EYES OF THE WORLD

A couple of weeks ago I was up on The Great Sacandaga Lake in the Adirondak Mountains. The weather was cloudy and overcast with a constant drizzle. My friend, Ron and I were jet skiing constantly looking up to scan for lightening. The Sacandaga is long and we were a distance from his dock when the sky got very black and the rain picked up. Although there was no thunder or lightening, we decided…

“I believe this is happening in America!”

Really? I have been hearing this a lot since last week when SCOTUS handed down two important decisions affecting every American. The first was when they struck down the  New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen and the second was the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade. If you think that this was bad, just wait, this was just the beginning. The Supreme Court handed down 11 rulings last week.…

Opinion

1918 Germany Has a Warning for America

Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century.

By Jochen Bittner

Contributing Opinion Writer NY Times

Nov. 30, 2020, 1:00 a.m. ET

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HAMBURG, Germany — It may well be that Germans have a special inclination to panic at specters from the past, and I admit that…

Deadhead1155- with the election behind us my plans are to get back to writing my blog and not posting others works that much. Hang in there these past 4 years have been exhausting. I’m taking some mental health time. In the meantime my eyes caught this today and since it affects the whole world read on.

A new report examines how plastic waste affects marine wildlife.

By Catrin Einhorn

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Just as ignorance was strength in George Orwell’s “1984,” shamelessness is virtue in Trump’s G.O.P.

By Bret Stephens

Opinion Columnist

Nov. 9, 2020

There will be more than a few conservatives who will spend the next 30 years trying to prove the election was stolen. Others will insist Donald Trump would have won save for a deep state, the liberal media and disloyal Never Trumpers. And many…

Opinion by Eugene Robinson. November 02 at 4:37 PM EST. Washington Post

Boarding up storefronts in the days before an election isn’t something we do in this country. Supporters of one presidential candidate don’t use their vehicles to create havoc on major highways or to threaten a bus filled with supporters of the other candidate. We…

Current and former Trump administration officials are worried about what might happen on Nov. 4.

By Ron Suskind

Mr. Suskind is an investigative journalist who has written about the presidency and national affairs for more than three decades.

Oct. 30, 2020

Kathleen Kingsbury, the acting editorial page editor, wrote about the decision to publish this essay in this morning’s edition of…

Deadhead1155: It has been a long 4+ years. If all goes well after January 20,2021 i hope to be climbing out of the trenches and get back to blogging my own observations. Thank you for indulging me and borrowing from others. In the meantime, please read below. .

Opinion

Oct. 29, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET

It’s always assumed that those of…

The Party of Lincoln had a good run. Then came Mr. Trump.

Deadhead1155: As an amateur student of U.S. history I have spent much time reading about the birth of our Nation and the evolution of our experiment in Democracy. For some years now I have been saying that the G.O.P. needs to go the way of the Whig Party. The G.OP. really made its inroads in the mid 1850’s. President Lincoln was…

Trump’s new nominee is on super-speed dial.

By Gail Collins

Opinion Columnist

Oct. 7, 2020

Have you noticed that right now everything is about Amy Coney Barrett, the new Supreme Court nominee?

OK, you were thinking everything was about the coronavirus. But where did a lot of our alleged national leaders seem to get infected? The party Donald Trump gave to celebrate her nomination.…

Joe Biden is a stutterer. Like many others, he has overcome the disability by understanding it and exercising extraordinary perseverance and discipline. If you know and love a stutterer and you watched the presidential debate last night, within minutes it became obvious what was going on. Abusive tone of voice, rapid fire interruptions, zigzagging change of topic, personal insult and humiliation, and family pain are all tripwires that scramble a stutterer's ability to speak. There was nothing unplanned or spontaneous in the President's strategy. The bastards did not prep him to attack Joe. They prepped him to attack Joe's disability hoping that by triggering his stuttering they might deceive an audience unfamiliar with the disability into thinking that Joe was stupid, weak, uncertain, confused, or lost to dimentia.

If you have ever gotten in the face of a bully on the playground protecting a stutterer that you love, the game being played last night was nakedly and painfully obvious. If you watched with glee while it happened, then you haven't made much progress since the playground.

However, the stutterer that I love taught me early on that he did not so much need my protection. He fought back by owning and integrating his disability into who he is. He learned how to stand his ground as master of perseverance, knowledge, and empathy. Without his example, I would not have recognized the game that was being played last night. I would not have been able to recognize the subtle but intense struggle against the disability that Joe was winning at the same time he was struggling to advance his positions on the issues in the midst of a rhetorical shit storm.

But, like the stutterer that I know, Joe didn't need any help on the playground. I was proud of him.

The President flushed his family fortune down a gold-plated toilet and somehow wants us to believe that he is the poor victim of mean people. Then he tries, and fails, to beat up a kid with a disability on the playground.

I'm done with this, guys. I want my country back. Thanks, Joe.

(copied and pasted from a friend's post)

Fact-Checking the First 2020 Presidential Debate

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President Trump and former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. concluded their first debate in Cleveland on Tuesday night.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump demonstrated a willingness to lie, exaggerate and mislead during the first presidential debate, repeatedly interrupting former Vice President Joseph R.…