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It’s really a shame that America’s two closest allies in the Middle East right now are constantly acting like spoiled brats and unruly children, shamelessly fighting over oil and land like some out-of-control two-year-olds fighting over birthday cake at a party. http://news.antiwar.com/2016/11/13/saudis-deliberately-targeting-civilian-infrastructure-in-yemen-war/

It’s unseemly. And annoying.

Both the Saudis’ and Israelis’ constant rude and puerile behavior makes me want to grab them both by the scruff of their necks and give each of them a lengthy time out. “Stop hitting Yemen,” I want to scream at them. “Stop trying to poke Palestine in the eye!” Leave poor Iraq alone and stop trying to dunk Iran’s head in the punch bowl. http://972mag.com/times-up-state-announces-immediate-demolition-of-bedouin-village/123285/

And as I watch these unruly Israeli and Saudi mini-me bullies throw birthday cake all over the yard, it also makes me want to grab their clueless parents in Washington DC by the scruff and send them off to a positive parenting class. “Either get your children under control or go home and let the rest of us enjoy our cake in peace!” I want to scream at Mr. and Mrs. Beltway. https://www.rt.com/op-edge/369721-us-weapons-wrong-hands/

Don’t you just hate parents whose kids are bullies and brats and are allowed to run around unsupervised and out of control? But then why should I not be surprised — when these unruly children’s parents are truly unpleasant people and brats and bullies as well. http://moderndiplomacy.eu/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1996:the-current-phase-of-conflict-in-syria&Itemid=139

“Hey. You. Keep your hands off of Syria, Ukraine and Libya!” I also want to yell at the mom and the dad. “Set a good example for your kids. For Christ’s sake, behave yourselves!” https://healingjustice.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/how-us-aggression-in-ukraine-risks-nuclear-war/

Saudis and Israelis? Little monsters! None of us in our right minds will ever want to invite them to our parties again — or invite their unruly parents either. http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/hidden-history/kill-anything-that-moves.html

PS: Wanna know what else that these unruly parents are up to? Trying to start World War 3 against China as well as Russia. But guess what? This is a really, truly bad idea.

According to journalist John Pilger, “In 2014, under the rubric of ‘information dominance’ – the jargon for media manipulation, or fake news, on which the Pentagon spends more than $4 billion – the Obama administration launched a propaganda campaign that cast China, the world’s greatest trading nation, as a threat to ‘freedom of navigation’….

“There is a demented quality about this war mongering,” Pilger continues. “It is as if the ‘American Century’ — proclaimed in 1941 by the American imperialist Henry Luce, owner of Time magazine — has ended without notice and no one has had the courage to tell the emperor to take his guns and go home.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45963.htm

And yet no one has the courage to tell these troublemakers that the party is over either — for the Saudis, for the Israelis, for the American war machine and, more than likely, for the entire human race as well. http://www.globalresearch.ca/as-climate-disruption-advances-un-warns-the-future-is-happening-now/5523661

In Berkeley right now, there is a group of protesters who have organized an action to protest against homelessness in America. They call themselves “The Poor Tour,” and their actions to protect the homeless are the equivalent of Standing Rock’s action to protect our water. The protesters are also trying to make the dire situation of homelessness here in Berkeley visible to the rest of our nation — and the police are forcefully trying to shut them down.

According to one organizer, Mike Zint, “Police have raided our action at least four times already. They illegally seize and destroy our belongings. The police don’t do that to the tweaker camps here but they do it to us. Why? It is because we are protesting that we are being constantly hammered.” https://www.facebook.com/First-they-came-for-the-homeless-253882908111999/

And, surprisingly, Zint also told me that many of the homeless in Berkeley are UC students. “But how can that be?” you might ask. Easy. According to Zint, students here have to pay $1,800 a month just to rent a 10 x 15 dorm room — which they also must share.

“Some say that the homeless student population at Cal is as much as 10% of the enrollment, but I think it is more like 300 homeless students.” Want a better class of homeless folks besides the tweakers and drunks? A better class of homeless is definitely on its way!

“What I suggest,” continued Zint, “is to make a whole bunch of tiny homes available. Each one of these self-equipped mobile tiny homes costs only $16,500 apiece. They are like mini-RVs, they come with trailer hitches, are portable and cost less than even the cheapest new car. The City of Berkeley could set up an RV-park type of operation with utility hook-ups, and then students could rent them for only $300 a month.” Like the hook-ups at State parks.

