silence like a cancer

"Fools, " said I, "You do not know Silence, like a cancer, grows Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you" But my words, like silent raindrops, fell And echoed in the wells, of silence.” (Sounds of Silence/Paul Simon)

Finally, in America, from within the Dark Halls, the Mysterious Catacombs, the Myriad of Meandering Rooms and Offices, and the Secret Enclaves, where real Patriots whose desire IS to keep America safe, and free…to keep America a LAWFUL nation…a Civil Servant has found the courage, to challenge an Executive Administration, bent on the destruction of the sets of rules and regulation checks and balances, which attempt at their best to keep America free, just and as much a democracy as humanly possible. Finally, with great courage, a Career Professional has come forward-facing the obstruction of justice, the pure disdain by the Commander-In-Chief and his Cabal or is it Klan of coconspirators, which has become more like walking directly into the path of a category 5 Hurricane…and has told the truth about Trump, and his enablers whose only strength is the power of their lies, their ability to smack fact into fiction, and their unyielding pleasure to dupe the public, the minions, and create nothing but a dictatorship, whose fringes include Fascism/Authoritarianism/and establish a Plutocracy!

All, those men and women, in power, in positions of control, had remained SILENT…we have to wonder just how selfish these people were and are, or how much they truly hated or continue to hate America! There IS still resistance for the truth be let free, but FINALLY, a voice has been heard in the storm denial, defer, and indulgence, just doing his job, and letting the rest of America understand something very rotten is festering in the White House. I wish we would STOP referring to the person who has begun unraveling a web of betrayal and treason, as THE WHISTLEBLOWER, and address that person as either THE HERO or the TRUE PATRIOT!  The horror of Trumpty Dumpty is far from over, and all of his men and women are still trying to keep him from falling off a wall…but we are one step closer from letting (as Paul Simon wrote), silence like a cancer grow!

memories

“Memories light the corners of my mind. Misty water-colored memories of the way we were
Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were…”(The Way We Were/Marilyn and Alan Bergman.) Who can forget Barbara S. mooning over Robert Redford, and we were left wondering, we the audience, was it fate, was it spite, was just the way they were? Even straight men and women had a moment of a silent tear fall from their eyes, as love intended was love rejected! 

Speaking of memories, remember that time Trump with his hands and tiny fingers flying all over the place stood with his chest out (except you could not see it because his stomach was out even further, and to completely confuse the viewer he had his LONG tie hanging over his zipper covering his short schlong! Trump all puffy (most likely from recent injections of speed, or meth, or crystal) proudly proclaimed, “Russia, if you are listening, get me some more of Hillary’s emails…(of course when confronted with that statement, as is always the case, first, Trump denied it, and then proclaimed it was just the mainstream press taking his words out of context.) Today, September 26, 2019, Trump also said something which should send shivers down every American’s spine, let alone the brave Whistleblower, because Trump lamented about the good old days, by saying remember when traitors and spies were shot for treason. (First let me add, does Trump want to be shot…and then let me say, we know his code words by now, and had asked anyone crazy MAGA enough, or one of Putin’s puppets to perhaps shoot the heroic and patriotic WHISTLEBLOWER. “Memories light the corners of my mind. Misty water-colored memories of the way TRUMP was.” Be afraid America, be very afraid!

And speaking of memories: once again, in the middle of perhaps the most heinous, defiance of the Constitution and the law of the land, the man sitting in the White House and his Cabal, or is it Klan of Crime Associates have committed acts so egregious that IMPEACHMENT and prison time is just around the horizon…the House Of Representatives IS GOING ON ANOTHER FUCKING RECESS! What The Fuck!  Trump has compromised this nation once again, and Speaker Pelosi is permitting her House to go on RECESS (pretending  that her members will spend time with their Constituents.) It’s like saying ladies and gentlemen there is a fire in this theater, but sit tight, we have locked the doors, but will open them in just enough time so you will be able to barely escape death! Why IS IT when the Dems have the upper hand they some develop a sort of palsy and flinch and flicker! Memories, of the way it has been and seems to always be!

it ain't over

It ain't over till the fat lady sings:

It ain't over till the fat lady sings is a colloquialism which is often used as a proverb. It means that one should not presume to know the outcome of an event which is still in progress. More specifically, the phrase is used when a situation is nearing its conclusion.  Nothing is irreversible until the final act is played out.

It ain’t over because the fat man ain’t gonna sing, he ain’t gonna ‘fess up’, he ain’t gonna do much but scream witch hunt/HILLARY/OBAMA/mainstream press/and of course I am too wonderful, great, greater than and perfect, and the best, better most best, most better! It ain’t over until the claw marks of a banshee are etched, first on the walls of the White House, then the talons of a gargoyle are rutted on the mildewed marble of Mar-A-Lago, and finally the tri toed hoof marks of the Devil settle like chiseled indentations on the Tower of Trump, acting like that first break in the dam, forecasting a cascading of rot and ruin. It ain’t over, because, when you are a narcissistic psychopath, never daring to admit a finite fault, you drag, drown, and destroy the dupes who pretended they believed in you, but all the while loved the high life, they figured might last forever. It ain’t over until all destruction to democracy that can be demonstrated by a demon has deconstructed America, and with great relish, American politics (as if American politics were somehow on the right side of the law.

We’ve only just begun (as Karen Carpenter once sang,) white lace and promises…but in this case dark lies and no promises to anyone but Putin. We can view this fat man ready to sing, in two ways. The first will be the GOP, who fear some kind of backlash against their own reputations, and will, like mice, slowly and in the dark of night leave the ship, knowing it has hit the iceberg. The second will be the resolve of the guilty, like William Barr, Mitch McConnell, Mike Pompeo, Devin Nunes who will try their darndest to deflect, deny and cry foul. The third will be when the rats, begin looking the other way and remain silent in defense of Trump. But no matter what or whom, Americans will suffer the consequences until: “Trumpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Trumpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the Oligarchs horses and all the Kings men couldn’t or wouldn’t put Trumpty Dumpty together again.”

just wait

Even Chance, our dog, looked at me this morning, almost saying, in doggie language, WTF! I had a routine, once, that began, the day Trump was hacked into office by Putin, Bernie or Bust, Susan Sarandon, and the poor useless American fools who thought neither candidate was worth their time and effort to vote… and that was looking at the News App on my I-Phone, wishing Trump had been removed from the White House, being disappointed that justice had died, then walking into our office and writing a Blog. The news from Tuesday, September 24, 2019, was enticing, but I was reticent to write anything, because, Nancy Pelosi, says a lot of things than changes her mind. Trump has committed at least three dozen crimes against this nation and gotten away with it, but this time, it all seemed too convenient, too easy to write a blog which might hold a little hope that the bad guy loses and the good guys (The American People,) win! So much to the routine little Chance had grown accustomed to, I avoided the office, placed my fruit, oatmeal, and protein in the blender, waited for the 35 second time to go off and stood in the kitchen drinking my shake. Chance looked bewildered, so I gave him a treat, just to make sure he too did not become neurotic and nervous.

