Vote him out!
MAYOR CARMEN YULÍN CRUZ: So, the time is now — the time is now to be uncompromising. The time is now to be relentless. The time is now to be fearless. The time is now to be full. The time is now to stand with Bernie Sanders.
TIFFANY CABÁN: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
REPALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Holy cow! What's up, New York City? …
I'm in the United States Congress now. And that's a long, long way from being a sexually harassed waitress in downtown Manhattan one year ago. However, in this new, historic freshman congressional class, an overwhelming amount of them now reject corporate PAC money. That's thanks to Bernie. An enormous amount of the House of Representatives endorse Medicare for All. That's thanks to Bernie. More people now than ever recognize the climate crisis as an existential threat but also our greatest economic opportunity, and that's thanks not just to the climate work of Bernie Sanders, but to climate activists that are part of mass movement politics in the United States. …
We need a United States that really, truly and authentically is operated, owned and decided by working and all people in the United States of America. That is what — it is multiracial, multigendered, multigenerational and multigeographic. We have to come together, not ignoring our differences, but listening to them, prioritizing them, understanding injustice, understanding that we operate in a context where slavery evolved into Jim Crow, evolved into mass incarceration, evolved into the realities we have today. …
And with that, I'd like to introduce the man, the ally — I call him Tío Bernie. Maybe to my goddaughter he's Huelo. Maybe to some others he's Brother. But he is my Tío Bernie Sanders.
SENBERNIE SANDERS: Today, unbelievably, while we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth, 25 hedge fund managers make twice as much money as all of the kindergarten teachers in America. We are going to honor our teachers, not the hedge fund managers. And that is going to change under our administration. Today the three wealthiest Americans own more wealth than the bottom half of American society. And the top 1% have seen their wealth increase by $21 trillion over the last 30 years. And today we say to Wall Street and the billionaire class, "You ain't gonna get it all anymore." …
Now, right across the street from where we are at this moment is New York City's largest fossil fuel power plant. And let us be clear: It is no secret that that plant is located right next to the city's largest public housing development. Together, we will pass a Green new Deal that will end the environmental racism we see right here in Queens and in similar communities all across this country. Together, not only will we clean up our environment, but we will finally put an end to environmental racism. …
If you are willing to love, if you are willing to fight for a government of compassion and justice and decency, if you are willing to stand up to Trump's desire to divide us up, if you are prepared to stand up to the greed and corruption of the corporate elite, if you and millions of others are prepared to do that, there is no doubt in my mind that not only will we win this election, but together we will transform this country. Thank you all very much!
AMY GOODMAN: 2020 presidential candidate Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders speaking on Saturday at a massive rally in Queens, New York. He was endorsed by New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico; and filmmaker Michael Moore. The rally was held in Queensbridge Park, between the nation's largest public housing development and the largest power plant in New York City.
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Monday, September 02, 2019

Cone of Uncertainty



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It almost seems like old news now, but this is the orange man's position on democracy as supplied by Latuff and MONDOWEISS.NET.  Good sources both.


THE CONE OF UNCERTAINTY
BY
Czar Donic

[Ed. Note: One worthwhile that has emerged from the last few weeks during the last hurricane is the term "cone of uncertainty".  Surely, that describes our current situation as to the degree of absurdity to come on any specific day, and hence our title.]  

Hello.  I'm Czar Donic and you're not.  I've been wanting to steal that construction for some time and now its mine.

These are the days for journalism noir.  We've had it in film, novels, and so on, and now, given current events, journalism. 

We can see the start with the inauguration of Trump.  "The largest crowd ever to attend an inauguration," and DON'T BELIEVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND TELEVISION COVERAGE!!!  People are easily led astray by what they see and hear.  We must learn not to listen of watch.  Simply take their words for it.  Even the person whose professional life was ruined by the lies he told in support later made fun of it on national television at, if we remember correctly, an Oscar presentation.

Almost everyone who has left this administration, according to Anthony Scaramucci, has described the place as insane to work in, in other words, a madhouse.  In fact, we would do well from now on the simply use the term "Mad-house" rather than "White-house" in discussions and reports.  The Mad-house today confirms that the President is the least racist person in the "whole world," and also be confirmed as the "Greatest in History, including the President's close friend Frederick Douglas."  The "Mooch," recently, has been trying to organize some sort of movement to get rid of this great man and replace him with someone more sane, more typical of the republican party (sort of a contradiction in terms).  At least, the "Mooch" came up with a quotable line in speaking about his only11 days working at the Mad-house "I thought I'd last longer than a milk carton."  But even Mike Pence is reported to have once thought of a journal called "Torts Illustrated," so one line just doesn't do much.

This is fairly recent:  A friend of mine who is a fairly well-known Physicist once demonstrated and then told me "Damn, I had never thought I'd be marching in favor of facts one day!"  (He never read much science fiction.) I remember seeing a woman marching hlding a sign that read "Deregulate my uterus."  There was no comment on this from the Mad-house.  Yes, the term fits.