“But what about you personally,” I asked Zint. “How is all this camping out in the cold and the wet affecting you yourself?” It’s probably not as cold here as it is in North Dakota and the police here don’t use rubber bullets yet — but still.

“I’m doing okay,” answered Zint, “but some of the rest of us aren’t.” I know that last week, during one of the heavy rainstorms (while the rest of us were snug and warm in our beds), one of the protesters, Mike Lee, almost died from pneumonia. Lee says that he got sick because the cops just keep chasing the “Poor Tour” and confiscating their blankets and tents.

“I’d love to be more articulate about my ides for ending homelessness and to consult with the new mayor about how to solve these drastic problems, but I can’t think on my feet while the cops keep chasing me and chasing me.”

“What about the Oakland warehouse fire disaster,” I asked Zint.

He answered with the simple truth. “Artists and musicians lived there because they couldn’t afford to live in other, more building-code-safe lofts and studios. The bottom line here is that people are going to look for any way to get out of the weather.”

I really enjoyed talking with members of the Poor Tour. And I respect what they are doing. But even though Mike Lee tells me that the protesters’ tents will get bedecked with Christmas lights very soon and that even a Christmas tree is in their near future, there really is no place like a real home for the holidays.

PS: Need I remind you once again that, by simply re-directing the hundreds of billions of American dollars going into war profiteers’ pockets, we could easily feed and house every single man, woman and child in America. No more poor folks sleeping in doorways. No more children raised in the backseats of cars. No more frozen dead bodies of our elderly found in cardboard boxes after winter storms. Not to mention the jobs this would create. https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/07/how-war-propaganda-keeps-on-killing/

For instance, the British government just offered a journalist $17,000 a month to make up propaganda lies about not arming ISIS in Aleppo. And if the Brits are doing that kind of media manipulation, imagine what America’s War Street does to grind out its never-ending “fake news”. I wonder how much it pays the New York Times? And even Democracy Now for its fake news that ISIS butchers are merely “moderate rebels” peacefully hanging out in Aleppo? http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/british-government-funded-outlet-offered-us-journalist-17000-month-produce

I just heard the tragic story of ten friends who were looking for something fun to do on a Friday night — after a long week at work. They began texting back and forth. “Hey what about going to that show at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland tonight,” texted one musically-inclined friend.

“Sounds good to me,” another friend texted back. “I hear it’s gonna be fun — plus I love that venue”.

“Count me in,” said the third friend. She lived in San Francisco and didn’t want to miss a chance to meet up with her friends from Oakland.

Then another member of this tight group of friends who had known each other since college said that she wanted to go too. “But I may be late. Can’t get away until 10 pm at the earliest. Dinner with neighbors.” Three more friends also committed to another fun evening at the legendary Ghost Ship. The interior of the old warehouse had been set up to look like some sort of fairyland — plus you could get really close to the shows. http://sfist.com/2016/12/03/pre-fire_photos_from_inside_oakland.php#photo-4

But then things started to come up, you know how that goes, and pretty soon there were only three friends still committed to going to the Ghost Ship on that fateful Friday night — and one of them wouldn’t get there until almost midnight.

One friend got to the Ghost Ship just as the firefighters arrived. The other two friends have not been seen or heard from since. https://apnews.com/728834fb5d234766add47fec7b09183d

How come two of these friends are now sadly gone from this mortal coil forever while the other eight are grieving with their whole heart and soul — but alive.

Moral here? Always follow your dreams. Why? Because Death is never very far behind you, always breathing down your neck. You never can tell when your last day on Earth will be.

Whether you were in that Ghost Ship in Oakland that just burned to the ground, or that Ghost Ship in Syria infested by ISIS ghouls armed with weapons made in the USA, or in that Ghost Ship on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC (and, no, it doesn’t matter if you are Donald “Wall Street” Clinton or Hillary “War Street” Trump) http://russia-insider.com/en/big-media-lying-through-its-teeth-aleppo/ri17990 Or even if you are lucky enough to have access to those Ghost Ship bunkers that the Deep State owns under Wall Street — Death will always be breathing down your neck.

Always.

