Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Why Trump WILL Run as an Independent.



There’s never been a better time for this to happen.

Republican Party is fracturing, awash with Reaganomics and Tea Baggers. It seems to be collapsing and spending its last days tearing each other into pieces.

Sixteen candidates have announced, Seventeen . . .  do I hear eighteen?  There may be more to follow.

No leadership is apparent in the party from Boehner or McConnell, or anyone else.  Other Republicans stand around behind these two, looking sad, white and male, a bit like the faces on Mt. Rushmore.

Democrats have a different problem.  But it’s still a problem.
Hillary is sure bet to win but nobody likes her.  She is tied up and encumbered.  Democrats are prepared to hold their noses and vote for her, at least some are.  How many will actually go to the polls, hold their noses, and vote, for her, is a good question.

Bernie is great!  EVERYbody likes him!  But he is still a socialist Jew.  And he is too old!  Bernie is 73 which has been made to seem much older than Biden (72) and Hillary (67).  By way or comparison Trump is 69 (his last chance?)  Still people gather round Bernie to hear what he has to say.   And they like it!

Bidden is everybody’s friend.  But it is widely known (?) that he doesn’t have the internal fire necessary for a long and bitter campaign.  He would obviously make the best possible president because he has the natural ability to bring the nation together after a destructive campaign.

But back to Trump.  He is not a solid Republican.  Many Republicans see him as a “late-comer”.  As someone who wants to take over and run the show, but many wonder what he will do if he can’t run the country by fiat and has to go through the democratic process.  Would he walk away? Would he send the army marching in under the great dome?  The Republican Party will not let Trump run as a Republican, because they have too much to lose.  

And who would be his vice-president?  Hard to say now.  Palin is out.  Ben Carson might think about it, especially if he gets shuffled out of the race for president.  There could be others.  If Trump called you up and asked if you would be willing, how would you answer? 

If the Republican Party won't let Trump run, this would be his way to take over.  If they have problems with that, then “you’re Fired!”  And perhaps his version in this case of “firing” would be to take over, run for president as an independent, win the election and THEN, after totally shattering the Republican Party there would be a day of massive reckoning.  He would know how America should be run!  And he doesn’t need any damn constitution to tell him what to do.

And if he lost?  Which he would, what would rise out of the smoldering ashes?  That’s a really good question.  

But the bigger question is can America run politically without the two party system?  There IS a third party now, has been for a while.  It has no name but is widely known to be The Money Party.  And without having to travel either the Democratic or Republican highway into power, then will the members of that party become free to rip each other apart and wreak havoc on America?





Friday, August 07, 2015

Debate?Fox?News?

The tree of facts was twisted into unrecognizable shapes last night by the clinging vines of opinion and hidden from sight by the great leaves of loud noises.

No presentation of governing, of how governing is done, of how it differs from making a profit or issuing regal edicts. Not even a  pretense of that knowledge.

No important issues were massaged or discussed, just a series of regal executions, killing questions and trying to make the “news” staff look even dumber than they actually were.


Just a chance to show each of the Big Ten were as quick as Fox “News”.  



Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Obama - Iran - Negotiations

Obama is catching a lot of flak now from his successful negations with Iran.  The Republican members of congress are uniting against him and preparing to disapprove of the agreement by voting it down in the next two months.   We – those of us who are not members of the new fascist organization now known as "Republican" – need to contact our three Blind Mice in congress.

Call them up.  And tell their Answer Guy or Gal that you APPROVE of the agreement.  Tell them you are proud of it for many reasons.  Particularly for the collective negation by members of the United Nations.  This represents a real breakthrough in dealing with  problem nations.

Ask your Answer Gal or Guy how differently it might have turned out after "911" if we had taken the matter to the UN then to deal with the fact that 15 men from Saudi Arabia attacked our country.  We might not have invaded Iraq.  Think of the misery that would have been spared.  We had the world united behind us, ready to help anyway they could.  But when George Bush said "You're either with us or against us!" and proceed to attack Iraq, those nations drifted away.  We were on our own, and still are.  This is a major step toward building a better world.




Monday, June 22, 2015

Redefining the Confederacy

Seen the day after the Charlestown massacre:  the American flag and the South Carolina flag flying at half-mast, while the Battle Flag of the Confederacy remains flying at full staff. What has the confederacy come to mean?

