Mr. Trump and Climate Change

Mr. Trump and Climate Change

For Mr. Trump to deny climate change is the same as I, a board certified cardiologist, telling the patient he does not have a heart attack, when I am standing by his bedside in the emergency room while he is propped up, drenched in sweat, a nasal oxygen cannula in his nostril, his wife with a worried look at his bedside, and I am holding the ECG which clearly shows he is having a heart attack, and in my other hand I am holding the laboratory report that shows his Heart enzymes are almost off the chart.  It is beyond ridiculous.   

Guns and killing innocent people

GUNS AND KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE

Well, I have had enough of this crap.  I don’t want another child killed by some apparently unbalanced person who thinks they have the right to commit such an act.  I don’t want to have any school, church or public place shot up again. What have we come to that we can accept this type of horrible behavior without seeing it for what it is.  It is EVIL and sick thinking and it MUST BE STOPPED.  It is time to come down hard on the NRA and any white supremacist thinking and get this country back on track.  The NRA says it is not the guns that are at fault, it is the people who do it.  Well, where did these evil people get that idea?  From the NRA and their various supporters.  Think of Charlottesville with swastica and clubs and fascist propaganda and a young man who gets caught up in the excitement of the moment and drives his car into the crowd killing a woman.  And a “so-called” President who says “there are good people on both sides.” Where did he ever get such an idea? He is only fanning latent racist views still held by many people who should know better.  We do not need to fight the Civil War again.  

I would like to ask the various killers, if I could, “what has been accomplished with all this killing ?”  Are you really an American Man?  Are you proud of yourself for killing innocent people, especially children? Are you a “REAL” man and entitled to respect?  Not in my book.  It is time to come to our senses and see this terrible development for what it is, a sick paranoid “I’m powerful, I have a big gun and lots of ammunition and I am going to kill lot of people who have done me no harm for the fun of it.”

It is time to outlaw all military-type weapons and require ALL guns to be registered and closely regulated.  It is time to come down hard on the NRA with regulations that are more severe than ever imagined.  We are not going to put up with this any longer.  It is time for our congressional leaders and leaders in every walk of life to show the political courage championed by former President John F. Kennedy and show the world where we stand.

Mr. Trump has broken the law

July 25, 2019
We have now heard from Mr. Mueller, probably for the last time.  He has done a great job.  His report clearly states that Mr. Trump has broken the law, both in regard to the Russian meddling in our election, and his attempt to obstruct justice.   NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.  Lets keep that in mind.  This is not the time to shrug and give up.  Now is the time to go on the offensive and begin to do everything we can to defeat him in the next election.

I strongly favor going ahead with impeachment proceedings now.  I have so informed all of my representatives in Congress.  He has broken the law and essentially has gotten away with it.  The drive to impeach may not succeed with a Republican Senate, but we must have an active committee pursuing the LAW issue to give him pause.  If we do nothing, thinking he will be defested in the next election, we need to think again and remember the last election.  A lot of things can happen at election time and we need to be more than prepared.  Mr. Trump will take advantage of any perceived weakness and exploit it and ridicule us for "blinking" in the face of pressure and attack our credibility.  We do not want that to happen.  He would like nothing more than to create chaos and confusion surrounding this issue and to test our resolve.

Please do whatever you can to speak frankly to anyone who wishes to discuss this issue.  Do so with the respect we hold for all Americans.  Let our representatives know your honest feelings and let them know you support them at this difficult time.  We are all Americans with a great heritage.

If Mr. Trump loses the election in 2020, you can be sure he will contest the results and blame the Democrats or anyone else for cheating, but will not take any personal responsibility.  We need a man with higher standards than Mr. Trump.

THE BORDER WALL

Mr. Trump said today (January 10, 2019) that a “Wall will work.”  How many lessons do we need to tell us that “Walls don’t Work.”  The most recent wall to come down was the Berlin wall.  In Ancient times it was the great wall of China.  Walls do not work because the maintenance costs are so high.  Once the crisis is gone there is no need for a wall and the money is wasted.  If walls really worked every country in the world would put up walls.  The “crisis” raised by Mr. Trump is a “manufactured” crisis to protect his ego and allow him to say “I won” similar to his response to the Cavanaugh hearings.  If Mr. Trump doesn’t win he will always have someone else to blame.  There is no real crisis requiring an emergency response. Lets put money into making major changes to our immigration system and make it First Class by employing many more agents and set about improving and speeding up the court system to handle all legitimate refugees that appear at our border.

