I am going to leave the blog where it is for tonight.
I recently read an article in the New York Times about preserving "young forests." For me, it was a timely and a charming article. I have some thoughts about the issue and want to share them, but, it can wait one more day.
Out of respect for a concerned Congresswoman, I rest my case for tonight.
Sunday, April 14, 2019
The hate speech surrounding the newest members of the US House of Representative is going to stop.
The biggest offender to the hate speech is Donald Trump. The words Trump finds convenient to latch on to are completely taken out of context. In fact, Congresswoman Omar was talking about the loss of civil rights by Muslims in the USA since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
THAT IS A KNOWN FACT.
It is not a drummed up revelation by a radical Democrat that the political extremist right wing lead by the Trump seems to think it is.
As a matter of fact there was a man sentenced recently for the death of three innocent Muslims in a parking lot as they walked to their car.
From Wikipedia:
February 10, 2015, Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha were killed in their home in Finley Forest Condominiums on Summerwalk Circle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Barakat was a second-year student in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry, his wife Yusor was a North Carolina State University(NCSU) graduate planning to enter UNC Dentistry School in the fall, and her sister Razan was a student at NCSU majoring in architecture and environmental design.
From Wikipedia:
February 10, 2015, Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha were killed in their home in Finley Forest Condominiums on Summerwalk Circle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Barakat was a second-year student in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry, his wife Yusor was a North Carolina State University(NCSU) graduate planning to enter UNC Dentistry School in the fall, and her sister Razan was a student at NCSU majoring in architecture and environmental design.
Three absolutely wonderful and magnificent young people gunned down for absolutely no reason except hate. When Trump uses hate in regard to a Congresswomen he is backing the killer and inspiring more.
April 9, 2019
By Simone Jasper
For a North Carolina Muslim father, (click here) the pain of losing his two daughters and son-in-law is “just as sharp now” as it was on the day they were fatally shot four years ago.
“Three beautiful young Americans were brutally murdered, and there is no question in our minds that this tragedy was born of bigotry and hate,” Dr. Mohammad Abu-Salha told a U.S. Congressional committee Tuesday, according to a live video feed.
Abu-Salha spoke during a hearing on “Hate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism.”...
That is an example of the ongoing issues facing Muslims and their community after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
There is a laundry list of these problems, including a community center in New York City. There has been review after review of the problems with civil rights fo Muslims after September 11, 2001.
September 7, 2011
By Adam Liptik
...Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., (click here) writing for the majority, stressed that the material-support law applied only to speech directed by or coordinated with terrorist groups. People “may say anything they wish on any topic” without running afoul of the law, the chief justice said, so long as they are speaking independently.
Aggressive use of material support and similar laws, critics responded, chipped away at two principles that had been thought settled for about half a century. One was that mere membership in a subversive organization cannot be made a crime. The other is that the abstract advocacy of even the violent overthrow of the government must be tolerated under the First Amendment.
The Humanitarian Law Project decision “is akin to the kind of criminalization in the McCarthy era of speech and guilt by association,” said David D. Cole, a law professor at Georgetown who represented the challengers in the Humanitarian Law Project case as a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
A second law already on the books, this one allowing the arrest and detention of material witnesses — people said to have evidence of others’ crimes — was misused, critics say, as a shadow preventive detention regime. Instead of using the law to make sure people with information about the wrongdoing of others would turn up to testify, these critics said, prosecutors used the law to hold people themselves suspected of links to terrorism....
Just to be clear, I believe Donald Trump is a subversive. So, before Trump sidles up to the extremist white people he caters to and decides they know more about life and life in the USA than any other, he needs to realize his hate speech is a WEAPON and not simply a campaign tool. That has been proven over and over. His supporters have real arsenals and real bombs and real bomb making equipment. Decent Americans have been targeted and those targeted have been verbalized by Trump in his hate speech. There is a direct link.
When Speaker Pelosi states the president needs to REMOVE his hate postings of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, then he needs to do it. We know he has no real regard for women, but, that does not justify his hatred of them or any one in particular.
Besides all the civil rights problems of the past and including those that linger today, the USA has done a heck of a job in the area of radicalization as well. The use of the law and law enforcement has driven more than one American Muslim into the arms of extremism and Americans, including Fort Hood soldiers, have paid the price.
When Congresswoman Ilhan Omar speaks out about her constituents and their grievances, the American people and US House need to listen. When we listen as lawmakers or as a nation, it allows a depth of understanding and truth telling that brings about change. Change and fairness and awareness is what ends radicalization before it begins. It is what the USA is supposed to be about. Free speech and truth telling is our justice and is the path to the future for all Americans.