PPS: And on a very much lighter note, I was shocked to discover that Disneyland has pretty much killed off “Small World”. You get into those little boats and are happily expecting peace-loving munchkins to be singing their cheerful, hopeful and timeless theme song — and instead they are now screeching out a canned version of “Jingle Bells”. Consumer Alert: Hardly worth standing in line for.

I’m still fondly remembering my trip to Disneyland last week, and how everyone there was completely unified by only one goal (or maybe two): To see how many rides they could go on in one day and how to have the most fun. http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2016/11/disneyland-ultimate-american-melting.html

America should be so lucky as to be this united with regard to political goals as well. Politically, Americans are clearly divided along the lines of Red States and Blue States these days. But there is also a third state in American politics that’s never mentioned (except perhaps by those of us being described by the Washington Post as writing “fake news”). And the third state that I’m talking about here is the Deep State. http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/11/nothing-important-happened-in-syria-on-tuesday-nov-29/

But what is different from past American presidential elections (or selections — in the case of George W. Bush) with regard to the 2016 presidential election is that for the first time since perhaps Truman the Deep State seems to be divided within itself too. Most of Wall Street and War Street appear to be Clinton cheerleaders — while the rest of Wall Street and War Street seem to want Trump.

“We like everything Trump’s doing,” they complain, “but he’s just doing it too soon! America isn’t quite ready for our brand of all-out fascism quite yet. They still need a few years to be programmed and trained.” Or else beat into submission. “Clinton has the kinder and gentler touch.”

Make up your mind, guys!

But when the Deep State finally does reach an agreement within its ranks, then the rest of us will get whoever it is that they finally decide on — not who us mere voters seem to want or not want.

Should they support the recount for Clinton, making sure that it goes her way? Or should they wholeheartedly embrace president-elect Trump? Or are they suffering from buyer’s remorse? Apparently so. “We do love Trump, but we just can’t seem to let go of Clinton either,” they mumble to themselves. It’s almost like being on “The Bachelor” — getting down to the last two girls but still not being able to decide which sweetheart is gonna actually get The Rose. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45935.htm

Make up your mind, guys.
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We were sitting around with the boys by the stove in the general store trying to select the items to use this week in our weekly ‘omage to the “the three dot” journalism stile of column writing because there were so many possible items and the regular readers only have a limited time available to peruse this humble offering.

Here’s how the final choices go:

Joshua Sabatini in a story on page 6 of The San Francisco Examiner issue for November 30, 2016, with the headline “SF considers spending $7M  to block deportations”, informed readers that the funds would be taken from programs for the homeless and transportation.

When photos were published showing President Obama working in the Oval Office in his shirt sleeves, some Republicans objected strenuously because, they said, he was showing disrespect for the presidency. Now that Trump is selling Christmas tree ornaments and mugs that proclaim Let’s Make America Great Again, are voters going to say that huckster tactics help improve the world’s respect for the White House occupant?

Some ant-Trump liberal skeptics have started to fret that if Jeff Sessions become the Attorney General he will not be enthusiastic about recent moves made by voters in several states to legalize medicinal and/or recreational marijuana.

Is it true that an association of pot growers in Northern California plan to build a tourist attraction named “The Hemp Hall of Fame”?

What movies should be honored?  Reefer Madness, of course. Did the movie M*A*S*H have a pot smoking scene?

Is Fantasia the greatest stoner movie of all time?

When Mrs. Clinton, realized on election night, what the final result would be, did she say “Billy, we blew it.”?

If Rowan and Martin were still doing “Laugh In” would they have given a Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award to Jill Stein this week for her recent recount antics?

We were intrigued to hear this week Hunter S. Thompson’s family were implementing plans to enter the emerging legal pot trend  by cloning some products from the famous author’s private stash.

Are Berkeley-based cynics urging that the official theme song for Trump’s Inauguration should be Judy Collins’ “Send in the Clowns”?

Does the Democratic Party have a bullpen of liberal propagandists ready to participate in the gridlocked political partisan debate ?

WTF Dept.:  This Week – The World’s laziest Journalist has been asked to determine what is the value of a 1844 stamp from the American Letter Mail Co.?

Now the disk jockey will play “The Ballad of Easy Rider”, the theme from M*A*S*H and “The Green, Green Grass of Home”.