Mr. Trump attacks Mr. Sessions

MR.TRUMP ATTACKS MR.SESSIONS

Mr. Trump has taken the Bully Pulpit to attack Mr. Sessions in a most unseemly fashion.  I presume he is doing this because Mr. Sessions did not step in and use his authority as head of the Justice Dept to prevent the conviction of 5 of Mr. Trumps close associates.  Mr. Trump always finds someone else to blame, often publicly, for any missteps in his administration.  He needs to look in the mirror.  I admire Mr. Sessions for standing firm in the face of a withering attack. 

Every day I hear the words “witch hunt” from Mr. Trump.  About 2 months ago Karl Rove, a staunch republican, in his weekly article in the Wall Street Journal, asked “If Mr. Trump is innocent of these charges, why does he not drop the subject entirely?”  I suspect the real reason is that he is not innocent and in fact this is not a witch hunt.

The question of collusion with the Russians comes up virtually every day.  Collusion is defined as: “A secret agreement OR cooperation for an illegal OR deceitful purpose.”  We are not totally stupid.  Off shore bank accounts; millions changing hands; secret meetings both here and abroad with the Russians and now multiple convictions of very close associates of Mr. Trump.  Mr. Trump denies everything, but that is just another lie.  The whole thing smells rotten.  Public Broadcasting, PBS, reported about 2 weeks ago that Mr. Trump lied or misstated information 3200 times up to the beginning of this summer.  Mr. Cohen is going to tell us that Mr. Trump was intimately involved with every stage of the planning, and that there was in fact Collusion.

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Immigrants and discrimination

IMMIGRATION AND DISCRIMINATION

The story is always the same.  “Immigrants are criminals, rapists, robbers that are destroying out country.  They take OUR jobs and work for lower wages and destroy our standard of living.”  They take jobs (often back breaking jobs) that American workers don’t want and fill a great need.  Leaders will fan these flames of fear and distrust for their own political advantage as Mr. Trump has done.  Think of the Irish trying to escape the potato famine in the 1840’s, or the animosity between the Swedes and Norwegians in the upper Midwest, or the Italian immigrants to the east coast.  Think especially of the Chinese who came for the gold rush only to face discrimination for the next 90 years, including rulings from the Supreme Court.  Every one of us is an immigrant.  We have no business discriminating against any immigrant. Discrimination is the dark side of our country’s history.  Immigrants strengthen not weaken our country.  Anyone who really wants to come and join us in this country should be welcomed, regardless of origin.  There will never be a time when we should close our doors to immigrants.  We need everybody.

Separating Children and Parents

June 22, 2018

SEPARATING CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS

There is NO JUSTIFICATION for forcefully separating innocent children from their innocent parents, no matter the law.  What has happened to our society and our sense of decency under this AWFUL man and his awful henchmen?  Our border crisis could be solved with proper diplomacy and cooperation with leaders south of the border.  However, when our president insults, and repeatedly insults, the leaders of these countries I can understand why they are not inclined to help us or cooperate with us in solving this or the next crisis.  He was elected to do a job not destroy us.  He is taking this country in the wrong direction.  He is the epitome of the ugly American.  We need to come to our senses here and rise up and put a stop to this charade.

Children and the Law

CHILDREN AND THE LAW

The events of the past few days leaves little doubt about Mr. Trump’s view of the value of families and children.  I can’t even imagine the mind set of Mr. Trump and his associates that led them down this path of separating immigrant children from their parents.  “Immoral” is the word used by most leaders. Unthinkable is a better term.   Mr. Sessions has all but destroyed his career by emphasizing “illegal immigration is against the law and we intend to enforce the law by separating children from their parents.”  This is a national disgrace similar to the way we interned Japanese citizens during World War II.

The irony here is only last week Mr. Trump and Mr. Guiliani were saying Mr. Trump is above the law or he ISthe law.  Mr. Sessions was silent on this point even though he is the Attorney General and should know the law.   Mr. Trump has had to eat crow on this issue and has issued an executive order cancelling the policy, (previously stating he had no such authority) but typically, he will not take the blame for this awful blunder, but will blame someone, probably Mr. Sessions.    Mr. Trump lies, his word is worthless and he cannot be trusted.  His attack on all immigrants is misplaced.  We do not need to travel this immigrant road again and again and again—and especially not with children.  Immigrants strengthen not weaken America.  We need to come to our senses in this matter.

