October 2019

October 31, 2019

Happy 11th birthday Bitcoin! May you have many more happy birthdays to come.

October 25, 2019

White House Press Secretary: Those 'Against' Trump Deserve to Be Called 'Human Scum'

I should have seen this coming. I said Trump was a Mussolini fascist. A day can not pass without this man attacking anyone and everyone who doesn't agree or approve of his political vision. The foundation of this vision is the supreme authority of Donald Trump. His characterization of career foreign diplomats as members of the Deep State has to be the last straw.

If Donald Trump survives this impeachment inquiry, and is not lawfully removed from office, we are screwed. I take that back. We are already screwed. Donald Trump never would have been elected President if the political system of this country was firing on all cylinders.

We let our guard down. Our vigilence waivered and we let fascism raise it's ugly head, again. We didn't have the guts to see it. Now Trump is using the power of his elected position to attack his 'enemies'. He threatened to destroy the economy of Turkey if Erdogan didn't do what he was told to do. This threat came after what many said was Trump's green lighting of Turkey's invasion of Syria in the first place. Trump has said he is the only one with the courage to keep China from becoming an economic superpower, and as long as he is president, they never will. Trump proclaimed, "I am the chosen one." Have we seen enough?

  

The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)

One last article to consider. Just more documentation here to support the fact that a corporate mind set is conducting the foreign policy of the USA. Everything I see points to a Mussolini/Corporate style of State Fascism.

Taylor, whose testimony wrapped after nearly 10 hours, said both Sondland and then-US special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker had explained Trump's position by describing him as "a businessman."

"Ambassador Sondland tried to explain to me that President Trump is a businessman. When a businessman is about to sign a check to someone who owes him something, he said, the businessman asks that person to pay up before signing the check," Taylor testified, adding that Volker had used the same phrase.

So everything in the Oval Office is just business as usual?
I didn't vote for Ebenezer Scrooge to be President of the United States.

October 20, 2019

Dubuque Man Charged With Felony Arson

The next time you step outside your home for a smoke, make sure you leave the door unlocked so you can get back in. A Dubuque man learned that lesson the hard way after he stepped out of his residence this week to smoke a cigarette and locked himself out. 32 year old Raymond Callis Jr. is charged with one felony count of first degree arson after police say he set his front door on fire in an attempt to regain entry to his home on West Locust Street. Callis told investigators after he inadvertently locked himself out he doused his front door with lighter fluid and set it on fire hoping to melt the weather stripping so he could pry the door open. His one year old daughter was asleep at the time in the duplex. Callis was standing by with a bucket of water to put out fire. The incident was reported by his aunt who owns the property. In addition to the arson charge, Callis is charged with child endangerment-bodily injury. He will next appear in court on October 30th.

It never ceases to amaze me that morons of this caliber are walking around unsupervised. The fact he found someone to breed with is also a mystery. It was the hope that computers were going to increase the intelligence quotient of the human race. A monkey with a smart phone in his hand is still a monkey.

October 18, 2019

I am not going to give a blow by blow description of what I have been seeing on the television set concerning this past weeks horror show;
the Ukraine situation, the Turkish invasion of Syria, and all the rest of the shit that stinks to high heaven. I gave the president of the United States the benefit of a doubt, and I can no longer do so moving forward. Donald Trump has laid the groundwork for retribution on this country by forces he is to arrogant to acknowledge. His ignorance of the geo-political landscapes of the world is inexcusable. His only concern is for Donald Trump. It always has been and being elected to the presidency hasn't changed this. It should have, but it has not.

According to a news clip I watched, the president said this situation in Syria is all about land. It is land we don't own and it has nothing to do with the United States. It is a conflict between Turkey and the Kurds living in this region of Syria. Trump said Turkey is a NATO ally and the Kurds were not. The contribution the Kurds in Syria made in the defeat of ISIS doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Today is a sad day in the history of this country. Just another day in the life of the world's superpower. We use people till we are finished with them. Just ask the Hmong people from Loas. There is nothing new under the sun. Maybe Trump is doing just what he is being told to do. It seems possible. I still have lost what little respect I had for our current president.

Mr President, did this ever come up during any briefings with your military advisors?
There is more to this conflict than just land.