tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67015571410861316692024-03-05T11:51:30.655-05:00The PolygonCreate, Think & AgitatePatriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.comBlogger452125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-75456647674888932782019-03-01T11:16:00.000-05:002019-03-01T11:16:01.180-05:00Deal Or No Deal?Well, it's been awhile since I have blogged, mainly because I have been busy and the holidays were a whirlwind.<br />
I hope whoever is reading this had a lovely time and a happy new year.<br />
Now we are dealing with a new year and I guess we'll see if anything new will happen?<br />
What happened this week, was pretty interesting.<br />
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First, the timing of Michael Cohen's testimony in congress and Trump's Art of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_North_Korea%E2%80%93United_States_Hanoi_Summit" target="_blank">Not Getting a Deal with North Korea. </a><br />
I am guessing that Democrats knew Trump would be in Hanoi, since this meeting was announced on September 11, 2018.<br />
They probably needed a big enough headline to distract from Trump trying to grab a peace prize.<br />
Looks like whatever Trump tried, didn't do much, except for a giant photo opportunity and waste of money so people would stop talking about Lyin' Michael Cohen.<br />
Either way, Cohen's testimony made Republicans look like they were in some kind of cult, they are all in with Trump, all the Trump voters I know, think Cohen is lying about everything.<br />
Maybe he is.<br />
They are full on board with Trump, and are voting for him in 2020, all except one, only one defector in my circle.<br />
He now hates Trump and says he will never vote again.<br />
His life is watching TV.<br />
I wish I was kidding, but I am not, that's why he voted for Trump.<br />
He didn't watch Michael Cohen's testimony.<br />
Like other Trump voters, they don't care what he does. It's pointless to even talk about it.<br />
They keep watching the Ministry of Truth to tell them what to think and do.<br />
The National Emergency that Trump called for to build the wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for, might also be a problem.<br />
On Tuesday, a resolution was passed, overturning Trump's National Emergency.<br />
13 Republicans broke ranks and joined Democrats. It passed the House of Representatives and is on the way to the Senate. Republicans barely have a majority there.<br />
Anyway you look at it, this wasn't a good week for Trump.<br />
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Other than a photo opportunity for Trump and Kim this week, with Trump saying that North Korea wants all sanctions lifted and North Korea saying they only wanted partial sanctions relief, it's he said, she said, and Trump will spin his nuclear reality show any way he can.<br />
Which won't be hard since he has plenty of options for damage control.<br />
The internet was trying to not laugh at Cadet Bone Spurs going to Hanoi, since he dodged the draft and missed an opportunity to go to Vietnam many years ago, that irony was not lost on Twitter.<br />
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is going to run for President and so is Joe Biden.<br />
Isn't there anyone the Democrats haven't recycled yet?<br />
We all know what happened with Bernie in the last election.<br />
They keep churning out candidates no one wants.<br />
Biden? If he gets elected it will be a fear vote, anything but Trump.<br />
I can't help wondering if there isn't someone besides Beto, who couldn't even beat Ted Cruise in Texas.<br />
There's Elizabeth Warren who has Universal Childcare on her platform.<br />
However, I doubt Democrats will go for a woman again after Hillary.<br />
The Governor of Washington, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/3/1/18222700/jay-inslee-2020-campaign-president-climate-change" target="_blank">Jay Inslee is running for President </a>on a platform of Climate Change, which Republicans say doesn't exist.<br />
We are the biggest polluters with US military bases everywhere, multinational corporations, yuuuuge billion dollar contracts for weapons that we proliferate worldwide.<br />
Ongoing wars, in countries we have no business being in and CIA coups.<br />
Probably Venezuela is next on the list. It's never enough for the Indispensable Empire.<br />
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While all of this is churning, we get the Pope actually having his own summit on the pedophiles that have been running Rome and wherever there's a Catholic church near you.<br />
Even in my tiny town in New Jersey, we had a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2646248/Catholic-diocese-claims-priest-duty-molested-boy-attempt-deflect-responsibility-sex-crimes.html" target="_blank">Pedophile transferred</a>, but hey, that church still has people praying there.<br />
Francis handed out a bunch of excuses, and wants measures taken to stop child abuse. Yeah right Pope, I wouldn't want my kid within 10 feet of a church.<br />
This organization has done nothing but terrorize humanity for centuries. If anyone's going to hell it's these depraved disgusting people in costumes lecturing us all on sin.<br />
I feel so sorry for all the victims of these monsters.<br />
I hope Catholics everywhere know the money they give to the church is going to pay out billions in reparations to sex abuse victims and it's hardly even begun.<br />
I can't believe the church isn't bankrupt, but owing to the billions of dollars worth of priceless art and real estate these perverts own, I guess they have money to burn and urges to satisfy.<br />
The farce of these once pillars of society controlling everyone is degrading before our eyes.<br />
The US government is a joke and the only one's who don't know it, is us.<br />
Michael Cohen is a liar and I wonder if people think he paid $130,000 because HE was having sex with Stormy Daniels and not Trump?<br />
Because I am not sure I understand what people are thinking? The President is a joke.<br />
God only know how many women he's paid off?<br />
But that's nothing new for presidents.<br />
Our national emergency has been a long time coming.<br />
Mueller's investigation is ongoing at least <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cases-factbox/factbox-guilty-pleas-indictments-abound-in-trump-russia-probe-idUSKBN1OH12M" target="_blank">six people are going to jail and more have been indicted.</a><br />
It's 1972 and Nixon all over again, except it's way more complicated.<br />
What I wonder is what kind of deal is Trump going to be able to make?<br />
So far I haven't been impressed with his deal making skills.<br />
Maybe his last deal will be his best deal?<br />
If Trump is removed from office we get hyper religious Pence.<br />
Another joke of a no nothing, making the Indispensable Nation, dispensable indeed.<br />
The American New World Order is a shambles. With over half US citizens living in poverty and corporate fascism taking over.<br />
We still don't have decent Universal Healthcare, because <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/321318-trump-nobody-knew-that-healthcare-could-be-so-complicated" target="_blank">"Nobody knew it could be so complicated"</a><br />
Our overlords in Washington DC made a deal with the devil long ago, there's too much money flowing into their bank accounts. They become millionaires when they leave office and get a gig consulting and lobbying for more of the same. <br />
Impeaching Trump or removing him from office won't change anything.<br />
There's deals and money to be made.<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-56753436767863734202018-12-14T16:14:00.000-05:002018-12-14T16:59:15.094-05:00Federal Courthouse Blackout is it Trump or Pence?There's a<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/14/mystery-mueller-subpoena-fight-1065409" target="_blank"> secret re; Grand Jury Subpoena in Federal Court</a> that happened to day. The entire floor was sealed off.<br />
No reporters were allowed.<br />
Word is that this is about Pence.<br />
Pence was hand picked by Manafort and I can't find any information about whether or not Mueller has talked to him.<br />
This would explain Pence's baffling thousand yard stare, he knows he's screwed.<br />
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It could even be Trump himself as suggested by the Politico article.<br />
This would also explain why Democrats want Pelosi as Speaker of the House.<br />
Constitutionally she is next in line.<br />
There's only one other example of the floor of Federal Courthouse being cleared which was during the 9/11 hearings https://twitter.com/SpicyFiles/status/1073634623740088327?s=19<br />
This article suggests that oral arguments would be today, Dec. 14. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/31/has-robert-mueller-subpoenaed-trump-222060<br />
Trumps schedule for <a href="https://factba.se/topic/calendar" target="_blank">today</a>;<br />
https://factba.se/topic/calendar<br />
There is a whole afternoon of time for him to be in court or watching FOX and eating cheeseburgers.<br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.8); color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Trump’s sole appointee to that court, Gregory Katsas, recused himself.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.8); color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whatever is going on is unusual. Just like almost everyday since Trump took office. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.8); color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So maybe that request for a take home test of Mueller's questions, was a courtesy?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.8); color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We may never know what this was about since this will probably remain sealed.</span></span><br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-32946784443089582722018-12-12T16:04:00.000-05:002018-12-12T16:07:07.044-05:00Dirty Deeds<br />
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I saw the pictures of Michael Cohen going into the courtroom with his daughter,today, she was limping with a crutch like in a Christmas Carol and he was Bob Cratchit and she was Tiny Tim.<br />
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I mean how low can you get, to trot your daughter out for the sympathy sentence?<br />
I guess it worked.<br />
3 years for helping a cover up to get Doughnut elected.<br />
Michael Cohen's conspiracy against America got him only 3 years at some country club resort "prison"<br />
I guess we would have to look at<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/22/archives/mitchell-haldeman-ehrlichman-are-sentenced-to-2-to-8-years-mardian.html" target="_blank"> Nixon's White House plumbers </a>to get an idea of what a sentence would be. turns out it's anywhere from 2 1/2 to 8 years!<br />
Michael Cohen will never serve 3 years.<br />
He'll get off early, for good behavior. Then he'll bounce somewhere.<br />
People get more time when they get busted for pot.<br />
So, he'll have to pay restitution, after maybe a year long rest.<br />
Well, at least there was NO COLLUSION! Lol<br />
I am curious as to what will happen when the Witch Hunt catches actual witches.<br />
Speaking of which. the particular show last night I saw, where DoughNut Donnie wouldn't shut up and told everyone he was going to shut down the government, for the wall Mexico is supposed to pay for.<br />
Looks like Pelosi shut him down, but seriously, did anyone see Pence sitting<br />
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there like a corpse at Weekend at Bernies?<br />
I mean that was so bizarre.<br />
Mr. Mother's Husband just sitting there, looking at his hands.<br />
What the heck is that all about?<br />
Like is he praying for it to stop?<br />
You know what I am praying would stop?<br />
The war in Yemen. An undeclared war that actually went up for a vote today in the Senate to end. 10 Democrats decided not to vote and it was short 5 votes to end the misery that's going on there.<br />
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The 5 Democrats that worked against their own party to block this vote were;<br />
Jim Acosta<br />
Al Lawson Jr.<br />
Collin Petersen<br />
Dutch Ruppersberger<br />
David Scott<br />
7 abstained<br />
Raul Grijalva<br />
Alcee Hastings<br />
Bill Keating<br />
Lujan Grisham<br />
Jared Polis<br />
Tim Walz<br />
Keith Ellison <br />
So the carnage in Yemen will continue. We will <a href="https://www.apnews.com/e399e552a1e04e3aaa0b553574380145" target="_blank">fuel Arab jets with fuel we pay for</a>, to continue bombing that country.<br />
FOR NO DAMN REASON.<br />
Millions of dollars we gave away to Saudi Arabia, so the jets they bought from the US can go on their missions and the lobbies of the corporations that build the jets. and the bombs. bribe our supposed representatives, to continue to vote for undeclared wars.<br />
It's business as usual, with the psychopaths in charge.<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-4011649198048528342018-12-08T14:59:00.000-05:002018-12-08T14:59:26.695-05:00"I Am Not A Crook" = "Totally Cleared"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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4 months ago, I wrote a post, about <a href="https://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2018/08/individual-1-aka-crooked-donald.html" target="_blank">"Individual 1."</a> (Donald Trump)<br />
I also wrote about Watergate, and Spiro Agnew, Nixon's Vice President, who was forced to resign for felony tax evasion.<br />
The reason I bring this up is Vice President Mike Pence's involvement in heading Trump's transition team.<br />