Lost.   Ignorant.  Not educated.  Lost.  But with firepower and   
hate. Ignorance. Lost.  Confusion.  Alcoholic.  Innuendo.  But with firepower and hate.  

Again and again, we see losers who have been passed by in education, nutrition, religion, history, understanding, comprehension, intelligence and awareness of history,  smirking or glaring as they display their flag of mass destruction and unbridled terrorism together with weapons that appear ready to kill or maim. 

And after the carnage, as black victims of terrorism so often forgive their terrorists, we see these Sons of the Confederacy having their actions explained as being caused by the problems they've had in their lives, by their poor upbringing, by their difficulties in school and obtaining work and having been mis-understood.  

That is what the CONFEDERACY has become now.  While its BATTLE FLAG still flies over the state capitol grounds of of South Carolina, proudly standing at full mast, waving in defiant intimidation, it has become a new symbol of ignorance, stupidity, mass destruction and terrorism comparable to the battle flag of Isis.  


And  yes.  I was born and raised in Vicksburg, Mississippi.


Thursday, April 02, 2015

MORE Than Just a Chance

In 1983, Donald Rumsfeld, a special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, shook Saddam Hussein’s hand as he supported Iraq’s war against Iran by supplying Mustard Gas, Sarin, and other poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic plague and other chemicals produced by Dow Chemicals and Monsanto. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/09/04/history-lesson-when-the-united-states-looked-the-other-way-on-chemical-weapons/).

Twenty years later, in 2003, President Bush said, speaking of the coming American war against Iraq, "We gave peace a chance . . ." then he paused, raised his eyebrows and clenched his fist, the glare in his eyes implying that peace didn't work. 

But Peace is more than just a game of chance, it needs a home, a place to grow, somewhere it can be cared for, watered, fed and cultivated. It needs to be protected and cherished and it needs to be shared. Too many times people work hard for war, spend money for war, train young men and women for war, are always ready to fight, and then will give peace just "a chance." While wars are caused, peace is left to happen by accident. If we are ever to have real peace it will have to be wanted, prepared for, paid for, trained for and we will need specialists who can become experts in the arts and sciences of peace. Impossible? Not really. What if we did create a Department of Peace in our national government? Just started it off and gave it a place to grow, supported it and shared it? We might find a miracle there someday, instead of just more "consekquences".  How do we get such a radical thing started? It really begins at home, right here and in the other small towns of our country. Peace is not a game of chance at all, it's more like planting a garden, or raising a child. Peace must be caused to happen.


I congratulate President Obama and his team, especially John Kerry, for ploughing back into all this mess and giving peace more than just a chance, and for moving it into the front stage of the world.

Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Who Can Afford to Run for Office in America?

One of the problems faced by any government that elects their representatives concerns WHO is it among their population can actually afford to run for office and then serve if elected?  

Certainly not a person who is working for a retirement, or someone who needs that next paycheck to pay family bills, or who has a family to help raise or works for a boss who might put pressure on him or her.   

So . . .  we need to find someone who doesn’t have a full-time job?  Or somebody who has a job but also has a lot of time off?  We are really looking for lawyers or insurance salesmen, maybe a Realtor who already has an office and can begin from there.   Or . . . if you could find someone who has a LOT of money already, and doesn’t need to work, then perhaps he or she would be able to run.  

So we are really “requiring” anyone who wishes to run for congress to be People Of Money, and thus we have to select people who are not of the same class as those they will govern. 

Once in office they will need even more money to stand for election again.


So someone elected to office in America will need to represent two constituencies:  1) those who cast the votes  and who may or may not vote, and 2) those who provide the money.  And those who provide the money expect results – to them it is not an expenditure, it is an investment in the future.  An investment in THEIR future. 

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

An Open Letter to my senators and representative:



Letter to Iran?  A State of the Union delivered by Netanyahu?  This IS the UNITED States of America.  If you don’t like that - then you might consider leaving.  Perhaps  you saw this as being a note to Obama that he is not necessary, but the message you delivered is that Americans are not necessary.  I do not expect to see ANYthing like this ever repeated.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Homeland security

The Department of Homeland Security – shut it down?  Right now?  When, apparently Issis and perhaps other Islamic terrorists are “headed our way”? 

IF a major attack occurs after the Republican Party has shut down  Homeland Security WHO is going to get the blame?  Not Issis, Not Islam, no, it will be the Republican Party!