Monday, January 30, 2017
Ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries
Trumps ban on travelers from 7 Muslim countries was done to secure the safety of citizens in our country.
The Trump administration tends to be short on facts so here are a few.
The Trump administration tends to be short on facts so here are a few.
- Of those 7 countries 0 have been involved in any terrorist activities on US soil between 1975 and today.
- Saudi Arabia during this time period has had 19 of its citizens responsible to terrorist attacks in the US resulting in 2369 murders.
- Trumps owns business interests in Saudi Arabia.
- Rudy Giuliani was on Fox News and said President Trump wanted a “Muslim ban” and requested he assemble a commission to show him “the right way to do it legally.”
A central message of ISIS is the west waging a war against Islam. ISIS is already on social media channels thrilled with Trumps actions claiming it satisfies their prediction that the West would eventually turn against its Muslim citizens.
It does nothing to keep us safer. It will do just the opposite.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Planet in Peril
Trump is nothing more than an overt manifestation of the modern day Republican
party. The right wing echo chamber for years has pushed its audience to a
view of the world that is devoid of facts. What we now are faced with is close
to half of Americans that vote that live in a world totally divorced from the reality
of what is actually happening. (half of Americans do NOT exercise their right to
vote)
The perfect storm is now here and this party now controls all three branches
of Federal government. Additionally they now control most state governments.
In fact, they are one state away from controlling 2/3 of all state governments.
Elections have consequences and we are going to see consequences of this
administration. The biggest will be the damage this government inflicts on
our environment. As just one example, as hydraulic fracking in the
state of Oklahoma increased earthquakes also increased from 2011 from 63
to over 600 in 2016.
The new administration is so concerned with the environment that they have
nominated to lead the EPA the former States Attorney of Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt,
who filed numerous suits against the EPA.
All EPA grants and contracts have been suspended by the Trump administration.
Gag orders have been placed on staffers at the EPA as well as all other
agencies like NASA.
Our Federal government is full of scientists whose job it is to conduct
research on our climate, on pollution. Well folks those days are over. Agencies
will be gutted.
During this firestorm that you will be witnessing over the next four years (at
least 4 years) not only be gutting Federal agencies that provide great value
to our environment but you are going to witness unfettered government spending
to the likes you have never seen.
This is not a Trump thing. This is a Republican thing. Republicans are only
fiscally responsible when they are not in control of the Government.
This time things are different my fellow citizens. This is not politics as usual.
More is at stake than just our country. Our planet is at stake.
party. The right wing echo chamber for years has pushed its audience to a
view of the world that is devoid of facts. What we now are faced with is close
to half of Americans that vote that live in a world totally divorced from the reality
of what is actually happening. (half of Americans do NOT exercise their right to
vote)
The perfect storm is now here and this party now controls all three branches
of Federal government. Additionally they now control most state governments.
In fact, they are one state away from controlling 2/3 of all state governments.
Elections have consequences and we are going to see consequences of this
administration. The biggest will be the damage this government inflicts on
our environment. As just one example, as hydraulic fracking in the
state of Oklahoma increased earthquakes also increased from 2011 from 63
to over 600 in 2016.
The new administration is so concerned with the environment that they have
nominated to lead the EPA the former States Attorney of Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt,
who filed numerous suits against the EPA.
All EPA grants and contracts have been suspended by the Trump administration.
Gag orders have been placed on staffers at the EPA as well as all other
agencies like NASA.
Our Federal government is full of scientists whose job it is to conduct
research on our climate, on pollution. Well folks those days are over. Agencies
will be gutted.
During this firestorm that you will be witnessing over the next four years (at
least 4 years) not only be gutting Federal agencies that provide great value
to our environment but you are going to witness unfettered government spending
to the likes you have never seen.
This is not a Trump thing. This is a Republican thing. Republicans are only
fiscally responsible when they are not in control of the Government.
This time things are different my fellow citizens. This is not politics as usual.
More is at stake than just our country. Our planet is at stake.
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Trump Lies - Calling the Media Dishonest Human Beings
[I will be tracking President Trump's lies, falsehoods, untruths, or whatever you want to call them. I will be using his words, his falsehood. No other narrative is really needed. This will be the first of many. I do hope to get a day off every now and then.]
On Saturday (1/21/2017) while at the CIA President Trump said.
“I have a running war with the media,” Mr. Trump said. “They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth, and they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.” [Source]
Here is a tweet he sent out on 1/11/2017 comparing our intelligence communities to Nazi's.
Sadly, much of the news cycles must be taken up with the press being blamed as dishonest when all they do is report what he said in his own words. The last 30 seconds of the video is President Trump saying what I have quoted him above saying. His own writing, his own words, his own lies.
On Saturday (1/21/2017) while at the CIA President Trump said.
“I have a running war with the media,” Mr. Trump said. “They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth, and they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.” [Source]
Here is a tweet he sent out on 1/11/2017 comparing our intelligence communities to Nazi's.
