Vinegar and Thorns INSTEAD OF WINE AND ROSES

The Octogenarians

In the eight days or so since we posted last,waiting to see how the ship of state would fare in light of MOM’s increasing desperation,we have seen gunfire erupt around the nation at a Trump facility in Florida,a high school in Texas,a suburb near Baltimore,an area in Atlanta,a shooting in Boston etc. etc.We have seen Ollie North elevated to the presidency of the NRA amid increasing evidence that the 10 to 17 million dollar elevation of money contributed to the Trump campaign contrasted to the money contributed to the past Republican campaigns may have come from Russian sources.Gun control legislation is still bitterly opposed by most of the A rated (NRA) in the two parties.Children”s deaths apparently don’t matter.

Trump’s attempts to turn violations of law and abuse of office into party issues seem to be gaining valence as the faithful either because they prefer to hate rather than think…

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The Chamber Pot Bubbles Over

The Octogenarians

My prediction that the next several months would be critical in terms of the damage that MOM would inflict on the country and the world was way off.That same day with porcine swagger MOM(POTUS) pulled us out of the Iran accord.Only Netanyahu( under indictment by Israeli law) was overjoyed,Russia,China and Turkey already have envoys en route to Teheran to profit from this egregious,arrogant,blunder.It will take a little time for the U.S. to put together a functioning sanctions office and team but once functioning the sanctions will hurt our allies who remain in the pact and who continue to honor their word as much as Iran will.Should Iran pull out of the pact,it can immediately send home the nuclear inspectors and resume purification of uranium and employment of Plutonium in pursuit of the BOMB.Action only stoppable by WAR !
I believe that the precipitous action was not only in fulfillment of…

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The Merchant of Mailice & the Ethical Profession

The Octogenarians

The last week saw a profusion of drab events take place.They involved power relationships between MOM(POTUS) and variations of the world’s oldest profession as well a his relationship(and his followers’) to law) , medicine and the clergy.
Most recent and most remote from MOM was the attempted firing of Patrick Conroy ,catholic chaplain of the house by Paul Ryan ,speaker of the house,for no better reason than the priest’s invocation asking that the welfare of the poor be given primacy in healthcare legislation.The priest rescinded his resignation and Ryan( a poor emulator of MOM) caved in and withdrew his demand.

MOM has been accused of strong arming his former personal physician Bornstein,forcibly removing his files and having prior, dictated his own report to the public while a candidate.In the meantime his Walter Reed assigned pesonal physician has come an apparently deserved cropper as his candidate as VA administrator.
Personal and…

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