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What If Gore Had Won?

11 Thursday Dec 2025

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        Perhaps the Supreme Court’s decision to not allow the chads votes in Florida to be counted is quite possibly the most decisive and far-reaching vote they ever made. Other decisions can be changed and re-changed but that moment in History will never come again.

            Vice President Al Gore was a leader in the fight to reduce the causes of Climate Change here and around the world. Bush II’s people were repeatedly warned about Bin Laden and the Al-Queda but ignored them when they might have prevented the 9-11 attacks. Clinton and Gore had worked with Speaker Gingrich to cut over 350,000 government jobs over eight years and paid off almost all of the bonds. Gore had worked with Gingrich and the House and Senate budget committees to fix the Social Security System for at least 75 years. Gingrich lost support of his caucus after the Lewinsky scandal hit the fan. Gore was highly respected around the world including China and Russia.

            Granted we have had four Presidents since Gore lost the Electoral College – not the popular vote – with each doing their own thing. The most far-reaching laws Bush II and Trump did was to cut taxes and ramp up the National Debt to a disastrous amount.

            We currently have a President and a group of people telling Americans Climate Change is not real. They say it is just a liberal scheme to spend money ignoring the events they can see. Had Gore been elected we would be in the fore-front of trying to keep the CO2 emissions down and reducing the effects we are now seeing and how much worse they will get.

            It is disturbing to think how life would be different here and around the world.

A Day to Remember

06 Saturday Dec 2025

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        Today is December 7, 2025. We call it a day of Remembrance because that day in 1941 is when the Japanese pulled us into the war by bombing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The reasons they did are both simple and complex. They are both economic and political.

            As in Europe the roots of World War II started in the early 1930s. With Japan it was the invasion of Manchuria on September 18, 1931 using a fabricated excuse as the reason. The full scale invasion on China started July 7, 1941. FDR thought he could get Japan to stop and pull out by cutting off our exports of oil and steel. It did not work because of the complex reasons.

            The major party in Japan was an ultra-nationalist group who thought Japan should be the dominant power in Asia and the Western Pacific. Their term for the Control of China, Philippines, South East Asia and all the islands was The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere which would allow them to steal all the resources and enslave their peoples. The leader of the party finally got complete control of Japan’s Army and Government on October 18, 1941 through coercion and assassination of political opponents. The party saw Japan’s powerful army and navy as more than a match for an isolationist and weak United States. They thought if they declared war, devastated Pearl Harbor and captured Wake Island. FDR would sue for peace. Through a screw-up war was not declared until hours after the attack.

            Adding to the complexity was Japan, Germany and Italy signing the Triparte Pact. It was supposed to be a Mutual Defense Agreement. Germany thought it would keep the United States out of the war but Japan’s attack on us caused Hitler to declare war on the U.S. causing WWII. If Hitler had kept silent we would not have gone into the European War.

History Repeating … Again

24 Monday Nov 2025

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Few people know the importance of March 7, 1936. That was when Adolph Hitler ordered his army to invade the demilitarized area of the Rhineland. The area was a manufacturing area with large coal reserves allowing heavy equipment like tanks, ships and planes to be built. The army chiefs were afraid to do so with their tiny army because they would be crushed by the neighboring countries. Nothing happened telling Hitler he was free to do as he wanted so he started building up his military.

His next target was to the South of Germany. Being Austrian he invaded Austria on March 12, 1938 declaring it a Province of Germany. There was no response from the rest of the World and his agents had worked with the Austrian leaders to allow a peaceful takeover.

Next he wanted Czechoslovakia. The Czechs didn’t want to give him a part of their country. Hitler’s threats to invade created a fear of another war so an agreement was reached on September 30, 1938 between Germany. England. France and Italy giving him the part of Czechoslovakia he wanted. The Munich agreement negotiations did not involve any Czechs. March 12 he got thirty-eight percent of the country including its defensive positions. Later, on March 15, 1939 he invaded and took the rest with little resistance. He declared it a Special Province of Germany.