Sadly, much of the news cycles must be taken up with the press being blamed as dishonest when all they do is report what he said in his own words. The last 30 seconds of the video is President Trump saying what I have quoted him above saying. His own writing, his own words, his own lies.
Woman's March on Washington and Across the Planet - Part 2
Millions of Woman took to the streets today 1/21/2017 to protest the Trump Presidency and to send a clear message as to how they feel about his political agenda.
I spent the better part of today doing research on the web at all the marches that took place across the United States and the rest of the World.
Here is the journey in photographs. Donald Trump thinks he can do an Orwellian trick and try and discredit our media and spew his racist, misogynistic propaganda but he will fail. Here is evidence. These number will grow over time. He took over the GOP, he defeated the Democrats (with the help of Putin and our own FBI), and he has taken the press down to their knees. Now he must face WE THE PEOPLE. There are too many of us. You will unite us President Trump. Just not in the way you think.
From Washington, where an estimated 500,000 woman traversed the country to speak their peace,
Where the local paper reported that 5000 protesters came out in sub-tropical temperatures to exercise their first amendment rights. In Los Angeles an estimated 750,000 protesters took to the streets.
In Chicago where 250,000 protesters convened that they had to cancel the actual march.
Here is a view from my city of Seattle.
This was not a march held in Blue states. Marches happened in Mississippi
Dallas
Birmingham Alabama
Every corner of America and in South America, Europe, the UK, across the globe Woman took to the streets to march. As Trump and the GOP attempt to implement their radical agenda to further diminish the working class in America (poor and middle) these numbers will grow as will the resistance.
I spent the better part of today doing research on the web at all the marches that took place across the United States and the rest of the World.
Here is the journey in photographs. Donald Trump thinks he can do an Orwellian trick and try and discredit our media and spew his racist, misogynistic propaganda but he will fail. Here is evidence. These number will grow over time. He took over the GOP, he defeated the Democrats (with the help of Putin and our own FBI), and he has taken the press down to their knees. Now he must face WE THE PEOPLE. There are too many of us. You will unite us President Trump. Just not in the way you think.
From Washington, where an estimated 500,000 woman traversed the country to speak their peace,
to Boise Idaho
Where the local paper reported that 5000 protesters came out in sub-tropical temperatures to exercise their first amendment rights. In Los Angeles an estimated 750,000 protesters took to the streets.
In Chicago where 250,000 protesters convened that they had to cancel the actual march.
Here is a view from my city of Seattle.
This was not a march held in Blue states. Marches happened in Mississippi
Dallas
Birmingham Alabama
Every corner of America and in South America, Europe, the UK, across the globe Woman took to the streets to march. As Trump and the GOP attempt to implement their radical agenda to further diminish the working class in America (poor and middle) these numbers will grow as will the resistance.
Woman's March on Washington and Across the Planet - Part 1
1/21/2012
Millions of American woman took time off from their jobs and their families to come to Washington DC to put the new administration on notice. The message?
You may control all 3 branches of government and do a lot of things we may not be able to stop on the short term, but we are watching your every move and we are not going away.
This is not only the sentiment of woman across America, but the sentiment of the voting block that won the popular vote by 2.8 million more votes than President Trump received. Given what we have seen for his cabinet picks, and what we will likely see with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act these numbers are going to grow.
Trumps rise was as much a referendum on the GOP voters who felt their party was doing nothing for them. After all, for the last 2 years of the Obama administration republicans controlled both the House and the Senate. During that period what legislation did they propose to help Americans that are still hurting? What we are now witnessing seems to be worse than GOP business as usual. People will soon feel the sting that comes with losing the Affordable Care Act.
The Womans March blew away the number of people at the Inauguration. According to the Washington Post ,"On Sunday, Metro officials announced that Saturday was the second-busiest day
in the Washington subway system’s history, with 1,001,613 trips. (By contrast, on Trump’s Inauguration Day, the system recorded 570,557 trips.)"
And in this day of claims of fake news when the story does not meet your narrative a
picture is worth a thousand words.
Given the events of this day that were witnessed by President Trump you would think he would have gone to Twitter. His Twitter feed was silent on this event. When your main message has been talking about the size of your own crowds, to witness a crowd twice the size of your own inauguration must be sobering.
The only comment thus far from the Trump Administration came from Kellyanne Conway.
"We certainly respect people's First Amendment rights," Conway said. "But I frankly didn't see the point. I mean, you have a day after he's uplifting and unifying and you have folks here being on a diatribe where I think they could have requested a dialogue. Nobody called me and said, 'Hey, could we have a dialogue?'"
Millions of American woman took time off from their jobs and their families to come to Washington DC to put the new administration on notice. The message?
- We are listening,
- We are active,
- We are mobilizing.
You may control all 3 branches of government and do a lot of things we may not be able to stop on the short term, but we are watching your every move and we are not going away.
