2.3.2025 – were abhorrent and

were abhorrent and
anaphylactically
abominable

In their weekly opinion piece, The Conversation, in the New York Times, columnists Gail Collins and Bret Stephens discussed “A Presidency That’s Off the Rails. It Took Only Two Weeks.“

Of Presidential Cabinet appointments, the conservative, right leaning Bret Stephens wrote:

“ … both Gabbard and R.F.K. Jr. were … atrocious, abhorrent, anaphylactically abominable. The idea of having a director of national intelligence who for years was a leading apologist for dictators like Bashar al-Assad and traitors like Edward Snowden is hard to stomach. But maybe not as hard to stomach as a legal shakedown artist, conspiracy theorist and medical misinformer in charge of the American federal health system. So I guess my vote for worst nominee in U.S. cabinet history goes to Bobby Baby Chickens in the Blender K.”

While I applaud the use of atrocious, abhorrent, anaphylactically abominable I must point out that it is all part of the plan to keep our eyes on the bright and shiny object while Elon Musk is given the keys, without any objection, to the Treasury.

I was talking with a friend who has a sister who lives in Nova Scotia.

My friend told me that his sister says they now know what it is like to live in South Korea.

2.2.2025 -growing good of the world

growing good of the world
is partly dependent on
unhistoric acts

Adapted from the line:

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

In the George Eliot Novel, Middlemarsh.

According to Wikipedia, Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot. It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, in 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Leavened with comic elements, Middlemarch approaches significant historical events in a realist mode: the Reform Act 1832, early railways, and the accession of King William IV. It looks at medicine of the time and reactionary views in a settled community facing unwelcome change. Eliot began writing the two pieces that formed the novel in 1869–1870 and completed it in 1871. Initial reviews were mixed, but it is now seen widely as her best work and one of the great English novels.

Notice the pronoun in the last sentence.

… now seen widely as her best work and one of the great English novels.

You see, George Eliot was the pen name of one Mary Ann Evans.

Who, again according to Wikipedia, … was known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.[3] She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). As with Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people” and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.

Pronouns.

Really?

The number of headlines today that start with that man’s name is beyond understand until you grasp, that is what they want.

LOOK AT THE MAN behind the curtain.

WATCH WHAT he is doing, while the real people in charge remove pronouns and other acts so egregious it is beyond words.

And as long as the focus is on that man, they are winning.

Even this morning, the Toronto Star led with, WHO WILL STAND UP TO THAT MAN …

As long as the focus is on the man, the real damage and the real danger is hidden, right there in plain sight.

I guess it is right that the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

2.1.2025 – government of, for, by

government of, for, by
the people has perished, done
gone, GONE, from the earth

In the middle of the day, in bright sunlight, while everyone has been watching the bright, shiny object in the White House, the Government of the United States as been destroyed.

The triumph of the North, or the Union Army or Mr. Lincoln, make no mistake, was the triumph of the Federal Government and a strong Federal system of Government.

A system based on the concept that ‘all men are created equal.’

In the last 10 days, in surgical attacks that struck at the heart of this system, the Federal Government has been eviscerated.

We all have been had.

Do not kid yourself, there has been a coup.

This well coordinated assault has been in the works for years and folks who could see it coming, sounded the alarm but no one took it seriously.

With the focus focused on the bright shiny object in the White House no one seems to notice what happened and now I fear it is too late.

Think about this.

Think about the Civil Rights era in the south in the 1960’s?

Who came down south?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Federal United States Marshalls.

The Federal Department of JUSTICE.

Think that could happen today?

It is over folks, and I doubt there is any way back.

Take your eyes OFF the shiny object.

Watch as your ‘rights’ one by one, for everyone, are taken away.

While the King was looking down, the Jester stole his thorny crown.

And those three men I admire most?

They took the last train for the coast.