And low and behold, my wait proved correct! Because on Wednesday, September 25, 2019, the always guilty Trump and his Keystone Cops administrative Assistants fucked up again, this time, by sharing with the Democrats a memo of Talking Points to help cover-up, Trump’s illegal conversation of blackmail with the Ukrainian President.  Then, of course, the same fools who sent out the first email sent out a second email saying ignore the first email…(almost like saying to the person standing in their house alone, pay no attention that the mysterious threatening phone call of slitting your throat IS, in fact, coming from inside the house.) Then out of the blue, Trump holds a press conference to lie even more and lie about the lies, and then discredit the first lies to just lying again…(thank you Nicolle Wallace for having the backbone to intervene and explain, once again Trump has made up facts, is using no facts at all, and is in fact lying his ass off.)

All of what trump does pisses me off, so today was and is of no exception, except, today, Trump spilled the beans that he wanted the Ukrainian President to go after no only Joe Biden but his son, Hunter. Now I know HYPOCRISY is in the Trump DNA…but the audacity of it all. Let’s talk about son’s/son’s in-law/and daughters…The two Trump Chumps, Junior, and Meathead have stolen money from their own charities whose donors thought their contributions were helping kids with cancer. Junior, had met with Russian Agents multiple times, and never reported any meeting EVER!. Prince Kushner and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia are buds (at least Jared thinks so, but then again he is in debt for probably millions), and Prince Jared could give one shit about the torture and murder his BFF has committed throughout the Kingdom and the world. But Jared made the AI-Pac happy because as part of the controls the Crown Prince has over Jared he permitted the US Embassy to be moved to Jerusalem. The Princess Ivanka has special non-tariff treatment regarding her Chinese slave labor products, and she gets to sell her products all over the world to governments who Trump has also bribed. And Princess (I converted to Judaism) could give a shit if her father, her Jewish children’s Grandfather thinks there are good and bad Nazi’s. Then there are the two other spawn, Tiffany, who shows up when Trump pretends he is a Christian Family values man, but she is somehow always standing behind someone when the family portrait is taken…and then poor Barron, who I am certain is somewhere on the Asperger’s Chart, who Trumps seems terribly ashamed of and even forgets he is his father! BUT, Trump unaware of anyone but himself, has the AUDACITY to try and make Hunter Biden a crook, when in his own White House, he is housing at least three of his own kids, and one son-in-law, who should have already been in prison, and Dear God, will go to jail, once Trump is IMPEACHED and found guilty, guilty, GUILTY  of TREASON!

and one more day

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.” ― Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” - Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
― Euripides, Orestes

I am embarrassed that Trump is speaking to the members of the United Nations, not because the majority of members of various nations are any less sleazy, sinister or sly, but because, any words Trumps uses to speak, supposedly represent me, an American, and me, an American with a conscience! I have given up the on the hope that resolutions from politicians, no matter their language, religion, or color of skin, actually are formed from a foundation of truth and honor, but rather rhetoric so particularly parsed that its true meaning, is vapid and void of any substance at all!  Words matter, but words spoken by men like Trump are just escaped routes to avoid being found the fraud!

In this nation, we still have Concentration Camps. In this nation, we have an Administration which has broken at least a dozen laws created to try and keep democracy alive well after the year 1776! In this nation pretend that a court, the Supreme Court, if you will, is conceived of conscionable men and women, capable of wisdom and void of politics, when in fact, the entire structure of the highest court in the land is NOTHING but activist judges, who are simply Lobbyists, wearing long black robes instead of suits and ties! In this nation, we no longer care if the law is broken, but rather what are the consequences, politically, if we try to fix it…the bad guy can get away with murder if the good guy complains too loudly. In this nation we have people identify themselves as Patriots as they wave the Flags of two nations both at one time intent on the destruction of democracy and the implosion of its Institutions. In this nation, we still debate the innuendo and ignore the facts.

One more day, and one more day, and one more day, how does the end of this nightmare finally finish? “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” ― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

Ragtime

Ragtime: by E. L. Doctorow- chronicles the lives of three families: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) family (composed of the narrator when he is a young boy, Mother, Father, Mother’s Younger Brother, and Grandfather); a black family (Sarah, Coalhouse Walker, Jr., and their illegitimate infant); and an immigrant family (Tateh, Mameh, and The Little Girl). At the beginning of the novel, these families’ existences are entirely segregated from one another, but by the story’s end, the three families have become one in a uniquely American type of ethnic heterogeneity.

“There's a day of hope May I live to see When our hearts are happy And our souls are free

Let the new day dawn Oh, Lord, I pray We'll never get to heaven Till we reach that day

It's a day of peace A day of pride A day of justice We have been denied When a man can live

And a child can play We'll never get to heaven Till we reach that day.”(“Never get to Heaven/Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens- ‘Ragtime’)

Today’s news, Trump breaks the law once again, and the Democrats are on their last nerve. Impeachment supposedly looms of some God-forsaken horizon which each and every day seems further away. The same game plan from the Trump Cabal, commit an illegal act, blame the same crime on the Democrat, this time Biden, and let the Media curl up in a frenzy debating if Biden is guilty, all the while Trump and his crime Family get away with YET one more unlawful action. Remember how we had to read Hillary’s emails, as Trump and Putin were playing compromised agent and master. No more checks and balances, no more need for subpoenas, no more use for the Constitution, and the entire idea of Transparency in the American way of governing is nothing but a pipe dream, and perhaps always was. Rudy remains a lawyer, The Crown Prince kills a journalist, and Eric the Dumber Trump says, so what is one life compared to the billions of dollars promised by the Saudi’s to the Trump Klan and of course our own Prince and Princess, the Kushner’s! William Barr is a treasonous traitor, but THE GUY, all-powerful translating the laws into what is good for Trump and what is bad for Trump. Mother Pence has decided that Jesus loves a liar, an adulterer, a glutton, a greedy banker, but her Jesus also loathes the Gay, the Immigrant, and the Female who just wants the rights to her own body. Mother Pence was supposed to be the balance between Mikey staying in the closet and coming out. Nancy Pelosi is waiting for God knows what to decide if Impeaching Trump now or ever will help the Dems remain in power at least in the House, and all the while, as she tries hesitates, and calls for this or that hearing or this or that tax return, Trump remains in the Oval Office, able to wreak havoc on every single human in the United States, the environment of the USA, and if he takes the wrong dosage of the volume of pills just to keep him from becoming completely comatose, perhaps start a war in which, even the 1% and the MAGA perish just like those damn Progressive \Democrat Socialists!

“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.” (Thich Nhat Hanh). We have lived this life before in many iterations, and somehow the cycle continues like that scratch on a record, repeating the same lyrics. Oh yeah, and then we have all the Talking Heads, and the Dems telling us we are near, we are closer, we are on the brink of a Constitutional Crisis…WTF, we have fallen off that cliff, and are now waiting to crash land on the jagged rocks known as Fascism!

fearful

“The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.” (John Hancock)

When can their NO longer be, JUST one more contemptuous, corrosive, corrupt activity by Donald Trump, against the laws and regulations established by the Individuals who DID establish the groundwork and frame our Constitution? I am not naive, to believe that the Republican Party is unaware of the desire for the democratic process to diminish, but rather found it, at first to play to their base, which they understood to thrive on FEAR. A FEAR implanted a few decades ago, by an electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. The "Southern Strategy" refers primarily to "top-down" narratives of the political realignment of the South which suggest that Republican leaders consciously appealed to many white Southerners' racial grievances in order to gain their support.^[5] This top-down narrative of the Southern Strategy is generally believed to be the primary force that transformed Southern politics following the civil rights era.