Have a chill out and get mellow kind of week!

There were thousands of happy people at Disneyland last weekend — and not even one of them was thinking about who did or did not win the presidential election this year.

Not only that, but no one there was even thinking, “Hey, gee, the guy sitting next to me on the pirate ride is Black,” or “Why didn’t they build a Wall between Fantasyland and Tomorrowland to keep out Donald Duck,” or even “Throw all those freeloading grandparents off Social Security and send them back to the Haunted Mansion where they belong”.

Everyone at Disneyland was just trying to have fun.

No one I ran into at Disneyland was thinking about bombing the Middle East or whether or not Russia should be hit with nuclear weapons ASAP or even why para-military goon squads are tear-gassing Native Americans at Standing Rock simply for defending their own land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRO7arI1KNo

Families at Disneyland were just having fun. Hell, even I was having fun. Perhaps America could learn something from us.

Perhaps we should be asking the president of Syria if he wanted to have us build Splash Mountain in Aleppo instead of having America waste billions of dollars on weaponizing “moderate rebel” al Qaeda thugs with enough deadly ordinance to blow up Frontierland and then some. https://off-guardian.org/2016/11/28/media-silent-as-lame-duck-congress-passes-resolution-for-syrian-no-fly-zone-provoking-war-with-russia/

Perhaps we should give Wall Street its very own “Small World” instead of a trillion-dollar bailout at our expense.

Perhaps we could even make America great again by sending everyone inside the DC Beltway off on a “Jungle Cruise”. Or firing our mainstream media into orbit on a “Star Tour”. Or telling the Deep State to go take a running jump off the “Matterhorn”.

Why?

Because when given an actual choice, individual average American working-class families like the ones I saw at Disneyland just want to have fun — not be the world’s latest Darth Vader.

There’s a moral here somewhere: The entire world, both large and small, loves America’s cultural stuff — from our ideals of democracy that we never carry through on to our hip-hop stars and movies and pop icons to our technical and medical research to our authors, artists and even down to Mickey Mouse. But nobody in the world loves our armies, deadly weapons, rigged elections, “preemptive” invasions, dictator allies, injustice, corporate greed, media propaganda and economic skullduggery. Nobody. http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/25/after-the-us-elections-world-exit/

After realizing that the Republican’s control the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate and will soon have a  majority on the Supreme Court of the United States, the World’s Laziest Journalist figured that the market for liberal punditry will soon start evaporating, the time to kick back and to enjoy retirement might have arrived; if after all that, a friend asked if we could donate our talents to an effort to provide content for a website featuring marijuana news, opinions and reviews, for music/books/films, the World’s Laziest Journalist abandoned all thoughts of a carefree respite.

The information arrived that someone is offering pot enhanced doggy treats. What’s next? Rehab facilities who wont stay our of your stash?

What are the possibilities for attention grabbing marijuana oriented photos?  We intend to find out.

Forty years ago a novel titled “Acapulco Gold” envisioned events that would occur when pot inevitably became a legitimate product in a capitalistic society.

Before the election Donald Trump said the process would be a rigged illusion.  Jill Stein and others are questioning the results.What can Americans do? We can ask Trump to endorse the Hemp Revolution.

Isn’t the media frenzy sounding like sour grapes?

(Note: site owner and publisher, Karla Gottschalk, asked if we would be up for an “On the Road”  tour?  The Rolling Stoned Tour? [ Question: can hipsters smoke pot in National Parks? Doesn't Smoky the Bear say "Edibles only, Please"?]))

Over and above donating content, we have been asked to help recruit more writers, editors, videographers and still photographers to help with the endeavor. (Google Hint: WHOIS “marijuana-news dot org”)

The Trump regime will provide Berkeley liberals with a myriad of topics to fret about . There are only 24 hours in each day and not even Houdini could work 24/7.

As various states cope with the legalization of marijuana there should be enough material for many columns with occasional injections of criticism of the Trump revolution in the USA.

What are the 10 Best Pot Songs? The disk jockey will start it off by playing “Puff, the Magic Dragon”, Peter Tosh’s “Legalize it” and Dylan’s “Rainey Day Women”.

