Politics
At this point it is a safe bet that Donald Trump will be impeached or removed by some mechanism from the executive office...
In my sweetest fantasy, it would be something like an Independent investigator or the FBI filling actual criminal charges against everyone involved in the Trump campaign's Russian collusion and the acts of corruption since and then all those who have participated in the massive attempted cover-up. This means that much of the top of the Republican Party will do the “perp walk” right from the White House and Capitol Building (be still my beating heart) with no one left to pardon any of them. This would result in an unprecedented Constitutional crisis with no option but to hand the keys to Hillary Clinton or call a Special Election, essentially a do-over, where ALL Executive orders and legislation signed by the traitorous pretender are nullified and everything restored to anteelection normality.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Long before November of 2016, a political black hole had focused its inexorable attraction upon the individuals who were to comprise the new presidential administration of the United States. The whirling dervish creating that black hole is powered by the likes of Vladimir Putin; his compromised gang of oligarchs; Viktor Yanukovych, the ousted president of Ukraine; the nest of Russian spies overlooking D.C.; the coterie of hackers under Russian control; WikiLeaks; Julian Assange; real estate dealings in Florida, Turkey and the Gulf States; and all of the cash-laden, future president’s men slinking in and out of Ukraine, Russia and Cyprus. Because of the reluctant, understaffed intelligence committees of the House and Senate, putting all of this together will be an interminable slog. However, somewhere along the way, the stink may become too strong to resist turning it over to a better-balanced select committee or investigative commission.
- Written by: Eric J. Kiser
- Category: Politics
Yeah, OK. Then there's this.
You know those times when someone does or says something and that little voice in your brain tells you, "This is going to take up a lot of your time!" Well, that happened to me November 8th, 2016 and I've been trying to deal with it ever since. I'm not the only one, but I am the guy trying to claim he's still non-partisan.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Politics
This week a bill was introduced to and passed the first committee in the California State Legislature, a bill for single payer health for California. SB562. While 45 and Ryan are trying to take health care away from Americans, our legislature is trying to broaden (and cheapen) access to ALL of our state’s citizens. Progress is a slow, painful, time consuming process and this bill did not happen overnight, the nurses of our state have been working on this for a very long time, since 1917, actually. They and Senators Lara and Atkins think the time is right to push the movement forward. I agree.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
When Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel invited Ivanka Trump to a women’s world conference in Berlin, she was unaware that she was getting a two-fer: 1) Revenge, and exposure on a world stage of a dangerous, social monster; and 2) the possible salvation of a bright and engaging – but otherwise brainwashed – “poor little rich girl.” So conditioned was Ivanka, that when she publicly was excoriated by women at the conference for attempts to sanctify a father whose sins are legion in every nook and cranny of the globe, she could ignorantly and unperturbedly assign blame to, “The Media.”
- Written by: Bonnie Bertelson
- Category: Politics
We used to have a cat named Patches. He was a cantankerous fat cat, who thought he couldn’t be seen while sitting behind the living room window sheers. He would sit there, cloaked behind his thin veil of virtue, not moving, staring out into the room, just waiting to pounce on an imaginary foe.
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Politics
When I first viewed the statue of a defiant little girl in front of the bull on Wall Street I cheered because I felt she shared my vision of Wall Street; a bunch of over paid, arrogant ‘bull-lies’ and was glad to see someone standing up to them- symbolically. It turns out the bull's artist does not share my vision and is quite upset about Fearless Girl defiantly staring down his bull. He is so angry he is threatening a lawsuit to have her removed but a lawsuit has not been filed as of yet. Di Modica has said he will use the courts if needed to have the "Fearless Girl" statue removed.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Devin Gerald Nunes represents a California congressional district that includes Fresno County. In 1986, there was a short-lived mini-TV series called, “Fresno.” It was a parody of several very successful series of the era. The recent antics of Devin Nunes in Washington, D.C. reminds one of a character plucked right out of that misbegotten TV series.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Forget HealthCare – and all other domestic diversions! While we wrangle over non-urgent, national issues, exterior forces have hijacked our presidency --- and by extension are burrowing into the nerve centers of U.S. governmental control! The majority party in congress is giddy over its two-house plus presidential advantage, as well as the unexpected SCOTUS possibilities. It has desensitized itself to the foreign intrusion in our affairs. In its mad delirium, it does not realize that if it does not snap out of it, we will be headed down the road to national suicide!
- Written by: Deborah Baron
- Category: Politics
It’s 5:13 am, a full moon is providing enough light to see a deer cross the yard and a slight breeze is tickling the wind chimes and I am awake. I write to you of ‘hope from the trenches’. Since November our group has been growing. A rag tag bunch of Liberals, Greens, Independents and Democrats who have lived under the yoke of Republican dominance and ridicule. I still recall the vision of an oversized 4 wheel drive truck, confederate flag blowing from the bed and the driver honking and yelling ‘Fuck You!’ while waving a middle finger as he drove past Democrat Headquarters on November 9, 2016. As a mountain climber holds the image of the peak in her mind to drive her to the top, I hold that image in my mind to keep me going- to one day have the opportunity to return the gesture BUT choose not to.