After signing the Munich Agreement Neville Chamberlain, England’s Prime Minister, declared “Peace In Our Time”. All the appeasing made Hitler think he could take the Eastern half of Poland (Stalin and Hitler had agreed to divide Poland) without any military response from the rest of Europe. He was wrong and war was declared by the allies on September 3, 1939.

Does Putin’s playbook sound just like Hitler’s. He has already incorporated parts or all of other countries so is Ukraine a fighting Czechoslovakia or will it be invading NATO and the Baltic countries causing the next war? He has plans for many countries?

History Repeats Itself

04 Saturday Oct 2025

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        As I write this I am very tired of hearing the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu throwing the Holocaust up as the reason for some criminal activity he has committed. Purposely killing tens of thousands of people living in Gaza with bombs and artillery is okay because they wanted another Jewish Holocaust and he is defending Jews. He allows right wing Israelis to kill West Bankers without any attempt to apprehend them. He has broken agreements on not building houses in the West Bank where the Palestinians live using the Holocaust and Jewish right to the land.

            According to the history of their people by Jewish Archeologists, they were a savage tribe that neither the Hittites nor the Egyptians want to mess with. Ramses I wanted to invade the people to the South and expand his empire to get resources. In order to protect his East Flank he hired that savage tribe to relocate there. They flourished with the yearly payments and not having to work on state projects like all Egyptians not in the army. In a matter of a few generations they quit being fighters and became lawyers, doctors, administrators, store keepers, etc. and worshipers of the Egyptian Gods. Some of the people thought their new life was against their heritage and persuaded the people to leave their lives of luxury. A good portion was forced by their new leaders to leave. They got out before the current Pharaoh could gather enough forces to go after them. They did not cross the Red Sea but the Reed Sea which was actually a tidal swamp. (Much of it is now the Suez Canal and Its infrastructure.) They left during low tide and the Pharaoh got caught during high tide. After they crossed over they split up for forty years to relearn their warrior ways. Their children absorbed the ways of their hosts. One family learned of a new God and its religion spread.

            Now comes the “It’s Our Land” Netanyahu uses in his pronouncements.  According to Jewish History they swarmed down the Golan Heights and slew every man, woman, child, and animal in what is now Northern Israel. As they expanded South their reputation caused tribe after tribe to leave or die. That’s how they got their land. Soon many of them were back into the professions who the Babylonians captured and took back to help grow their own intelligentsia group.     They were captive about fifty years before being returned along with their families.

The Tigris River’s yearly flood may have been the basis for Noah and the Flood scribes would later use. The river people used large family and animal sized square boats made with reed and tar during each year’s flood.

            Isn’t it interesting the war Netanyahu is waging against the Palestinians is very much like what those people did to the Tribes several millennia’s ago?

Times Have Changed

24 Wednesday Sep 2025

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        Times have changed since I was a little kid. If I told lies like Donald J. Trump does almost every day my Mother would have burned my butt with a belt. Today we elect people who lie, cheat, harass, demean, and threaten people and companies with dire things.

            Millions of Americans have come to believe half truths and lies as being factual. The constant barrage of these non-facts and lies has caused the majority of Americans to believe we have been screwed by all other countries, that climate change isn’t happening in spite of what we can see, and vaccinations are dangerous among other fictions.

            A few decades ago Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan made a statement which applies in today’s culture of lies. He said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts”. Today anyone with any sense can tell the President lies to cover the lies he has already said. He has built a fantasy world which is getting farther from reality every day. Bad things happen to anyone who goes against his reality.

            Trump has not just changed today’s reality he has ordered Federal, State and Local Museums and organizations to change history to suit his views. Slavery gave poor people good jobs and other rubbish. Of course, all reference to his losing an election or any of his crimes and lies about trying to overthrow the election must be removed or be closed.

            I saw a cabinet meeting where Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, “You’ll like these numbers Mr. President! The tariffs have produced over 300 million dollars on the way to your planned 500 million.” The next week the Customs Agency said they had collected 72 million. So where is the other 218 million?