But then, as we all, those of us in America, whose desire to communicate our differences and truly debate the  issues in that gray area of good or bad, right or wrong, and educate as to exactly what is natured and what is nurtured, the unique qualities between the two, discovered that men like Trump, whose only concern is to himself, had different intentions, and permission to steamroll the American way via the invasion of Putin and his team of Russian Oligarchs (a word hardly ever spoken just a decade ago.) The interesting dynamic we are witnessing, is that Trump wants to build a wall to divide, but he and his Theocrats, and Plutocrats, and fringe elements of Fascists, and Confederates want to tear down the wall which has divided church from state, which was erected to establish “checks and balances,” and were intended, albeit, the most difficult, one person one vote.  We The People can no longer let one more lie linger, one more bribe blossom or one more intentional act of corruption conspire. FEAR is the game the Republicans play, FEAR is how Putin survives his authoritarian regime in Russia…so why shouldn’t the American people demonstrate in the millions and march on Washington and let Trump and ALL of his GOP enablers that we are no longer afraid?  And just one more thing about FEAR! Dear Speaker of the House Pelosi, stop being afraid that if you act now on Impeachment, your Party will suffer the consequences in the future. The way Putin/McConnell/and Trump are behaving, there just might NOT be any free elections in the future, be more fearful of that! 

An Ass-Um-SIN

DEFINITION: AS·SUME: supposed to be the case, without proof. take or begin to have (power or responsibility). It was not until I was a Senior Counselor at a Resident Camp, entering my Freshman year of college, that I was informed, by a then mentor of mine, that assume also could mean making an ASS -OUT- OF -U – and – ME. That definition was not in Webster’s Dictionary, and sadly I must say that Mentors are not necessarily the HERO’s you once wished they could be (but that is another blog…and speaking of another blog, once upon a time when I was working in the Jewish Communal Worker, a Rabbi from within that particular community , ASSUMED, that since he was of such esteem as being closer to God, I could work a deal and give him more of a discount, on his JCC payment obligations…he also noted that he liked how nicely my pants fit my butt…but I am NOT angry about that anymore, well…for right now!)

SOPHIA PETRELLO (played by the wonderful Estelle Getty of Golden Girls fame). Sophia used to try and give some dimension of moral value to the escapades in which the Golden Girls found themselves involved. Sophia did a bit of exaggeration to make a point, but the point was made, and somehow all of her rantings made sense. Sophia would begin with “Picture this…” usually it was Sicily when the tale found footing…but my tale begins with, “Picture this…Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California 2019, in front of the newly constructed SPROUTS Farmer’s Market Retail Store.” There I was after a long and sweaty cardio workout at 24 Hour Fitness, hungry and thirsty, having purchased the most delicious SUSHI, and drinking what the cool kids the hipster kids have discovered as the Fountain of Youth a bottle of Kombucha. (The bottle insisted it was full of all the nutrients I needed after a workout…but because I am also almost 70 I did not read that this glass bottle…yikes a GLASS BOTTLE, was not your Hipster Kombucha but had %25 alcohol.) I was famished, poor me, hungry for a bit, so I decided to stand in front of one of the four U shaped thingies arranged in front of SPROUTS as a cement ornament, (interesting to look at but useless for say sitting upon, or God forbid lying down on if the sidewalk is your bedroom!) I was in SUSHI heaven, eating, and drinking, when a woman of a certain age, my age, stopped and said, shame on you spending money on alcohol (she must have had LASIK, as she could read the bottle in my hand,) if you are hungry buy food. I was taken aback! She quickly moved on as she could see that my sudden silence was about to become LOUD. Then as IS so typical in the Gay Paradise known as WEHO, some really hot guy wearing a really tight tank top and gym shorts almost cemented to his ass did the “look at me, don’t look at me, look at me, no, you are too ugly so don’t look at me, glance and gave me the tut, tut head roll. My mouth was stuffed with SUSHI, but I managed to shout, “I am married and have two kids, what about your life, asshole!” He skipped a little faster, and I could tell there was chaffing going on because those shorts were way too tight! And finally, a young woman walked over to me, and said, “here, I imagine you must be hungry, try and spend this, (a $5 bill) on food…she also noticed my Kombucha.) I tried to explain, but she graciously walked away. FUCK, I WAS wearing a LULULEMON Tank Top, and a pair of LULULEMON Gym Shorts…I mean seriously does that infer homelessness!)

TO THE POINT: Homelessness, the assumption that someone might be, the assumption that somehow your moral compass is directing you in some BETTER direction, the assumption that what you look like, has anything to do with what you look like in your soul and conscience! I have blogged about the Homeless population in LA. But let’s be real…there is a guy in the Whitehouse who is NOT homeless, actually we the people are paying for his DC home, his Florida home and the various and many homes across this nation and the world. He is a TAKER. We the people are paying for his spawn to indulge in the lavash lifestyle ripping all of us off. Entitlement is not a word that relates to the poor, the aged, the disabled, the HOMELESS. We should never ASSUME! 

Destiny

“As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.”(Denis Waltley)

“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” (William Jennings Bryan)

“Destiny can be a delightfully devious design. There is the rhythm, of certainty, the rhyme of choice or chance, and the melody mixed with mayhem and magic. Destiny experienced, always finds its footing in how we express our own special song!” (Gerry Buncher)

My daughter, Dani, my almost second son Scott, together the band, TeamMate, playing at the Troubadour in LA, providing their audience with great pleasure, proving to their father and stepfather, just how being so proud actually can stretch a smile beyond human limits; and make a heart race with the adrenaline and admiration! It is THEIR present, which matters, but it is THEIR future, as parents we wonder, worry and wish for. Right now matters, of course, and watching my kids perform, this moment is one memory embedded in my soul! But it IS because tomorrow is still unknown, I rant and rave, ruminate and ramble, and RESIST the tyranny and treason that IS TRUMP! The generation next, and God willing the ones after that will only survive, with we do not remain silent. What a night, watching TeamMate perform…I want the dawning of all the days ahead for both Dani and Scott, to permit them the freedom to sing their song, and make their own kind of music! 

