Trump needs to win.
Impeachment is NOT winning
QUITTING IS WINNING.
If he quits what does he care? His business contacts from all over the world are firmly established.
He will take his pride.
And in the end he will still be a President of the United States.
( I hate to toot my own horn but I predicted this before Trump was elected to office. I've got a blog post to prove it!)
There is no magic dog food.
Understand that.
No pill.
No surgery,
that will cure your Old Dog.
Old age is not a disease.
Please understand and be gentle with them.
See them off on their journey.
Don't fight to prevent that journey
And please don't let your Old Dog die alone in a vets cage tortured from saving.
Let your face be the last thing your old dog sees because this is exactly what your old dog wants.
The soul can never be a piece of Real Estate.
The heart cannot be weighed and
exchanged for gold.
You can't catch love and call it
a commodity.
(*written by Karina holosko )
Executive Orders
In times of emergency, the president can override congress and issue executive orders with almost limitless power.
Abraham Lincoln used an executive order in order to fight the Civil War, Woodrow Wilson issued one in order to arm the United States just before it entered World War I, and Franklin Roosevelt approved Japanese internment camps during World War II with an executive order. Many other executive orders are on file and could be enacted at any time.
Trump will do it to round up The Evil Immigrants.
While the President does have unilateral authority as commander-in-chief to order that nuclear weapons be used for any reason at any time, the actual procedures and technical systems in place for authorizing the execution of a launch order requires a secondary confirmation under a two-man rule.
The President's order is subject to secondary confirmation by the Secretary of Defense. If the Secretary of Defense does not concur, then
the President may in his sole discretion fire the Secretary.
The Secretary of Defense has legal authority to approve the order, but cannot veto it.[1][2][3]
HOW TO LEAK (AND NOT GET CAUGHT) A brief guide to becoming an anonymous source. Web The anonymity network Tor obscures your identity by routing your online traffic through computers worldwide. Access it via the web-based Tor Browser to visit any site related to your planned contact with the press.
Find a directory of the 35 or so news organizations that maintain SecureDrop portals—Tor-enabled inboxes for anonymous tips. Then choose an outlet and leak away. Phone Buy a burner—a cheap, prepaid Android phone—with cash from a nonchain store in an area you’ve never been to before.
Don’t carry your regular phone and the burner at the same time, and never turn on the burner at home or work. Create a Gmail and Google Play account from the burner, then install the encrypted calling and texting app Signal.
When you’re done, destroy the burner and ditch its corpse far from home. Snail mail Pick a distant mailbox, don’t carry your phone on the trip, and—duh—don’t include a real return address. (Wired Magazine - my fave.)
(The following op-ed was exclusively provided to Business Insider to coincide with a speech Bill Gates is giving for the Munich Security Conference. The following is an abridged version of his remarks.)
When I decided 20 years ago to make global health the focus of my philanthropic work, I didn't imagine that I'd be speaking at a conference on international security policy. But I'm speaking here at the Munich Security Conference because I believe our worlds are more tightly linked than most people realize.
War zones and other fragile state settings are the most difficult places to eliminate epidemics. They're also some of the most likely places for them to begin-as we've seen with Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and with cholera in the Congo Basin and the Horn of Africa.
It's also true that the next epidemic could originate on the computer screen of a terrorist intent on using genetic engineering to create a synthetic version of the smallpox virus . . . or a super contagious and deadly strain of the flu.
The point is, we ignore the link between health security and international security at our peril. Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at the hand of a terrorist, epidemiologists say a fast-moving airborne pathogen could kill more than 30 million people in less than a year. And they say there is a reasonable probability the world will experience such an outbreak in the next 10-15 years.
My next big idea.
Starbucks in cemeteries.
The thinking behind this brainchild of mine... Stay with me.
Since no one visits cemeteries anymore and the regulars are deadbeats, I believe that a Starbucks in a cemetery would definitely encourage people to visit with their loved ones. They could chill out with a coffee, listen to some music, socialize, use free intenet access and munch on Edibles.