            One other thing this administration has in common with other authoritarian governments is control of the news media. Putin, Xi, Erdogan, Un, and a few others mostly or completely control all media so lies and other misinformation can be dispensed. Putin killed or locked up reporters who didn’t follow his line. Trump threatens to stop mergers or pull licenses if they continue to print or televise the truth about him or ridicule him. A bad precedent was when ABC gave ten million to an entity under his control. Since then Trump has sued for billions to try to keep newspapers, magazines, and authors from dispensing the truth.

                An old saying is “The Truth is out there.” Unfortunately the truth is way out there and I fear it may not come back in my lifetime.

Dim Future

25 Monday Aug 2025

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        The future is not bright because our elected officials of both parties are more concerned about how to make sure they are re-elected in the next election than the distant future.

            Everyone knows we are running full speed into a debt disaster yet they keep cutting taxes and exempting more and more income from individuals and businesses. The longer those sitting in the capitol building run up the debt, the harder it will be to fix it. Remember, the economy boomed during the President Clinton Presidency and that tax rate while paying down the debt. Congress should go back to that rate and do away with more corporate exemptions lobbyists paid for. The longer they worry about re-election, the more painful it will be to ninety-nine percent of us.

            Social Security and Medicare are not being replenished by today’s workers. Again Washington knows how to fix it and most of us know also. A quick change to push the problem farther away is to remove the salary cap so all incomes pay into it whether it’s a wage or an investment. Cap all payouts to anyone with an income of over $150,000. As more robots replace humans, the human cannot pay into Social Security so a solution would be for the company to continue the social Security payment for that replaced human.

            Only a duped fool cannot see global warming is here and getting worse every day. Today’s Congress is bent on increasing the country’s contribution of carbon dioxide and methane. It seems we read every day they have done something to peel back laws and regulations designed to try to save humanity from a very ugly future. The future is much worse than today.

            Congressional members need to be more concerned about us than keeping their chairs.

The Future Has Many Roads

23 Wednesday Jul 2025

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        At least four plots and one attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump have already occurred. How many more will take place before he leaves office is completely unknown. Many people and groups feel they cannot wait until 2027 to see if the expected majority of Republican Representatives and Senators will be kicked out of office and another impeachment occurring. Many remaining Republicans would vote for removal.

            The question is would Vice-President Vance be the same or might he see his time would be short if he went down the same road. After President John Kennedy’s death, President Lyndon Johnson kept JFK’s people, who didn’t like Johnson or him they. They were gone later and he had new ones after his election. Congress has the power to remove them thus making Vance put acceptable people in charge of agencies and departments. They can undo Trump’s destruction that he did without legal consent from Congress. Would Vance be like President Gerald Ford and just finish the term of a disgraced President? No Trump supporter would be confirmed as the new Vice-President.

            If Vance kept following Trump’s advisors and those who wrote the 2025 document he would be subject to impeachment also. If that happened before a new vice-President was appointed and confirmed, the Democratic Speaker of the House becomes the Forty-Ninth President.

            The question is how much commotion will happen if someone kills Trump. He has yet to sacrifice his militant supporters like the Neo-Nazis and the other far right militias. What supporters he still really has could be expected to protest with marches and burn up the internet sites. Would the Trump haters march too, or just be satisfied with staying home?

22 Tuesday Jul 2025

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Well Said

        Sometimes I am impressed with how someone says or writes something that I can’t believe there could be a better way of getting the point across. The writer I so admire is a lawyer and trained to put words together to get her point and mine across to the masses. The writer is Maurene Comey, a Department of Justice Prosecutor, who was fired on President Donald Trump’s orders. Why, since she was very good at her job. Was it because she had been the prosecutor on the Jeffery Epstein case or because her father is the former FBI Director, James Comey, which Trump fired for doing his job correctly?

            Quoting some of her letter she wrote to colleagues, she elegantly said: “Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.”     In advising other Federal Prosecutors, she wrote: “Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns in this place. A fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power. Of dedication to truth above all else.”

            Comey is just the latest in the series of firings of DOJ Prosecutors who ran cases Trump was worried about. Those fired are all the January 6 insurrection prosecutors, any who worked with Jack Smith on Trump’s crimes, and, of course, anyone involved in the Epstein sex crimes. The FBI investigators were transferred to far off offices in this country and some to other countries.

