PRESIDENTIAL VULGARITY

To the everlasting credit of Trump's supporters, they would never tolerate his vulgarity, if it came from Barack Obama!

TIME FOR ANOTHER PARTY

With  a record Dow Jones, low gas prices, lower deficit, most of the troops back home, it's time for that black man who cleaned up the mess, from the last Republican party, to go home and let the good times roll again!  Republicans have learned much over the last decade.  They know, now, how to party like there's no tomorrow and not suffer any consequences.  They have learned to shift the burden of  their actions on to the tax paying public, using virtual dollars, so that they don't miss a beat, in their life style, and have the public pick up the tab, without complaint.  Party time! 

ALL THAT'S NEEDED

All that is needed, for the Republicans to become believers in man-made climate change is for the U.S. to agree to indemnify the fossil fuel industry for possible losses owing to ceasing their use in the  production of energy.  The Koch Brothers, for example, would immediately fund the Mother of All Ad Campaigns to warn us of the dangers.  Republicans would become the greenest of the greens.

CORPORATE FEUDALISM

It may turn out that the greatest irony, the world has known, will occur if many of those, who advocate for a small government, while at the same time, accepting unbridled growth of powerful corporations, end up as serfs for those same corporations.

SACRIFICE ON THE ALTAR OF CORPORATE PROFITS

Just as some were proud to serve as sacrifices to appease the Gods of the Aztecs, the thousands of  American victims of gun violence, every year, in America, should be proud of having been sacrificed to  appease our corporate Gods.  Why should dying for the good of corporate profits be any less honorable than dying for the good of one's country?

WE ARE NOT A NATION OF SHEEP, CATTLE MAYBE, BUT NOT SHEEP.

The people in these United States are not sheep but they can be herded like cattle.  Tens of thousands of gun related deaths, annually, get barely a yawn, since we are told that it's the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution and we cannot act rashly.  Over 300 hundred mass shootings have occurred this year, alone and our handlers tell us to remain calm, and we bovinely comply.  One of those mass shootings, in which a mere dozen+ people are killed by an ISIS sympathizer and we are told to stampede and stampede we will do.  Register all Muslims, but don't register guns.  Carpet bomb ISIS but don't try to stop them from buying weaponry, in the U.S. 

NEARING THE CENTENNIAL OF THE FOUNT OF PROBLEMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Starting in 1918, the British and French began to divide up the Ottoman Empire, drawing the boundaries of both present day Syria and Iraq.  Good Imperialists that they were, they made sure to draw the borders so that each country would have at least 2 to 3 rival ethnic groups who could be pitted one against the other against the other thus facilitating their becoming a colony. similarly to what the British had been able to do in the 19th Century. on the Indian sub-continent.

The Caliphate to which ISIS alludes came into being in the 8th and 9th Centuries under Muslim Arabs who conquered large swathes of territory including all of present day Arabia and the Levant, including present day Syria and Iraq.  Most of the land was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire starting in the 11th Century.

ISIS signalled that it wanted to return to a Syria and Iraq as it existed before the Ottoman Empire, and before the British and the French drew the boundaries.  By changing its name to ISIL, it was already signaling that it  had already expanded its geographic scope of  action.

As the Centennial Year of 2018 approaches, be sure to celebrate the birth of ISIS on November 11th of that year.