[We owe this to Arthud C. Clarke: in the ancient days, there was a famous rug maker called Ali Hasan.  One day at court, in front of the Calif (king, leader, whatever), he farted.  He left the court quickly to avoid being beheaded, packed his rugs, and traveled other countries.  He prospered for many decades.  Finally, in his old age, he wanted to visit Bagdad once more.  He stopped at an inn where people were talking about the latest scandals at court amidst much laughter in which he shared.  He felt he was quite safe now and relaxed.  After one extremely funny story, he asked the teller when it happened.  The response was "I don't remember the exact year, but it was about 5 years after Ali Hasan farted."]  Well, the U.S. farted and other countries will never let us forget.

Keeping up with each new fart is simply silly these days.  Recently, he decided to buy Greenland.  There is a history behind Greenland going back to Erik the Red who "discovered" it, but why bother?  As a matter of fact, who remembers the Greenland fiasco now?  Disloyal Jews have voted for Democrats, so [draw your own conclusion here].  It is simply not worth it.

One of our readers responded to a reference we made that Thomas Jefferson once said that we needed a revolution every 20 years but that we were not going to try to look it up.  Well, he did and here is the full quote as supplied:

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Hence, the "resistance" inspired by Daffy Don.  Of course, a major problem is posed by Daffy's supporters, who are the ones most likely to be dreaming of going out and shooting up some mass of people.  Few, if any, consider carrying out such a movement against Daffy.  It is often said that people get the sort of government they deserve; well, with Daffy, the Republican Party now is saddled by the sort of member it has had coming to it for years of abuse. 

Ever heard from Sitting Bull?

The love of possessions is a disease in them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not! They have a religion in which the poor worship, but the rich will not! They even take tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule. They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbor away. ... If America had been twice the size it is, there still would not have been enough.

Sounds like Karl Marx?  It certainly becomes more relevant today. 

It is certainly a ticket to an asylum to try to keep up with the blithering, blathering Babbel that comes out of the Mad-House.  I certainly expect his protoge Bolisinaro to keep burning down the Amazon forests as he encourages oil and other fossil exploration in Alaska.  Why not?

Now, as the the Democrats: right now, we are very far away from there being any such thing as viable candidates.  We are inundated with the results of polls constantly that determine the cast of debates to be shown of television.  All very profitable media exercises.  At present, three are pretty much tied as the leaders: Biden, Sanders, and Warren (listed in alphabetical order as that makes as much sense as any other).  In political philosophies, Sanders and Warren are fairly close (although Bernie is still ahead of her on that) and together they comprise about 40% of the vote.  Biden 20%, and the others combine to make up the rest. 

A problem here arises from ignorance of the voters, or a significant portion of them.  There are many who simply hate Sanders since he did not call himself a Democrat officially and who was a male who opposed the female in the last election, a corporate shill called Hillary Clinton.  Many females saw this as an attack on their gender.  Some Sanders supporters found the statement "Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a grandmother as President?" as ridiculous, and it was ridiculous.  During her debate with Daffy Don, he hovered behind her and she did not react.  At the time, most wished that she would turn and say "Get back to your box like a good little boy, or do you want a spanking?"  (Cortez would have, certainly, and so would Tulsi Gabbard.)  She said nothing.

It was clear that corporate forces worked very hard through the DNC to "rig" the nomination for her and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz would up taking the fall for that, but it was a concerted effort.  Moreover, it still seems clear that Daffy Don did not expect to win, nor did he want to win.  It was simply good marketing.  However, that is what happened and is how we would up with him as "White Power" and other such racist groups supported him.  (There is simply not enough time to explain why such right-wing corporate types like the Kock-Brothers (one now dead) are not that exhuberant about him.)

Oh, yes, Biden.  It does look as if his lead and popularity within the party will fade as time goes by, but there is still a great deal of time left.  No polls, especially those with about 5 or 6% (+or-) degree of error have any real significance today.   Actually, the only one of them, especially female or otherwise, is Tulsi Gabbard, so they will keep her out of future debates by not taking any polls, even though with the degree of error she could have 8% support.

This is too silly to bother with, but why are the Democrats suddenly or recently against Russia and the Republicans defending it?  That goes against the natural order of things.  It doesn't matter, though, nothing matters.  Dorian, named after the novel by Oscar Wilde, will do whatever it takes to screw with Daffy Don of Orange.  What else?  Oh, yes, instead of fake news, why don't we have fake tweets?  Whatever he tweets is fake.  He seems to sit of the toilet with constipation and tweet out insults at whomever until he gets relief.  Maybe he won't even complete his term by the time the election takes place.  There will always be scandals at the Veteran's hospitals and so on because once a person leaves the "service," he/she becomes a human being again rather than government property and therefore a liability.  I know because I worked with addicts at the VA for awhile and learned not only how they were treated, but also what they went through. 

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Well, after a break, I looked back at this thing and think it's time to add a few things.  For one thing, Dorian skipped Peurto Rico (part of the U.S., whether the orange man thinks so or not) and seems head for Trump properties.  Perhaps there is some order in this universe after all.

