Climate Change is Real

     Record high temperatures are being set every month, and this has been happen for years. It's just getting worse. This past week alone produced the following examples: Montreal hits 97.8F (and several people die), Taiwan hits 104.5F, Algeria hit 124.3F. This is climate change; no ifs ands or buts about it. It's affecting the movement of weather fronts, preventing them from moving around. This helped to lead to the immense rain in Japan and the flood killing hundreds. It's melting the glaciers at an astounding pace raising the ocean levels and flooding coastal cities and islands in the Pacific Ocean. I just cannot understand why Trump, Pruitt and the others refuse to acknowledge this. Probably because they would lose profits affecting their personal bottom line. Their pockets are more important than the thousands of lives being lost.

Responsibility of the U. S. Supreme Court

     The responsibility of the U.S. Supreme Court is to interpret the law, plain and simple. It is not to uphold the xenophobic and racist ideology of the President. The ruling in favor of the baker a week or so ago (upholding gender discrimination) and upholding the Muslim immigration ban against only certain countries (Freedom of Religion) are examples. Ethics and morality must come into play when making any determination in their cases, and it sure looks as if neither was considered. Determinations like these only fuel hatred and distrust throughout this country. If our mighty ideals and principles are not confirmed and supported by the highest court in the land, then we are truly lost as a nation.

Greatest President - NOT

In a poll by the political scientists from the American Political Scientist Association in January, (  https://qz.com/1210855/presidents-day-2018-donald-trump-debuts-in-last-place-in-political-scientists-presidential-greatness-rankings/ ) Donald Trump has been voted dead last in the list of the people who served as President of the United States. He said (from his over-inflated ego) that he would be a great president. He was right, that is if the list was inverted.

For all those non-Trump supporters, this is not so much of a surprise. He has done everything to harm the country, flouting every law and principle for his own gain, being extremely polarizing, racking up over 20 complaints of sexual harassment and cheating on his wives (including against Melania more than once just after gave birth), believing climate change was a hoax invented by the Chinese, ruining our standing on the world stage making the U.S. no longer the free world leader, and refusing to accept facts believing that everything with which he disagrees is fake. He was even two slots below William Henry Harrison who served only 1 month. (Tongue-in-cheek, there are times I feel William Henry Harrison was the greatest President we ever had, solely because he never had a chance to do this country any harm.)

And now the United Nations has declared Trump a “totalitarian leader”! This shows just how far even the rest of the world sees what’s happened to this country under Trump and the GOP. Just what is it that that will get the remaining Trump supporters to see what the rest of the country and the world sees? The sooner change is made, the better chance this country has of recovering.