This is Trump’s electorate.

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Putin’s Russia is not safe.

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It would seem the Russian elite are not untouchable.

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ISIS? Wow. Where is Russian intelligence? 

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The USA never stopped it’s vigilance (click here).

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So Putin propaganda wants to implicate Ukraine? It is possible as ISIS migrates north out of the Middle East due to climate. But, Putin can’t protect the people of Russia. He is losing a grip on Russia and now this. What I find appalling is the willingness Putin has to substitute lies for the truth. Lies aren’t going to protect Russians. He no more cares about Russian lives than the terrorists do. This attack wasn’t much different than the attack on Paris in 2015 by ISIS. 

Princess Kate asked for privacy.

She has always been wonderful in her role with the royal duties and the public. I think the world is in shock as well. It think the public can provide her the privacy she requests. The children need stability that only she can provide. 

It is Iran’s proxy war with Israel.

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The communists vetoed the ceasefire because they back Iran’s terrorist network.

I think Israel needs to fight its best war with humanitarian goals in mind. Evidently, The Free World needs to brace itself for a prolonged conflict.

Trump endorses self-funded candidates

Donald John Trump is using all available campaign funds, including small money donors contributions, for his legal woes. So, as that very “needy” candidate he decided he could endorse self-funding candidates down ballot.

There is something like 2 dozen wealthy self-funded Republicans running for the U.S. Senate and House.

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This is the second attempt at the U.S. Senate by Moreno. He is still self-funded to some extent. He finds having donors helpful for participants in his election.

Senator Sherrod Brown is a candidate that connects with people, especially his constituents. I think Sherrod’s genuine concern for people, including hard working farmers, will show through in his campaign and work as Ohio’s Senator.

Gaza

The USA State Department is on a sustainable track to end the conflict with a good outcome for the security of Israel and the Palestinian people.

Gaza cannot be allowed to be a platform for terrorist networks. Iran needs to start appreciating human life, including their own citizens who want nothing more than quality of life and peace. Iran’s focus of global dominance of the Shi’ites is completely bizarre and unrealistic. 

“We will take less.”

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That is exactly correct and why inflation is out of control. A business is not just about profit taking. A business also has to operate in appreciation of its employees.

Labor is an expense and because the pay rate increases doesn’t mean the consumer automatically receives an increase in costs. Where do business owners stop practicing greed so much as viability. When a business owner experiences cost increases that does not give permission to pass it on to the consumer.

It is called an economy, not an exorbitant profits practice. Honestly, where is this strange permission for a power grab over consumer costs come from? Hasn’t it gone on long enough?

What is also interesting in this article is that the owner didn’t bother to look for other methods of cost reduction until the wages went up. That is an example of poor and possibly lazy b management that could have afforded the wage increase sooner than was legislated.

Employees should not be reliant on “tipping” for their most reliable income. Tipping is a practice for good or superior effort in attending to customers. Tipping is earned and not simply granted automatically by an employer as part of an employee’s wage.

Thank you.

I never thought I would be saying this, but, thank you Les Parnas.

His testimony is spot on regarding the involvement of any Biden. The “Biden Presence” in Ukraine was at a time before it belonged to the EU and it was knee deep in Russian corruption of its government and society. 

Thanks to the work of the Bidens, Ukraine reclaimed it’s democracy that unfortunately was once again victimized by Russia only this time with far more deadly consequences. 

What is occurring in Ukraine is criminal and a complete affront to humanity. Putin’s response to his crimes against humanity is to maneuver an acceptance of it by calling it a peace conference. In all honesty, peace in Ukraine probably will never occur until Putin is gone. The unfortunate truth about the war theater is that Russia on occasion captures Free World military munitions like an Abrams tank. 

Ukraine is problematic. It needs to develop its own military industrial complex even if that means production plants in NATO. Ukraine is capable of its own invention.

One question. Just one.

Why was the topic of “cash” such a focus in the Georgia Trump corruption case?

Don’t know?

Answer: Because the pandemic made cash a reason to worry about disease transmission AND because Trump has none.

Social Security Retirement

There is absolutely no proof that the longevity of Americans reflects the idea the retirement age for Social Security can be raised is even possible!

Longevity and the ability of work are not related! Quite the contrary!

Cutting benefits of ANY Social Security recipient is out of the question. Some Americans were in more demand for their work and found themselves working two jobs while sacrificing family and vacation life. Every recipient EARNED their benefits and have the RIGHT to receive them. Taking away Social Security benefits from Americans is nothing short of ROBBERY!

