Tag: iran
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TAPA 207 TO PILLAGE
To PILLAGE means: “to rob, loot, or steal goods from a place”.. The attached article is a long read, but it attempts to connect the dots how Trump is pillaging America while enriching himself and his family. Ordinary Americans are paying the price while the Trump family’s wealth grows. Middle-class Americans will be bearing the cost of these…
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TAPA 205 THE UNREFLECTING REFLECTING POOL
We held my Father’s Day celebration on Saturday to avoid conflicts with other fathers in the family and accommodate everyone’s schedules. It was a wonderful day. Simply sitting at the table, watching and listening to the children and grandchildren, is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Because I love them all, and because my journey is…
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TAPA # 204 CAR 2419D
The “Surrender of Versailles” signed by Trump yesterday was gobsmacking, both for its content and its historical overtones. The Wall Street Journal and other sites are reporting it as a loss/surrender of the United States, a win for Iran by providing it with financing to rebuild, allowing it to keep the nuclear material, removing the…
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TACO # 203 “WHERE ARE THE FLOWERS”?
Last week, in compliance with a court order that ruled placing Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center was illegal and required it to be removed by Friday, Trump’s people finally complied, after much haranguing. But they complied in a manner perfectly illustrative of Trump’s immature, self-aggrandizing, and often ludicrous behavior: they erected a tarp so…
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TAPA # 202 TRUMPSTITUTION
The origin of the word prostitute is the Latin prostituere, meaning “to put forth publicly” or “to offer something of value for sale in a manner considered degrading or dishonorable.” In ancient Rome, the term evolved to mean offering one’s body, what many regard as sacred, for sale. A person who did so became a prostitute, and the…
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TAPA # 201 ENDANGERED CHILDREN
Attached is Thomas Friedman’s piece, a long read but one well worth reading, especially when you consider his final statement: “Every day we tolerate such behavior we endanger our children’s future”. While a majority of Americans struggle to pay their bills, are going into debt on their credit cards, farmers losing farms and/or crops, service members…
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TAPA # 197 ONLY THE FACTS MAM
As Trump diverts from Epstein, the economy and national security, he heads to China for a meeting with President Xi. Trump is weakened and clearly inept. The fear is Trump will make some deal to rehabilitate his image and add to his family fortune with a deal that puts the American people in the woodchipper.…
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TAPA # 194 CHOICES!!!
Watching the Secretary of Defense’s recent testimony before Congress raises a fundamental question: what are the priorities of this administration and Republicans and who benefits from them? Priorities are choices. Nations, like individuals, choose what to value: to feed or to starve, to fight or to negotiate, to build or to destroy, to heal or…
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TAPA # 190 TRUMP’S, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Just returned from two weeks away and read the attached article, which highlights the face of Trump’s America. A face that, abroad, vacillates between farce and tragedy. The question many now ask as they watch the labile character of America under Trump is simple: What happened to America? Every day the storyline changes, but the reality of…
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OUR EXISTENTIAL CHALLENGE
Read the Atlantic attached article and if you have access to the Wall Street Journal the article “Behind Trump’s Public Bravado. We have an out of touch, emotionally unstable and incompetent leader. If you have time read about the intensive recruiting effort of the FBI and DOJ to backfill the multitude of professional staff who…
THE AMERICAN POSEIDON ADVENTURE 