This is not only the sentiment of woman across America, but the sentiment of the voting block that won the popular vote by 2.8 million more votes than President Trump received. Given what we have seen for his cabinet picks, and what we will likely see with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act these numbers are going to grow.
Trumps rise was as much a referendum on the GOP voters who felt their party was doing nothing for them. After all, for the last 2 years of the Obama administration republicans controlled both the House and the Senate. During that period what legislation did they propose to help Americans that are still hurting? What we are now witnessing seems to be worse than GOP business as usual. People will soon feel the sting that comes with losing the Affordable Care Act.
The Womans March blew away the number of people at the Inauguration. According to the Washington Post ,"On Sunday, Metro officials announced that Saturday was the second-busiest day
in the Washington subway system’s history, with 1,001,613 trips. (By contrast, on Trump’s Inauguration Day, the system recorded 570,557 trips.)"
And in this day of claims of fake news when the story does not meet your narrative a
picture is worth a thousand words.
Given the events of this day that were witnessed by President Trump you would think he would have gone to Twitter. His Twitter feed was silent on this event. When your main message has been talking about the size of your own crowds, to witness a crowd twice the size of your own inauguration must be sobering.
The only comment thus far from the Trump Administration came from Kellyanne Conway.
"We certainly respect people's First Amendment rights," Conway said. "But I frankly didn't see the point. I mean, you have a day after he's uplifting and unifying and you have folks here being on a diatribe where I think they could have requested a dialogue. Nobody called me and said, 'Hey, could we have a dialogue?'"
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Trump Will Unite America
The US Constitution is our most sacred document. It guarantees all Americans basic protections, rights and fundamental laws. These cannot be taken from us.
Millions of protesters came together today to unite. They did so in red states and in blue states. During this administration I have no doubt that in the days to come we will see many moderate, liberal, and working class Americans unite.
I have little doubt that we will unite over the work that this administration does or attempts to do.
Millions of protesters came together today to unite. They did so in red states and in blue states. During this administration I have no doubt that in the days to come we will see many moderate, liberal, and working class Americans unite.
I have little doubt that we will unite over the work that this administration does or attempts to do.
Abortion
1/21/2017 12:05pst
It is Saturday morning, the day after the inaguration. I am watching the
woman's march happening around the country. I am sick or I would be at the
one happening in Seattle. I heard on one of the stations that march organizers
did not want to welcome pro-life woman that want to participate. I think
this is a mistake.
In 1973 I was 15 years old. Row vs Wade passed and a simple melody
came into my head and I wrote the following.
Never Born I died
On this earth I might have stood
but mother didn't think that I should
my life was over in a flash
and now my soul lies in the trash
Never born I died
and they don't call it homicide
the law says it's fair and just
so it's ashes to ashes
and dust to dust
Over the years this has been a subject that I have thought a lot about. I have
learned over the years that this is not a black and white issue. Those words only
tell one part of this story.
Recently, I was asked to pray for a pregnant mother that found out that
her baby, a daughter, had no kidneys (just one of many other complications).
The baby would have no chance of survival. Now, it was only a choice of inducing
labor now and saying goodbye, or going to full-term and saying goodbye. The words
never born I died take on a different trajectory for this mother.
She was not long ago at her shower, opening all the gifts, laughing
and doing all the things woman do at a shower. She was a happy mother,
beaming, radiant, dreaming about all the things she would get to do with
her daughter.
And now she and her husband are faced with making the decision when to
say goodbye to the child they will never know. As I try to reach into the
depth of my own soul I cannot begin to understand the sorrow they face.
It is Saturday morning, the day after the inaguration. I am watching the
woman's march happening around the country. I am sick or I would be at the
one happening in Seattle. I heard on one of the stations that march organizers
did not want to welcome pro-life woman that want to participate. I think
this is a mistake.
In 1973 I was 15 years old. Row vs Wade passed and a simple melody
came into my head and I wrote the following.
Never Born I died
On this earth I might have stood
but mother didn't think that I should
my life was over in a flash
and now my soul lies in the trash
Never born I died
and they don't call it homicide
the law says it's fair and just
so it's ashes to ashes
and dust to dust
Over the years this has been a subject that I have thought a lot about. I have
learned over the years that this is not a black and white issue. Those words only
tell one part of this story.
Recently, I was asked to pray for a pregnant mother that found out that
her baby, a daughter, had no kidneys (just one of many other complications).
The baby would have no chance of survival. Now, it was only a choice of inducing
labor now and saying goodbye, or going to full-term and saying goodbye. The words
never born I died take on a different trajectory for this mother.
She was not long ago at her shower, opening all the gifts, laughing
and doing all the things woman do at a shower. She was a happy mother,
beaming, radiant, dreaming about all the things she would get to do with
her daughter.
And now she and her husband are faced with making the decision when to
say goodbye to the child they will never know. As I try to reach into the
depth of my own soul I cannot begin to understand the sorrow they face.
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