Trump’s control of the GOP is related to his wealth.

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There is a lot of incentive for Trump to be salesman for the Evangelical Republicans, this is their dreamscape and they are already instituting it. But, Trump’s kick back isn’t direct payments, it is monopolizing the products required in the new design of the government infrastructure. This is the return of King George III. 

Basically, the Evangelical Republicans are using the USA democratic system to HIRE Trump to sellout the country to the new regime. 

This is regime change. No wonder the communists love it.

Trump won’t be in power for long. Neither will his Vice President. A radical Congress will change leadership until their plans are all instituted. Trump is their momentary savior, but, will become their scapegoat. No one knows exactly who they are electing when they cast a ballot for Trump. The USA leadership will be in free fall, no different than exampled by the USA House.

Trump, at some level knows it, too. He is still selling himself to the extremists, “You tried to defeat Roe v. Wade for 54 years and I am the one that did it.” Why would he say that? Feeling insecure? 

Ya know, when well laid plans are almost over the goal line, maybe some fine tuning needed to be done, like, “…perhaps Trump isn’t the best messenger…” The Heritage Foundation has placed six Supreme Court judges and invested mightily over decades, and they are the authors of Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation has been conspiring against the USA Constitution and Trump is their “checkmate.”

The Oklahoma Bible Grift worth $3.3 million.

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Trump’s Christian Bible was printed and released for sale long before Oklahoma required the presence and teaching from it for every student in the state. That is conspiratorial, illegal, and proves Trump’s endorsement of Project 2025 (click here).

Trump is lying when he states he does not endorse Project 2025, but not only that, he intends to profit from every aspect of it. Basically, he will oversee constitutionalizing Project 2025, funding it, and syphon billions, if not trillions of USA dollars from the USA Treasury.

The National Guard saved the USA Constitution.

It was the arrival of the National Guard on January 6th that ended the insurrection and attempted coup. We should all be grateful.

Shawn Harris is a good man.

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MTG doesn’t even have an office in Dalton, Georgia to offer constituents any services. The former Brigadier General would be sure the people of Georgia’s 14th district knew they were on solid ground with someone that cares about them. His service in the military should tell them that.

If you want the Longshoremen to go back to work,…

…then help them get their contract settled. 

Write the employer.

Ask if the union needs more picketers to stand with them. 

Make phone calls encouraging a good contract. 

Ask union members how to best support them and their families through to a new contract.

The housing issue

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The foreigners buying American properties aren’t illegal immigrates.

Build safer schools?

The Republicans have always diverted the problem with gun deaths of children from the guns to making schools safer and mental health. The Assault Weapons Ban worked. Just that simple.

Governor Walz is correct that public lands protect water sources. It is obvious now that Trump wants to change the character of public lands, parks and wildlands. That is what Zinke has up his sleeve. The Senator wannabe in Montana talks about having more bears than cows. They want to kill American wildlife and build on public lands. Will it work? No. Think about the national parks and commute times to real jobs. Somehow putting housing projects in Yellowstone will result in failure. Where are the children going to school? Ohhhhhh. It is more than housing, entire cities need to be built on public lands to provide basic services.

Nothing like having a president with ideology to put a resort hotel in the tree of Redwoods and Sequoias.

Talking about housing the hatred the Republicans are spewing is marginalizing LGBTQ into homelessness (Click here). The hate speech is causing victimization and ostracizing people.

It is a beautiful, blustery autumn day…

…in Traverse City, Michigan. The State Theater is seeing near sell out audiences to “The Apprentice.”

From a cinema perspective the film was made well. There are many story lines. 

The film proves rape has been a part of Trump’s sexuality for some time. It related to power over women, which directly translates into his politics. 

But, the overriding theme is the corrupt dealings of Trump and Roy Cohen. Trump has never come by his wealth honestly. Promoting  himself publicly was based in glamour. It became a method of power for both men, until the Apprentice became the Master and cast Cohen to the side.

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In the two years since Trump cancelled the nuclear deal with Iran, it has cut in half the time to a nuclear weapon.

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Asheville house gone

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The fast moving water is dirt brown in color. That color is resulted because of undermining and/or eroding land. 

President Biden is correct.

