Cry, the Beloved Country

There is a breathtaking novel by Alan Paton (SP?) set in Africa that now fits the American scene. In this novel, if my memory serves; there is strife, there is racial tension and bigotry, there is racism.
There is also love, and joy, and a reordering of the mind -- even among the competing participants, to eventually welcome each other-- for the good of the country.

Just as in America circa "now" there are multiple journeys happening, multiple searches: for truth, and God, and values that really "give a damn." These searches also involve looking for specific people -- who have gone "lost" in secular, hedonistic, or even sociopathic lies. Those lost people must be redeemed -- just as our 'new lost' Americans must be welcomed back into the fold of civilization and humanity.

The "people off the edge" must be brought back to humanity, and life, and joy. And it must happen "for each of us" for the remarkable return to work. Let's start now.

But still resist, resist, resist!!!

Thank You, God!

Thank You, God: that we have all survived the 100th day of the Trump Presidency, that if we can just hold on a little longer Trump my appreciate himself to death, that if Trump goes away -- maybe some of his Cabinet members will return to humanity!!  WE THE PEOPLE are living in the most unusual time in American history, and for what it seems -- it may be the "end times" of American history.

The American electorate has given us a "suicide trait" candidate, a random mutation, that threatens to kill us all. How? By unwanted war, by slow motion civilized deterioration, by climate collapse, by value denigration, by sheer stupidity, by cunning avarice, by cruel egotism, by non-family values.
Donald Trump is an aberration. Resist, resist, resist!!!

Second Amendment Politics.......Crazy!

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was originally placed there so that the colonial citizens of the new nation would "keep there guns" just in case they were called upon to
defend the nation from foreign intruders. A citizen army was thought to be the best insurance against another British, Spanish, or whatever incursion across our borders.

Now the Second Amendment is treated on all sides as some "god-given right" to keep my guns safe from the intruding US government: including any kind of licensing, control, regulation, limitation, or ("god forbid") take-away practices.  I can be "crazy," psychopathic, sadistic, unbalanced, revengeful, violent, or self-annihilating --- but I still have the absolute right to have a "gun at my side." Or so the debate, at least on one side, ensues.

On the other --- paint the bleakest picture of a world gone mad, shooting each other at first sight, in some kind of dystopian post-apocalyptic world -- and you have the insane opposition to guns. Take away the fact that the "world" sees  America as a "gun-toting Wild West kind of a country" -- and you have either side  of the gun issue living in a fantasy of their own creation.

Polls Don't Say It

According to certain polls, if the 2016 election were held again today -- Donald J. Trump would still win. That tells us some several possible things: that the polls can obviously be wrong, people can remain stupid because they choose to be uninformed, a significant portion of the American electorate is arrogant, selfish and uninvolved in the world, and maybe there are whole hordes of people who harbor a "death wish."

Pushed to the very brink of a "shooting nuclear war" with North Korea, America (the Nation) risks everything on the bloated and unsteady bellowing of our nominal President. The end of the world is possible, not because God wills it. But because bellicose Donald bumbles into it He has show himself to be an "ass" -- of course it is all just a 'bargaining mode' from the Great Negotiator.

You can see displayed why he so often "lost" his negotiations. You can understand why he had to have the "courts." or his dumb luck, or friends -- bail him out of his obvious idiocy.

Resist; resist; resist!!!!!

Trust...but Verify

The title of this piece is a time-honored American principle -- used in nuclear equipment validation, treaty authenticity, disarmament procedures, and a hundred other ways.

Now it is the time to apply them to Donald J. Trump!!!
   Is "he really a billionaire?"  Trust...but Verify.
   Does he have "conflicts of interest" in the Presidency?  Trust...but V.
   Is he a "crooked businessman?"  T...V
   Is he a "sexual deviant?" T...V
   Is he a "sexual predator?"  T...V
   Did he "cheat" on his taxes?  T...V
   Is he healthy?  T...V
   Is he a conservative?  T...V
   Is he a white supremacist?  T...V
   Is he a narcissist?  T...V
   Has he assaulted women criminally, and gotten out of it?  T...V
   Did he have his former wives sign "non-disclosure statements under threat" for nefarious reasons?                                                                                                                                         T...V
   Is his bullying a sign of mental instability, or Napoleon syndrome?  T...V
   Is he making money off of the United States through: Trump Tower rentals, Mir-a-lago trips, government workers necessarily renting Trump property, etc?   T...V

You can now fill in the hundred other instances where Trump needs to "come clean" to himself, his country, and the world.  

Trump Is My President....Unfortunately

There is little hope for him. He is in ignorant, arrogant, untutored, ill-educated, and uncouth kind of person. His highest "ethos" is his desire for profit. He is everything that is wrong with America.

He panders, he bullies, he threatens, he lies, his inane thinking knows no bounds, He is incapable of being consistent or coherent. He is a sociopath (in the kindest sense of that word) who has not reached the extremes of his own pathology. Yes, he is my President. I don't hope for "his success" but for "our success" in spite of him.

He has and will make profits off the Presidency -- until he is either impeached for malfeasance, or he plunges the world into cataclysmic meltdown: economically, culturally, morally, politically, or even humanly.  He is our President -- but he is a man out of control, a madman in search of sycophants.

He is Trump. Resist; resist; resist!!!

One Last Prayer...But Not For Me

For Tosha, for Linda, for the inspector viewing my house tomorrow,for the inspector viewing my house on Wednesday, for my students,for my students who are seriously ill (endometriosis, cervical cancer, depression, others), for everyone that I know and love .. one last prayer tonight before I sleep and dream.

These are difficult times for America -- and my small victories or losses are inconsequential   compared to what is going on in the world. I acknowledge all that -- and give blessings to everyone I can, who needs them. And for all of you as well!

Resist; resist; please resist!!!