The fear mongering of the extremist right is about creating leverage for an election and it has absolutely nothing to do with the process Americans embrace to bring about justice and removal of stigma. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is exerting her right for free speech and there should be open hearts and minds to understand her statements and how we as Americans can address them WITHOUT HATE!
April 9, 2019
By Simone Jasper
For a North Carolina Muslim father, (click here) the pain of losing his two daughters and son-in-law is “just as sharp now” as it was on the day they were fatally shot four years ago.
“Three beautiful young Americans were brutally murdered, and there is no question in our minds that this tragedy was born of bigotry and hate,” Dr. Mohammad Abu-Salha told a U.S. Congressional committee Tuesday, according to a live video feed.
Abu-Salha spoke during a hearing on “Hate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism.”...
That is an example of the ongoing issues facing Muslims and their community after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
There is a laundry list of these problems, including a community center in New York City. There has been review after review of the problems with civil rights fo Muslims after September 11, 2001.
September 7, 2011
By Adam Liptik
...Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., (click here) writing for the majority, stressed that the material-support law applied only to speech directed by or coordinated with terrorist groups. People “may say anything they wish on any topic” without running afoul of the law, the chief justice said, so long as they are speaking independently.
Aggressive use of material support and similar laws, critics responded, chipped away at two principles that had been thought settled for about half a century. One was that mere membership in a subversive organization cannot be made a crime. The other is that the abstract advocacy of even the violent overthrow of the government must be tolerated under the First Amendment.
The Humanitarian Law Project decision “is akin to the kind of criminalization in the McCarthy era of speech and guilt by association,” said David D. Cole, a law professor at Georgetown who represented the challengers in the Humanitarian Law Project case as a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
A second law already on the books, this one allowing the arrest and detention of material witnesses — people said to have evidence of others’ crimes — was misused, critics say, as a shadow preventive detention regime. Instead of using the law to make sure people with information about the wrongdoing of others would turn up to testify, these critics said, prosecutors used the law to hold people themselves suspected of links to terrorism....
Just to be clear, I believe Donald Trump is a subversive. So, before Trump sidles up to the extremist white people he caters to and decides they know more about life and life in the USA than any other, he needs to realize his hate speech is a WEAPON and not simply a campaign tool. That has been proven over and over. His supporters have real arsenals and real bombs and real bomb making equipment. Decent Americans have been targeted and those targeted have been verbalized by Trump in his hate speech. There is a direct link.
When Speaker Pelosi states the president needs to REMOVE his hate postings of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, then he needs to do it. We know he has no real regard for women, but, that does not justify his hatred of them or any one in particular.
Besides all the civil rights problems of the past and including those that linger today, the USA has done a heck of a job in the area of radicalization as well. The use of the law and law enforcement has driven more than one American Muslim into the arms of extremism and Americans, including Fort Hood soldiers, have paid the price.
When Congresswoman Ilhan Omar speaks out about her constituents and their grievances, the American people and US House need to listen. When we listen as lawmakers or as a nation, it allows a depth of understanding and truth telling that brings about change. Change and fairness and awareness is what ends radicalization before it begins. It is what the USA is supposed to be about. Free speech and truth telling is our justice and is the path to the future for all Americans.
The fear mongering of the extremist right is about creating leverage for an election and it has absolutely nothing to do with the process Americans embrace to bring about justice and removal of stigma. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is exerting her right for free speech and there should be open hearts and minds to understand her statements and how we as Americans can address them WITHOUT HATE!
Isn't it the truth? People like Jamie Dimon love capitalism until they screw it up.
Last I read about Morgan's health policy for employees, it was linking arms with two other major financial institutions to create their own health care insurance. That might be very nice for those employed by Morgan and lead by Dimon, but, what about the rest of the country?
These CEOs forget what occurs when they really screw up the USA economy. They conveniently forget and put it in the file of "Oops."
They come out criticizing a reality that doesn't even exist, but, is interesting to keep Trump at bay. What is Dimon up to these days, anyway?
But, that aside, Robert Reich, the champion of the American Middle Class is correct and I thank him for his opinion.
Jamie Dimon can go back into his ivory tower and leave the American people to decide the future of their health care. I am assuming Morgan and it's partners in self-insurance don't exclude pre-existing conditions.
