Monthly Archives: April 2017

Stick With the Real Issues With Trump: Satire

Stick With the Real Issues With Trump:  a Satire   I am going to take a satirical approach to the issues with Trump that the TV news shows waste a lot of time on, rather than covering the more serious … Continue reading

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Trump Blew It With World Condemnation of Assad

Trump Blew It With World Condemnation of Assad Trump didn’t use diplomacy in the Assad sarin attack, because he only had a Secretary of State and no connection to the 70,000 serious, experienced diplomats in the State Department. He also … Continue reading

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Two Sticks for North Korea, Three Carrots for Trump in Military Action

Two Sticks for North Korea, Three Carrots for Trump in Military Action As we showed in the last post, Trump’s shunning of the State Department and the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has left him without a deep negotiation option, … Continue reading

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War Is Murderous by Any Means, and Trump Shuts Out Peaceful Options

War Is Murderous By Any Means, and Trump Shuts Out Peaceful Options War is murderous to civilians by any means used. It is murderous to drafted soldiers. It is murderous to the aggressor’s civilians, as well as to the defender’s … Continue reading

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Trump’s Inhumanity to Children

Trump’s Inhumanity to Children While Trump personally cares about children, the people that he let draft his budget (Mick Mulvaney, head of OMB), or copied from the Koch and Mercer funded American Heritage Foundation, had no respect for children at … Continue reading

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Automobiles’ Cleaner Energy Future

Automobiles’ Cleaner Energy Future Environmentally knowledgable people are very disappointed by the Republicans calling for a review of Obama’s CAFE standards, which probably means trying to get rid of them. This was called for by one of Trump’s now infamous … Continue reading

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In Syria, Start with Diplomacy: War is Going Down a Black Hole

In Syria, Start with Diplomacy: War is Going Down a Black Hole The previous times when Syrian President Bashar al Assad used nerve gas, in 2013, pressure from the Russians, the US, and the world made him stop. That was … Continue reading

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Where Is Trump’s Real Concern for Children?

Where Is Trump’s Real Concern for Children? Trump claimed that he was very angry at Bashar al Assad’s gas attack that killed many children and wounded many, as are all of us. To my recall he has not shown any … Continue reading

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Toughen Up America, We Haven’t Seen a Repeat of History Yet

Toughen Up America, We Haven’t Seen a Repeat of History Yet Compared to the history of the 20th and 21st century, of which I lived through 75 years, we haven’t yet seen anything that has befallen us, from unregulated markets, … Continue reading

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More on the Internet Privacy Acts

More on the Internet Privacy Acts As more news sources have revealed more about the issue, we add to our summary. A lot of stories are covering that Illinois is passing a bill to guarantee privacy, even as the federal … Continue reading

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