CLINTON PURPOSELY FLOUTS EMAIL LAW...NOT "CARELESS"

"CARELESS", CORRUPT CLINTON TOO UNSAVORY FOR WHITE HOUSE

The unsettling conclusion of FBI Director Comey is that Mrs. Clinton lied ceaselessly concerning this most recent "Clinton" scandal and was "careless in handling her email account". She mishandled the top secret documents she illegally and unadvisedly routed through her personalized email server (conspiring to avoid the nation's freedom of information laws) while ostensibly serving the people as Secretary of State. "What was she hiding?" should be the question on every voter's mind this fall. In fact, the designation "careless" is not really applicable. In fact she was purposeful in her illegal plan to avoid revealing her personal emails which are suspected of having much to reveal about her improper dealings with the Clinton Foundation and foreign donors. In doing so she put the nation's security at risk. This fact will haunt her Presidency and the entire nation which she claims she wants to serve if she is ever elected....

Touted as the candidate with the "most experience to be President", Clinton is also the least trusted and the most corrupt. She has a long and checkered record of incompetency and malfeasance as White House First Lady, US Senator from New York, and Secretary of State. She has used her connections to achieve those august positions, but aside from feathering her own nest via Wall Street speeches and foreign "pay to play" donations to the Clinton Foundation "Slush Fund" she accomplished little for the nation.

Her many past scandals (and this present one) expose her as a corrupt,scheming, self-serving empty "pants suit" who should NOT be elected to ANY high office of trust....least of all the Presidency.

TRUMP NO RACIST---PAUL RYAN: TURNCOAT, CLOSET- CLINTONISTA?

"RACISM: The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races."

TRUMP: LIKELY VICTIM OF BIAS, NOT A PERPETRATOR OF BIAS IN THE CURIEL CASE.

After hearing Ryan's ridiculous claim that Trump's tirade against Judge Gonsalo Curiel was a "text book example" of racism I can only conclude that the Speaker Paul Ryan does not know the definition of "racism", does not realize that "Mexican" is not a "race", but a nationality, and that the vast majority of Mexicans are of the Caucasian race like Ryan, himself. In fact I think calling Trump a "racist" reveals, more about Ryan's (racist?) view of the darker-skinned (though Caucasian) Mexicans than Trump's supposed racism. Speaker Ryan's behavior makes one suspect he has decided that his own personal and political standing and future would be more lucrative and opportune while serving under a Democrat, Clinton-led government in 2017, rather than that of the GOP. With self-serving Ryan types leading the Republican circular firing squad, Americans of all stripes will surely be faced with a disastrous Clinton presidency. Sp Mr.Ryan's recent acts seem to be clearly placing, the House Speaker's own personal political agenda and future above that of the needs and aspirations of the American electorate and the nation as a whole. Shame on Ryan, with this behavior he does not deserve to be Speaker of the House.

In regard to Mr. Trump's supposed racism: Trump's complaint against Judge Curisel is NOT RACISM. Trump simply stated that he thought this jurist was not objective in his rulings during the Trump University trial. Mr. Trump was, or claims to be the VICTIM in this case. His claim is that this judge is biased against him. In this case Trump is the victim of bias not the perpetrator of bias. It is entirely possible he is correct in his charge against the judge...though no one could actually know it. But, I f one thinks that when a judge puts on his judicial robes and sits before a court in his plush leather chair, he somehow becomes a sort of a judicial robot. Can we expect that his past, his ethnic background, his family connections, his childhood experiences, and his personal biases are all somehow instantly expunged from his mind? I doubt it. If that is what you believe, I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn, cheap.. There may be a rare case of such a judicial being, but I doubt it. Ask any trial lawyer....they will tell you of well known and oft discussed judicial biases...in great detail.