            Even the people Trump has appointed are fearful of his ire and kowtow to his every wish without any hesitation. Remember Comey’s words which are so well elucidated in her letter because it is so true. “Fear is the tool of a tyrant.” American across the political spectrum must stand up and put the tyrant into a cage before it is too late!

Hip Boots

14 Monday Jul 2025

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        There is an old saying my generation uses when the flip side of an issue occurs and the people who were against the first side are quiet after the flip. It is “The shoe is on the other foot now”. I remember the prime movers of Watergate were Democrats but many Republicans joined to oust President Nixon. That bi-partisanship was notable. I remember the Republican created scandals involving the Clinton’s and their finances. Another is the Billy Carter Beer endorsement. Recently it is the money the Obama’s has made selling their biographies after they left Washington. Of course, we can’t forget Hunter Biden doing the same thing the Bush boys did with their Daddy’s job. The other party usually made a scandal out of the situation real or created.

            Today’s antics, graft, and corruption in the Oval Office and in much of the administration is like hip boots to the bath slippers of past Presidents. We just heard the convicted and imprisoned leader of the gangster disciples was freed from Federal Prison after his sister donated $1,500,000 to Trump’s campaign fund. It is over $600 million now and he wants it to reach one billion. This isn’t the first time he has pardoned a felon for money. One felon pardoning another!

            The corruption in Trump’s business dealings is evident because they are usually announced by the White House Media People. The ear of the President can be bought by buying a million or two of his stable coin and attending the dinner for the big donators in the White House. The biggest buyers get face time.

            When will the cowered Republicans finally act? The scandals already require hip boots.
When will the Republicans need chest waders to wade in the Trump swamp? The order of this presidency has encircled the world. They know he can be bought and are doing it with a plane, loans, partnerships, or land. How far is President Trump willing to go?

Things Change

30 Monday Jun 2025

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Things are constantly changing for good or bad. Life used to be fairly simple compared to how we see them now. I was born and grew up in Southern Illinois in a town with only a 3,000 population. It wasn’t until high school I knew we had an extended family of ethnic Germans in the county. They were in a different school district for grade school. We had no non-white people living in the county and the only religious strife was Baptists sects against each other and both against the Pentecostal and Catholics. No fighting but lots of meaningless debating. It was a rare county to some extent because we had no non-white people in it. My family wasn’t racist because of my mother.

            At the time most of the names I knew were English so when I went to college I encountered other colors and saw nothing to be concerned about. They were just people like me. My first knowledge of racism in the Southern states was a girl who had moved up for junior college from a Jim Crow state. She had a huge inferiority complex and was uncomfortable around the rest of us and talking with us scared her. I hope she overcame it.

            My source of the wider world was the television and its programs. I had seldom watched the news so a university with Viet Nam protests and veterans, racial strife with Martin Luther King’s murder, studying population, food, and climate change was an eye opener. I started watching the national and international news and now I am a news junkie.

            Age old American Companies are now owned by foreign companies with CEOs who have distinct accents from the rest of the world. The internet companies have ethnic Asian Founders and CEOs. Oh, I have several Asian friends and my niece and nephew married into that ethnic German culture. Times have changed for the better for me but I still live in the good old days.

The bad is evident and I think the invention pushed by Al Gore is the basis for much of today’s problems. The newspapers and television were worried about not telling the truth about something and getting sued. Today we have media on the TV and internet that are so completely as to be propaganda status.

            Civility in politics has gone for the most part. Name calling and demeaning an opponent’s race and sex is now common. Having an immoral and despicable personality means nothing for millions of people. Lying has become an art form for some politicians. Religious people who run from any person wanting their vote now say they are not the second coming. What has happened to morals being their basis for supporting a person?

            Climate change has finally become evident with record high temperatures, and five hundred and thousand year storms are occurring every year. Home often are still in repair when another swamps it. Where I live in Northern Illinois a winter night reaching zero is extremely rare. Just a few decades ago that was a high temperature for days. Insects that burrowed down froze and died, but today the ground barely freezes.