I am curious as to what Dimon thinks of Trump's picks for lining the halls of The Fed? It was The Fed after all that bailed out the banks and provided that all too comfy QE 1, 2 and 3.
April 8, 2019
By Robert Reich
In his annual letter to shareholders, (click here) distributed last week, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took aim at socialism, warning it would be “a disaster for our country," because it produces “stagnation, corruption and often worse.”
Dimon should know. He was at the helm when JPMorgan received a $25 billion socialist-like bailout in 2008, after it and other Wall Street banks almost tanked because of their fraudulent loans.
Dimon subsequently agreed to pay the government $13 billion to settle charges that the bank overstated the quality of mortgages it was selling to investors in the run-up to the crisis. According to the Justice Department, JPMorgan acknowledged it had regularly and knowingly sold mortgages that should have never been sold (Presumably this is where the “stagnation, corruption and often worse” comes in.)
The $13 billion penalty was chicken feed to the biggest bank on Wall Street, whose profits last year alone amounted to $35 billion. Besides, JPMorgan was able to deduct around $11 billion of the settlement costs from its taxable income.
To state it another way, Dimon and other Wall Street CEOs helped trigger the 2008 financial crisis when the fraudulent loans their banks were peddling—on which they made big money—finally went bust. But instead of letting the market punish the banks (which is what capitalism is supposed to do) the government bailed them out and eventually levied paltry fines which the banks treated as the cost of doing business.
If this isn’t socialism, what is it?...
I am curious as to what Dimon thinks of Trump's picks for lining the halls of The Fed? It was The Fed after all that bailed out the banks and provided that all too comfy QE 1, 2 and 3.
April 8, 2019
By Robert Reich
In his annual letter to shareholders, (click here) distributed last week, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took aim at socialism, warning it would be “a disaster for our country," because it produces “stagnation, corruption and often worse.”
Dimon should know. He was at the helm when JPMorgan received a $25 billion socialist-like bailout in 2008, after it and other Wall Street banks almost tanked because of their fraudulent loans.
Dimon subsequently agreed to pay the government $13 billion to settle charges that the bank overstated the quality of mortgages it was selling to investors in the run-up to the crisis. According to the Justice Department, JPMorgan acknowledged it had regularly and knowingly sold mortgages that should have never been sold (Presumably this is where the “stagnation, corruption and often worse” comes in.)
The $13 billion penalty was chicken feed to the biggest bank on Wall Street, whose profits last year alone amounted to $35 billion. Besides, JPMorgan was able to deduct around $11 billion of the settlement costs from its taxable income.
To state it another way, Dimon and other Wall Street CEOs helped trigger the 2008 financial crisis when the fraudulent loans their banks were peddling—on which they made big money—finally went bust. But instead of letting the market punish the banks (which is what capitalism is supposed to do) the government bailed them out and eventually levied paltry fines which the banks treated as the cost of doing business.
If this isn’t socialism, what is it?...
Putinized Maduro is calling for a one million man militia. Why? The problem is not an invading army, it is a humanitarian crisis.
The Putinized Maduro has absolutely no economic strategy for Venezuela. His strategy is to increase the violence.
It is appropriate for the UN Secretary General to speak out on behalf of those without a voice and in this case, it is the people of Venezuela. They don't war, they need food and an economic strategy that will work for them. At this point, the people are best served if they build their own local economies and stop looking toward their leadership to solve their problems.
April 12, 2019
By Andres Oppenheimer
Until now, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres (click here) had been shamelessly silent about Venezuela, refusing to even consider a full-scale U.N. response to the country’s humanitarian crisis.
But that may be changing.
On April 10, for the first time, Guterres stated in a tweet that, “7 million people in Venezuela need humanitarian assistance. We are working to expand our assistance, in line with the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence.”...
The Venezuelan people are capable of rebuilding their own economy and it doesn't need praise to carry it out. They can do this with real products and honest labor without corruption.
April 14, 2019
By Kenneth Rapoza
On April 10, (click here) Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro took to Twitter to do what he does best: praise the Bolivar Revolution's struggle and blame the Western world for all of his country's problems. Indeed, Maduro's entire Twitter feed is this type of commentary. But on that particular day, the president took to praising his country's productive capacity. It was all focused on Venezuela's agribusiness, with one tweet praising Venezuela's onion harvest.
Yes, onions. Some 3,000 acres of it, planted by peace-loving small family farmers, not those big commercial operations selling to Cargill. That would be bad. They are doing it for the revolution.