The benefits of having a Starbucks in a cemetery.
1. Really cheap rent.
2. The neighbour's will never complain.
3. Lots of Parking
4. Flowers are free.
5. Peace and Quiet
6. Dogs allowed
7. Open spaces for kids to play.
8. Headstones to rest on.
9. Immediate Recycling.
(No need for plastic garbage bags. Coffee grounds can be used as fertilizer).
10. Great acoustics for live music.
Add Internet access, and marajuana treats and you will have the ...
Best Starbucks Ever!
P.S. You laughed at me when I said Trump would win and tap Omarosa for a government role. Don't count me out. Starbucks in Cemetaries could be the next big thing.
Remember you heard it here first!
Although the regular clients are deadbeats, opening a Starbucks in a cemetery would definitely encourage people to visit their loved ones.
This is for real. The picture is an advertisement for a company called Arconic. They advertise in WIRED magazine. My personal favorite.
The Web site is really well done. They have a cool section they call "The Jetsons" after the classic T.V series.
They are trying to create a working Jetson World!
As a bonus they seem to have a lot of cool jobs and you can even buy shares!
I definitely think this would be a good investment . The stock was
$ 29.57 today Feb 10/17.
That's a little high for me. At that price I will have to take a closer look at who is running the company.
I want to see their pictures, I want to read their resume. I want to find out what they accomplished at previous companies.
( I personally feel they are a little over extended based on the brief research that I did. I think the investors are expecting too much of a return too quickly and that can lead to engineering mistakes. The investors should really chill out and understand that a lot of things must go wrong before we get something right. )
I think it might have a low of $20.00 sometime this year just because of the current messed-up Government....which is unpredictable.
And I think ALL stocks are Uber inflated right now.
It's a good time to sell.
( I will go back to my penny stocks for now)
Holiday, a 125lb Loggerhead Turtle was found starving to death.
She had a huge hook lodged in her throat and 7 yards of fishing wire jammed into her intestines.
Thanks to the people at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, Holiday was healed and released.
When that girl saw the ocean she flipped out!
I was blessed to witness this
First they came for the Muslims.
I did nothing. I was not Muslim
Then they came for the Mexicans.
I did nothing. I was not Mexican.
Then they came for me and there
was no one left to save me.
(Poem by Karina Holosko inspired by Pastor Martin Niemoller)
The soul can never be a
piece of real estate.
The heart cannot be weighed
and exchanged for gold.
You can't catch love and call it a
Commodity.
Too bad for you.
(Poem by me)
On February 12/17, I tweeted that 11 million immigrants should stay home, take their kids out of school and not go to work.
Today my vision is realized.
Not all 11 million people will participate today but this will grow.
Let's see how Trump deals with the fact that the American economy will tank without them.
Now that's Bad business!
We need to develop a framework for our Sanctuary cities NOW.
I have been noticing a trend which points to the polarization of Trump voters vs. Trump supporters.
Trump Voters did so "for Change". They are now feeling ashamed and misled. I get that.
Trump Supporters are diehards, and many diehards think of themselves as Uber pro-American.
How will this factor in the future?
What will happen when diehards discover that the voting booths were compromised and Trump knew?
I think they will turn on him in a violent and profound way. I get that.
Remember when I told you Trump would win? He is.
Now he's banning Mexicans and planning to arrest ANYONE who is NOT an American citizen. With the help of ICE.
Definition of ICE.
ICE. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (US Department of Homeland Security; formerly parts of Immigration & Naturalization Service and US Customs)
Sanctuary Cities Unite.
We are stronger together.
Lets, Keep America Great!
Because...
First they came for the Muslims.
I did nothing. I was not Muslim
Then they came for the Mexicans.
I did nothing. I was not Mexican.
Then they came for me and there
was no one left to save me.
(Poem by Karina Holosko inspired by Pastor Martin Niemoller)
Trump controls ICE which means he can deport anyone at any time because ICE is a federal branch of the government
Now he's switched his target from Muslims, to include Mexicans and any non-citizens.