This Is Not a Test

THIS IS NOT A TEST…The Emergency Broadcast  System has announced that there is one last chance for American Democracy to survive or perish into oblivion… an utter Fascist, Banana Republic, Theocratic Communist, OBLIVION…A WHISTLEBLOWER, (A whistleblower is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public.)had enough concern to alert the Inspector General, one Michael E. Horowitz, (An inspector general is an investigative official in a civil or military organization.) The Commander-In-Chief (Putin’s Puppet Trump) had communications deemed inappropriate, unconventional, and perhaps a covert conversation regarding the security of the United States Of America (the country in which all of us reside be we heterosexual, homosexual, Evangelical Taliban, females who deserve freedom of their reproductive body parts, women who hate women who want personal choice, good Nazi’s bad Nazi’s sons and daughters of immigrants from generations ago, to the current wave of immigrants, people of color and people not of color.) As is or should I SCREAM, was the law, when something is going awfully wrong with national security, the Inspector General reports to the Director of National Intelligence, (The U.S. Intelligence Community is a coalition of 17 agencies and organizations, including the ODNI. ... The IC's mission is to provide timely, insightful, objective, and relevant intelligence to inform decisions on national security issues and events.) Until the time of Trump and his over-reach or disregard for law and order, this Department had a Director, approved by the Senate, that person was Dan Coates, who resigned. Now there is an Acting Director, hand-picked by Putin and Trump, this Compromised Agent’s name is Joseph Maguire.

Under the Whistleblower Act (The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, 5 U.S.C. 2302(b)(8)-(9), Pub.L. 101-12 as amended, is a United States federal law that protects federal whistleblowers who work for the government and report the possible existence of an activity constituting a violation of law, rules, or regulations, or mismanagement, gross waste of funds, abuse of authority or a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety. A federal agency violates the Whistleblower Protection Act if agency authorities take (or threaten to take) retaliatory personnel action against any employee or applicant because of disclosure of information by that employee or applicant. In normal times, when a President is not hacked into office, is blackmailed or blackmails others, there is no reason, if the Inspector General, decides that a what a Whistleblower has discovered may have severe consequences, the information gathered is immediately provided to the House Judiciary Committee.   

Once again, Trump and Cabal of Soviet Compromised Agents have IGNORED  the rule of law, and whatever the Whistleblower felt was of national security importance, remains hidden, and ignored. If Trump and his Gang can break this law, one of the few remaining in what used to be a government of checks and balances, then NONE of us will ever be safe, or free! Two choices are left…the first is that the Acting Director of National Intelligence pledges his allegiance to the United States and not Trump, or the Whistleblower comes forward with the information and shares it with Congress. If, the matter at hand is left hidden one of two choices will happen…the anonymous Whistleblower will most likely be found lying in his own vomit, Putin style, suddenly have a heart attack, Putin style, or manage to fall from a tall building, Putin style, and the final nail in the coffin of the United States will be hammered and cycled into place, and we all are fucked…yeah even you, the MAGA!

CHEAT, ALREADY

How much wood could a woodchuck, chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A question of great depth, and greater insight…Bull Shit, nothing but a cute tongue twister used to entertain young children, for about 5 minutes then they get bored!

How many subpoenas can the Dems demand, until, the damn subpoenas do a damn thing? I have great respect for Chairman Nadler, and Schiff, honestly I do, but having Corey (Side Show Bob) says nothing but Trump is God and you are fools, as have every other Trump Crime Co-conspirator who has shown up, was just one time too much for me. How many times must America witness the third finger waved in the face of justice not to mention our Constitution, without finally agreeing that the House of Representatives, albeit the Majority Party is nothing but wind up talkie machines who can only say the word SUBPOENA!

The GOP/Trump/DOJ do not lay by the rule of American Law, and ad All American, Apple Pie, and Motherhood with Picket Fences the Dem House Majority want to be, the thing is “IT JUST AIN’T WORKING.” The latest scary thing is that a WHISTLEBLOWER, so concerned with the security of this nation is being kept quiet by Trump and his Nazi Machine, and all the Dems might get is a hearing next week. That provides Trump with seven more days to lie, cheat, lie, steal, lie, cover-up, lie and destroy any THING left of democracy. Mueller’s report redacted, memos missing, subpoena’s used like toilet paper. And the  Dem leadership look like weak fools. There IS a paper trail, get, read it out loud, DEMS, so what the fuck, you break a law or two for which Trump and his Nazi pal have already NOT given one shit about obeying!

UGH! Play dirty already Dems, it is MY DEMOCRACY you are putzing around with. Honestly, Nancy Pelosi are you not tired of wearing a sign that reads I am stupid and these folks are with me! 

hypocrisy to the third

HYPOCRISY TO THE THIRD:

Mrs. Nauhaus , my third grade elementary Reading teacher (yes back in the days of covered wagons, right after the dinosaurs died, and the world was discovered to be round, one of the subjects taught in school was READING) would inform her class that to prove any point while writing an essay, a journal, a short story or even a paragraph, the writer, needed three pieces of evidence to prove a point, make a point, and to truly succeed in including the reader. And Mrs. Nauhaus also, informed the class, that if there was one trouble maker in her class, she would be certain to seek out the other two, because lots of things come in three’s. Mrs. Nauhaus’s classroom also came complete with a cloakroom and be it one, two or three classroom “cut-ups” (her favorite term for jerks), all three would be placed there for “time out.” Needless to say, Mrs. Nauhaus was a scary figure at around 5’2” and 250 pounds, but to this day, I can recall a variety of important messages she related to her students that I embrace.

Hypocrisy Uno (just to piss off Stephen Miller a bit of Spanish): Trump is angry that California, and about twelve other states, have a very strict law against pollution from cars. Its standards are higher than the Federal Government, and no matter the pain in the ass Californians must endure, at least while having that pain in the ass, we can breathe cleaner air. Trump’s Lobbyists, the Polluters of America/the Oil Cartel/and his band of brothers who could give a shit as to how fast the Earth is dying, and along with its death, the citizens of Earth, want more poison in the air and less healthy air. Plus, its California and Trump hates just how blue of a state, California votes. So via the EPA, his lapdog, which at times seems to have rabies, Trump is demanding that California lower its EPA standards to something similar to a third world nation…stating that no state has the right to establish healthier rules than the King. Tons of hypocrisy here, but the major one, of course, is higher EPA standards, healthier life. Kind like the attitude the Christian states of Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma take on abortion, stating that all they want to do is save lives. Trump has no problem with the nation following their lead!

Hypocrisy dos (just to piss off most ICE Agents): Trump’s Personal Jesus (The Department of Justice) is, suing Edward Snowden for his over 8 years of living in Russia and providing leaked information about the NSA. You might be angry with Snowden, I was at first, but honestly, what is the huff and puff now. One no longer has to travel to Russia and hideout to share America’s top secrets, not when you are sitting in the Oval Office with your unsecured cell phone, and have your daily chat with Putin (like calling mom each day), or you have Russian spy’s visit the Oval Office, or send your daughters’ Boy Toy and your own felony filled son-in-law all over the world making business deals, and as collateral share Americas Top Secrets. DOJ is suing Snowden, but the DOJ is supporting Trump’s weekly, if not daily chit-chat with Putin and his Oligarchs.