Have a “Don’t Bogart that joint, myfriend” type week, to be continued …

Has anybody but me noticed that Donald Trump, during the 2016 election cycle, has done almost every single thing that he possibly can to antagonize and piss off mainstream American voters? First he came out in favor of Russia, China and Putin. In America, that is a total political no-no!

Trump then presented himself to voters as a racist, misogynist, homophobe and sex fiend. What sane American would possibly vote for that freaky combination? Apparently a lot of us did.

And even after Trump shamelessly waved his horns and tail at our so-called Christian community by disrespecting as many Biblical commandments as he possibly could and breaking the Golden Rule left and right, he still got far more electoral votes from them than Clinton did in the November 8 election (with a little help from gerrymandering, vote-counting fraud and Jim Crow — but still). http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/69953

Despite the staggering odds against Trump based on his insanely bad-boy behavior, he still actually won the Electoral College vote over Clinton. Why? Apparently because we Americans had become that resentful of Clinton’s war-hawk job-outsourcing neo-con Wall Street insider positions. NAFTA, Libya, Goldman Sachs and all that. “Better the devil you don’t know than the devil you do,” a lot of us said.

But even after Trump accidentally got elected, then what did he do then? He coulda just kept his mouth shut and hunkered down until inauguration day — but no.

Upon winning the election, Trump immediately continued his inexplicably-weird strategy of doing every single thing that he possibly could to still piss Americans off — and even ratcheted up his campaign to be the most hated man in America several notches. Considering John Bolton as SecState? That Strangelove fanatic running our foreign policy? Scary. And Sam Bannon on the transition team? That appointment alone would make AIPAC tear out its hair — and we all know that AIPAC runs America with an iron hand. What is Trump thinking?

Trump’s assumed position against freedom of choice for women has also alienated a good percentage of the female population, both before and after the election. And he’s also gone directly against all that expensive false TV propaganda constantly lying to us about the Middle East, propaganda that has been carefully spoon-fed to us for years at great cost. Hell. He’s even done everything he can to offend the biggest players in America today, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Trump apparently even supports Syria’s President Assad, another big CNN-Fox News-PBS propaganda no-no (support for Assad, as far as I’m concerned, is actually a good thing — but then that’s just my own foolish weakness for justice and truth. But I digress). http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2016/10/even-more-secrets-and-lies-about-aleppo.html)

Trump apparently also supports that dreadful and dangerous pipeline trying to run through Standing Rock’s sacred sites at the cost of even more Native American pain and suffering — as if Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears weren’t enough. https://www.rt.com/usa/367650-tribal-elder-cardiac-arrest-dapl/

Trump seems to be dead-set against climate change, Social Security and healthcare too, and even uses his new bully pulpit to advertise his daughter’s jewelry line. How tacky is that? And talks about cracking down on the internet. And doesn’t even want to reside in the White House. How much worse can it get!

The result of all this weirdly-erratic post-election behavior by our presumptive next Prez? Millions of Americans have now started marching and signing petitions and screaming and yelling — demanding to actually have Clinton back! Compared with Trump, now Clinton (aka Dick Cheney in a pantsuit) is actually starting to look good.

Could there be a pattern here? A method to Trump’s madness? To see just how far he has to go before his pal Hillary finally ends up back in the White House where she and her husband belong? Why else would a man like Trump, who used to be basically a centrist Democrat, who we all knew to be fair and unbiased on “The Apprentice,” suddenly turn into an alt-Right crazy guy? Why would he do such a thing? What is his motivation? What is in it for him? He coulda been a contender! http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2006/04/my-15-minutes-of-fame-auditioning-to-be.html

And then of course my next question would be, “Who let these dogs out?” Who would benefit most if America also got a new “Color Revolution” shoved down its throat like the ones in Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan?

The day before our national elections, I got a tooth pulled. It was a lower right molar, had been festering for a long time and clearly needed to come out — and this is a great analogy for America’s current political situation as well. Everyone wants those festering war-mongering neo-con capitalist bastards in Washington gone too. http://news.antiwar.com/2016/11/13/saudis-deliberately-targeting-civilian-infrastructure-in-yemen-war/

But the big difference in this analogy is that my dentist knew which tooth was rotten and which tooth to pull, and then she went about extracting it effortlessly and (almost) painlessly. But on election day in America, we got a whole bunch of teeth pulled — and they weren’t even the ones that hurt. http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=17705

But then things got even worse — for both America and for me. Being vulnerable after the extraction, I then got sick with the flu. Lots of tossing and turning and coughing and eating oranges and drinking herb tea. Nothing seemed to help. And that also seems to be the state that America is in right now too — nothing helps. Certainly the election didn’t. I’m thinking that America is sort of the same as me right now, sick along with me. Literally.