Was Trump right in calling the judge biased? Certainly, he was patently wrong both tactically and strategically. This was not a fight worth the political damage and set back in the polls. Was Trump acting as a racist? Calling the judge a "Mexican" is not a racist remark, or even an ethnic slur, not even a national slur. But being an. American judge of Mexican extraction may explain this. Man's bias when dealing with a case of a nationally known politician who has widley and loudly claimed that the surge of recent illegal "Mexican" immigrants are laced with "rapists", "thieves" and "murdereers". Add to that, the fact that this particular politician has won the nomination for his party and his political spurs by loudly and repeatedly promising to "build a Great Wall" along the Mexican border to protect us from this surge of illegal "Mexicans". Judge Curiel is not a judicial robot....he is a human being under those dark robes, still subject to human feelings of hurt, revenge, and capable of injudicial response. I suspect that the vast majority of Republican voters, and Independents too would agree.

Trump may be brusque, unruly, impassioned, and impolitic....but he is not a racist.

Trump is taking incoming from all directions. He is fighting the Republican elites, and those quislings of the GOP who claim they are his supporters (like Paul Ryan) but act to undermine him. He is also fending off attacks from the Democrats, in league with the main-stream media and the press, and now even the President has joined the fray against him. Trump has only the vast majority of the suffering American public on his side.

It is also worth noting that the viscious way the press, and the media jumped all over the unfounded "racist" charge seems a sure sign and an excellent example of how frightened the oligarchs, super donors, political operatives and elites of both parties are of Trump and the vast majority of his "regular guy and gal" supporters out here in the body politic.

TRUMP TURNS IT AROUND WITH JUNE 7 "AMERICA FIRST" SPEECH

I was busy with something else and just happened to hear a snippet of Trump's "Victory Speech" on June 7, 2016. It staggered me. I had to stop and listen carefully. Trump did not give his usual rambling stump speech, pouring out his hurt and his soul, as if he was on his psychiatrist's couch. He spoke coherently and logically. What gave me pause was his sincerity and the simplicity of his message:.."I am going to be America's champion.....America First!" Trump reminded us of our decaying infrastructure, "our crumbling cities, dilapidated airports, bridges, highways". He lamented the loss of our manufacturing jobs overseas. He rightly termed the lost jobs "an embarrassment" to our nation. He placed himself squarely against foolish and wasteful foreign interventions that have been a massive drain on our treasury and a distraction from our main task of getting our middle class back to work and making America great again. He promised he promised to get us all working again...citing his pledge to support "every American worker of every background, protecting all their rights and privileges"... He reiterated his stance against NAFTA and other one-sided, destructive trade deals which put American workers and their meaningful jobs at risk from unfair foreign competition. He promised to rebuild our inner cites and take care of our downtrodden black, white and brown city folk who have been ignored so long by government of both parties. He made the case as a successful businessman, promising to put his energies toward making Americans safe, employed and working at meaningful jobs, and moving forward to prosperity. But he also (rightly) attacked the Clintons. He promised to expose them for their past transgressions, policies and their "politics of self-enrichment". He reiterated how they both sold favors and government access to make millions for themselves. The speech was a watershed event. If this is the new Trump...he is a formidable candidate. With this message he can win in November.

MILITARY SPENDING A NATIONAL CANCER AND DECEPTION IN DC

The US military budget is way over the top. We spend more for so called "defense" than any other nation on earth. And our "defense" expenditures are growing like a cancer enlarging and metastasizing so rapidly, just the cost of servicing the debt alone will consume its host. But the American people would never know. Republican and most Democrat members of Congress in Washington, the Pentagon, and the military prefer to deceive the public regarding our true spending in this category. Indeed, this year the Republican and Democrat candidates for President all continue to call for a laughable EXPANSION of military spending, while simultaneously decry the (paltry) spending on our nation's infrastructure, and the health and welfare of its citizenry. One good reason for this situation is the lack of understanding on the part of the citizenry directly related to a very misleading and commonly displayed pie graph, called the "US Federal Budget for 2015"!

In our 10th grade math class, our good and wise mathematics teacher, Mr. Wilson, cautioned us about misuse of statistical data. He often emphasized how very easy it was to manipulate numbers to make a graph twist the truth. I am sure our math teach would just cringe over the very widely published 2015 US Federal Spending Pie Graph. It appears so informative, is easy to read, colorful and attractive. However, it is grossly misleading. I would call it an outright lie...a criminal distortion of how this nation actually spends the tax dollar of its hard working citizenry.