Too much argument lately over Christianity and God.  So far as I can tell, our belief in some infinite creator stems from our habit of noticing cause and effect.  In other words, if something happened, something must have caused it.  In fact, we have never known anything else.  In ancient mythology, the earth was help up by Atlas.  Well, what did Atlas stand on?  Er, a giant turtle.  Yeah, a turtle.  Ok, what did the turtle stand on?  And so forth.  The best answer so far had been, sorry, but it's turtles all the way down.  (In other words, infinity.)

Well, the same problem happens with a first cause.  What created the universe?  In Physics, this is usually known as the "Big Bang".  Ok, what happened before that?  Well, now is where it gets interesting.  Einstein managed to get time considered a dimension somehow unified with the three usual dimensions.  However, we have since learned that there are other dimensions as well.  We need not name them (we really can not), but as we look backward into the original source of the big bang, we find that the gravity and time and the others become co-mingled to the degree that it is no longer sensible to separate them from one another.  In fact, time no longer exists by itself as a dimension.  (At least this is what Stephen Hawkings told us.)  So, without time, cause and effect is meaningless so to even consider a cause of the universe or even the original particle or whatever is impossible since time is essential for cause and effect.  Therefore, whether or not there is a God, or first cause, is meaningless.  Does that help?  No?  Well, I don't have it in me.  You can use a search engine.  :ook up "History of time," or "string theory" and don't worry if it's Wikipedia (it gets bad press.  Still, if you are still somewhat skeptical after all of that, the best recourse is to screw yourself.

Here is a religious tract one sent me recently:

My instinct was to make a sandwich, and play John Prine loudly.    
I heard Allah and Buddha were singing at the Savior's feast
And up the sky and Arabian rabbi
Fed Quaker oats to a priest
Pretty good, not bad, they can't complain
Cause actually all them gods is just about the same
Pretty good, not bad, I can't complain
Cause actually everything is just about the same"


Greta just landed in her yacht from Sweden (so chosen as to leave as little "greenhouse" effect behind).  Not just carbon dioxide by also methane gas is dangerous.  If you don't believe it, well ….  Let me tell you a story:  In High School once I was making Nitro-Glycerin in Chemistry lab.  (If you try it, don't forget the hydrocloric acid to drain off the water.)  Now, I know, teen age stuff, sure.  But this ape next to me, Steve (long slavick name ending in ick) asks me what I'm doing and I tell him and say "Now, don't mess with it."  Well, he decides to be a hero, grab the tube, and throw it out the window.  Well, we were on the third floor and the window faced a brick courtyard.  As the contents of the tube descended downwards, they seemed to pop like shots from a gun.  The teacher got up on the desk and shouted, pointing at me.  (I have no idea why he would think I would be responsible for something like that and I said "Well, he threw it out the window," pointing to Steve.  After that, the glycerin was locked up.

Now, why do I mention that?  Well, if you fart, what you fart is combustible.  Once, a friend of mine challenged me about it and I said 'If you don't believe me, next time you fart, hold a match to it."  He actually decided to challenge me on that.  When asked about what happened, he confessed to the others "I nearly blew my ass off."  So, I guess that proves that we do have climate change.

Even Fox News now uses the term on occasion, and the Orangeman has now added it to the area of "fake news," leaving nothing left as one is not supposed to believe what you see or read, either.  I am afraid; we also are beset by fake tweets.

Well, finally, as it is now September: Two mass shootings in Texas, but rest easy.  As of the first of September, you all in Texas can carry guns into your local church.  That way, if someone wants to interrupt your prayer to Jesus, you can draw yer gun and shoot him down.  Modern day smiting!  Lots more in the Walmart, but they were Mexicans.  Seven in Odessa.  Yes, we have Odessa in the U.S.  In Illinois we have Cairo and, I seem to remember, Damascus.  Who needs the rest of the world?

Of course, when Orange Leader found out that his property was in peril, he sent Magic Mike (Pence) to Poland instead and stayed here to protect the twelve Trump loosing properties in Florida.  Had to be here to sign the insurance claims.  If you suffer from Trump fatigue, you are not alone.  During that last hurricane he warned people in Alabama to shelter in place, so the Governor of Alabama had to get on the media and tell everyone that Dorian was not headed for Alabama.

Now, he says that if he is not re-elected, he will not leave.  So, what we have to do (and I'm sure the Secret Service will co-operate on this one) is go in, lasso him, and drag him to New York.  From there, he can be shipped to the other Odessa.  Problem solved. 

Now, I've already spent too much of my time and yours on this crap, so I'm sending it along.  Also, send your thoughts and prayers to Texas, or anywhere else but here. 

Crap, I forgot, all this gun violence is caused by video games and mental illness so rather than spend money on the mentally ill, we might as well keep electing them to Congress.  Actually, I think any more time and thought on this subject will lead to madness, or, as Shakespeare put it, "That way madness lies."








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