Americans have a right to rest and enjoyment in their Golden Years and no politician has a right to attack THAT PROMISE. There are filthy wealthy people and companies in this country that need to pay more taxes for the benefit of the wealth called “freedom” ensured by this country and its military. 

Bobwhite Quail

A decade long challenge has reached its goal in Pennsylvania. To understand this accomplishment, it is astounding to realize a game bird absolutely disappeared out of its range in Pennsylvania. There were no conservation measures to protect this game bird because they were abundant in numbers. Then one day, due to over hunting and habitat loss, there were none.

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Congratulations, Pennsylvania.

Personal interests of Republicans come first.

Beside the crony capitalism, the Republicans are enamored with Trump because of “the guilty” among them. There are Republican Congresspersons that can be indicted for the  January 6, 2021 attempted coup. There are heroes of the day such as Former Vice President Mike Pence, but, there are others guilty of supporting the attempted coup such as Hawley. “The Party” is running scared and want majorities in all branches to change the face of American democracy for their own reasons and not the benevolent purposes of the American people. 

TEPCO

I would encourage anyone interested to witness the work that has been carried out at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant since the tsunami. It appears to be well organized to provide protection from any repeat catastrophe. Worker safety appears to be high on the list of priorities. I may be wrong, but, I find the radiation containment of even the remaining original structures impressive. The company continues its reclamation of areas still in disarray with melted fuel rods and infrastructure.

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Typical Cowardly Trump Strategy

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Still yet another strategized appeal by Trump. We all know the outcomes, but, that doesn’t matter because Trump newly infused with RNC money is again appealing a well written judicial decision.

“Help me, help me, help me,” the big bad New York State is after me (click here). What a jerk Trump is. The prosecutor actually has to advise him how to pay his LIABILITIES to other VICTIMS!

Trump can’t find his way out of paper bag yet alone be a president of ANYTHING!

“It is so unfair, I am such a great guy and have been burdened with stupid people I hired. This is all so unfair.” 

Pharmacies are price gouging Ozempic

The story gets a little worse in some cases. When patients are unable to afford the higher deductible the pharmacy charges the insurance companies anyway without dispensing the medication or trashing it. Yep. It is called fraud. There is one known case with a CVS pharmacy that needed corporate approval to reverse their “take” when the patient then asked for the 28 day supply. Part of the reason these events occur is because of vicious competition with brick and mortar stores and online pharmacies. The online pharmacies, for some reason, are doing it cheaper. In my opinion there is nothing like talking to a pharmacist in person. Why isn’t Big Pharma offering their own online pharmacy? They like that retail merchandise too much. But, this price gouging on Ozempic is highly unethical.

USA southern border…

…it is a divided decision (click here) and the majority provided a political answer not one based in constitutional competency.

From time beginning any arrested at the USA federal sovereign border has always been conducted by the USA Border Patrol. The decision blurs that line seeing confusion. 

Texas law enforcement officers have enough to do and now they are supposed to replace border agents. It is going make the border weaker simply by the confusion that will result. Law enforcement officers have dangerous jobs, they don’t need more confusion to their responsibilities.

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Did I read that right, in that Coney-Barrett punitively stated if the 5th Circuit doesn’t rule soon the Supreme Court will take the Trump immunity case?

Interesting. It sounds like the Supremes on the political right already have their opinions that the President has immunity no matter what, even when criminality is evident.

Ya know, Coney-Barrett, Clarence and Ginny have a lot riding on Trump. Coney-Barrett is protective of her religious supremacy. Clarence has at the very least ethical issues and Ginny was just about as guilty as Trump in inspiring the crimes of January 6th. 

There are strong evangelical undercurrents in this Supreme Court majority. I think we can continue to expect unconstitutional decisions from the Robert’s court.

Israel

I believe both leaders of the USA and Israel are more than capable to secure Israel’s citizens from danger. That is after all the legitimate reason for the war. 

I also think The West has a challenge to protect Israel while at the same time ensuring the lives of the Palestinian people that remain in Gaza. This is not a task for just the USA or Israel alone. I might first qualify this response by saying the Palestinians have been no friend to the American people and absolutely enemies to the citizens of Israel.

As an ally to Israel the USA has a great deal of responsibility to its security. That carries brevity. At the same time President Biden has an affinity with global security and peace as well as great respect for the world courts and rightfully so. Israel’s Mossad and IDF must be consulted regarding the arrival and distribution of humanitarian aid. If that had been done from the beginning rather than confronting Israel’s war theater this may already be over. The profound disrespect for the war theater has resulted in deaths of Palestinians and UN personnel.