This misleading graph presents the right side of a large colorful circle with two big "pie cut outs", labeled "Social Security" and "Health Care". Social Security is represaented as the largest, at 24%, while Healthcare accounts for 23% . Those two "pie pieces" represent almost half of the total (or 47%) on one side of the circle. They take up just about all of the right hand side of the graph. The left hand side has smaller categories of pie, like the cuts on a pizza you might make for the little kids of a group. On this side of the circle you will find "defense" spending. It is represented as a measly slice representing only 16% of the total. The overall impression the graph leaves its observer is that our leaders in Washington apparently have crafted a budget in which the the welfare of our citizens is paramount. It attempts to portray our nation, one which spends more than any other in the world on so called "defense", rather as a cuddly, socially responsive, Nordic European, peace-loving, home-grooming nation which cares so much about the health and welfare of its citizenry that it spends half of its tax income annually on healthcare and social benefits. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The real cost of military related spending is very different. Yes, the Defense Department has a 2015 budget of about $610 billion, (that is about 16% of our budget) but that is only about HALF of what is actually spent on military hardware, personnel and military related debt service. The actual total costs of our military is more than $1.2 trillion dollars annually. That is nearly a full ONE THIRD of our budget and the largest chunk out of our budget. That is something the Washington crowd would rather not have you know.

Those pie-graph artists in Washington know how to obscure the facts. Mr. Wilson would have loved to have been able to use them as an example of what NOT to do with a pie graph if you wanted to actually represent the truth. Those in Washington are more interested in deception. They would prefer the US citizen does not know how we really spend our hard won tax dollars.

The pie graph makers took a good half of the "defense related" costs AND SPREAD THEM OUT among other budget categories to obscure the facts.

The pie graph category "Defense" does NOT include:

1.Service on Debt Defense Related Interest on Loans (remember those Iraqi and Afghanistan Wars we fought and payed for "on the cuff".) Add in $400 billion dollars annually for this component to our "defense spending".

2. Veteran's Affairs. Add about $180 billion to the Defense budget to pay for the needs of veterans who served in our wars, of those receiving care related to their grievous wounds and the care and welfare of those that those who fell in battle left behind. The following all have defense related activities which are misleadingly spread over into other categories:

3. State Department. Defense Related Activities 4. Homeland Security Defense related /activities 5. Energy Department Defense Related Activities (those atomic bombs need to be cared for too)

A fair appraisal of the the costs of the military component indicates that were we to add up all of these costs, our total, real world, so called "defense" expenditures to taxpayers is closer to two times, or one hundred percent greater than what is indicated in the misleading US Spending Pie Graph, or about $1.2 trillion dollars!

It is noteworthy to underscore the fact that the interest on defense related loans which cost us now about $400 billion annually is more than we spend on the Energy Department, State Department. Homeland Security and Federal Defense Related Law Enforcement.

In fact just to service the debt on past military expenditures and adventures abroad, (Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya) and the veterans affairs costs related to those past unwise adventures now amount to almost $580 billion or very close to the misleading DIRECT DEFENSE COSTS ($610 billion) the Defense Department spends annually.

That is the amount we spend each year out of the annual income of about $3.9 trillion dollars in tax and other revenues. We spend more than 30% of our income....Military spending is the biggest component of our budget.

The decision to spend so prolifically on military has its consequences. With a good third cut out of the budget for military expenses, the remaining two-thirds is just not enough for the excellent schools, health care, infrastructure, and broadband that other nations of our wealth level offer to their citizens.

When we ask why our nation's bridges, roads, tunnels, railroads, broadband, and all its infrastructure is crumbling into Third World levels of decay, and our citizens live shorter, more disease ridden lives than other nations of our wealth you can look toward the over the top, bloated defense budget and the purposeful misrepresentation of our actual spending preferences by the Washington crowd and their enablers in the pie graph publishing house.