A week after Pence was put in charge, he hired Michael Flynn.<br />
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Pence defended Michael Flynn, on TV. I am only guessing maybe Jesus told him to keep covering for Flynn. What he did, was become a willing accomplice in crimes against the people of the U.S.<br />
It is conceivable that Pence will go down, just like Spiro Agnew did, all those years ago.<br />
Mueller's filing, suggests that Pence was doing everything he could, to <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/05/mike-pence-is-complicit.html" target="_blank">cover for Flynn's crimes</a>.<br />
For someone who's so damn religious. he sure does a lot of lying.<br />
Will Pence be held accountable for any of this?<br />
In light of the news of Cohen (remember, he was head Finance Director of the RNC) being implicated with the Russian Trump Tower deal, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, don't forget, Trump wrote a press release about the Moscow Meeting, that Cohen was illegally, coordinating perjury regarding that meeting.<br />
Not to mention paying off porn stars on behalf of Trump.<br />
Will the GOP congress be implicated? <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/g00/news/maryland/anne-arundel/ph-ac-cn-fbi-raid-0512-20170511-story.html?i10c.encReferrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS9yL3BvbGl0a%57NzL2NvbW1lbnRzL2E0N3lubC9kb25hbGRfdHJ1bX%42fcmlkaWN1bGVkX2Zvcl9mYWxzZWx5X2NsYWltaW5%6eLw%3d%3d&i10c.ua=1&i10c.dv=18" target="_blank">After the Annapolis Raid in 2017</a><br />
Remember when Trey Gowdy got clued into the Mueller Investigation? He decided not to run for congress again. <a href="https://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2018/02/friday-night-memo-massacre.html" target="_blank">(See this</a>)<br />
What about the NRA? Accepting <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/382691-nra-accepted-donations-from-20-russian-linked-contributors" target="_blank">money from Russian Nationals</a>. Is there anyone who isn't taking money from the Russians? (Or the Saudi's or Israel?)<br />
Did Trump get elected <a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2018/12/former-prosecutor-should-trump-be-stripped" target="_blank">because of fraud</a> and should he be stripped of office?<br />
Now, on the heels of the latest Mueller disclosure, John Kelly will be leaving by the end of the year. The rumor is that Trump refuses to even speak to Kelly anymore.<br />
Kelly, <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article179869321.html" target="_blank">decided to have a go</a> at Rep. Frederica Wilson, back in 2017, but I doubt anyone remembers that. This guy is full of it too, but somehow everyone was praying that he was "the adult in the room."<br />
Now that things are looking even uglier for Trump, Kelly is going to cut and run. His reputation in ruins.<br />
However, it seems like there's no end to the amount of takers willing to grab onto Trump's coat tails no matter how crazy or messy the ride is. The New Year looks like it's going to be more chaos while Trump gaslights America and Trumpers keep drinking the kool-aid.<br />
It just looks more and more like a cult to me. Maybe Q will fly down in a metallic flying saucer and rescue the Trump family and warp speed into the sunset. These people are so desperate for a savior, they'll believe anything, especially if it's on FOX Ministry Of Truth. Trumps probably gorging on cheeseburgers watching it now.<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-33519475380431282092018-11-29T17:09:00.003-05:002018-11-29T17:09:29.912-05:00I'm Dreaming of an Orange Christmas<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #1c1c1c; font-family: "Noto Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Considering how he was the RNC deputy finance chair and Hannity's lawyer, the entire right wing political sphere must be shitting their pants on what Cohen may have given up</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #1c1c1c; font-family: "Noto Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I think tomorrow is shaping up to be a pretty big Friday. There has been so much so fast this week. Mueller was clearly waiting for Trump to submit his take home test before he started laying down the justice hammer.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #1c1c1c; font-family: "Noto Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">100% guarantee Trump lied about Trump Tower Moscow in his written response</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #1c1c1c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">"What communication did you have with Michael D. Cohen, Felix Sater and others, including foreign nationals, about Russian real estate developments during the campaign?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8); color: #1c1c1c; font-family: "Noto Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">President Trump was asked about the Trump Tower Moscow project among a list of written questions by special counsel Robert Mueller, sources familiar with the president’s responses tell @ABC News. </span><br />
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Corsi admits to a bunch of stuff last night.</div>
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Deutsche Bank HQ got raided for the Panama Papers</div>
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Now Michael Cohen is pleading guilty to this and still cooperating with the Special Counsel?</div>
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What should not be forgotten is the journalist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/05/three-men-charged-daphne-caruana-galizia-murder-malta#img-1" target="_blank">Daphne Caruana Galizia who died in a car bomb</a> for publishing the Panama papers. </div>
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Trump's tax lawyer in Chicago was raided today. </div>
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Bad day for Trump.</div>
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I am writing on the fly, enjoy your evening. </div>
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Wow, just wow.</div>
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-13213016607183939842018-11-26T10:32:00.000-05:002018-11-26T10:32:19.397-05:00Missionary Man<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the most amazing and baffling things that happened over the Thanksgiving holiday was the news of a self-proclaimed adventurer, Jesus freak, John Chau and his delusional invasion of what he called "<a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/2174585/selfless-idealist-or-foolish-adventurer-who-was-john-allen-chau" target="_blank">Satan's Last Stronghold</a>" the North Sentinel Island, home to an indigenous tribe of people, which is off limits and illegal to enter, yet this did not stop John Chau.<br />
The pathogens he could have exposed the people who lived on this island to, was of no concern to him. He offered gifts of scissors and safety pins and a soccer ball, along with his germs.<br />
This seriously insane act, really was reminiscent of <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/22/europeans-are-thankful-americans-left/" target="_blank">the Puritans</a> and their pathogens wiping out Native American tribes and invading Native American land.<br />
No one in Europe wanted these religious freaks. So what is the legacy of all this?<br />
Someone like John Chau.<br />
When I first heard about this selfish act, I went on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BqdFDOKnqgQ/" target="_blank">John Chau's Instagram </a>and his insta was pretty much a gold mine.<br />
This dude lead an itinerant lifestyle, he lived in a cabin in Whiskeytown, California, on federal park land, which was probably pretty cheap, if not free. However, that avenue of an abode was cut off from him because of the Carr Fire. I don't know if not having this place to go back to made this guy go for broke, I do wonder if it was a factor?<br />
John Chau was a graduate of Oral Roberts University. He majored in sports science. He was a volunteer and a director of a non-profit called More Than A Game, teaching soccer to refugee children in Tulsa Oklahoma.. (One of his 'gifts" to the Sentinelese was a soccer ball) I don't know where the money came from to teach refugee's soccer? But it was enough to send Chau on trips to Iraq and South Africa teaching Syrian and Iraq children the game.<br />
That's just great, we ruin their countries with our senseless wars and then these christian non-profit's go in and play soccer with the kids who's lives have been destroyed.<br />
So, it's little wonder to me that John Chau may have been trying to co-opt the Sentinelese people into some kind of 'Kingdom of Jesus" outreach program, (doesn't sound too much like Jim Jones, right?) where he could be director of sports or some such, for the Sentinelese soccer team he would develop. Because, Jesus said so.<br />
What I tried to find out was, who was supporting this mission? Was there a branch of the Christian community providing financing and any other support for John Chau to take his bible and safety pins to Sentinel Island?<br />
The only organization I could find was All Nations, a Kansas City based organization, who, "<span style="background-color: white; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;">helped train Chau, discussed the risks with him and sent him on the mission, to support him in his "life's calling,"</span><br />
The woman's name is Mary Ho, she is also responsible for this debacle and should be accountable. <span style="background-color: white; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;">"He wanted to have a long-term relationship, and if possible, to be accepted by them and live amongst them," she said."</span><br />
So, just to get this straight, the religious zealot named John Chau, was aided and abetted by <a href="http://www.startribune.com/a-life-of-adventure-religion-for-american-killed-in-india/501046171/" target="_blank">Mary Ho and All Nations.</a><br />
Yet no one has stepped up to say take responsibility in this senseless tragedy.<br />
Why?<br />
Why do these so-called Christian people who are all about sin and redemption, not take some responsibility for this, when they did everything they could to sustain and encourage this lunacy? These bible thumpers, who have taken over the US, with their restrictions on abortion and birth control, trying to dictate what people can and can't do with their lives. They have nothing to say about a dude who could have wiped out an entire tribe of indigenous people who wanted no part of this.<br />
What I suspect, especially because of the silence from any Christian authority, is that had Chau succeeded with his plan to establish the "kingdom", that they would have co-opted the Sentinelese people into a non profit, NGO scheme, as employment opportunities for people like Chau and his ilk, or exploit any resources they may have. This is what happens when we invade a country or an island in the name of religion or "democracy"<br />
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But the Sentinelese people weren't having it. They had been exposed almost a century before, to a degenerate white dude named <a href="https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1065841141201989632?fbclid=IwAR1F2xG81h_jTmUMfGBCGnca7M1mwnjZa9_BWbLz6K0jnfdd7Nk1RyGVY_M" target="_blank">Portman</a>, who treated them like specimens and was doing creepy things like measuring their penis.' They obviously remember this experience and want nothing to do with whitey or his Jesus bible B.S.<br />
Just to be clear, Chau had been planning to take advantage of these people since 2016, it's all there in his Instagram and his trips to the Andaman Islands, which is where the fisherman he bribed to take him to North Sentinel Island, came from. This wasn't anything new. Now all kinds of resources are being used to get back Chau's remains. Probably more than anything to try and stop any pathogens from contaminating the people of Sentinel Island. All Nations should be charged for this and there should also be criminal charges.<br />
The last I heard from the <a href="https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank">Boston Globe's Twitter </a>feed is the Sentinelese are having a confrontation with authorities trying to recover Chau's body. I just hope this can be resolved peacefully.<br />
Weirdly, over Thanksgiving, people were talking about this incident, but no one was making a connection to our own country and what happened to the Native American people living here. It's like no one even knows how Thanksgiving came to be? All they know is there's going to be turkey.<br />
So it was with some surprise that I opened up The New York Times and read an article that had many similarities to the one I wrote on my blog years ago called <a href="http://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2013/11/thankstaking.html" target="_blank">Thankstaking</a><br />
It was called <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/thanksgiving-myths-fact-check.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage" target="_blank">Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving is wrong</a><br />
Thanks for finally catching up. Maybe I am ahead of my time?<br />
And just for some fun, here's the Eurythmics, Missionary Man;<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-11137864773513236702018-11-11T13:10:00.000-05:002018-11-11T13:13:52.618-05:00My Grandpop and The Hundredth Anniversary of World War I<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Cpl. James Greenlee<br />314th Inf., 79th Division</h4>