So. What is going to cure us? Certainly not Clinton or Trump. The only thing that is going to cure America right now is the same thing that is going to cure me — healthy food, lots of bed-rest, courage and being taken care of by kind friends. And, of course, time to heal. http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-are-public-officials-protecting-the-pesticides-industry-digging-down-into-the-cesspool-of-corruption/5557651

But unfortunately, time in America is rapidly running out.

We Americans also urgently need to start to eat right, get plenty of rest, put up a brave front and, most important, start being kind. Kind to ourselves, kind to our friends, kind to our constituents, kind to our children, kind to other nations and kind to our planet. And Americans need to start this regimen right now if we are ever going to heal.

PS: Where to start? Start by being kind to the person next to you — and the person after that. Be kind to the homeless. Be kind to children. Be kind to people who do not look like you. Be kind to that annoying person down the street. Be kind to yourself. Individual Americans are kind. Never forget about that.

“But what about bullies and ISIS and oligarchs and thieves and crazy people and mean girls and rapists and weapons manufacturers and banksters,” you might ask. Don’t become one of them. Be kind. No matter what the cost. Stand for something.

Back in the 1950s, I was my high school’s only beatnik. Growing up in a conservative town that worshiped Joe McCarthy, a town where even my own mother was president of the DAR, I would silently walk the halls of my high school all dressed in black — alone, disliked and misunderstood. Obviously I escaped first to New York’s Lower East Side and then on to Berkeley as soon as humanly possible.

And now here I am, still in Berkeley, and yet still walking the halls alone. Now people here dislike and misunderstand me too. “You’re stupid, Jane — and a fool. How dare you ever even think that Trump might be better than Clinton?” Hey, my bad. I just figured that Trump’s promise to stop spending a trillion or so bucks every year on pointless “wars” in the Middle East might be a better option for all. http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2016/11/us-british-clean-house-to-delete-syria-terror-links/

To quote journalist Robert Parry, “Donald Trump must decide – and decide quickly – whether he wants to be a great U.S. President or a robo-signature machine affixing his name to whatever legislation comes from congressional Republicans and a nodding figurehead acquiescing to more neoconservative [failed] foreign policy adventures.” https://consortiumnews.com/2016/11/15/trumps-slim-chance-for-greatness/

But now I’m sadly finding out that perhaps Trump is gonna become a neo-con robot after all and waste even more trillions on vicious “wars” in the Middle East. I might have been wrong to believe him. But the price that I am now paying for speaking out on my hopes for finally achieving peace in the Middle East reminds me so much of the price I once paid back in the 1950s for daring to speak out against Joe McCarthy and not just following the herd. It’s that exact same feeling all over again. People still hate me.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article176505.html

PS: Everyone here in California now seems determined to protest against Donald Trump. But that seems just counterproductive and useless. If everyone here truly hates Trump as much as they say, then the brave thing to do would be to secede from the Union — not just sign a few petitions, break a few windows and call me names.

Instead of just blindly mourning the election loss of Hillary Clinton, a career politician who is totally intertwined with America’s malevolent Deep State, why not just leave the Deep State altogether? http://news.antiwar.com/2016/11/13/saudis-deliberately-targeting-civilian-infrastructure-in-yemen-war/

PPS: Speaking of California, here’s a link to Rob Hustle’s new rap video, “Good Cop,” wherein I play a dying cancer patient being arrested for using medical marijuana to ease her pain. After this last election, that won’t be happening in California any more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiaiWwNgSeo

“You’re fired!” declares The Donald. But then the Clintons scream back, “We’re gonna fire your sorry ass first!” And George Soros starts babbling on and on about his famous “Color Revolutions” and how America can become the next Ukraine under his watch. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-11/clintons-and-soros-launch-americas-purple-revolution