Hypocrisy Tres (just to piss off the Border Patrol): Trump is intimidated and jealous of anything Obama. So Trumps removes us from the Iran Nuclear Deal, insists that only the inept Obama would set up the United States to be such a wimp. Trump brags about how NOW, he, being of big hands and the thing that is hiding somewhere under that long tie of his, will talk to Iran’s President with no conditions, permitting a few of his lackey’s to say the same thing. Suddenly someone detonates a few Saudi Oil Fields, Iran has continued to enforce its uranium, and all the bravado of Trump the deal maker is dying out as might the rest of the world if another Middle East War breaks out, and Trump now has no idea what to do, but try and find compromise, with Iran (something of course only weak-minded and weak will men like Obama had done.) What to do what to do!

see something say something

“See Something, Say Something,” cute phrase, huh? It is even kind of catchy, makes you feel so empowered. Bull Shit. Today I saw the Federal Reserve cut interest rates after Trump threatened its leadership. Now we are talking about Trump, the guy who has gone into bankruptcies with his personal investments, the guy who is so afraid to provide his tax returns for fear that we will all discover how much in debt he has become to whom he is indebted to…this guy has threatened the federal Reserve into changing their predictions, which in the end will result in two things, a fucked-up economy and lots of tax revenue coming Trump’s way! So what I see IS one more US Institution erased of its power and status and grabbed by the Executive Branch leaving the US with even less “checks and balances,” then say yesterday!

First it was the Republican Party (that was easy as those politicians hated democracy what with it’s ideal of one person one vote, then it was the division between church and state, again, easy because, the Evangelicals never wanted this country to be  free from a national religion, and Putin had photos of Falwell Jr. and his cadre of boys, Trump promised Huckabee  Senior that his inept, unintelligent daughter would have a place in the spotlight, and told Franklin Graham, have at the Gays, and oh yeah Trump lied to the ultra-Christian treasonous Mercer family by pretending that Mike Pence, the first or second Gay VP would have leeway in the Trump Administration. Then it was the office of the Attorney General, which, finally when William Barr, (just unzip your pants Donald and I am your court jester) became the private attorney for Trump. There was the Supreme Court, permitting a co-sexual harassment dude, along with Clarence Thomas and Trump himself, to become a Justice, and now the Federal Reserve…all falling into place as Trump begins to declare himself Chairman or King, not certain which title he relishes!

And now there is talk of another tax cut. One which is courted with smoke and mirrors. Most of this tax cut will remove any taxes Trump and his Crime Family pay, he is promoting it as a Middle-Class tax cut…but for all you eager beavers who believe in the Flat Earth…here is the thing…#Moscow Mitch will cry false tears and say to YOUR faces, as the deficit grows again…it is the Entitlement Programs which are the culprit. Now all you MAGA/Farmers/Coal Miners/so-called Real Americans who still fly the Confederate Flag, YOU…yes YOU will reap the negative results of this newest tax cut and cut in interest rates. HOW? Because the word ENTITLEMENT, the word you think means SOCIALISM or Black People, includes YOUR Social Security checks, your Medicare payments, your Food Assistance, your lack of affordable health care, and no more possible way for YOU to be educated enough to earn a living other than NOT doing the jobs that the Immigrants from Mexico and Central America readily perform!

So, today I saw something and have been saying something…but the silence and the blindness of most Americans is not only amazing but deadly!

the moment

At what moment when the bullet hits the nervous system, and the brain tells the body to be afraid, and how slow is that pain, even as it travels at the speed of light, as your body recoils from the intrusion of possible death? Is the white light that some speak of like a flashbulb, a quick peek at the cloudless sky permitting only the orb of the sun to shine, walking from the deep dark of a closed room to luminous lights everywhere? How tightly knotted, is the one connecting your gut to your heart, to your brain, as you watch a child taken from you, call out your name in sounds one could only interpret as guttural, alien, almost like a chainsaw placing its steel teeth on the tongue, watching them die. And how slow is the motion around you, when first word is provided that the ones you loved, the ones a part of every fiber and atom of your life have been murdered, is it so slow, you see time and space mingle and implode, is it so slow, you can feel every red and white blood cell stop moving in your veins, is it so slow, even your brain cannot comprehend the lack of speed, and fails you, permitting you to free-fall into a state of oblivion?

Where do you place your soul when someone else demands your body belongs to them? Do you comprehend the invasion or invent a reality in which nothing, no matter how painful, intimidating, intrusive permits you to float outside of the moment? And when a sense of consciousness returns cascades and crashes defying the gravity to have let it fly, do you splatter to the ground in pieces, so many, and so broken, that even trying to collect yourself is impossible, and your inner self morphs into only jarred edges and charred remains. And when you find the darkest of caves, the furthest of tunnels, the most claustrophobic of closets to lock your secrets away, that virus-like the truths about yourself which you are certain will, act like acid and splatter your life, from the lives of those you love, or worse will wash away the façade of faux love, are you content, or is compromise your only best friend. Because to be found out that you are not the expectations of those from whom you want to be loved, will, in turn, burn you to the bone. Is it their requirements that make you whole, or do you dare even inquire, if the nature of being, is the true standard? 

 It seems that the Republican Oligarchs in Congress and their Lobbyist Puppetmasters of the Evangelical and Russian persuasion always know the answers to the questions I posed in the two paragraphs, above this! But I call Bull Shit, and I also call OUT those who somehow still remain SILENT! I am at a crossroads, living this life! There are no longer laws that apply to all of us equally. There is hypocrisy, replacing fields of gold with empty lots loaded with weeds. Compromise has died, and I believe whichever God one believes in, the death of conscience and compassion has found its bloody fingers and smothered that God, leaving HE, SHE, IT dead and replaced by the maggots who survive on the guts and gore. Greed is abundant, selfishness is abhorrent, and hate is a proud coat of arms, worn by spineless creatures too afraid to look in the mirror, but always capable of defining exactly what you look like. What comes next, better yet whatever comes next, can we as a collective deter the decay, fight the foe, or just wonder why? Why have “We the People,” not demanded a revolution? The Dems play as if the rules are the same for the GOP. The GOP break the rules and we as Dems look the other way. Fuck the subpoenas, we know there are copies of everything we need, why not just take it, read it and expose the real enemies of the state? HUH?! 

the revolution

In a 4-3 opinion, The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Phoenix-based Brush & Nib Studio, a small business that refused to produce wedding invitations for LGBTQ couples.

 “The rights of free speech and free exercise, so precious to this nation since its founding, are not limited to soft murmurings behind the doors of a person’s home or church, or private conversations with like-minded friends and family," wrote Justice Andrew Gould for the majority. "These guarantees protect the right of every American to express their beliefs in public. This includes the right to create and sell words, paintings, and art that express a person’s sincere religious beliefs. (Phoenix New Times)

“No Jews, No Blacks, No Catholics No Dogs,” signs on properties in Pittsburgh suburb’s back in the 1950s and 1960s. “Colored Only Bathrooms, Colored Only Sinks, Colored Entrance Only, No Colored’s Served,” signs in the South in the 1950s 1960’s and early 1970s. “Mexicans are Rapists” People of Color come from Cesspool Countries,” phrases mentioned in the mid 20 teens. “Gays should be murdered or locked away, or thrown off of a building,” Evangelical speeches in 2019. Any employer, whose own personal Jesus, hates the LGBTQ, has the right to fire them at will, so say the Evangelical American Christian Taliban, and so will hear this beck and call from these, America is both a White and Christian Nation, the Supreme Court, two Justices of which Sexual Harassment charges have been levied against, and yet to this day have still been unanswered by a real investigation, and not one shamefully held by intimidated misogynist males.