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My grandfather, James Greenlee, fought in WWI.<br />
He served with distinction during the Meuse-Argonne campaign He was gassed during the Meuse action, he was commended as a runner. Running messages for his commanding officer.<br />
Even though I knew my grandfather to be a brave man, who fought for his country,<br />
I can't figure out with any kind of logic, why the US was involved in that war?<br />
I don't think there are many Americans that know a damn thing about how we got into WWI, let alone all the other wars we have fought.<br />
We can pretty much say that World War I started the U.S Military Industrial Complex that has taken over our economy today.<br />
If a war like WWI started today, I wonder if they could start a draft like the one we had then?<br />
What I remember being taught about the first World War was that Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo.<br />
That's right, some royal dude was murdered and we actually fought over that.<br />
Makes perfect sense.. Not!<br />
It seems that there was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram" target="_blank">this telegram</a> from the German Foreign Secretary to Mexico, offering to help Mexico get back some territory lost in the Mexican American War.<br />
If Mexico would join up with Germany, against the U.S.<br />
Then German U-boats started sinking U.S. ships.<br />
After that we had to make "the world safe for democracy."<br />
We still think we are good at that, I guess.<br />
The wars continue.<br />
Many countries at this time were resource poor and if they could invade and get other countries resources, so much the better.<br />
One of the direct consequence from WW1 was the carving up of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_theatre_of_World_War_I" target="_blank">Middle East</a>.<br />
People don't talk about it much, but it's true<br />
It's all about oil, resources and it's still happening today.<br />
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I doubt my Grandpop knew the insidious reasons the war even started, but I am sure he saw so many lives that were lost.<br />
I am also sure it affected him deeply.<br />
World War I was supposed to be the war that ended all wars.<br />
It didn't.<br />
The U.S., one hundred years later, still bombing, we are at war with at least <a href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3ywd5/white-house-acknowledges-the-us-is-at-war-in-seven-countries" target="_blank">seven countries</a>.<br />
Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Niger, Iraq, Syria, Yemen.<br />
How did that even happen?<br />
Did even one candidate running for office in this years midterm election even suggest stopping these wars, the American people have no say in?<br />
I don't know of any candidates running on an anti war platform.<br />
War has been normalized in this country, to the point that most people don't even think about it.<br />
If it's not on CNN or Fox News, then it doesn't exist.<br />
There's nothing new there.<br />
World War I was the first war that propaganda paid a real role.<br />
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Lucky for us, the pointy helmet Germans never made it to our shores.<br />
I don't know what kind of a logistical nightmare it would have been?<br />
Weirdly enough, there was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_German_plans_for_the_invasion_of_the_United_States" target="_blank">a plan </a>to do exactly that in 1898. But they never had a Navy large enough to invade New York City or Boston, no one took it seriously.<br />
It was hypothetical, so that poster, is a bit off putting considering how unlikely it was.<br />
I guess the best they could do was the telegram to try and get Mexico to join them and then sink some of our ships.<br />
What's even stranger, is that Germany was so hell bent they were sinking boats, like the Housatonic (sounds Teutonic, but nevermind)<br />
Anyway. <a href="https://www.camprandall100.com/2017/09/30/life-1917-sinking-housatonic-brings-world-war-closer-home/" target="_blank">the Housatonic stopped after 2 warning shots from the U-boat,</a> The Captain from the Housatonic boarded the U-Boat and was told they were going to torpedo the boat anyway.<br />
The sailors on board had 2 hours to abandon ship which they then got into lifeboats. They were towed by the German submarine until a British boat came along.<br />
Really? This sounds like something out of a Peter Sellers movie. Bizarre.<br />
I guess my Grandpa would have known about this incident.<br />
It's weird because they were attacking cruise ships and civilian cargo ships, it's not like they were engaging with war vessels. The <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/lusitania" target="_blank">Lusitania</a> was carrying war munitions, also the Lusitania was advised to stay out of the way of the German U Boats, but ignored this advice.<br />
It's like a submarine going after a Carnival Cruise ship, carrying bombs and guns. I don't know what is worse?<br />
I guess the crazy Keiser telling you to torpedo these non military ships wasn't enough to make anyone say, oh hell no!. But hey, looking at who we have for president. anything is possible.<br />
War is so weird. I never understood it.<br />
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I am pretty sure my grandfather saw this poster.<br />
He was one of seven children and my great grandfather was a baker.<br />
They weren't wealthy and were probably poor.<br />
So, he decided he'd go over there.<br />
I was young when he passed away, on the night Kennedy was elected, he slipped on some ice and he passed away.<br />
I have one memory of him on a ladder, painting my parents house. (He was a house painter after the war) He came down from that ladder and scooped me up in his arms.<br />
I was only two years old, but I remember how much I adored him.<br />
My Grandpop and his brother Charles, a paramedic in France. Both in a war that was supposed to end all wars.<br />
They did their best and were good and honorable men.<br />
I only wish the war they fought in really was the end of all war.<br />
Peace.<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-29948639345393021792018-10-09T13:59:00.001-04:002018-10-09T14:14:49.907-04:00"A Very Glamorous Position"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Well, well, <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/msnbc-panel-burns-nikki-haley-draconian-un-work-violated-core-values-please-trump/" target="_blank">Nikki Bobblehead Haley</a> "stepped down" from the UN.<br />
I wonder if Hope Hickey gave her a heads up about new employment opportunities, since she just got a job at the propaganda center Fox News. Also known as the <a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/g20662651/kimberly-guilfoyle-fox-news-facts/" target="_blank">Tinder for Trumps</a>.<br />
I heard Kanye West is going for a big meeting with Donald Trump this week, maybe Kanye will be her replacement?<br />
Nikki Haley is from SC, the same state as Lindsey Graham. Could there be more shenanigans afoot?<br />
Like maybe Graham replacing the elf on a shelf, Sessions? Trumps AG?<br />
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Usually people resign after midterms, not before, so what's the deal?<br />
Kickbacks like <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/08175317/2018-10-8-Haley-gifts-flights.pdf" target="_blank">basketball tickets and flights on luxury jets maybe</a>?<br />
Doesn't seem like this would be any big deal in the grifters administration.<br />
My moneys on Jeff Sessions getting axed, Wednesday after the midterms. Lindsey Graham takes his place, Nikki Haley then drops into Grahams seat.<br />
Maybe Ivanka will asume UN Ambassadorship?<br />
Didn't Trump call the UN Ambassadorship a "<a href="https://www.kyma.com/news/politics/trump-many-people-want-un-job/804868302" target="_blank">glamorous position</a>"?<br />
So what's it gonna be, the <a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/" target="_blank">CREW</a> calling on State Department Inspector General for an investigation?<br />
Or Sessions gets booted and Haley gets Grahams Senate seat?<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-52436353133069528502018-10-06T10:33:00.000-04:002018-10-06T10:42:50.332-04:00The Devils Triangle<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Last night, I was working on watercolors and drinking wine with my best friend.<br />
We took a break and I went on twitter for a sec and saw that Susan Collins made a weird speech about voting for Kavanaugh.<br />
I just laughed.<br />
I mean why not?<br />
Anyone could see that Manboy Kavanaugh was immensely qualified for the job.<br />
I'm not sure what's going to happen the next time she goes to her lobster roll luncheon, seeing the way politicians get heckled in public now, but I doubt she'll care.<br />
Yesterday, I wondered what Democrats would be voting for Kavanaugh?<br />
I was not disappointed to learn it was Manchin (D-W.Va) I am guessing he's got some kind of pressure from coal miners (bribes from lobbies, lol) to vote for Kavanaugh and tow the Republican line so he can enjoy all the EPA rollbacks and pollute his state even more.<br />
I wonder how much CNN and Fox charged for advertising when Collins was due to make this weird speech?<br />
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I didn't even watch it.<br />
Another occasion I am so glad I don't have a TV.<br />
So, it looks like Collins will form the point of the <a href="https://www.queerty.com/memers-cannot-stop-talking-mmf-threesomes-thanks-brett-kavanaugh-20181002" target="_blank">Devils Triangle</a>, that will include Manchin and Flake.<br />
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I doubt Collins thinks she's some kind of disgrace to women while she counts her bribes in her ivory tower.<br />
She just does not care.<br />
None of them do.<br />
Anyway an anti-Susan Collins campaign site crashed, people are so pissed off.<br />
It's called the <a href="https://www.crowdpac.com/" target="_blank">CrowdPac Campaign</a>.<br />
It's gone viral thanks to Brainiac Collin's mendaciousness.<br />
It looks like she's not up for re-election until 2020, so she's got plenty of time for her latest stunt to go down the memory hole.<br />
I just have to say, these people and their acting skills are quite remarkable. Kavanaugh was a revelation. I mean, who has a tantrum like that on National TV? (I guess that's the point. It was all for the propaganda box) Now that Collin's got her TV moment, wonder who's next?<br />
The only good thing I can say is these people are actually working on a weekend.<br />
That way they can pull their shady stunt when no ones looking, at <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/06/brett-kavanaugh-senate-confirmation-final-vote-supreme-court/1538964002/" target="_blank">4:00 on a Saturday afternoon</a>, when all the consumers will be out consuming or working their second job.<br />
CNN and Fox are going to be charging beaucoup bucks for all their geriatric Big Pharma ads.<br />
I wonder if Prozac sales will skyrocket?<br />
That got me thinking about The Opioid Crisis.<br />
It looks like <a href="https://bangordailynews.com/2018/09/15/opinion/editorials/the-opioid-crisis-has-outrun-maine-time-to-catch-up-with-a-tax/" target="_blank">one person in Maine dies a day</a> from opioids.<br />
I am not shocked.<br />
Collins actually <a href="http://www.mainepublic.org/post/senator-collins-proposes-two-bills-address-opioid-misuse-among-older-adults#stream/0" target="_blank">introduced two bills</a> and her target is older Americans who are hooked on opioids.<br />
I have to say, I can't blame them for wanting to kill the pain when Collin's is representing them.<br />
Trump is supposed to <a href="https://www.news-herald.com/news/opioid-epidemic/opioid-package-heads-to-president-for-signature/article_8d1f1860-c7e2-11e8-a5de-9f633108cf9d.html" target="_blank">sign the Opioid Package</a> any day now.<br />
I wonder if even more people are hooked on opioids since Trump got elected?<br />
I remember, back in the day, when I saw heroin in art school and I was like, no thanks.<br />
I don't blame people for getting hooked, when there is so much despair in this country and our so-called leaders have no decency or even any loyalty to their constituents.<br />
People are pissed off.<br />
For me the highlight of this week was Trump getting on a plane with toilet paper stuck to his shoe. Most people thought that his staff hates him so much they won't even tell him about that kind of thing. Lol<br />
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I think that could be a metaphor. The shit is sticking and people can smell it.<br />
Just vote harder and work harder in a rigged system. It's a joke.<br />
When someone like Senator Collins implies that she's not going to do, what she inevitably does, she KNEW she was going to support the GOP all the way.<br />
It's no secret why she's pushing Kavanaugh. There is big money changing hands. Collins is going to vote for Fratboy Corporatist, because face it, she's a corporatist too, just like all the senators and congressmen.<br />
Now, we will get another Clarence Thomas, without any sort of proper investigation, because boys will be boys.<br />
Everyone can just enjoy the excrement sandwich that Collins and all the others are dishing out.<br />
There are already rumors of Collins running for governor. These cockroach's never go away.<br />
The Senate and congress are filled with liars.<br />
Just don't lie to yourself.<br />
These people care about one thing.<br />
They don't care how bad they look or how poorly people are treated.<br />
