Pittsburgh synagogue massacre 10/30/2018

30, October 2018               Pittsburgh synagogue massacre

While much of the country is reacting in horror to the massacre of 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue there is virtually no international outrage over the daily killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel has announced it is implementing a “zero tolerance” policy toward peaceful protesters in Gaza, who have been staging weekly Friday protests since March 30. Since then, Israeli forces have killed at least 170 Palestinians, including more than 30 children, and injured at least 18,000.  The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem representative HAGAI EL-AD addressed the United Nations: “The Gaza Strip, with a population of nearly 2 million, has essentially become an open-air prison. Its inmates have been staging protests for the past six months, after suffering for more than a decade under an Israeli-imposed blockade that has led to economic collapse, soaring unemployment rates, polluted drinking water, dwindling power supplies and, ultimately, to deep despair”. While we shed tears for our Jewish brothers and sisters who died we should save a few tears for the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians with the assistance of $billions of support from the US. Humanity should always triumph political and religious ideology. 

Susan Collins A Titanic Fraud 10-11-2018

11, October 2018                         Susan Collins A Titanic Fraud

Senator Collins went on the floor of the Senate to gaslight the entire nation about the nominee.

There is little doubt the FBI was hamstrung in its investigation by the White House but it is puzzling why they failed to issue a public statement requesting a more thorough investigation.

Kavanaugh was evasive and disingenuous. He falsely claimed that he could legally drink at age 17. In his senior year he entered “300 Kegs or Bust” boasting his alcohol consumption. He denied references to a girl called Renate, which he and his friends boasted of sexual conquests. His yearbook also contained entries of the “Devil Triangle” – sex between one woman and two men. Then into a further descent into moral depravity, Kavanaugh and his friends engaged in “boofing” anal sex infusion of drugs or alcohol.  He was a clear partisan who worked for Ken Star on his impeachment of Bill Clinton. He was part of GW Bush legal team which opposed a recount in Florida in 2000. As a jurist he told the Catholic University of America, “A good judge, like a good umpire, cannot act as partisan.”  What monumental hypocrisy! Sadly, Kavanaugh was supported by the “moderate” Senator Collins. She made the absurd comment that Dr. Ford was guilty of mistaken identity. What Chutzpah! The loud uproarious laughter with a would be rapist inches from her face attempting to rip of her clothes is something no woman can ever forget. Senator Collins you have lost all credibility.

 

Trump – the artful tax dodger 10-9-2018

9, October 2018                   Trump – the artful tax dodger

While most middle class and poor Americans pay their fair share of taxes to fund the federal government, President Trump has managed to finagle his way to minimize his tax burden. During the 2016 election campaign, he often boasted that he was a self-made billionaire from a small inheritance of $1 million from his father. Nothing could be further from the truth. According to a New York Times investigation Trump inherited $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s. Small wonder that he refused to release his tax returns offering the dubious claim they were under audit. Trump and his siblings claimed improper tax deductions worth millions. The crime family undervalued their real estate empire to drastically reduce estate taxes. The artful tax dodger’s mask has finally been removed.

Columbus Day 10-8-2018

8, October 2018                        Columbus Day

Today is Columbus Day -a day when Americans should remember and honor the indigenous people of America who suffered enormous cruelty and savagery by Columbus and his band of sailors. He should be rebranded not as a hero but as a mass murderer.

He was a guilty of a host of crimes including slavery and outright genocide in the wholesale slaughter of the Indians in the New World.

He opened the door to bands of fortune seekers who relived the Indians of their gold and other treasures.

Columbus violated the orders issued by Ferdinand and Isabella including a mandate that he and the men under his command “treat the Indians very well and lovingly, and abstain from doing them any harm.”

According to The Guardian which obtained a copy of a report in 2006 found in a state archive in the Spanish city of Valladolid, “Punishments included cutting off people's ears and noses, parading women naked through the streets, and selling them into slavery.”

“One man caught stealing corn had his nose and ears cut off, placed in shackles, and was then auctioned off as a slave. A woman who dared to suggest that Columbus was of lowly birth was punished by his brother Bartolomé, who had also traveled to the Caribbean. She was stripped naked and paraded around the colony on the back of a mule.”

Today, let us pay homage to our native Indians whose ancestors were treated with such barbarity.

Epilogue of Kavanaugh saga 10-6-2018

6, October 2018                           Epilogue of Kavanaugh saga

Unable to effectively blunt the damaging testimony of Dr. Ford and sensing their beer drinking and alleged sexual predator’s nomination slipping away, Trump and his morally bankrupt posse of bullies went on the attack. At a Mississippi campaign rally, Trump mocked Dr. Ford credulity regaling the crowd with his cruel taunts. Sadly, the FBI investigation turned out to be a complete sham, narrow in its scope with tight parameters established by the White House. It was designed to be a spectacle and fail. Key witnesses were ignored including 2,400 law professors who opposed Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

The degrading era of Kavanaugh’s service on the Supreme Court lies ahead.

Justice Kavanaugh will now join his “twin” Clarence Thomas both forever tainted by dishonesty, shamelessness and hostility to the welfare and well-being of women.

The virus of Trumpism is about to infect the Supreme Court for decades to come.