There is no doubt to me the IDF moves on the information of intelligence gathering and strategies of commanders. Let me state the obvious, once a war strategy is made it will be put in motion regardless of impulsive movements of civilians. 

Gaza is a war theater and one in which terrorists continue to exist and seek to kill Israelis. That reality is very difficult to secure away from violence and death. Gaza simply is not that big a patch of land to carve out a safety zone. Besides that, it is still a strategy of the terrorists to use the citizens of Gaza as human shields. The terrorists have no respect for the lives of Palestinians. They move into the groups of remaining Palestinians and hide there while carrying out attacks against Israelis. What is the global response to that dynamic? Leave them alone? Accept that as if a measure of peace? 

If President Biden is successful in finding a way forward to protect the Palestinian people that has to be respected by the global community. Hamas and other terrorist groups still remain. They do not and will not respect the Palestinian people. That has to be dealt with if Palestine is to be a sovereign power CAPABLE of maintaining peace and security for its citizens. That means Iran stops its backing of terrorist networks and allows any current military capacity of those networks to be depleted to end their capacity of killing. That in turn means  “Arabia” and communists does a complete about face in ANY support of violent networks and/or individuals. 

So.

The UN needs to join the USA, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority to secure a future for Palestinians. That goes for the global community as well. If the current divisions continue then there is no viable means of securing futures for Palestinian children.

I remind that of the “Palestinians” dead half were Hamas terrorists. Of the other half of the dead were all human shields, including children. There is no secure hospital in Gaza because the terrorists continue to use them as headquarters and arsenals for weapons. That is a greater humanitarian concern than anything Israel can do.

No Western Power wants genocide of any people. That value has been an overriding entity with The West since WWII. Any complaint other than those value systems is nothing but intended to undermine the secure sovereignty of these benevolent and peaceful nations of people. 

Immigration

Slicing and dicing the USA border into zones with different regulations is about the worst idea ever thunk up.

The federal government oversees the borders of the USA not Texas. 

The “Ports of Entry” have the greatest success in drug trafficking arrests. It is ridiculous to take attention away from those areas to place emphasis on benign human beings. We have a profound drug trafficking problem with cartels that want to kill Americans. The law enforcement focus should remain where it is most successful.

To back up that perspective, Christopher Wray made testimony to Congress there are dangerous people crossing the border and cited fentanyl as his concern in the very next statement. The greatest areas of success in ending this danger is the best approach to the USA southern border. 

As stated many times before on this blog the humanitarian crisis south of the USA that drives people to cross the USA southern border must be addressed from inside other sovereign countries to empower those freely elected governments to end corruption and foster economic well being of the people, that includes the effects of the climate crisis.

It seems ridiculous to me to expect benign human beings to understand that crossing the southern border is wrong and dangerous. They come from different cultures and languages with the idea that they can work hard and earn their right to be a good citizen. The idea they are turned away and even sent back violates their idea of the USA and a morality and esteem they have about Americans. When they are deported, they become repeat offenders, try again, and are counted two and three times in the statistics Republicans live to cite as the problem.

There is crime that can result of their arrival here if they are diverted by gangs when the government fails to address them in meaningful ways. The migrants do not speak the language or are met with opportunity to do so. That language barrier is huge and will result in cultural differences and crime. The men left a country full of violence and will expect to face violence all along their travel and arrival. So, these problems are not being met with solutions so much as resistance and rejection.

IVF

The Republicans, of all people in the USA, should be backing all human reproduction technology because they deregulate and poison the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat; ie: Flint. Such extremist practices ultimately will cause human sterilization, thus needing every form of human reproduction available, otherwise, they will lose their coveted military.

Oh, I forgot, the Lord will provide.

When President Biden talks…

…about the auto industry in the USA it is factual. More stable jobs. Better pay. Record profits for stockholders.

When Trump talks about the auto industry it is threats against our allies’ economies by instituting high tariffs on their imported cars.

Wall Street should be careful about siding with a radical like Trump. Trump is a racketeer that thinks nothing about rewarding intimidation and violence. He is bad for profits and real confidence in the free market system.

Trump as a candidate for President will be able to access Classified Intelligence that he cannot now. There is a good chance he will be seeking money from the sale of that information to his communist friends, including undesirable members of NATO such as Viktor Orban.