It's business as usual, in Washington DC.<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-85007459706600700032018-10-05T10:22:00.001-04:002018-10-05T10:22:09.193-04:00When Is A Justice Not Justice?When is a FBI investigation, <a href="https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/52585-the-fbi-kavanaugh-qinvestigationq-is-a-joke-and-the-democrats-know-it" target="_blank">not an FBI investigation</a>?<br />
When do you vote in a judge for SCOTUS?<br />
<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/republicans-aim-confirm-brett-kavanaugh-weekend/" target="_blank">On a weekend</a>.<br />
Probably after midnight. When no one is paying attention.<br />
I Wonder how many Democrats will vote for him?<br />
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An overly emotional, frustrated, sharp toned dude, who gets drunk and forces himself on women, provides us with some kind of weird apology, sorry not sorry, <a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/internet-reacts-brett-kavanaugh-wsj-op-ed" target="_blank">op-ed in the Wall Street Journal</a>.<br />
Oh okay.<br />
Why didn't you say that in the first place?<br />
It's kind of scary how my last post pretty much accurately predicted that these craven politicians are going to just plow on with their stack the Supreme Court strategy.<br />
These million year old white men in power, who always get their way, if not their man. <br />
They care about one thing.<br />
Controlling women.<br />
It's pretty obvious.<br />
So Brewski McRapey, will probably sail through over the weekend and be in court before anyone knows it.<br />
A man who outright said, during his testimony, that there was a Clinton conspiracy against him, is going to be put on the highest court of the land.<br />
Don't forget his threat, <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/oct/04/context-brett-kavanaugh-and-what-goes-around-comes/" target="_blank">"what goes around, comes around."</a><br />
Nobody cared and I guess it's gonna come around alright, when he get's sworn in and then he can get busy seeking retribution for whatever he wants.<br />
Mainly keeping dudes like him in power and everyone else can go pound salt.<br />
Flake will vote yes and so will any of the GOPer's who try to pretend otherwise.<br />
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Flake's got nothing to lose and neither do all the other politicians that are retiring.<br />
I doubt after Monday anyone is going to remember the meltdown we saw last week and it will be business as usual.<br />
The whole country has a collective case of amnesia, as soon as Trump tweets something new.<br />
Ever since Citizens United and corporations achieved personhood, we've been screwed.<br />
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Speaking of which, did everyone get that <a href="https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/10/05/fallout-76-presidential-alert/" target="_blank">"Presidential Text"</a>?<br />
Didn't anyone think it was weird that EVERYONE'S phone got it? Didn't anyone wonder how? Who has every American's phone number?<br />
So. Many. Questions.<br />
During a week with so much crazy drama, we just happened to get a text,<br />
originating from FEMA. but it says "Presidential Alert."<br />
Why?<br />
If I ever get a text from that joker, I won't be following his directions.<br />
It wouldn't surprise me if Trump's generals told him about the FEMA mass text and Trump said; "Let's make it presidential" so they did! So he could feel like he was actually in charge of something, and the people who voted for Trump could say Trump actually texted them.<br />
I bet that's exactly what happened.<br />
Almost like he personally tweeted everyone's phone.<br />
He's like a creepy ex you went no contact with, only you can't block him.<br />
At least with no TV, I don't have to watch Kavanaugh cry or Trump on the news.<br />
Now Trump can harass me on my phone.<br />
He better not bother me over the weekend.<br />
Have a good one everyone!<br />
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You can follow the artist that made the image above on twitter @wefail<br />
https://twitter.com/wefail?lang=en<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-80522921845707383142018-09-24T12:43:00.003-04:002018-09-24T13:41:49.878-04:00Kreepy KavanaughThe GOP is hell bent on getting this Bush appointee on the SCOTUS.<br />
It doesn't surprise me that Kavanaugh has been <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/24/17157194/rosenstein-trump-mueller-fired-doj-fbi" target="_blank">accused of attempted rape</a>. Because I bet with these ruthless people in congress and the senate, that there are quite a few rapists sitting on those chairs. They've been raping us for years.<br />
I just have to laugh at this giant circus.<br />
Just because Kavanaugh denies the charges doesn't mean the charges are false.<br />
I remember <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/21/17886484/joe-biden-anita-hill-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford" target="_blank">what happened to Anita Hill,</a> I was in college when that shit show went down.<br />
Nothing matters to these psychopaths.<br />
I wouldn't want to be an intern to any of these people. I would stay as far away from Washington D.C.as I possibly could and I grew up there.<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_sexual_misconduct_allegations" target="_blank">Bill Clinton was accused of sexual assault</a> by Juanita Broaddrick and look what happened to him. He's a billionaire and his wife aided and abetted him.<br />
It ain't just Republicans, although the pussy grabber in chief doesn't help matters.<br />
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The second accuser that has come out, is being represented by <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti?lang=en" target="_blank">Michael Avenetti.</a> Stormy Daniel's lawyer. Everyone was calling her a liar too, but now we know she was telling the truth.<br />
The rumor is that now <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/408076-axios-rosenstein-says-he-plans-to-resign" target="_blank">Rosenstein is going to be fired</a> over a story in The New York Times, that supposedly isn't even true. Trump will do it too, to get the investigation stalled and get people to stop looking at Kavanaugh, so they can slide him in. It's a win-win for Trump. ( It is now rumored that Rosenstein has <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/24/17157194/rosenstein-trump-mueller-fired-doj-fbi" target="_blank">resigned</a>)<br />
All of this chaos, Trump .loves, he thrives on it.<br />
He doesn't care that everything that comes out of the White House is a giant scandal. He watches it all on TV and it's all about him and his poor choices.<br />
I have known people just like Trump, maybe you do to. People who make really bad things happen and then bumble on and probably never pay the price. Money has always covered Trumps ass, but you get the gist. We all know these types and we know to stay far away from them.<br />
In high school, I also knew a lot of guys like Kavanaugh. Back then, if you got in a situation like Ford did, you kept it to yourself. Because no one would believe you or they'd say you deserved it.<br />
I am telling you, there is an epidemic of women who have been assaulted, harassed, raped, traumatized, because our culture has normalized and covered up this psychopathic behavior.<br />
My hope is that more and more women come forward and keep up the pressure.<br />
But then you look at this guy;<br />
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He's just going to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/23/politics/lindsey-graham-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford/index.html" target="_blank">keep on doing </a>whatever he's told to do, along with all the others. We all know who the big ring master is too. This guy;<br />
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I wouldn't give these guys the time of day, yet people keep voting for these idiots, or maybe it's the gerrymandering or the voting machines. I can't explain how these knuckle draggers have been in office, 30, 40, 50 years and now look.<br />
The entire country is nothing but a cesspool of scandal, corruption, criminals lording it over us.<br />
I have actually had some conversations with people who don't think Kavanaugh will be approved. Especially, since the second accuser came out.<br />
These people don't vote.<br />
The people who voted for Trump are hiding under a rock somewhere. Probably wondering what woman, they forced themselves on at some point.<br />
Nothing would surprise me.<br />
I told them the only way Kavanaugh wouldn't get pushed through, is if he actually withdrew.<br />
However, if Christine Blasey Ford's story is true, Kavanaugh has proven he has a hard time dialing back from his poor choices.<br />
With this army of GOP and fake Democrat grandstanders, who have nothing to lose, and kickbacks and bribes to keep them filthy rich. They have everything to gain.<br />
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The excuse that "boys will be boys" has happened before, with Judge Thomas and the Anita Hill hearings, where <a href="https://splinternews.com/joe-biden-stop-1829227103" target="_blank">Joe Biden</a> refused to call Anita Hill's witnesses when he was Democratic co-chair.<br />
So I am not holding my breath for anyone, especially Kavanaugh to have any sense of right or wrong, or God forbid any sense of decency or shame. It's just business as usual.<br />
Because nothing matters anymore.<br />
We are all being assaulted by this travesty of a SCOTUS nomination.<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-77486107258937146452018-09-06T11:12:00.002-04:002018-09-06T11:13:29.532-04:00Donald's Whodunnit Codename #Lodestar<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I was out to dinner last night, when I got a text about the NYT op-ed.<br />
We didn't talk about it much except for the identity of the anon was?<br />
Who put it out there?<br />
Twitter was trending; Lodestar@VP Pence.<br />
Because a word Pence seems to enjoy using, was included in the op-ed.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "segoe ui" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 27px; letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="818910970567344128" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/VP" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #981ceb; font-family: "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; letter-spacing: 0.27px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@VP</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "segoe ui" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 27px; letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "segoe ui" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;">HEY NOW, YOU'RE A </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LODESTAR?src=hash" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #981ceb; font-family: "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">#LODESTAR</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-family: "segoe ui" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.27px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
GET YOUR GAME ON
GO PLAY
HEY NOW, YOU'RE A LODESTAR
WRITE THAT OP-ED
GET PAID
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS GOLD
ONLY DESPERATE VEEPS
BREAK THE MOLD</span><br />
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Then Melania became a suspect. #FreeMelania.<br />
Now it's Sessions. Soon it will be every damn one of them.<br />
In the meantime, no one seems to think maybe there's has been a soft coup going on, for quite some time.<br />
That an elected official (if he even was elected, legitimately) has been sabotaged.<br />
All that is A-OK.<br />
Americans have very short memories, if they have any at all.<br />
We had a demented leader before named Ronald Reagan, who's wife and various other cabinet officials covered for him and ran the White House.<br />
During the deranged Nixon years the same has happened.<br />
So who in their right mind is under any illusion that we are a democracy?<br />
Because it's clear we aren't and haven't been, for a long time.<br />
My take on this, is that Trump was useful, as far as getting the Supreme Court stacked, now with Kavanaugh.<br />
Trump has outlived his usefulness.<br />
I don't think it's any accident that we were barraged with the Woodward book telling us Trump's military ministers think he's a moron and then this NYT op-ed comes out.<br />
The stage has been set and now the circus will play out, as we watch Trump flail around.<br />
Notice, simultaneously, an announcement was made that <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-southkorea/north-koreas-kim-sets-denuclearization-time-line-prompting-thanks-from-trump-idUSKCN1LM07M" target="_blank">North Korea agreed to a third summit </a>and wanted to denuclearize during Trumps first term.<br />
The timing of this means, no one is sure if there will be another term now, also, it would probably be the one thing Trump was able to do, if indeed he had any influence on this at all.<br />
Because we have no idea, when the cabal inside the White House took over and began detouring paperwork.<br />
My whole premise is Trump is known for not reading briefings or anything, so it's doubtful he would know of any missing paperwork.<br />
If it's not on Fox News, during his "Executive Time" (read goofing off) he probably doesn't know about it. Like every American that voted for him.<br />
Trump will call Woodward's book fake news and the NYT op-ed, fake news.<br />