Of all things: onions; a non-commodity mostly used to add taste to rice and salads and maybe a steak, an animal protein that most Venezuelans can no longer afford. Irrelevant. For Maduro, the country's rural production is growing like gangbusters....
It is appropriate for the UN Secretary General to speak out on behalf of those without a voice and in this case, it is the people of Venezuela. They don't war, they need food and an economic strategy that will work for them. At this point, the people are best served if they build their own local economies and stop looking toward their leadership to solve their problems.
April 12, 2019
By Andres Oppenheimer
Until now, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres (click here) had been shamelessly silent about Venezuela, refusing to even consider a full-scale U.N. response to the country’s humanitarian crisis.
But that may be changing.
On April 10, for the first time, Guterres stated in a tweet that, “7 million people in Venezuela need humanitarian assistance. We are working to expand our assistance, in line with the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence.”...
The Venezuelan people are capable of rebuilding their own economy and it doesn't need praise to carry it out. They can do this with real products and honest labor without corruption.
April 14, 2019
By Kenneth Rapoza
On April 10, (click here) Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro took to Twitter to do what he does best: praise the Bolivar Revolution's struggle and blame the Western world for all of his country's problems. Indeed, Maduro's entire Twitter feed is this type of commentary. But on that particular day, the president took to praising his country's productive capacity. It was all focused on Venezuela's agribusiness, with one tweet praising Venezuela's onion harvest.
Yes, onions. Some 3,000 acres of it, planted by peace-loving small family farmers, not those big commercial operations selling to Cargill. That would be bad. They are doing it for the revolution.
Of all things: onions; a non-commodity mostly used to add taste to rice and salads and maybe a steak, an animal protein that most Venezuelans can no longer afford. Irrelevant. For Maduro, the country's rural production is growing like gangbusters....
Steven Moore is an election torpedo for Trump.. He is focused on the interest rate.
Moore will have direct contact with Trump to influence policy leading up to the election of 2020. Trump would like to have a controlling vote from inside the board room. (click here).
The US Senate needs to return wrongly chosen nominees and confirm those truly qualified. I don't consider nominees with one foot in the White House and one foot at the Federal Reserve as qualified people. It is time the US Senate finally govern.
I also don't appreciate the way FOX News will take Trump's opinion into account. I find that Trump will criticize those at FOX News that are truth tellers and will stand with the law, like Shepard Smith. Lately, Trump has been critical of these commentators while pleading for the return of commentators he likes. I didn't know the president of the USA could pick FOX News staff and their commentary. Obviously, President Obama didn't know he had that power.
The US Senate needs to return wrongly chosen nominees and confirm those truly qualified. I don't consider nominees with one foot in the White House and one foot at the Federal Reserve as qualified people. It is time the US Senate finally govern.
I also don't appreciate the way FOX News will take Trump's opinion into account. I find that Trump will criticize those at FOX News that are truth tellers and will stand with the law, like Shepard Smith. Lately, Trump has been critical of these commentators while pleading for the return of commentators he likes. I didn't know the president of the USA could pick FOX News staff and their commentary. Obviously, President Obama didn't know he had that power.
George Conway is getting support for his views on Trump.
To begin with, how does Trump have the Twitter feed name of @realDonaldTrump when there is no such thing as a real Donald Trump. He is like a Chameleon that changes with every change of scenery.
11 April 2019
By Brenda
The husband of presidential counselor, Kellyanne Conway, (click here) continues to criticize President Donald Trump on social media, but his latest tweet took a sharper tone than earlier in the week.
Days after he had changed his Twitter bio to include “Windmill cancer survivor” to mock Trump’s claim that the wind energy converters cause illness, George Conway responded to the president's tweet that described the Democrats' border policy as “treasonous."
Trump tweeted late on Wednesday: "I think what the Democrats are doing with the Border is TREASONOUS. Their Open Border mindset is putting our Country at risk. Will not let this happen!"
George Conway’s contempt for the president's position was clear in a message that pulled no punches. The lawyer tweeted: “This reckless accusation of treason is ignorant and reprehensible. However impossible it may be for Trump to disgrace himself at this point, he continues to disgrace—and to illustrate his unfitness for—the presidency by using such ridiculous rhetoric.”...
It would seem as though other commentators are seriously considering George Conway's distress and wondering if he is correct.
11 April 2019
By Brenda
The husband of presidential counselor, Kellyanne Conway, (click here) continues to criticize President Donald Trump on social media, but his latest tweet took a sharper tone than earlier in the week.