And to cover his ass for being labeled racist, he is deporting "criminals". Criminals including those that jump turnstyles.
But he is taking this one step further.
Now he is deporting "anyone who is not a United States Citizen" (CNN).
It is time to get those Sanctuary Cities started and put a temporary ban on I.C.E. from carrying out their grusom mandate. END
The faces of ICE:
ice.gov/leadership
Poem inspired by Pastor
Martin Niemöller (1892–1984), who was a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.
(See Wiki)
It's time for Sanctuary Cities to take what was ideologically sound and begin to impliment systems of protection.
Now please.
According to the news media immigrants are being rounded up. They are being accosted from their homes and ripped from their families.
They are being stopped at shopping malls and asked to produce "papers".
Apparently we are deporting "criminals".
And we are learning that the definition of "criminal" for I.N.S includes misdemeanors like jumping a turnstile.
Misdemeanors are being lumped in with felonies.
Trump recently broadened the categories of people who could be targeted for immigration enforcement to anyone who had been charged with a crime, removing an Obama-era exception for people convicted of traffic misdemeanors, Kagan said.
This is broadsweaping. This is scarry, terrifying and historically parallels the techniques that Hitler implimented to purge the world of Jews.
It's time to BUILD SANCTUARY CITIES!
by. Karin Brulliard/Wahington Post Feb 3rd
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday abruptly removed inspection reports and other information from its website about the treatment of animals at thousands of research laboratories, zoos, dog breeding operations and other facilities. In a statement, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service cited court rulings and privacy laws for the decision, which it said was the result of a “comprehensive review” that took place over the past year.
It said the removed documents, which also included records of enforcement actions against violators of the Animal Welfare Act and the Horse Protection Act, would now be accessible only via Freedom of Information Act Requests.
Those can take years to be approved. “We remain equally committed to being transparent and responsive to our stakeholders’ informational needs, and maintaining the privacy rights of individuals with whom we come in contact,” the statement said. The records that had been available were frequently used by animal welfare advocates to monitor government regulation of animal treatment at circuses, scientific labs and zoos.
Journalists have used the documents to expose violations at universities. Members of the public could also use the department’s online database to search for information about dog breeders, as could pet stores.
Seven states currently require pet stores to source puppies from breeders with clean USDA inspection reports, according to the Humane Society of the United States — a requirement that could now be impossible to meet. Elephants at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, which is inspected by USDA-APHIS. (Bill Sikes/AP) Animal welfare organizations quickly condemned the removal of the information, which they called unexpected and said would allow animal abuse to go unchecked.
“The USDA action cloaks even the worst puppy mills in secrecy and allows abusers of Tennessee walking horses, zoo animals and lab animals to hide even the worst track records in animal welfare,” said John Goodwin, senior director of the Humane Society’s Stop Puppy Mills Campaign, which uses the federal records, as well as state inspection reports, to publish its annual “Horrible Hundred” dog breeding operations that have been cited for welfare violations.
[How our political vitriol harms dogs] In a statement, Kathy Guillermo, the senior vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, called it “a shameful attempt to keep the public from knowing when and which laws and regulations have been violated. Many federally registered and licensed facilities have long histories of violations that have caused terrible suffering.” It is unclear whether the decision to remove the animal-related records was driven by newly hired Trump administration officials.
When asked questions about the change, a USDA-APHIS representative referred back to the department’s statement. The Associated Press reported that a department spokeswoman declined to say whether the removal was temporary or permanent. Advocates for businesses that rely on animals, including agriculture and exotic pet breeders, have long resented government oversight that they say is overly aggressive and influenced by animal protection groups.
Last month, Mindy Patterson, the president of the Cavalry Group — which describes its aim as “protecting and defending animal enterprise”– wrote a column accusing the USDA of having “succumbed to the pressure of animal rights extremists.” She said public USDA records had allowed groups like the Humane Society and PETA to vilify businesses by publishing their addresses and photographs of their locations and animals.