PAUL RYAN, GENERAL WITH NO ARMY

Paul Ryan Conductor with no Orchestra, General with no Army!

Paul Ryan can't seem to get the message...insulated as he is within the Beltway--that his Ayn Randian pseudo-philosophy and its out-dated economic and government policies have been, post Donald Trump, soundly rejected by the "army" and "orchestra" . Ryan, were he not so blinded by hubris, arrogance and gross misperceptions of his own importance, needs only to look at the results of the recent nomination elections to understand why he is now seen by the rest of the nation as a lonely orchestra conductor, pathetically waving a limp baton at empty chairs and idled musical instruments.

Mr. Ryan has too long bowed before the monied elites in their the gilt-covered halls, faithfully making obeisance to the demands of the Washington mega-donor class while ignoring the needs of the masses of his hard-working fellow Americans. Ryan curried favor and accepted cash from the rich to support polices which cut taxes and spending, ignored our wide open borders, pursued costly foreign adventurism, spent blood and treasure on world-wide militarism, and encouraged job- destroying hyper free-trade agreements. These ideas and polices have all been wisely and soundly rejected by the average working men and women who ARE the "Republican Party". These average folks have in 2016 turned their backs on the present GOP leadership and its elite favoring policies. They have wisely voted "NO!" to Mr. Ryan's brand of Republicanism all across this nation, north and south, east and west and in the heartland too. Mr. Trump's successes have illustrated this fact over and over in a decisive way all through the nomination elections...and most damming and decisively in the last few weeks when he racked up massive wins over his Ryan-like conservative opponents in New York and Indiana. Mr. Ryan may be wearing general's stars and gold epaulette's but he has no army to command.

Kudos to "the Donald" for slaying the evil dragons of the elites, the neocons, and the moneybags in Washington. Now let us pray he never forgets who sent him there.

Alberta Wild Fires, Global Warming, and Gas Prices--Ironic

It's Ironic! Global warming caused by tar sand oil extraction, generates freak weather in Alberta, which results in forest fires that shut down tar sand oil extraction in region--a major source of global warming.

Not everyone appreciates the irony regarding the devastating Alberta forest fires which have shut down the Athabaskan oil companies which extract synthetic petroleum from the gooey black tar sands of the region. But it is worth understanding the situation, since it affects us all so intimately.

Forest fires in northern Alberta have been raging for days now through a region of taiga spruce and hemlock forests normally not affected by the scourge of wildfires, more common in more southern and broadleaf forests. But the massive amounts of carbon dioxide modern man has dumped into the atmosphere, as a result of burning fossil fuels, (like tar sand oil) have changed all that.

Winters have been unusually warm and dry in Alberta recently. And for weeks now a deep and uncharacteristic low pressure center in the northern territories of western Canada, most probably a meteorological result of global warming, has been drawing warm, dry air to the north. The source of air for this low Pressure center, comes in over the northern Rockies and then descends down into central and northern Alberta. This is a region where the main industry is extracting oil from tar sands. As these moountain winds sink over the Northen Rockies the air heats and dries up (a result of orographic pressure changes). These dry winds flow north through central Alberta as a strong and hot southerly breeze. Somewhere along the course of its flow, a smoldering campfire, a tossed cigarette butt, or lightning strike must have ignited dry brush which the steady winds fanned into a great conflagration. The outbreak of wild fire may be one of the most expensive "natural" disaster in Canadian history. The flames have consumed over 600 square miles of forest, thousands of homes, in and around the regional city of Fort McMurry. Nearly 100,000 resident of this region have fled the area. Many of them are workers at the several tar-sand extraction open-pit mines in the region. Most of these industries were closed or operations curtailed due the evacuation of personnel or the threat of being overrun by fire.

