A startling title, but that is how I -- and MILLIONS of my fellow Americans -- feel or SOON will feel about the Border Patrol (USBP), passively "going along" with official mistreatment of asylum seekers and other migrants ( Read more... )

A friend of mine asked about what will happen to Julian Assange, now arrested in London. I just wrote her that the 7-year "guest" of the Ecuadoreans "...has more info than anyone short of Putin himself about Trumpsky's egregious connections to the Russkies. When and how he shares that info, well, THAT is a very good pair of questions ( Read more... )

"...Trump just won’t let [Repubs in Congress] let it go. First he ordered the Justice Department to get fully behind a lawsuit seeking to have the ACA struck down in its entirety, and now he’s making extravagant promises he has no intention of keeping, and which his fellow Republicans are going to pay the price for ( Read more... )

So The Donald decided today to congratulate his buddy Putin by phone on his (fraudulent!) re-election. But the Washington Post tonight reports that, in fact, his national-security staff had briefed him on the planned call, telling him "NOT TO CONGRATULATE" [sic -- reportedly all caps in the briefing memo] him because of Russian bad behavior ( Read more... )

Joanne and I went to the first showing of Spielberg's "The Post" here in Vero Beach. (It premiered in December in Washington, of course.) The film is marvelous, right up there with "All the President's Men" (which came out two decades ago) -- and it is sorely needed after this first wretched year of Trumpsky's reign ( Read more... )

Today, Wednesday Dec 20, was a horrid day in the ongoing horror that is the Trump presidency. Two aspects are equally sordid and disgusting ( Read more... )

Yesterday's testimony before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee was intriguing. It really COULD begin to make a case of electoral "collusion" between Trump and the Russkies. Joanne and I watched live coverage on C-Span3, utterly fascinated ( Read more... )

Both Joanne AND I are a bit down, discovering that the bad vibes of the past month in Washington are turning into bad vibes here in Vero Beach. That is, our escape to Vero lacks some magic this year. And today was equally bad, with Trumpsky confirming the unlikely rumor that he would name the Russians' favorite American oilman to become our next ( Read more... )

http://ultradevi.tumblr.com/post/134252516352/palegingerbabies-11-29-taylor-arriving-to (Ooooh, Queenstown on the South Island, a very pleasant lakeside city not too far from the west-coast fjords -- we visited the area two years ( Read more... )

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I haven't heard of the high-fashion Janice previously -- but, heck, I was only 19 back then, and fashion was cut-offs and a sexy blouse...