The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City. The raid sparked a riot among bar patrons and neighborhood residents as police roughly hauled employees and patrons out of the bar, leading to six days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement outside the bar on Christopher Street, in neighboring streets and in nearby Christopher Park. The Stonewall Riots served as a catalyst for the Gay Rights Movement in the United States and around the world!

I have had 40 some years of living in the closet, 69 years as a Jewish man, 69 years as an American. I have permitted the phobia and bigotry against me, my religion, my friends of color, and my sexuality run rampant, for at least half of my life. I have read the Constitution, studied history, lived a life of secrets, and fear. I have been a victim to homophobia by powerful wealthy Jewish men and women, never fighting back, but pretending that if I move on, the past will fade in oblivion. It IS OBVIOUS, that every single definition of hate, bias, bigotry, bogus and insecurity we thought was swept under the rug, has piled up, so much so, that the rug is torn and tattered, and the shit beneath is now the stuff upon which we are walking. NO, NOPE, NOT AGAIN! This Supreme Court ruling in Phoenix is the not the first shot of Fascism coming to America disguised as Theocracy, but for me, it IS the last shot. I am and will RESIST, I will NOT REMAIN quiet, ever again. I will give no leeway to stupid old people set in their ways, or pay to pray religious bigots pretending they are God, or ANYONE, who hints, suggests and lies that it is God making them hate, when in fact it is there in inadequate nurturing by their parents and families who have decided to play God with my life. I will be ready for the REVOLUTION, and never be Silent NEVER! 

Urology Hell

It was Monday, September 16, 2019. A few days since September 11, 2019 and the hubbub, the Trump hubris and his conceited concentration regarding his heroic deeds during the murder of Americans eighteen years ago had passed, and is a usual, with most modern American tragedies, once the solemn theme music and the bogus thoughts and prayers upon which politicians pontificate have been washed away by the tears of the victims and their families we had moved on. Leave the dead behind and pretend nothing of the same will ever happen again. There I was, a man of a certain age, lucky enough to still have the use of Medicare, sitting in the waiting area for my annual urology check-up with other men and women of a certain age, stuck listening to Wolf Blitzer, feign concern of the actual reporting of events of the day, but instead, exaggerating, for entertainment purposes, THE EVENTS OF THE DAY! One is to guide the audience, the other is pure performance art, like interpretive dance. It was Monday, the beginning of a new week, and I had promised myself to try and make it through the day, without a major blog (I mean rant). I am Gerry Buncher and I am News Addict). My urologist is a part of a twelve-member team of doctors so the waiting room was full, and it was full of fucking foolish other men and women of my age, who might have well been wearing MAGA hats on all of their UROLOGY parts of their bodies. How do I know this because, 5 events, all creating or caused by Trump were on CNN, so much so, that Wolf Blitzer could not take enough commercial breaks because of all the insidious actions of Trump and his crime family and syndicate? And almost to the man and woman of a certain age, cheers for Trump arose.  I was ready to use a few scalpels and end the urology misery of my co-waiting room jerks!   

On Monday, alone, we discovered that even with the playing of 5, count ‘em 5 videos of Trump and his lackeys Pompeo, and at the time Bolton, saying publicly, that Trump would meet with the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, Trump, moving his lips without use of his brain, called it fake news, and he would never do such a thing! (Cheers of fake news arose from two men in wheelchairs with oxygen tubes hanging from their nostrils, and some lady with a walker joined in.) The second event was that Trump swore he never meant to use the words “locked and loaded, “ as it pertained to starting yet another Middle East War, but in the demented and perhaps over drugged meandering space with his brain should be, Trump then added, but America has the power to destroy and destroy them BIG, (them being Iran.) More cheers! Third, when asked if the Saudi’s were calling the shots, because of some close families ties between the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salmon, and the American Prince Kushner, Trump turning even more Orange, declared that, nothing of the sort happened, but that he, Trump has a direct line to the Crown Prince, and when oil prices are too high, all it takes a is call and they are lowered. Trump added, of course, no other President has had such access. (What Trump forgot to mention was that no other President has owed more money to the Saudi’s. (A few, what a guy was shouted in the waiting room.) Fourth, I learned that the Auto Workers were on strike, the first time in almost 20 years! They want better wages and of course affordable and inclusive health care. Trump was stumped on this one wanting to side with the workers who voted for him, but all he could say was GM better not move to Mexico. (only one cheer from some guy who when he entered the waiting room a half an hour ago, was greeted by name by the receptionists, so you know he has taken great advantage of his affordable health care. And finally, it seems the NY AG had sent a subpoena to the agency which handled the Trump Corporation Taxes over the past 8 years, that news was too immediate, so there was no Trump response, but a lady filing her nails sitting next to her husband said out loud, leave the poor man alone!

I was in Urology Hell! People of a certain age, MY AGE, in Los Angeles, a blue city in a blue state, men and women who fought in an invented Viet Nam War or even worse a Korean Conflict that never even made it to the WAR status. People who have seen their social services depleted, who have witnessed so-called Americans with Nazi insignia’s and Confederate Flags, decry democracy. People who have grandchildren who must survive Climate Change. People who decry Socialism but damn it are using their Medicare…these mindless, morons, never once realizing, how Trump and his Crime Family have shit and shat on them all cheering, the man who would easily watch them all die! I returned home from my visit, in good physical health, but I was so depressed and down, I did not write a blog. I don’t get it, I just don’t get it!     

Praying for time

“And it's hard to love, there's so much to hate Hanging on to hope When there is no hope to speak of And the wounded skies above say it's much, much too late Well, maybe we should all be praying for time.” And the Saudi’s begat, Jared Kushner, who begat, a sleek billionaire dollar loan. The Saudi’s begat a want to be King, named Trump, who beleaguered the Obama legacy and thus begat Iran to begone and thus there was no more Treaty to regulate the use of uranium and its terrible consequences. Netanyahu begat, Jared Kushner and the Evangelical American Christian Taliban, to behold an embassy in Jerusalem which begged the question of who belonged to whom, and whose pocket was being picked. The Saudi’s said begone and a critic was beheaded, but bucks were there to be made by the boy wonder, Jared! Some wondered if murdering Khashoggi, would beg the question of no more begat’s, but money talks, and the words spoken simply said, we buy, we own, you belong to us now! And here we have a drone, knocking out half of the Saudi supply of oil, and the good possibility, of another major war in the Middle East…all the while Trump tried to begat the Taliban (no not the Jerry Falwell Jr, or Franklin Graham Klan), the men and women who have continued to murder maim, to begin again, and all he received, in the end, was bull shit and Bolton’s not so simple exit!