Helene has been a devastating storm. Asheville has no water supply. It is currently impossible to truck water into Asheville because there is no road access. People can go days without food but only 2 days without water. With no road access everything has to be flown in and the communication systems are down which limits any air flights into the area. This is a nearly impossible civilian effort. The National Guard needs to be involved and quite possibly the USA military as they were after Katrina.

Survival of the living has to come first otherwise people can become dehydrated and/or starve adding to the death toll. Search and rescue is a way to bring those surviving this storm to safety, food, shelter, and clothing.

The problems in North Carolina are compounded by the destruction in

Tennessee. Not being able to stage supplies in Tennessee to move to North Carolina makes the job far more difficult. Interstate 40 is impassable on the North Carolina side. Asheville is in the mountains. This is an extremely dangerous set of circumstances for the people trapped there.

Supplies into North Carolina are at the very least hours away if they can be moved by alternative routes. The infrastructure leading into the area in Western North Carolina maybe a concern considering the enormous amount of damage by the wind and water. The waterways have been torrents and will make the substrate that is normally safe at least questionable at this time. All the FEMA workers and NGOs responding to these areas in any state are at risk for unstable infrastructure.

The problems being faced by Americas today are unprecedented to the size and scope of this emergency. The devastation is bigger than Katrina with recovery 100 times more difficult.

I am grateful President Biden is in the White House with the experience of a lifetime to move mountains to save lives.

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This is Alaska and British Columbia as of yesterday.

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Tennessee is even worse.

64 dead. There are people missing (click here). Someone better be checking dams.

Tennessee River (click here)

(Click here) The people don’t need confidence, they need vigilance. Those dams are under stress. The land has given way with collapsed roads and quite possibly land and rock slides. That kind of sediment deposited changes the capacity before the banks are under stress.

Isolated folks are going to need food and medicine drops. 

What is the temperature like in the Smokies? People will need clothes and blankets and heaters of some sort. Temperatures may be different at elevation.

Looks like temperatures are steady in the sixties but there is more rain coming.

WATCH THOSE DAMS. Thank you.

The Army Corp can advise, but, speaking in generalities it has been a hot dry summer. The land has experienced some drought. Droughted land is less stable when exposed to huge storms like this. I-40 is not an isolated incident. Vermont and California has experienced major road collapse. The land is different because the climate is different. 

Helene stalled over western North Carolina

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These are rain totals in a three day span. I-40 is washed out. It looks like Governor Cooper is worried (click here). There are currently 30 people dead in Buncombe County (click here). That is where Asheville and the home of the Vanderbilt estate lies.

I am sure the emergency workers were overwhelmed during the storm and a major highway collapse isolated people from responders.

Jon Tester for Montana

Has he ever been anyone else besides a farmer and the best man to represent Montana in the U.S. Senate?

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Look, I have been reading about his opponent for this race and he’s from Minnesota. He has a business in Montana so I guess he spends enough time to qualify as a candidate, but, I have a problem with his good friend. Sorry, but, the friendship sounds like corruption to me.

Senator Tester is too much of a gentleman to even bring it up, but, I don’t have a problem with that because I am worried about Big Sky Country, conservation and public lands. 

Remember this lousy SOB?

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Ryan Zinke. How the heck did he get back into government as a U.S. House Rep anyway?

Mr. Zinke took care of himself while Secretary of the Interior and while in the U.S. House he has been taking care of the opponent in this race for US Senator. Has anyone stopped to realize what a tag team they are going to be to assault our public lands?

What’s his name? Tim? Sheehy? Right? Tim Sheehy? 

He’s got lots of money. There is some discussion about the viability of his business though.

But, there is a direct link between his business in Montana and legislation passed to benefit it by Ryan Zinke. Isn’t that right, Tim?

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I don’t know what the costs of fighting fires in Tribal areas are like, but, without real research or facts to justify this language in a bill that brought millions rolling into Montana, that is pure unadulterated corruption to benefit Tim who has poured lots of contributions into the Republican Party.

Tim is having a problem defining his position on climate. Why? MAGA. It seems as though when he discusses fires and his business he directly talks about how vital his business is to the climate. I am not going to get into that, but, his campaign seems to have the opposite message.

If the people of the USA are still having problems validating any concern for the climate crisis after witnessing the ravages of the hurricane that has devastated the infrastructure of the Southeast then I don’t know what will prove to them what a climate crisis is.