The column was published on the website Joe For America, which is maintained by Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, an Ohio man better known as “Joe the plumber” since a 2008 encounter with then-presidential candidate Barack Obama that made Wurzelbacher a symbol of frustrated American taxpayers. [Share information anonymously and securely with The Washington Post] A USDA-APHIS inspection report that was accessed earlier this week by the White Coat Waste Project. Such reports are no longer on the department’s website. (Justin Goodman)
The USDA website change came two days after Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) introduced a bill calling for more information about and a reduction in testing on animals at government research labs. The bill is backed by an advocacy group, the White Coat Waste Project, which says such testing is a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Justin Goodman, the group’s vice president for advocacy and policy, said much of the information he has gathered on animal testing at hundreds of federal facilities — including inspection reports and annual reports that can include information on the species and numbers of animals used — came from the USDA-APHIS database. He said the department’s reference to privacy requirements were puzzling, because many of the documents were already heavily redacted.
The page where the information was located now brings up the announcement about its removal. “There was already a troubling lack of transparency about what happens in government-funded labs,” Goodman said. “This was a very important resource for us, and for every animal organization, in terms of tracking patterns of animal use and compliance, whether it’s in labs or other settings.”
I believe that Donald Trump will get what he wants and the Ban will hold. He will do this by stopping all new Visas from being issued.
It will be legal and the Ban will stay in effect for 4 years when The Republican Party will cease to exist and the Ban will be lifted.
That's if Trump does not insite a Nuclear War.
At 10am this morning Donald Trump broke away from his handlers, found a cell phone, locked himself in the bathroom and tweeted ..."Even a bad high school student would rule in my favor".
Dumb.
And then it occured to me that the comment was tweeted puposely.
I think he already knows that he won.
These are the outcomes as I see em.
1. The ban will stay in place until Congress reviews. Issuing new Visas will be put on hold.
OR
3. The ban will be lifted. But Issuing New Visas will be put on hold.
Either way, Donald Trump's Wins.
His "Art of the Deal", style is to throw out an outrageous argument, let the other side freak out and end up with exactly what he wanted in the first place.
He wants to make it a law that the United States will no longer issue new Visas from the seven countries he has listed.
In effect it's a legal way to stop all Muslims from getting a Visa. Which means they are essentially banned anyway.
So the protests may dissapear because what will they protest about.
Heres the strategy.
1. Muslims are NOT being banned.
They just have to be issued a Visa by the American government.
That makes sense. Who can protest that?
Here's the rub.
If American government is not going to issue new Visas, the Muslims are banned.
Trump Wins.
How do you stage a protest march and ask the government to issue new Visas?
And I wonder. Who is really. in charge of issuing Visas? Is there a Donald Trump appointee lurking about?
If we want to outsmart this guy read the Art of The Deal. Mr. Trump will be consistent and reliable and that will make him predictable.
That predictability will be his weakness.
Who we really have to watch out for is Jared Kushner. He thinks he is so brilliant that he can run circles around the best legal minds in the country.
His weakness is Hubris.
That boy needs a slap on the nose.
Is it possible that,
Kellyann Conway and Steve Bannon have tied up Donald Trump and taken away his cell phone so that he cannot tweet insults to the judges reviewing his immigration ban.
I wish I were I fly in that room.
I honestly feel that if the Ban is reinstated by the Donald Trump administration there will be Civil War.
I had this picture taken because I wanted to document myself working on one of the hardest poems I have ever written.
It has taken me 6 months to finish and has been agonizing.
I have completed the first part , called Garbage Baby.
Wish me luck!
Yes. I believe that the Trump administration is quite capable of faking a "terrorist" attack to justify their actions.
Kellyanne Conway, professional zealot, and alternative fact expert.. will make it so.
Let's prepare for that.
U Rock Judge Robart
Brave and wise.
Judge Robart, Blocked Executive Order to ban Muslims.
I have finally come to understand that the justice system in America will stop Trump.