The wildfires are claimed to have cut back Canadian daily oil production by about 20%, or roughly about 800,000 barrels of oil a day. That amount, nearly a million barrels of oil, has had a significant affect on oil and gas prices at the local pumps here in the USA. The world consumes about 95 million bbl of oil a day. But up to just recently, just before the Alberta wild fire disaster, global producers have been generating about 96 million bbl per day. That slight glut of oil ( a million bbl per day) as kept the prices of oil and gasoline too down in this region at about two dollars a gallon. But the Canadian wild fires have put a dent in the supply. With consumption and production now about nearly equal, the sale of oil futures have spiked up from under $40 dollars a barrel to more than $44 dollars per barrel. In turn the price of gasoline at the American pumps has climbed too, reaching close to $2.50 in some localities.

So human induced climate change, or what I call "climatic intensification", is having its UNHAPPY effects in northern Canada, and on our pocketbooks too.

APOLOGIA PRO VITA TRUMP

Why support Trump?

American voters are used to going to the polls to pull a lever for a compromise. Too often we are faced with no real choice of policy change or alteration in the direction for our nation. We are forced to choose from among several less than ideal options. The American system is not a true democracy...or perhaps even a fair representative one. The recent circus-like events in both the Republican and Democrat nomination elections this season have exposed the ugly behind the scenes certainty of just how much our systems favors the super wealthy, the autocrats and oligarchs. Our founders did not favor us with a parliamentary system in which the voter has a better chance to elect a more representative government. So we often must just make do. This time, perhaps by lucky happenstance we do have actual options. Mr. Trump, though not an ideal candidate, still he provides us with a rare opportunity to change the course of government for the better.

How and why?

Trump is the non-politician that the founders may have envisioned as our representatives when they crafted our Constitution. He is perhaps the only candidate who actually has a record of achievement in the real world. He is demonstrably a successful businessman and multibillionaire. He has worked all his adult life at growing and managing a business empire. He comes with exceptional experience and skills in several areas which would stand him in good stead in both the Oval Office and in front of the TV cameras as a political leader.

Trump also "thinks out of the box". He sees problems as a businessman and has demonstrated a unique ability to craft novel solutions, unthinkable to Washington insiders. Our nation desperately needs such ability and expertise.

Most importantly,Trump gives us the opportunity to send a strong message to both parties that voters will no longer tolerate the massive and unwarranted influence of the mega donors in our elections and the evils of unlimited money in politics. Trump, who never fails to remind us that he is self-financing his campaign, is, as a result, not controlled by big money interests or the establishment types which are trained to beg for cash and take orders. He can and does "tell it like it is". He is the only one (along with Bernie Sanders) who can actually go to work in Washington for the average citizen, and give the middle finger to the Kochs, the Paul Singers and the Adelsons and their ilk, who in the past decades have had such a damaging effect on the political system and American policy, both foreign and domestic.

Trump, uncontrolled by the establishment and the megadonors, will place America, and the well being of the USA and it citizenry, in the forefront of his decision making. We can all agree that some "America First" thinking is needed in Washington. His foreign policy aims are to reduce our entanglements abroad. He will end our bloody, disastrous, expensive, self-defeating, neocon-inspired and supported adventures abroad in "unending wars" of the Middle East and elsewhere.

He sees NATO as useful but unfair to our citizens and a drain on our military and our economy. Why should the American taxpayer, who works harder, lives more frugally, and not as healthfully or as long as our German, Japanese and European allies, pay the lion's share for THIER defense expenses?

He favors renegotiating NAFTA and other trade agreements which have drained our nation of wealth and meaningful and well-paying jobs.

He favors strong border controls and limits on uncontrolled immigration which has held down middle class salaries and had devastating effects on jobs for middle and working class Americans.

He promises to "make America great again". That can only be accomplished, as Trump rightly states, by "bringing jobs back to America", and by revitalizing the middle class.

Cruz, the once "so called outsider", has somehow hypocritcally morphed into the new "establishment candidate". He is now the "Jeb Bush" candidate. Cruze along with Kasich, and Clinton would bring us only a return to the same old corrupt system of big money-megadonor-controlled, politics, foreign wars, and economic stagnation.

Think change, think of abandoning the disastrous policies of the the Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama-Bush regimes of the last decades. Unlike in recent past elections where voters could make only the meaningless choice between Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum, this fall Donald Trump is giving us a real choice---make use of it.