“It's hard to love, there's so much to hate Hanging on to hope when there is no hope to speak of And the wounded skies above say it's much too late So maybe we should all be praying for time.” More evidence that Brett (the Dude) Kavanaugh, actually played penis games with lots of pretty girls. But it's pretty far gone that he will ever pay the price for practicing not what he preaches. But it seems , men like Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas will both become the moral compass and decide if being an LGBTQ Americans means less than shit, or if they could give a shit about equality, freedom and that old sticking point of the divide between church and state, which the Founding Fathers wanted to stick with, as they placed it in the Constitution. More allegations, arise, arose and are and were ignored. Calls for Kavanaugh’s Impeachment, well because the one of the Supremes’ number one hit, his sworn testimony was a LIE. So a Liar-in-Chief appoints a Liar-of Supreme courtliness, is backed by a Liar who is the Majority Leader, supported by the highest crime fighter, the Liar-of Attorney General, praised by religious Liars, who let Jesus take the fall. And We The People are left to depend on health, welfare, happiness, and hope, by Lying Liars, who love to Lie, to protect no other person but themselves!

“This is the year of the hungry man Whose place is in the past Hand in hand with ignorance And legitimate excuses. These are the days of the open hand They will not be the last Look around now These are the days of the beggars and the choosers” A war on the Immigrant, a war on the Women, a war on the Farmer/Laborer. A war on the LGBTQ, a war on the victims of Gun Violence who already lost that war, but there is always room for more. A war on the poor, a war on the truth. A war against democracy, and NOW perhaps one more Middle East War, because lots of “chicken hawks,” only feel like their balls and are busting when they think they can bust everyone else’s balls. All of the lyrics in quotes are from the song “Praying for Time”/George Michael. Ya gotta wonder, is there any time left to pray?

RECOILED

RECOILED! (I love that word) With reverent wrath she RECOILED, collecting her rightful place at the throne, that was always the reckoning regarded as the real victory! RECOILED! Not one more word would be spoken without his true intentions FIRST, being heard! To mock him as a fool, would be the like the bite from an asp, tiny and abrupt, but in duration a long and lonely death! RECOILED! Knee jerk, no, never, the reaction was plotted and planned, a scheme perhaps, a sly sinister, set of traps one after the other, never be played the fool, for that, there IS no recovery! RECOILED, SHE, HE, THEY, and now ME!

Abbott and Costello used the old Burlesque schtick Whose on first…a tricky slapstick comedy routine of confusing the audience with the who, what, where of things in life. The entire play on words delivered as if we were watching a Shakespearean production at the Globe Theater. A communication between two characters, one trying to make sense of terms of the news of the day, the other misinterpreting any actual facts and providing farce. Frustration from the fact-checker, fools delight from the supposedly dim-witted common man. The Teller of truth RECOILED, red in the face. How could something as simple as a ball game, a sport with rules and regulation, be misinterpreted, by the ineptitude of understanding, EXACTLY was being communicated. It soon became a race to the end, watching the sane become insane and the insanity of it all, all too true. RECOILED!

Another round of American Idol, (oops, my bad,) I meant the Democrat Party Debate. As in American Idol, the contestants were told be yourselves, (anytime a singer on American Idol tried to sing like him or herself, the judges said, no, that was too much like yourself.) So, with cuffs off, and tempers short, these contestants (not candidates but honestly individuals trying their best to win a trophy,) began using the Republican behavior, rules (kind of like on the RuPaul Drag Race, when the constantans look in the camera and say “this ain’t the RuPaul Best Friend Show.) And falling prey, into the clutches of the Republican spin machine, spoke their best facts, but as we ALL know FACTS, are used a folly and foible by the GOP FASCIST Propaganda Machine, all we heard was whose on first…and burlesque was performed on stage once again. 

And in the rush to reign supreme, trying hard to wear the “Pick Me” sash, no one addressed some real questions, like what happens if the Senate remains under the jurisdiction of the Russian Oligarchy…what if Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, and Pennsylvania polling places are once again hacked…what happens if Trump and Barr and McConnell continue to defy the US Constitution until the day of the next election, and no matter how  hard you smile and promise health care for all, licensing gun ownership, saving the planet, free education and housing, the DICTATOR remains unscathed, and his crimes still unearthed…etc., etc., ETC! There I was, my Diary will read, (once discovered in the Homosexual chambers of the ghetto), screaming, pleading, begging the world to just open their voices and speak and not remain silent, RECOILED by the sheer ignorance, RECOILED by the need of self-serving simpletons pretending change could happen without moving their lips, RECOILED as I watched once again SILENCE EQUAL DEATH! 

in the beginning

Willi Wonka opened the door to his chocolate factory again, last night and the participants holding the Gold Bars valid for entrance, strode on stage, and promised America, that the best is yet to come, because somehow, STILL, if ONE plays by the rules, ONE, can make that extra special difference. A debate, as if somehow the collection of demographic democrats would defeat the delusional dictator, who has been dismantling democracy by one bribe at a time, one bigoted, bogus, belittlement at a time, one lie after another lie leaving nothing but a legacy of laws that writers of the book of Leviticus would tar and feather, stone him to death or have some plague dismantle every single atom in his over-medicated body! Who won? Who IS  the top Tier today? We know who Trump feared most, as he tweeted his deranged, drug-induced slanderous commentary against Sleepy Joe, Pocahontas, and Budagigigig. I know who was worried, receiving at least 15 emails from Kamala, Warren, Bernie, Biden, and Beto, each asking me for assistance ranging from $2.08 to a mere $25, some addressed to Gerry, Gerald, and the old favorite Dear Friend. And in the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth and it was good…”

Except IT IS NOT good…A fourth or fifth bill to protect America from foreign interference into our election process was blocked by a Soviet Asset and member of the Oligarchy #Moscow Mitch. We discovered just how much more jealous and even worse psychopathically insecure Trump has been and still remains of Obama, by the $15Billion Bribe he is was willing to pay Iran to return to the Nuclear Deal, (Trump decried, due to Obama’s influence), and now the latest whim in which future generations (Yes even the generations of the Evangelical American Christian Taliban families) can drink nuclear waste, coals ash, Cancer producing cells from the chemicals of Monsanto, because too many protections on our water-ways may drop the bottom line income from Corporations (and since Obama wanted to save lives, it is more important to ego of the narcissist Trump not to) “There was morning and there was evening, and that was good…”

Soon the Supreme Court is going to judge whether I as a man who happens to be homosexual could be fired because I love someone of the same sex. We still have kids in Concentration Camps, but since no democratically elected officials are permitted entrance, its old news, yesterday’s headlines. Assault weapons are still the rod and staff of God, so their place on the priority list of Jesus remains high, and even when a Texan tells Beto, that he has his AR locked and loaded and at the ready, just waiting, we react as if it is just one more nut job, nothing to see here. Subpoenas are as useless as old sticky tapes hanging from the restrooms of gas stations on Route 66. Trump decides that even one of Americas most murderous and mean-spirited citizens, John Bolton is not as bad as his pal Chairman Kim. And the Military and the Congress still spend millions of dollars filling the pockets of the Trump Crime Family. “The Seventh-day was a time for rest…” Rest assured as long as Trump REMAINS in OFFICE, we can hold 8 million debates and not a thing will change, because HELL, also has been created, and the fires are not just burning below our feet, but fanning the flames of FEAR, and FEAR is Trump’s most powerful weapon in his arsenal to explode the Democratic policies, laws and freedoms of this land!