Is Health Care a "RIGHT

IS HEALTH CARE A “RIGHT”?

Senator Sanders says health care is a “right.”  I disagree.  I don’t see it listed under our Bill OF RIGHTS.  If health care is a Right does that mean any citizen can sue if he/she doesn’t get the same level of care as Bill Gates.  A person may say “The USA is a rich country and I am a citizen of the USA and therefore I am entitled to the highest level of care available and someone or some entity has to pay for it.”  Are those citizens who fail or refuse to follow doctors orders on such things as smoking, obesity, diabetes and a myriad of other illnesses that develop, entitled to demand their “rights.”  I am sympathetic to their need, but not to the extent that I want to pay for it.

Health care is an essential element of all societies, but that does not mean we, the citizens, are responsible and have to pay for every illness of every citizen.  We all have a responsibility for our own health.  Our government has the responsibility to provide for the PUBLIC health through various public health clinics, flu shots, epidemics etc.  We already have the Center for Disease Control  in Atlanta plus a big departments in Washington.  As far as the delivery of health care to our citizens, it is the Government that must create the business CLIMATE that induces, attracts health care personnel from doctors and all ancillary personnel to the field.  The Government has many tools to do this if they wish to make use of them.  Such as using tax advantages to induce physicians and ancillary personnel to locate in rural areas.

Therefore, I do not consider health care a “Right.”    However Health care is not a service that can be withdrawn or used as a political club to pressure citizens to gain some political goal.  Promoting the health of all citizens, should be the primary goal of all governments

Hate Groups

Blog 8/15/17                          HATE GROUPS

Swastika’s, Hitler quotes on T shirts, David Duke praising President Trump for “taking our country back”, and antisemitism coming from a group arriving with clubs and helmets to meet the “foe”?  I can hardly believe that any group would have the nerve to glorify these persons or actions is repugnant to me and a rejection of the many sacrifices made by those who fought in WW II.  We do not need to re-fight the civil war or WW II.  Racism in the USA is our dirty little secret and the dark side of our marvelous and welcoming society.  We must do everything necessary to keep hate and Racism in check.  Mr. Trump must take responsibility for this rebirth of this awful attitude that has come down through his Twitter followers.  He should resign for the good of the country.

Here we go again

Mr. Trump has forgotten he was elected to do a job, not spending his time sending mindless tweets across he country and the world.  No one apparently ever told him that he was going to be criticized right and left for his entire term.  He has insulted everyone and then has the nerve to complain that he is being mistreated.  This is hard knuckle politics and it is up to him to figure out how to manage it and still get his job done.  His latest criticism of a woman just shows us how shallow and unthinking he is.  He reminds me of a spoiled kid in both his demeanor, belligerent look and tone of voice.  I can't believe what he says and most of what he says is useless.  The current outburst is merely another diversion to take away attention from having to produce his entire TAX RETURN.  He must furnish his tax return if we are ever going to know if he is telling the truth.

THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION

I want to make a few observations and comments on the Russian Connection to the Trump Campaign and Presidency.

Today, May 24, 2017, is the first time I have seen the word “Treason or Treasonous” behavior in the Sacramento Bee in an article about Mr. Trump and the Russian Connection.  The words are those of Mr. Brennan, former head of the CIA, in his testimony to Congress on May 23, 2017.  The whole idea of Treason seems far fetched, but that is true of many things we read and hear about Mr. Trump.  The current published comments by Mr. Brennan, make it perfectly clear there were contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russians.  We don’t know what was said but we can ask “what might they be talking about at this critical moment?”  Certainly not the weather.  The heavy financial investment by Mr. Trump in Russian business and his complementary comments regarding Putin and Russia raises a very red flag.  General Flynn lied, resigns, and now takes the 5^th amendment to prevent testifying before Congress about the Russian Connection.  The President himself passes highly classified information to the Russians in the oval office, a gathering that allowed only Russian journalists, but not US journalists, to attend.  The final blow was the firing of Mr. Comey.  Firing the leader who is investigating your behavior is an admission of guilt until proven otherwise.  We, as ordinary citizens of this country, are allowed to connect the dots above and reach our own conclusions.  The whole series of events is highly suspicious.  I am hopeful Mr. Mueller will be able to set our minds at ease with a thorough investigation of all aspects of this Russian Connection.