I just call it convenient news, that now they want us to know Trump is bong controlled and we can all sleep well.<br />
Notice, no Republican is saying anything about Trump and his "leadership skills" unless, they are on the way out.<br />
Everyone want's something and Trump is a means to an end. Especially when it comes to ratings and the MSM.<br />
Because really, what will be the outcome of this 'bombshell" NYT op-ed piece?<br />
What is going to change?<br />
We have a ridiculous, supposedly two party system and year after year, decade after decade, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. They don't give a damn about the American people. They keep us divided voting for one party, then another, in the futile hope that something will change.<br />
So, it's a delicious whodunnit.<br />
Who wrote the NYT op-ed piece?<br />
Why now? Right before the elections?<br />
Is there a man behind the curtain?<br />
Is this a collapse of Trump's presidency?<br />
Or will it just bumble on with tax cuts for the uber rich, degrading the environment, a robust military, that bankrupts the country.<br />
IF this NYT piece is true, then there's no doubt that there is a shadow government.<br />
It's not the resistance and it's not resisting anything.<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-20786919233397730002018-08-28T10:28:00.000-04:002018-08-28T13:06:41.892-04:00Nope To The Pope and No To Nuns<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just when you think people can't get any more delusional. I see this<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/organiser-guesstimates-turnout-of-200-000-for-papal-mass-1.3609073" target="_blank"> turn out for the Pope in Ireland</a>. Who the hell would go and see this criminal, covering up for pedophiles and abusers?<br />
Telling people <a href="https://www.irishpost.com/news/showed-no-care-little-ones-abandoned-pope-francis-issues-letter-addressing-clerical-sexual-abuse-cover-ups-158731" target="_blank">"WE showed no care for the little ones"</a> (We?)<br />
I read online in some of my groups that people were buying up tickets and planning not to go see the Pope in protest.<br />
It was Nope to the Pope.<br />
On the heels of the American sexual abuse scandal, by Catholic priests, in Pennsylvania. Followed by an <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christinekenneally/orphanage-death-catholic-abuse-nuns-st-josephs" target="_blank">expose in Buzzfeed </a>about the horrendous torture and abuse children suffered in Catholic orphanages, I am surprised this pointy hat wearing dude thinks he's welcome anywhere.<br />
Because I have personal knowledge of what went on in an orphanage in Brooklyn, over 100 years ago.<br />
My grandmothers parents came over in the late 1800's from Ireland, hoping for a better life.<br />
What could possibly go wrong?<br />
My great grandparents pro-created like good Catholics should, and tried to eke out a sort of existence in Brooklyn, where the Irish weren't wanted.<br />
My grandmother was the seventh daughter, of a seventh daughter.<br />
It turns out, my poverty stricken great grand parents, could not afford to keep my <br />
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grandmother, and they gave her to a Catholic orphanage in Brooklyn.<br />
I don't know what the name of it was or if any of her other brothers and sisters were given away, because my Nana never mentioned any siblings there with her. This was the start of her trauma filled childhood, where she was expected to work for her keep, scrubbing floors and cleaning and being physically abused.<br />
She never mentioned any sexual abuse.<br />
I doubt she would ever speak of such a thing.<br />
She did tell us that she scrubbed floors until her fingers bled. She would cry often about her treatment by the nuns. Up until she was very elderly, her childhood experiences affected her. In turn it affected us.<br />
Because it's traumatic for children to hear of this kind of abuse, that happened to a beloved grandmother.<br />
Then you are rounded up and expected to give thanks and be a good Catholic every Sunday.<br />
My Nana, isn't here to see how the church has been exposed for it's atrocities. So, I will bear witness for her. She is just one of many. I will never truly know the entire story of what happened to her.<br />
To have to suffer, well into your old age because of the trauma my Nana endured, is just heartbreaking. For all I know, she saw children thrown out of windows, like in the Buzzfeed piece above. She probably saw a lot and was told by her abusers not to say anything.<br />
After all, who would believe her?<br />
After my Nana, at the turn of the century, we get to the swinging 60's.<br />
My story with the Catholic church begins.<br />
Corporal punishment was doled out liberally both at school and at home. Nuns really liked using rulers, and they used them on me, for any kind of infraction. My parents didn't care and when the notes from the nuns started coming home about my not being able to learn like other students, well let the beatings begin.<br />
So, I would get it from both fronts. The nuns and at home.<br />
Every note, another beating. Every Sunday go to church.<br />
When you could barely sit down from the punishment you got from the dreaded nuns notes.<br />
There was no such thing as a learning disability in those days. You were just being lazy.<br />
After a year of this torture, the nuns at the Catholic school, ironically, it was called, St. Francis, my mother told me the nuns no longer wanted me there, and I had to be enrolled in public school.<br />
Sadly, it would not be until I went to college and studied art, to have my first positive experience in education. I hated school my whole young life. I didn't even think I was smart enough for college for a long time.<br />
I graduated with honors, no thanks to my first grade abusers. (The abuse didn't end there, but that is for another blog)<br />
Through the years, we were marched to the Catholic church I hated.<br />
Forced to confess our sins, trying to sit still, in those uncomfortable pews.<br />
Until one Sunday, a funny thing happened.<br />
My Dad didn't go up and take communion!<br />
I was in a state of shock!<br />
When I asked my mother, she told me my Dad was "not in a state of grace."<br />
This was very big news, how could that be?<br />
I'll tell you how, because I pestered my mother to explain why Dad could shun communion, but the rest of us had to play along with this whole charade.<br />
She finally had to break down and tell me that my Dad, or the both of them, (not sure which ) was using birth control.<br />
They had 5 kids.<br />
It's not like today, when you plan your pregnancies. (if you have any sort of intelligence)<br />
You just kept churning out babies back then, like you were going to need a bunch of kids working as farm hands. Which is what happened in my family.<br />
My Aunt and my Mom were in some kind of baby making competition, each of them having 5 and one year the babies were born one day apart. But, I digress.<br />
My parents were already finding it hard to go along with these ridiculous medieval rules.<br />
That day, I found out a few things.<br />
There was such a thing as birth control and I could set myself free of the Catholic church.<br />
I told my Mom I was never going back there and I never did.<br />
I was fourteen years old, and well on my way to being the family scandal, scapegoat, whatever you want to call it.<br />
Fast forward, to 2005, my mother had passed away in 2003, and my Dad was ready to remarry.<br />
Oddly enough, he didn't get remarried in the Catholic church he forced us all to go to.<br />
My sister was so scandalized, I guess out of some weird Catholic catechism dogma, she thought Dad was disrespecting mom by remarrying so quick, she cried and carried on to no avail.<br />
Dad had found a new religion and left Catholicism behind.<br />
His new wife was Lutheran and he adopted her religion, which was a bit perplexing, since, I thought being a Catholic was, so important.<br />
You can't make this stuff up!<br />
I like to think we have evolved from the church's vice like grip, at least where my Dad's concerned. However, the reckoning for the church, is not here yet.<br />
The Pope needs to take his show and go away.<br />
Even my Dad has left him in the dust.<br />
In memory of my grandmother O'Leary, I write her story, today. As she was never able to.<br />
Also, testimony of my own abuse, which is nothing compared to the sexual abuse and murder the church has just begun to acknowledge.<br />
If there really is a hell, there's quite a few religious freaks already burning and more to follow.<br />
May God have mercy on their souls, because I don't have any.<br />
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Thank you Sinead, for your bravery.<br />
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Well, the warmongering John McCain is dead.<br />
The man who bought us the stupidity of Sarah Palin.<br />
I am not going to read or listen to all the lofty praises for a man who never met a war he didn't like.<br />
I refuse to participate in this lavish, slavish nonsense about a MIC whore who got us into a war with Iraq, Syria, Libya and just yesterday in Yemen, there was <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-saudi-coalition-kills-22-children-civilians-airstrikes-hodeidah-saada-a8508071.html" target="_blank">another bombing of women and children</a>, brought to you by Raytheon and our "Saudi-led coalition." 22 children dead, but the only headline we will see, will be the over the top funeral, for a man who could only grandstand and at the last minute vote to keep Obamacare in place, while he received only the finest healthcare.<br />
Isn't it wonderful, he was married 38 years to his wife Cindy. Neither of them told the truth about their ages and only found out how old they were on their wedding day. This was waaaayyy before online dating, where lying is practically required.<br />
<a href="https://heavy.com/news/2018/08/john-mccain-wife-cindy-ex-carol/" target="_blank">He met his wife while he was still married.</a><br />
You just have to laugh,when they serve this guy up as a hero.<br />
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The hell with this guy. One more warmonger down, but quite a few to go.<br />
Thank God I don't have TV, because, I guess it will be a 31 gun salute or whatever will be served up, because appearances have to be kept up, while the MSM continues to normalize war and bombs and mass murder.<br />
I refuse to listen, I refuse to be silent while this kind of blind hero worship goes on.<br />
The establishment and the media will be getting as much attention as they possibly can, over this disgusting, corrupt, psychopath and his horrendous legacy of war and death.<br />
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McCain went right along with the script of 9/11, voting to go to war, to take our rights away with the Patriot Act. Raking in millions from the MIC. Noone is going to guilt me into any kind of sympathy for him. It's a joke. A man who by any reasonable logic, after what he went through in Vietnam, you would think, he would be an ambassador for peace.<br />
But no, he just doubled down on war and bombs and bloodshed.<br />
It continues until this very day. What a "Gamechanger" it would have been, to see him put an end to American aggression, instead he was the epitome of it.<br />
That is his legacy.<br />
We have to stop this blind worship of these wretched imbeciles, willing to bomb innocent people and spill innocent blood worldwide. It's sickening. It makes no sense.<br />
For the people so hell bent on "resisting" Trump. We also need to resist war.<br />
Because that is our American legacy.<br />
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Maybe Lockheed Martin will miss him, he won't be missed by me, or the millions who have lost a family member, due to American misadventures worldwide, when McCain could have done something to stop it. Insead he went in lockstep, marching to more war, sacrificing Americans and innocent people who had no fight with us.<br />
Shame on John McCain.<br />
<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-48537728410691510372018-08-22T13:25:00.000-04:002018-10-05T12:52:20.777-04:00"Individual 1" A/K/A Crooked DonaldToday, I am celebrating my 60th birthday. I have had a lovely summer.<br />
However, someone else hasn't. When I finally got time yesterday, (because, I am busy now harvesting elderberries), I checked the papers.<br />
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Manafort guilty on 8 counts and <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6083533/Cohen-discussing-possible-GUILTY-plea-following-report-alleged-fraud-probe.html" target="_blank">Michael Cohen pleads guilty</a>.<br />
Just to be clear and give some context about events today, I grew up during the 60's & 70's, the JFK assassination and many more after him. The Vietnam War, Nixon and Watergate.<br />
I am not one of those people with no memory.<br />
Some just shrug their shoulders and look helpless trying to find a reason why they voted for Trump. Then there's the real delusional one's that think he's making America great again or he's draining the swamp. If they aren't tech challenged, they run to 4chan to read the <a href="http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/12/qanon-4chan-the-storm-conspiracy-explained.html" target="_blank">latest psyop called Q</a>. (I can't tell you how many people ask me about this)<br />
How do you reason with people who feel so strongly about Trump?<br />
They think their feelings are facts.<br />
Lot's of my friends voted for him. Most of them don't have anything to say, except he's better than Obama or Crooked Hillary.<br />