Senator Jon Tester is an honest man with excellent intentions for Montana and that is a fact by all his work for all Montanans. He is steadfast and isn’t corrupt.

And for crying’ out loud get rid of Zinke. He is known to be trouble. I don’t know what he has up his sleeve but he sent a lot of money to Montana to be sure he goes back to the US House.

The public has a right to know.

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The Attorney General should file a motion in support of Jack Smith’s request for public knowledge of the grand jury findings. It is obvious he afraid for this country. Perhaps the public needs to file a Freedom of Information Act request along with Jack Smith. If there terrible news in those reports it is important there is no error in judgement by the people of this democracy.

The FBI Director had no problems with disclosure in the closing months of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, why is there hesitation now?

The pain runs too deep.

I have been looking at memorials being posted online during this war by survivors of the Holocaust. I hope it is okay to call her by her first name. As a teacher in a classroom that is how I would address any student.

Czeslawa was lost to all of us by a hideous demand for power by those that believed they were the victims under Adolf Hitler. 

Czeslawa’s beautiful face, unrealized smile, wonderful mind, and possibly children born to her at some time in life, were all lost to us. That is a statement that can be made of all children lost to war, but, for the people of the Holocaust there is a deeper understanding of loss that assaults our very definition of humanity.

How do entire races of people forgive? The assault of genocide runs very deep for generation after generation. It is a reality which brings the deepest fear to any human being, in being killed due to the very genetics of one’s body.

I don’t know how to adequately address the Holocaust survivors and their descendants. At some point in time there needs to be a resolve to the fear of the other in order to go forward into a future of peace, prosperity, and pure existence. 

The war Israel is entrenched with began its existence long ago. This is not the first time these people have hated each other that resulted in war. Currently, however, it is to the point of allowing annihilation to manifest. I do not believe annihilation was ever the goal, but, the fear has caused a blindness to the worse rather than best outcomes. This war Israel is carrying out will not be over as generations after generations will see their very existence as hanging in the balance. 

While humanitarian definitions might be clear to some as to the injustice of the war, those definitions do not address the human condition as it actually exists today or that of the future. When a rational anger state presents itself between peoples there must be sovereign authority to define any war. There should be no allowance for terrorist organizations to be recognized as legitimate authority to any people.

To these understandings lies a greater definition of the war Israel and its free world allies now face. All countries of the world need to stop terrorist organizations from existing and incarcerate all that participate and hold account those who kill. 

No safe harbor anywhere in the world for terrorists, their agendas, their empowerment and weaponization; otherwise; these wars will continue to be a destabilizing threat to any sovereign country. How is the world going to address global stability if it is chronically destabilized in this way.

By allowing the hopes of peace to overshadow that of national security by providing a haven for terrorists such as Hamas and Hezbollah is proving to be a gross misjudgment to the peoples where terrorists found a foothold.

Genocide, as a fear, needs to be banished from the world. Fear is what empowers terrorists and dictators. For as crude this war of Israel’s retaliation is, it is carrying out a war to end those engaged in fear among Earth’s people. This is not a war between sovereign countries, it is a war to stop the ability of terrorists to kill and any sovereign authority that sanctions it. 

What is left to do?

Ahmed Muhammad Fahd and Hassan Nasrallah are both dead. Is it not time to begin the end of this war?

The faces of American diplomacy.

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The unsung heroes that carry American values can be as important of any diplomat. A child’s smile can endear a nation of people. 

Trump verbally assaulted Former Vice President Pence.

It seems obvious to me that Trump verbally assaulted Mike Pence on Christmas Day. There is no way Mike Pence expected to be facing a barrage of insults and demands for criminal misconduct when he called the former president on Christmas Day. 

The Former Vice President is a deeply religious man, devoutly so that sometimes places him at a disadvantage politically. A phone call on Christmas Day would never be for any reason except to add to the understanding to the depth of that holy day. For Trump to turn the conversation into a demand for Mike Pence to break the law by decertifying election results and nullifying the will of the people was verbal assault that was meant to knock the former Vice President off balance on a day where prayerful friendship was in his heart. 

The former president did not exchange favorite Bible verses on that Christmas Day. Not at all. He attacked the former Vice President proposing a criminal plot to change the election results cast more than a month previously. 