WHY

A bit of history about WHY! There is the YMCA and because of its original purpose as a place for all Christians to find a commonplace to be educated find recreation, and discover a sense of community, the YMWHA developed as an alternative for the Jewish community to find a sense of empowerment and a place to express the American dreams of a Jewish Community. Educators limited the number of Jews based on beliefs that they were too bookish, aggressive and greedy. Religious affiliation was deduced by studying students’ names, interviewing them and asking them directly on medical school applications. In response to this limitation and quota system, Jewish hospitals became a sanctuary for those wanting to practice medicine. Why, was this even a thing?

So I ask even more questions of WHY as we finish the year 2019. Why has GLAAD and the HRC been silent as the Log Cabin Republicans continue to support and favor Trump/Pence, two men who have placed the freedoms and equality of the LGBTQ community in jeopardy? Why is there no continuous outrage against the Republican Log Cabin leadership, is it perhaps too many wealthy donors to GLAAD and HRC happen to be Log Cabin Republicans? Why have the members of AIPAC (The American, Israel Political Action Committee, remained so silent as the Republican Party finds no difference between “good Nazi’s and bad Nazi’s? Why has AIPAC not spoken out against people like Laura Ingraham, Stephen Miller, Sheldon Adelson, for supporting the politics of Trump/Pence? Why haven’t the Congregants who belong to the Temples and Synagogues that the Kirshner and the Bernie Marcus families attend been loud and angry that both families support Trump/Pence, and where are the Rabbis of all shuls, outrage that Jews are as anti-sematic as non-Jews, is it because their donor base also pretends that wealth can protect you from bigotry?

Why is it easier for most Americans to confront Colin Kaepernick and other athletes for taking a knee when the American flag is flown and the National Anthem is sung but refuse to be as loud in their protest when so assumed Americans are waving the flags of two nations once at war with the United State, The Confederation of the Southern States and Nazi Germany. Why is it okay to wave banners, raise flags of two nations which declared war on the United States, but the right to protest, a provided in our Constitution deemed anti-American. Why did the United States government permit the South to erect monuments and buildings to the Confederate leadership, the men and women whose desire was to banish equality and freedom for many demographics living in the North? Why is it that the Liberty University students must adhere to strict standards of supposed “Christian conduct and morals,” when its CEO Jerry Falwell Jr, and his son Trey have been partying, boozing and having sexual conduct with the opposite sex or same-sex men and women? Why is it that the Board of Liberty University not demand answers and resignation from the Falwell families, are they too enjoying the excesses that only can buy?

Why has the Christian community permitted the high jacking of Jesus Christ by a group of Evangelical American Taliban leadership, and remained silent as the rights of immigrants, Jews, the LGBTQ community, people of color and women been drained and destroyed? Are they a silent enabler wanting the same, but afraid to act out as their Christian Crusader and Christian Inquisitions?  Why, didn’t the staff of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration speak out immediately as Trump used his magic marker pretending that Hurricane Dorian was headed toward Alabama? Why did they wait, were they afraid of losing their jobs, while the people in the Gulf Coast of America sweated and worried a real disaster might be headed their way? And WHY doesn’t anyone who stands in front of Trump as he dumps lie upon lie, upon the American public stand up and call him a liar, A LIAR, a psychopathic LIAR…WHY????

Stronger than FEAR

“No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear”-C.S. Lewis. “She was no longer wrestling the grief but sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts”-George Eliot. “What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”-David Levithan

What makes one day different from another, is a question that might be asked as the morning sun begins its journey across the orbs flung into space almost as if a mother is doting on her children, with a kiss, a hug, and a reminder, that adventures lie ahead. It might be a question asked in the middle of the day, as plans well prioritized go array, suddenly surprises never expected seem surreal but special. It might be the end of the day, when deep dark displays of the vastness of eternity creep over our bodies, boding, brooding, or bringing beautiful memories of a day now almost history. Or it ACTUALLY might be once upon a time A DAY in our life, etched so deeply with sharp metal claws, that no matter how many bandages or stitches used to heal, they still peel away, leaving more than a scar; something like an ache, agonizing, throbbing, thought-provoking, but the action itself so thoughtless. Nine-Eleven, eighteen years ago, a demonstration of weakness turned into a façade of power, causing newfound respect for FEAR. But we as a nation have other DAYS full of FEAR, from Columbine, Aurora, Charlottesville, Sandy Hook, Tree of Life Congregation, Living Church of God, Marjory, Stoneman Douglas High School, Pulse, Foot Hood, The Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, just the few of the hundreds we speak loudly about, and the thousands of innocents murdered in cold blood, by the bloody heartless cowards, who only conscience is a weapon of death.

Are we stronger than FEAR, we must not only address that question now but make it a part of history used as a lesson? Trump and his Crime Syndicate of Republican Russian Agents, his Authoritarian Buds, his Cadre or Cabal of American Evangelical Christian Taliban and the empty-headed, paycheck guaranteed FOX Phonies, and those who once hid in closets of Racism, Bigotry, Misogyny, like Ingraham, Hannity, Falwell Jr, Pence, Miller now free and easy extolling the virtues of White superiority are roaming free, and their Days of Death and Destruction are too numerous to mention, but families separated, kids dying in American Concentration Camps or at the Rivers Edge of the Boarder between Mexico and America, and those in Flint Michigan, are morbid reminders. Trump is as dumb as dirt, but smart enough to understand that JUST ENOUGH FEAR is as contagious as the unvaccinated whose privileged parents believe they know more than the medical community and with their own selfish, self-serving whims spread disease. We mourn those who died suddenly on Nine-Eleven, those whose last moments of life were terrifying, and those who slowly are and have succumbed the rot left inside their bodies. When is enough, enough, or is that too difficult a question to even raise?

“When our days become dreary, with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become than a thousand midnights, let us remember there is a creative force in the universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrow’s.” -Martin Luther King Jr

Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice…John Bolton, John Bolton, John Bolton… One a scary ghost-like figure, providing only more bad luck to the dead, the other a frightening ghoul, providing even more bad luck to the living. One a character only Tim Burton could conjure up with his vivid and vivacious imagination, the other only really nasty Republican Fascists could count on, and hard to imagine, exists in human form, and leaves nothing to the imagination. 

In the ending of Beetlejuice, we find him defeated, his powers to haunt and hunt, and cause chaos, aborted by the wiles of the dead and the living. John Bolton was defeated by a spookier ghost, and albeit the stench of xenophobia and nativism still remain, wafting through the halls of the White House, however, but it seems Bolton, was not evil enough to keep his fumes of hate alive. So unlike Beetlejuice, by saying his name three times he appears, it appears that Trump must have shouted John Bolton, John Bolton, John Bolton, and made him disappear.

The REALLY spooky thing, however, is…as evil and horrific, self-serving and selfish John Bolton is, IS the fact that Trump still remains the GUY making the deals with the Devil, and the Devil apparently didn’t find John Bolton a bad enough guy…I mean you got #Moscow Mitch, Little Lindsey, Mike Pompeo, Stephen (but I am Jewish damn it) Miller, and William Barr in the CABAL so I suppose it is still the Devil’s Playground at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!