They tell me Crooked Donald is a businessman and his wife is a super model. I just have to laugh.<br />
What can you do with people who don't pay attention, who believe everything that Fox News says?<br />
Now, just to contrast this time with the cauldron I grew up in, with Watergate, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" target="_blank">Spiro Agnew's</a> resignation, in 1973, on a felony charge of tax evasion. (there was also evidence of kickbacks, conspiracy, bribery and tax fraud) I never heard anyone defend Agnew. But Nixon had plenty of supporters to the bitter end.<br />
<a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/azdc/2014/08/03/goldwater-rhodes-nixon-resignation/13497493/" target="_blank">Goldwater and Rhodes</a> told Nixon he was doomed. (I wonder if anyone has said that to Trump?)<br />
The next day Nixon resigned. So this will, of course, be one option for Trump.<br />
He'll probably tweet it if he does.<br />
The event I can really compare this time to the 70's, is the Vietnam War. There were a lot of people protesting. But the majority, were completely clueless and bought into the whole "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_theory" target="_blank">Domino Theory</a>." It's also reminiscent of WMD's and the war on terror with Iraq and Afghanistan, no one even knows we are still there. No one ever talks about it. These must be the people who voted for Trump.<br />
The thing is, we are still at war, we have set the Middle East on fire and there are no protests.<br />
One of my best friends is in the army, he voted for Trump, he wants to deploy.<br />
Our economy is a war economy and Trump is a weapons and armaments salesman. That's what people voted for, but I doubt they realize that. (the lobbies are in charge)<br />
It wouldn't surprise me, if Trump decided to invade Iran, to distract from his own indictments.<br />
It also wouldn't surprise me if Fox & Friends and all Trump's voters went along with it.<br />
This is where we are. There is no leadership, and there isn't going to be. No one in the GOP, is doing anything but resigning. Anyone who doesn't like what Trump is doing, is just quietly walking away.<br />
This is really the only option for dealing with a psychopath. Giving them attention is what they want. So for the most part, I just don't.<br />
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I spend my time learning about my environment and identifying the herbs and fruit that grows all around me. Saint John's Wort, Elderberries. Indian Tobacco and Sassafrass.<br />
It's way more productive than being sucked into a tornado of tweets.<br />
Who has time to pay attention to this orange idiot? I wouldn't give him the time of day if I met him on the street.<br />
I am like that with all politicians though, Trump is just more annoying.<br />
Trump would not have been possible, if it wasn't for the fact that no one has been accountable in government for a very long time.<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards" target="_blank">John Edwards</a> was indicted on felony charges of using campaign funds to cover up an extra marital affair. Sound familiar? This just resulted in a mistrial, destroyed his career, but at least he had the decency to go away. I doubt very much Trump will do it. We already know he paid off two women, through Cohen and I imagine, whoever voted for Trump thinks it's cool he slept with porn stars, paid them off and lied about it. I mean, who even wants to be around people who think like that? I don't.<br />
I was lucky enough to retire two years ago. I spend my time painting, wildcrafting and making all kinds of things like soap and candles. All the things I didn't have time for, when I was a single mother, trying to raise my kids. I realize, I am one of the lucky ones, since I am not in debt and I could retire early.<br />
I am enjoying my life now, I will be travelling soon.<br />
Paying attention to a desperate and I suspect, a dementia patient, is such a waste of time.<br />
We have been here before, with Ronald Reagan.<br />
So to the elderberry patch I am off to, I am making wine, and later my friends and I are going out to celebrate, no time for looking at tweets or trying to figure out who's lying. They all are.<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-58714914112241853102018-06-21T10:25:00.005-04:002018-06-21T10:27:47.894-04:00Barbarians At The Gate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is really hard to believe what is going on in this crazy country. Suddenly people care about </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">THE CHILDREN.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have a history of separating children from parents since slavery, we did it to Native Americans, it's nothing new.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We drone them in the Middle East and starve them in Yemen. The US only care's about children until they are born, so</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">they can deny women access to birth control and abortion. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">The legislation just signed means that the children won't be separated from the parents until their case is processed. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">They will then be charged with the crime of illegal entry and be separated.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's not going to stop. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">As long as TPTB can continue fooling people, like they just did with this nothing legislation, these issues will just go into the memory hole.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notice who get's separated in this country</span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">I once knew someone who bragged that he snuck into this country from the Canadian border, He told me the only reason he married his wife was for a green card. He got it too.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">He was white. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Canada, just legalised marijuana for recreational use, I doubt it will ever happen here, they have single payer healthcare too, but I digress. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">The reason we won't have legal weed here, is so we can continue to bust people and put them in prison, separating children from parents, it's a moneymaker for the prison systems, especially private ones which I have blogged about.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wrote about the very thing we are seeing now when it comes to the immigration issue everyone is upset about back in 2013. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The for profit prison industrial complex can't be allowed to end it's reign of terror, as long as the profiteers need inmates. Republicans got the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries./indus.php?ind=G7000" target="_blank">bulk of the money lobbyists bribed</a> them with. As long as they are paying, they will be ordering the republican grifters to keep thinking up new ideas, to expand their profits. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just looking at Trump molesting that flag says it all</span></span>. <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">People love him, they have no ability to think critically, they watch Youtube, they don't read. They work crap jobs for low wages and have no idea what these immigrants are running from and why with our empire of interfering in Central American countries.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most Americans have no idea of the context of why these people are fleeing countries <a href="https://mic.com/articles/92581/how-the-u-s-screwed-up-latin-america-in-7-classic-historical-cartoons#.KXUFYAfdY" target="_blank">our government has destroyed</a>. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a few days, we'll have moved on to the next manufactured crisis. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was entirely predictable, it will continue, while this country continues to devolve into the kind of chaos that happens when everything degrades into a tribal nervous breakdown. Waiting for their savior, Trump, to lead them out of the darkness. What he's going to do is take them down with him, while they cheer him on. It's sickening, but predictable. It's at the point now where the barbarians are inside the gate. They are us. </span><br />
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This is the 6th anniversary of Julian Assange going into hiding at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. This man has been persecuted for a long time.<br />
There is supposed to be a <a href="https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/06/ecuadorian-official-implies-resolution-to-assanges-isolation-may-be-imminent/" target="_blank">UN Human Rights Council meeting</a>, today about Mr. Assange.<br />
Guess who wants to leave this Human Rights Council? <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-19/trump-withdraw-un-human-rights-council-today" target="_blank">Donald Trump.</a><br />
Is it any accident that the <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-18/cia-indicts-vault-7-leak-suspect-wikileaks-release-was-largest-breach-agency" target="_blank">CIA computer engineer Josh Schulte </a>who was responsible for the Vault 7 leaks, was indicted yesterday?<br />
All of these things converging at once.<br />
I can only hope that Julian Assange, can get his freedom and be safely escorted to a country that will protect him. I doubt it will be his home country of Austrialia as it is part of our <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes" target="_blank">5 eyes </a>intelligence operation.<br />
Julian Assange has been silenced for over 80 days. The embassy has cut off his wifi access. He is said to be in poor health, it's a travesty that he is still locked in there.<br />
If it wasn't for Julian I would probably have never started blogging.<br />
Today I stand in solidarity with Julian Assange.<br />
I will up date when possible, for further information; Live Blog Julian Assange http://archive.is/XYO7Z<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange<br />
Past blogs utilizing Wikileaks/Julian Assange; http://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-enemy-within.html<br />
http://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-corrupt-house-of-clinton.html<br />
http://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2016/10/american-horror-story.html<br />
http://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-art-of-curtsy.html<br />
http://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2017/03/taking-leak.html<br />
http://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2017/01/free-chelsea-manning.html<br />
John Pilger's speech at a rally in Sydney supporting Julian Assange;<br />
http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-urgency-of-bringing-julian-assange-home<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-4993115865035564202018-04-30T14:24:00.001-04:002018-04-30T20:28:25.633-04:00Michelle Wolf Smoked Smokey Eye Sanders. Balls to the wall Michelle Wolf! What the heck is all the shock and awe about?<br />
Seriously, where does all this pity for sociopath Sarah Sanders come from? She lies and gets paid for it. Treats pseudo journalists like crap and has no remorse. There's a reason she gets along so well with Trump,<br />
they are the same.<br />
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She does seem to have some emotion, usually, contempt, you can clearly see it whenever she opens her mouth. What I don't understand is why people aren't deeply uncomfortable with Sarah Sanders, but they are with Michelle Wolf.<br />
If you don't feel nausea and revulsion when watching Sarah Sanders, you are missing a sensitivity chip.<br />
I have had run ins with these types at work and at home.<br />
Usually, when I am in the presence of one, I find a way to get away real quick, they make me so uncomfortable. They don't come to very good ends. One in my neighborhood got hauled to a psych ward for calling a suicide hotline, posing as an Australian, accent and all.<br />
One was a manager of mine who wore boots even in the summer and treated us to daily marches and stomping. She finally got laid off and still cries on Facebook about how much fun she used to have at her job.<br />
We didn't.<br />
Hillary Clinton is also a good example of a sociopath.<br />
So, when I see these useful idiots, crying about poor Sarah Sanders, I have to wonder if they are under some kind of mind control?<br />
A comedian gets hired to make jokes, truly, she was brilliant, she even made an abortion joke, you don't hear them often.<br />
Sarah Sanders lies and insults people daily, while pretending to be some kind of holier-than-thou christian, but no one gets upset about that. Her behavior has some how become normalized. And by the way, the water in Flint is still undrinkable. But that's okay too.<br />
I don't wonder any more about the people who voted for Trump and are probably watching Fox News or CNN, right now, being fed drivel that they will repeat, but they will never say they made a mistake voting for Trump.<br />
Sarah Sanders, Trump defender, is exactly like those people.<br />
They are so invested in this fairy tale that they can't walk it back and figure out how things went terribly wrong.<br />
Trump the terrible, tweets insults almost daily, causes chaos so frequently, that Sarah Sanders might as well have a bucket and mop to clean up Trumps shitstorms.<br />
Just, whatever you do no jokes about Sarah, who is of herself a farce of falsity, there is nothing real about her. She is a spinner of lies and rhetoric and she got caught in her own web of deceit.<br />
