Category: Patriotism

grim anniversary

whbeebe

A year ago today Russia illegally started to invade Ukraine. The cowardly criminal Putin foolishly thought that (1) his forces were far superior than they really were and (2) the Ukrainians would immediate fold and their current President, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, would cut and run. We all know how that’s turned out: Russia started and continues to loose horribly on the battlefield, both in terms of troops and equipment, while all Ukrainians doubled down to resist with everything, including their lives, the Russians. And Zelenskyy is still in Ukraine and still their President.

I am amazed by the spirit and resolve of the Ukrainian people, especially in light of all they’ve suffered at the hands of the Russians over the decades, especially the Hododomor, or Terror Famine, inflicted on Ukraine by Joseph Stalin in the early 1930s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor ). The Russians are just as brutal today as they’ve ever been, especially the Russian Wagner Group. The following photos are some of what I collected in the early days of the war. These images seem to have effected me the most, although anything coming out of Ukraine documenting the death and suffering of the Ukrainians always brings me to a moment of prayer for the heroic Ukrainian people.

trump absolutely needs to go in 2020

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I have tried to keep my mouth shut on this blog with regards to Trump. I tried to write about him back in 2016 (you can go look for yourselves) but gave up when I realized it didn’t do any good. Or at least nothing fabulous like removing him from office.

But this past month goes beyond merely evil and stupid to Supremely Evil and Stupid. He has tried since being elected to show just how much he holds everyone who isn’t like him in utter contempt.

What has gone screaming over the absolute edge for me is his playing golf up at one of his clubs while the rest of the Caribbean suffers under Dorian and the rest of us along the Atlantic seaboard where Dorian is forecast to pass over the next few days. Trump blew off an overseas trip to Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the start of WWII, saying he needed to stay in America and keep an eye on events surrounding Dorian. Then he blew that off and went to play golf down at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. Yeah, one of his. Legend has it that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. We have the modern day equivalent; Trump plays golf while the rest of the world (including the US) goes to hell.

Trump doesn’t know what a category 5 hurricane is (“But a category 5 is something that, uh, I don’t know that I’ve never even heard the term…”). He repeated twice that Alabama was going to be hit, and both times the Alabama Weather Service had to tell everyone in Alabama that Alabama was in no danger. And while death and destruction reign supreme on the Bahamas, where Dorian is still stalled out, Trump is out playing golf. While the US citizens living on the Florida, Georgia, both Carolinas, and now Virginia coasts are under warnings and watches and just waiting for Dorian to move, Trump plays golf. And while the Bahamas continue to get pounded even now, Trump plays golf.

Today is the day to start working on a candidacy, any candidacy, to vote Trump out of office. To vote in more House and Senate candidates who aren’t craven coward Republicans cowering before Trump. To vote in a President who isn’t a national security disaster, a Russian stooge. You want to make America great again? Let’s start with putting someone in the Whitehouse who doesn’t lie, cheat, and steal from everyone. Who puts country first. Replace Trump in 2020.