Trump deserves to be charged!

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Rule of Law

September 5, 2024
By Michael Booth

Someone shot and killed an extremely rare California condor (click here) near McPhee Reservoir in southwestern Colorado this spring, and wildlife officials are now asking for the public’s help in tracking down a poacher who eliminated one of the big birds that have been coaxed for decades into rewilding.

After avian flu in 2023 hit the complex condor revival program, there are only about 85 of the giants flying through canyons of northern Arizona and southern Utah, with occasional forays into Colorado. About 560 exist now from Mexico through the Southwest, and the reintroduction efforts recently expanded to the Pacific Northwest.

The shot condor was found just a day after it was killed in late March, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said Wednesday. The bird’s carcass was discovered west of McPhee Reservoir and northeast of Lewis, in a remote area. Cortez is the nearest larger town....

What is going on with people? This is Colorado where some of the most amazing human rights folks live, but, this? This senseless killing is so out of character for these folks. 

There have been three reintroduced (click here) killed in that state. It is more than livestock owners hating wolves. The entire population of Colorado voted to have reintroduction of wolves and someone(s) are killing them. Whoever it is has no respect for the law, yet alone wildlife.

There was also a wolf killed in Michigan (click here). So, who is giving themselves the right to kill at will? It is against the law. What else do animal killers need to understand? 

A guide thought it was a record size coyote. There is just no excuse. The killer should not have been allowed to keep the animal either.

The guide should have been protective of his client by stating, "That is far bigger an animal then I am used to, it is something I have to report to Fish and Wildlife." How about that idea, huh?

One of the greatest differences (click here) between the two species is size, which can be difficult to estimate determine at a distance. A gray wolf is much larger than a coyote. Wolves weigh 80 to 120 pounds, while coyotes weigh 20 to 50 pounds. Track size measures about four by five inches for wolves, compared to two by two and a half inches for coyotes. 

Ear shape is also much different; wolves have somewhat rounded ears while coyotes have taller, pointed ears. Wolves have a broader, shorter snout, while coyotes have a narrow more pointed nose. A wolf’s howl is long and drawn out, while a coyote produces a shorter, yapping sound. Fur coloration can be quite similar between wolves and coyotes and therefore is not a good characteristic for separating the two species. For more visual comparisons, visit: Wolf Identification: Physical Appearance of Wolves.

Large dogs and wolf-dog hybrids can also be mistaken for wolves, although they usually act more familiar with people. Wolf-dog hybrids can be unpredictable and aggressive. Some hybrids have been released into the wild, living like feral dogs. Distinctions between these hybrids and wild wolves can sometimes be made only by DNA testing.

And forget about the DNA testing, DO NOT SHOOT THEM. There are laws! Hybrids are gigantic (click here for picture above). I have seen hybrid wolves that came from litters by a dog. Why anyone wants a dog that size from that lineage is beyond understanding.

287.279 (ckick here)

Killing of dog pursuing, worrying, or wounding livestock or poultry, or attacking person; damages for trespass; effect of license tag.

Sec. 19.
Any person including a law enforcement officer may kill any dog which he sees in the act of pursuing, worrying, or wounding any livestock or poultry or attacking persons, and there shall be no liability on such person in damages or otherwise, for such killing. Any dog that enters any field or enclosure which is owned by or leased by a person producing livestock or poultry, outside of a city, unaccompanied by his owner or his owner's agent, shall constitute a trespass, and the owner shall be liable in damages. Except as provided in this section, it shall be unlawful for any person, other than a law enforcement officer, to kill or injure or attempt to kill or injure any dog which bears a license tag for the current year

June 13, 2024

...“We just don't know how it got there (click here),” Brian Roell, wolf expert at the state Department of Natural Resources, said.

Separately, authorities who received a report about the DNR's investigation said Thursday that no charges would filed against the hunter or guide.

"The conduct here appears to be based on a reasonable and honest belief they were legally shooting a coyote,” Calhoun County prosecutor David Gilbert told The Associated Press.

The 84-pound wolf was killed roughly 300 miles (482 kilometers) south of the Upper Peninsula. The DNR said it learned through social media about someone shooting a “world record coyote.” But this was no coyote....