Days after he had changed his Twitter bio to include “Windmill cancer survivor” to mock Trump’s claim that the wind energy converters cause illness, George Conway responded to the president's tweet that described the Democrats' border policy as “treasonous."
Trump tweeted late on Wednesday: "I think what the Democrats are doing with the Border is TREASONOUS. Their Open Border mindset is putting our Country at risk. Will not let this happen!"
George Conway’s contempt for the president's position was clear in a message that pulled no punches. The lawyer tweeted: “This reckless accusation of treason is ignorant and reprehensible. However impossible it may be for Trump to disgrace himself at this point, he continues to disgrace—and to illustrate his unfitness for—the presidency by using such ridiculous rhetoric.”...
It would seem as though other commentators are seriously considering George Conway's distress and wondering if he is correct.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is wrong. She obviously doesn't understand government and if she does then she has no problem lying to the people.
The US Congress must receive an unredacted copy of the Special Council report bought and paid for by the American people.
It is the OBLIGATION of Congress to review this material, ALL THIS MATERIAL, and propose legislation. THIS IS ABOUT THE COUNTRY. THIS IS ABOUT THE SECURITY OF SOVEREIGN ELECTIONS. This is the obligation of Congress.
Now, I can understand how Ms. Huckabee-Sanders may be disoriented and confused because the first two years the majority Republican Congress DID NO OVERSIGHT. I'll be darn.
So, Ms. Huckabee Sanders owes the Democrats an apology for MISDIRECTING their interest in the UNREDACTED copy of the Special Council report. Ms. Huckabee Sanders needs to understand the role of government better before she snipes Congress. I think there is a video she can start with that is shown to most school children.
In regard to Sanctuary Cities, there is funding that needs to accompany any refugees into these cities. Trump obviously is treating the Undocumented Detainees as refugees now, so they need to be provided for no different than any refugee would be.
One of the reasons Trump chronically gives in detaining these unarmed people is that they will kill Americans. I don't they do that in mass numbers and to state that is a gross mischaracterization of the asylum seekers at the USA southern border.
Once these folks are "placed" in cities around the country there is no controlling them. Cities don't patrol their borders or build walls around them, so the idea the detainees will be permanently in a particular city is ridiculous.
What the cities can do if they receive these detainees, is perform a background check as if a refugee and release them. I don't see that being an issue and if the federal government wants to do otherwise in some cockamamy idea about placing restrictions on cities, then it is a State's Rights issue and the federal government has no power anyway.
The Sanctuary Cities should do the right thing and receive these detainees, process them in any way they NORMALLY would and then release them. At least they will be out of detention. It is the right and humane thing to do. Trump has no power over those detainees once they leave a federal facility.
The US Congress must receive an unredacted copy of the Special Council report bought and paid for by the American people.
It is the OBLIGATION of Congress to review this material, ALL THIS MATERIAL, and propose legislation. THIS IS ABOUT THE COUNTRY. THIS IS ABOUT THE SECURITY OF SOVEREIGN ELECTIONS. This is the obligation of Congress.
Now, I can understand how Ms. Huckabee-Sanders may be disoriented and confused because the first two years the majority Republican Congress DID NO OVERSIGHT. I'll be darn.
So, Ms. Huckabee Sanders owes the Democrats an apology for MISDIRECTING their interest in the UNREDACTED copy of the Special Council report. Ms. Huckabee Sanders needs to understand the role of government better before she snipes Congress. I think there is a video she can start with that is shown to most school children.
In regard to Sanctuary Cities, there is funding that needs to accompany any refugees into these cities. Trump obviously is treating the Undocumented Detainees as refugees now, so they need to be provided for no different than any refugee would be.
One of the reasons Trump chronically gives in detaining these unarmed people is that they will kill Americans. I don't they do that in mass numbers and to state that is a gross mischaracterization of the asylum seekers at the USA southern border.
Once these folks are "placed" in cities around the country there is no controlling them. Cities don't patrol their borders or build walls around them, so the idea the detainees will be permanently in a particular city is ridiculous.
What the cities can do if they receive these detainees, is perform a background check as if a refugee and release them. I don't see that being an issue and if the federal government wants to do otherwise in some cockamamy idea about placing restrictions on cities, then it is a State's Rights issue and the federal government has no power anyway.
The Sanctuary Cities should do the right thing and receive these detainees, process them in any way they NORMALLY would and then release them. At least they will be out of detention. It is the right and humane thing to do. Trump has no power over those detainees once they leave a federal facility.
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