Talk about snowflakes, the entire GOP are a bunch of whining pussies, who cry that Michelle Wolf, went too far, while their actions continue to degrade our society with tax cuts for the rich, infrastructure that's crumbling and healthcare denied to many. All that's ok.<br />
It's hard to believe that people can be offended by a comedian, but not by our out of control military budget and millions if not billions of dollars in bombs dropped on countries that have done nothing to us.<br />
Now, they want some kind of apology from Michelle Wolf.<br />
What a bunch of crybabies.<br />
Go home GOP, you're drunk. Anyone else who thinks Michelle Wolf owes anything to anyone is delusional.<br />
You should <a href="https://twitter.com/michelleisawolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank">follow her on twitter</a>, I do.<br />
Ever hear of narcissistic rage?<br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Narcissistic</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> rage is a reaction to </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">narcissistic</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> injury, which is a perceived threat to a </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">narcissist's</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> self-esteem or self-worth</span><br />
This is exactly the reaction we are witnessing to Michelle Wolfe's truth telling. It should tell you everything about the daily press briefings we are subjected to, if you still watch that crap on TV. Everyday ole Smokey Eye has to defend Trumps actions.<br />
I will bet anything that Trump is leading the charge on this weird moral outrage at a dinner he didn't even attend. Why? Because he can't take criticism. This incident pretty much proves that none of those one percenters can deal with the reality, that we think they are all rotten to the core.<br />
They can just live with it. Their actions, including Sanders are despicable.<br />
That's why they are held up to ridicule. I can;t wait until the next White House Correspondents Dinner. I mean even the name is a joke.<br />
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Good Grief. the witch is dead.<br />
I am guessing there will be wall to wall coverage, on a slow news day about this vile woman.<br />
She gave birth to a lying war criminal, who put the W in WMD's. What an absolute travesty this country is, worshiping these people.<br />
Such an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/us/nationalspecial/barbara-bush-calls-evacuees-better-off.html" target="_blank">unpleasant human being</a>.<br />
Telling people about Hurricane Katrina victims being "underprivileged anyway" and living in arena's during Hurricane Katrina is "working very well for them"<br />
Let them eat cake right Barbara?<br />
I can't imagine how different this country would be without this family.<br />
Especially her dimwitted, dry drunk, hyper-religious son, who led us into a war, based on nothing but lies.<br />
No one ever mentions that.<br />
If it wasn't for Bush, there would be no Trump.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma";">"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H.L. Mencken </span></h4>
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Read it and weep, because this is where we are, thanks to the Bush's and their special brand of morons.<br />
These sacred cows that no one seems to have a bad thing to say about.<br />
Thank God I don't have a TV, so I wont be subjected to a barrage of homage to this out of touch wife to an ass grabber.<br />
About the only person who has anything negative to say about old Bab's is Trump's buddy Roger Stone, who called her a "<a href="https://www.thewrap.com/roger-stone-barbara-bush-was-a-nasty-drunk/" target="_blank">nasty drunk</a>."<br />
He's no prize either, but from what I have read, he's probably right on target.<br />
I don't know what it is here in the good old rugged individualist USA, that makes American's delusional over this family.<br />
There seems to be a lack of context or amnesia, about how this family operates. There's going to be a whole lot of people coming out of the woodwork trying to convince us how great Barbara Bush was.<br />
So I'll just leave you with this. Do you feel freer & safer because of George Bush?<br />
(Doesn't matter which one)<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-56103680381004161582018-04-17T12:21:00.000-04:002018-04-17T12:21:29.459-04:00Fox and Trump's FriendsOn this most sacred day of the year, Tax Day, just look at what our taxes are paying for!<br />
Bombs dropped on Syria, (such a coincidence! while former FBI head Comey, comes out with a tell all book)<br />
And now we have a truth bomb!<br />
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At a Federal Court, Michael Cohen admitted his third client was Sean Hannity.<br />
Gasps were heard in the court room, but really, who could even be surprised?<br />
Hannity has denied ever being Cohen's client. So who's lying?<br />
Hannity claims he only asked Cohen about<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/17/17245576/sean-hannity-michael-cohen-third-client-court-hearing-real-estate-advice-privilege" target="_blank"> real estate advice.</a> Riiiiiight.<br />
Michael Cohen has three clients; Trump, the former RNC chair, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Broidy" target="_blank">Elliot Broidy</a>, who paid $1.6 million to a playboy playmate, arranged by Cohen.<br />
But Hannity just needed advice to figure out his real estate.<br />
Funny, how Cohen gave Stormy Daniels $130,000 to silence her and get an NDA. So, I wondered, if that was really what Hannity and Cohen discussed in a lawyer client, non-client conversation not invoiced.<br />
Hannity has had <a href="https://www.axios.com/sean-hannity-denies-sexual-harassment-allegations-1513301794-00d33b09-b39c-4108-997d-19e0ca41e3ce.html" target="_blank">sexual harassment allegations </a>of his own.<br />
It was about a year ago a political commentator named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Schlussel" target="_blank">Debby Schlussel</a> said after refusing to go back to Sean Hannity's hotel room, she said she found Hannity's behavior "creepy" and she was never asked on Fox News again. (Personally, I would be relieved)<br />
She also accused Hannity, of <a href="http://www.debbieschlussel.com/6938/sean-hannitys-freedom-concert-scam-only-7-of-charitys-money-went-to-injured-troops-kids-of-fallen-troops-g5s-g6s-for-vannity/" target="_blank">scamming his viewers</a> and asking for donations, for his <a href="https://freedomalliance.org/" target="_blank">"Freedom Alliance" charity</a>. Schlussel, made allegations that he was funding private transportation for his family from donations, which Hannity denied.<br />
Now that we got the Hannity bombshell, does anyone even remember we just bombed Syria?<br />
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"Mission Accomplished!"<br />
Again? What mission? What did we accomplish? Unbelievably weird and creepy that Trump would quote Bush, and his false WMD excuse to set the Middle East on fire.<br />
The cost of the "airstrike"?<br />
Since I guess that's the euphemism for bombing people.<br />
$240 million.<br />
A week in office and Bloodthirsty Bolton ticks another bombing off his list it's Syria now and we know what country is next; Iran.<br />
This is what I am looking at for May.<br />
We have two potential foreign policy debacles.<br />
The first being North Korea. Trump agreed to a meeting with Kim Jong Un, brokered by South Korean envoys. This happened while former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in Africa, if you recall. This may turn into nothing and just go away.<br />
The next will be the "Iran Deal" Trump is now surrounded by hawk advisers Pompeo and Bolton. I am not real hopeful about anything here, remotely peaceful or diplomatic. Trump threw that out the window a long time ago. <a href="https://www.weeklystandard.com/jenna-lifhits/corker-trump-likely-will-move-away-from-iran-deal-in-may" target="_blank">Sen. Bob Corker has predicted</a> that Trump will distance himself from the Iran deal. The reason may be that Iran has already <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-nuclear/iran-says-may-withdraw-from-nuclear-deal-if-banks-continue-to-stay-away-idUSKCN1G610S" target="_blank">threatened to pull out </a>if it is not in their economic favor.<br />
Also I was just checking out Craigs List, in DC. Looks like someone might need a lawyer, or is that Fake News?<br />
https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/lgl/d/seeking-lead-attorney-for/6544195570.html<br />
<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-79614635521999099542018-04-10T13:39:00.000-04:002018-04-10T13:39:52.952-04:00The Storm In The SwampYesterday, I was talking to my friend Sean. He's in the Army National Guard, rabid Trump supporter. So, he told me. he thought Trump was crazy.<br />
Let that sink in.<br />
I said, "Why did you vote for him then?"<br />
He replied "Because, I didn't want <i><b>her" (that's some choice, Trump or "her")</b></i><br />
Trump just didn't suddenly start acting crazy. He's just in a fishbowl now, so it's more visible.<br />
The people like my friend Sean, who voted for Trump, could easily be triggered by something on Facebook. He calls it the "morning paper."<br />
So, today, Mark Zuckerberg's going to do some kind of <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/10/17215032/facebook-zuckerberg-congress-day-1-how-to-watch-livestream-time" target="_blank">apologist act </a>and slink back to his Hawaiian hidey hole behind his own giant wall. It's just a show, it's just business.<br />
Yesterday, the FBI special prosecutor, secured a search warrant and raided Trump's friend, confident or lawyer's office. Because there may have been some illegal activity, especially when it comes to Trump's affair and Cohen's $130,000 pay off to porn star, sex worker? Stormy Daniels.<br />
I am not saying Trump is the first to conduct himself like this.<br />
What I am saying, is there has been nothing but chaos since he got in office.<br />
Where you find chaos you find mental illness.<br />
I always say, it's actions you have to look at.<br />
We are under the power of a grandstanding grand poobah, threatening war, bombs and sometimes carrying out those threats.<br />
In countries that are powerless to hit back at us. So much winning.<br />
Trump continues on with the same scenario, that Obama and Bush before him maintained.<br />
Nothing new there.<br />
North Korea, well nothing new there either. It's nothing but an embarrassment. We should be well away from there and the Middle East, but got to keep the war machine going, thanks to the new so-called budget that got passed.<br />
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If things don't pan out for Trump, I expect more war, not that it's ever stopped.<br />
We already deployed warships to the Mediterranean, equipped with cruise missiles, to fight a proxy war<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/russia-warships-us-navy-syria-bomb-580721" target="_blank"> with Russia</a> in Syria.<br />
It will be based around another supposed chemical attack, like the "<a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/obama-syria-foreign-policy-red-line-revisited-214059" target="_blank">red line" attack in 2013</a>. Then again, in 2014, then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack" target="_blank">another in 2017</a>, in April, almost exactly a year ago. I find it very hard to believe that Trump puts out that we are leaving Syria days ago, and now we are all in.<br />
With yet another chemical attack.<br />
Anything to distract from the Special Prosecutor.<br />
Now Trump's Homeland Security adviser, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bossert" target="_blank">Tom Bossart</a> has resigned, rumor has it, he's no friend of warmonger Bolton. But Bolton will continue on with the Neocon war plan since 9/11 of Iraq and all the other Middle Eastern countries on the list that General Wesley Clark said he saw;<br />
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What really sucks after seven years of blogging about the corruption, the lies, the false flags.<br />
It just falls on deaf ears, tuned into CNN or Fox News or whatever the TV is telling people to believe.<br />
My friend Sean believes it all. His biggest goal is to get a deployment. He just may.<br />
This country depends on war, for TV viewers and ratings, for the MIC, for people like Sean, who's only hope to make halfway decent money is a deployment.<br />
We have a psychopath in charge of this country, (nothing new there) he has no problem causing chaos to distract us, and the swamp will do anything to keep from being drained.<br />
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<i><b><br /></b></i>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-84973266093723685722018-03-27T12:13:00.001-04:002018-03-27T18:29:57.502-04:00Pink Hats, Protests, and Why No Lives MatterSo, the March For Our Lives is over, and honestly, it probably will have about as much of an effect as the Macy's Day Parade on Thanksgiving.<br />
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We've had the <a href="https://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2017/01/grabbing-pandoras-box.html" target="_blank">Women's March</a> with those ridiculous hats.<br />
We've had a <a href="http://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2014/09/we-vote-for-inequality.html" target="_blank">March For Climate Change</a>, which did nothing, since Trump cancelled the Paris Climate Change agreement.<br />
All these marches are, is a spectacle for TV ratings. They do nothing.<br />
I have seen arguments about whether Emma Gonzalez actually ripped up the Constitution, or whether David Hogg was <br />
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actually at the school when the Parkland shooting happened.<br />
We need more gun control, but, it will never happen.<br />
What's really weird is you don't see anyone in the streets protesting about Nuking North Korea or bombing Syria or Yemen.<br />
All of that is ok, I guess.<br />
We will bomb children going to school halfway around the world, then we get mad when someone starts killing American children, then there will be a big march.<br />
We had <a href="http://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-banks.html" target="_blank">Occupy Wall Street,</a> protesting against corporate power and inequality. We had<a href="http://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2014/11/business-as-usual.html" target="_blank"> Black Lives Matter</a> and police still kill with impunity.<br />
People have every right to march and protest, but it's like a flash mob, here and gone, then the government quietly gets back to what it's doing and doesn't miss a beat.<br />
Petitions will be signed, protests will happen, however, our institutionalized system is impervious to change.<br />
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Unlike the arrests that happened during the Vietnam protests, which were in the thousands,<br />
<a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-to-Join-Nationwide-March-for-Our-Lives-477583593.html" target="_blank">No arrests</a> were made in this state sanctioned protest.<br />
This tells me everything I need to know about what probably won't happen.<br />
In order for society to change we have to be willing to live by the rules of a society people want to create.<br />
As far as I can see, that choice has been taken away by a corporatocracy and a MSM owned by said corporatocracy.<br />
Propaganda and fear porn will keep people stuck in front of a TV, believing everything they see, that our overlords tell us is true.<br />
Including, marches, that the MSM media will exploit for ratings, keeping "reporters" or TV personalities busy and employed, which will bring no change.<br />
This March For Our Lives, will become co-opted into a non-profit.<br />
Employing people with donations.<br />
People think this <a href="https://heavy.com/news/2018/03/who-is-funding-paying-for-march-for-our-lives/" target="_blank">new non-profit</a> <a href="https://www.philanthropy.com/article/CelebritiesCash-Pour-Into/242879" target="_blank">March For Our Lives </a>might have some kind of influence on gun control. So far, the only thing I could find was some legislation about the amount of ammunition you can buy. which has<a href="http://www.bakersfield.com/news/new-laws-in-will-affect-guns-ammo-and-disabled-driver/article_25a7e0b8-ecd7-11e7-a1cf-eb5a8bcd0cfa.html" target="_blank"> already happened in California.</a><br />
We live under an increasingly absurd and ridiculous administration.<br />
When you have a porn actress who probably slept with the president, all over the news like a reality show, then the president investigates his own son-in-law for taking more than $500 million in bribes, does anyone really think March For Our Lives is going to matter, when Trump has his next tantrum and starts poking at North Korea or Russia?<br />
There will be the next distraction and the next, an investigation, or another bizarre attack somewhere.<br />
Hate to say it, but this march will probably go the way of the pink hats.<br />
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I've been working on a pretty massive painting, and I have other projects going on, it's been a busy winter. Which has kept me from being on social media.<br />
After reading about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica" target="_blank">Cambridge Analytica</a>, I'm glad.<br />
Most people who read this blog, know I don't vote.<br />
I don't participate in a system that gives you the likes of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, then your told to hold your nose and pull a lever.<br />
Nope. I've got better things to do.<br />
We've been told that Russia interfered with our election, now we're told Facebook did too, via Steve Bannon and the <a href="http://patriciapolygon.blogspot.com/2017/10/flake-news.html" target="_blank">Mercers</a>.<br />
We've been data mined and Russia hacked our election.<br />
So, if all this is true, why do we have an NSA?<br />
I mean do they just spy on Americans?<br />
Aren't they supposed to be protecting us from these situations?<br />
What about Homeland Security?<br />
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5529015/Facebooks-Zuckerberg-acknowledges-mistakes-user-data-vows-tougher-curbs.html" target="_blank">Mark Zuckerberg</a> is even warning that "someone is meddling with upcoming midterm elections"<br />
Oh, I'll just bet.<br />
Mark Zuckerberg sold everyone out a long time ago.<br />
Facebook made billions from giving app developers access to Facebook's data base.<br />
It's a tool used by local law enforcement, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, Homeland Security.<br />
There's no privacy settings on there, it's crazy anyone would believe it.<br />
It's all just a big "mistake" that your information got hacked and tracked and God knows what all.<br />
Seriously, with all the data collecting the NSA does on a daily basis, I doubt Americans know or even care that they basically have no privacy on the internet.<br />
We have been conditioned to accept this kind of intrusion.<br />
In other words, we've all been hacked.<br />
Don't even for a minute believe that the Trump campaign via Cambridge Analytica was the first to use this technique, because the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-data-machine-facebook-election" target="_blank">Obama campaigns did it too</a>. I say campaigns because the article says, Facebook was used for the first time for political purposes in 2012, but who knows how long it's been going on?<br />
Probably as soon as Facebook was introduced on the internet.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">"Facebook is now ubiquitous," says the digital analyst from Google who joined the Obama campaign in 2008, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">"Whichever candidate uses Facebook the most effectively could win the war."</span><br />
There you have it.<br />
While we are liking on Facebook, what is going on behind us?<br />
Tomorrow congress has to pass a <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/21/17142612/spending-bill-omnibus-government-shutdown-2018-march-23" target="_blank">spending bill</a> to stop yet another government shutdown. If they pass it, we won't have to worry again until Sept 30th! Yipee! Can't these lazy bastards fund anything for more than 6 months? Oh wait a minute, yes they can! The military war machine! That will never shut down. Military spending will increase by $160 BILLION.<br />
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Thank God, because I was really worried we wouldn't have enough drones or bombs.<br />
Drones are Trumps big jobs program, he thinks it's<a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2018/03/20/trump-to-boost-exports-of-lethal-us-drones/" target="_blank"> a good idea to push lethal drones</a>, so he's going to relax the "rules" about who we sell them too.<br />
Like we've got any moral high ground when it comes to killing people, what "rules"?<br />
It's a really great feeling knowing Trump is Making America Great Again, with drones and tweets.<br />
Like him on Facebook.<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-37718172450900802482018-02-02T14:01:00.000-05:002018-02-02T21:19:12.997-05:00How Does It Feel?The<a href="http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180129/106822/HMTG-115-IG00-20180129-SD001.pdf" target="_blank"> memo has been outed</a>!<br />
What have we learned about the Secret Society?<br />
Is the memo inaccurate? Does it even matter?<br />
It matters if this memo, will be used by Trump to fire Rosenstein and Mueller.<br />
I suspect that's what the whole thing is for. But, I digress.<br />
Corrupt politicians on both sides-both parties, were busy passing the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act" target="_blank"> FISA Act</a> to spy on us all, while they sat on this memo.<br />
No mention of all these awful abuses until Trump signed the FISA Act. So, what we know is that it's ok for everyone else to be spied on.<br />
<a href="https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=12E0BD0A-B549-43ED-B42E-594EDBE182C1" target="_blank">McCain came out and says</a> this memo serves Putin, and outright says Russia interfered in our election.<br />
I can only guess that since Nunes got the memo out, now the gloves are off and McCain is pissed.<br />
But he didn't open his mouth before this and voted for that FISA Bill and expanded the powers of the surveillance state.<br />
That much is clear.<br />
All this is, is a political stunt to help Trump, they do not care about helping us.<br />
They don't care about national security, it is their own security they are worried about.<br />
As long as the government has the power to spy on us, we are all being abused.<br />
Guess what?<br />
Even with all this spying it's looking as if Russia got away with this interference, so what's the use of all this? Joe Blow down the street ain't talking to Putin, but it's looking like Trump did and there's a big investigation.<br />
How does it feel to be spied on Trump?<br />
The sponsor of the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4478" target="_blank">FISA Reauthorisation Act</a> was none other than Devin Nunes.<br />
Are we supposed to think he gives a damn about people getting spied on and government abuse of taxpayers when he knew all along about this alleged abuse?<br />
None of them care, least of all him.<br />
"<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nunes-memo-latest-trump-declassification-publication-republican-intelligence-report-fbi-russia-a8191756.html" target="_blank">A lot of people should be ashamed</a>"<br />
But you aren't are you Trump?<br />
You might as well have signed your own FISA Warrant.<br />
How does it feel?<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701557141086131669.post-18982387997743873242018-02-01T20:02:00.000-05:002018-02-01T20:11:12.138-05:00Friday Night Memo MassacreOh, of course, it's going to be the Friday memo release.<br />
This way, Trump is hoping it's all going away over the weekend.<br />
After a week of Secret Societies, the Grand Inquisitor, Secret Society-Grand Poobah, Trey Gowdy, decides he's not going to go for re-election.<br />
Uh-huh.<br />
He is the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S._Congress_incumbents_who_are_not_running_for_re-election_in_2018" target="_blank">37th GOPer</a> not to seek re-election.<br />
So, Trump has <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5341019/Trump-declassify-explosive-memo-send-Intel-Friday.html" target="_blank">kicked the memo back to Congress</a> and it looks like it's going to be <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/371891-furor-grows-over-nunes-intel-memo" target="_blank">read at a pro forma session at 4:30 Friday afternoon.</a><br />
The real question is why didn't Trump just release it himself?<br />
Could it be that it's all a "<a href="https://www.axios.com/rising-white-house-fear-nunes-memo-is-a-dud-1517518110-483bac89-a164-4aa9-8841-97f6d3329005.html" target="_blank">dud</a>"? Oh say it ain't so!<br />
According to Adam Schiff the memo, could even be <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/371756-schiff-accuses-nunes-of-sending-trump-edited-memo" target="_blank">secretly altered</a>....<br />
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After <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/cnns-jake-tapper-perplexed-trumps-need-lie-state-union-ratings/" target="_blank">lying about his SOTU ratings</a>, now we're supposed to believe his bigly memo is yuuuuge.<br />
There's more;<br />
Russiagate Rick Gates, who was indicted on conspiracy charges, the same time as Paul Manafort, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/01/lawyers-for-rick-gates-withdraw-from-russia-case-383422?lo=ap_a1" target="_blank"> Gates lawyers just dumped him</a>. My guess is he's flipped and turned states evidence.<br />
Just another week of chaos, here in the good old USA.<br />
Home of the greedy and afraid.<br />
I am guessing very afraid, since Hope Hicks allegedly told Trump that Donny Jr's emails will "<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hope-hicks-trump-adviser-us-president-jr-emails-go-public-communications-director-white-house-russia-a8188731.html" target="_blank">never get out</a>" Ooops that's obstruction!<br />
While we weren't looking Trump took away the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/11/cfpb-mulvaney-trump/546131/" target="_blank">enforcement power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,</a> so there will be no more enforcement or oversight over companies that take advantage of American consumers.<br />
But who would even notice after the sh*t show we've witnessed this week?<br />
That doesn't even include the train full of garbage GOP politicians <a href="http://wtvr.com/2018/01/31/louisa-county-man-killed-in-amtrak-train-garbage-truck-collision/" target="_blank">that hit a garbage truck</a>, this week, killing the driver. RIP dude. His name was Chris Foley, he was 28 years old.<br />
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