Donald Trump’s domestic policy may suck eggs — but his foreign policy is spot-on. “Let’s destroy ISIS!” he says. Now that’s an idea whose time has finally come. What good is Hillary’s allegedly-fabulous domestic policy if the Clintons are still off trying to start World War 3 with Russia with all those trillions of dollars that should have been used to fix our bridges and improve our schools. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/can_trumps_presidency_overturn_hillarys_bloody_legacy_in_syria.html

Rumor even has it that Trump will use his executive powers to re-open the 9-11 investigation. Maybe the Saudis did it after all? Let’s find out. http://investmentwatchblog.com/trump-im-reopening-911-investigation/

But forget about the Clintons and Trump — and even Obama. With all their billions, they’ll somehow survive. They’ll do fine. Let’s concentrate on me instead. What do I myself, me, Jane Stillwater, want for me, myself and I? I just want to be happy. But who can be happy when there is a battle of elitist dinosaurs going on in Washington, babies are being blown up in Palestine, Syria and Yemen and there are thousands (if not millions) of homeless Americans — and Americans in debt and Americans without jobs? http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/11/09/progressives-prefer-nuclear-war-to-white-trash-americans-paul-craig-roberts/

“Do unto others as we would have others do unto us,” should be America’s national motto. Forget about E pluribus unum. Who the freak cares if out of Many came One — if that one is a power-mad off-the-rails country that kills women and children for breakfast and devours its poor huddled masses for lunch. https://consortiumnews.com/2016/11/06/nyt-admits-key-al-qaeda-role-in-aleppo/

“Life is a competition and the winners are the ones who do the most good deeds.” We should follow this concept too — because being the Queen of Chaos or being a bailed-out bankster or using paramilitary goons to smash water protectors or regulating who can vote and who can have babies? These are definitely not the ways to be happy.

CLARIFICATION: I’d rather not have Trump in the White House either but…it still annoys me that there are huge numbers of Lefties out there who would never ever vote for Kissinger or GWB yet absolutely salivated to vote for a candidate with the exact same foreign policy as them — and then take to the streets when their Kissinger-wannabe wasn’t elected. How many of us took to the streets because Dr. Stein lost the race?

Before Matt Drudge and Alex Jones called a win for Donald Trump, at about 10 pm Pacific, a pioneer hippie posted a comment on the Trump app saying “Congratulations, Mr. President.”

Subsequent efforts by the aforementioned individual to contact the Trump transition team to apply for a chance to be a part of the new bipartisan roster have been inconclusive.

Pundits who tried to explain the anti-Trump protesting by students in the San Francisco Bay Area ignored the pragmatic explanation that the kids may just have wanted to feel they were part of the change and amy simply wanted a day of when they could skip school.

There were some rumors alleging Trump would name Jaimie Diamond Secretary of the Treasury.

Interesting if true.

In Trump’s first term in office it seems that the popular websites that feature liberal points of view will have an insatiable need for harsh critical political punditry.

Some citizens are urging president-elect Trump to go to North Dakota and function as a mediator for the pipeline controversy and the assertion that indigenous water sources are being fouled.

How long has it been since the President served as “The Great White Father”?

One San Francisco blogger,  James the Advocate, has already dubbed the President-elect as “The Blue Collar Teflon Don”.

Journalism, the art of punditry and the Democratic party are in a shambles this week which means that there should be an abundance of challenging topics to write about in the coming weeks.

Now the disc jockey will play “The Party’s Over”, “Is that all are there is?” and “We’ve only Just Begun”.

Have a great week!  To be continued…

Suppose Hillary Clinton wins the 2016 presidential election? What will happen after that? She’ll probably get impeached. Lord knows there are grounds for it! http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-and-bill-clinton-pay-to-play-racketeering-the-bonnie-and-clyde-of-american-politics/5554804

According to Google, “The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” These are definitely grounds to impeach PrezClint2. http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/clinton-fans-stop-angst-ing/

But what if Donald Trump wins instead? Same scenario could happen. Don’t you have to be of high moral character or something like that to be Prez? Also, Trump has actually dared to come out against starting World War 3 and also against NAFTA, the TTP and sending America’s jobs offshore. Wall Street and War Street will try to get Trump impeached for those two “crimes” alone!

And suppose that members of the House of Representatives actually do muster up the courage to impeach the next sitting president? Then what would happen next? Vice-President Pence or Vice-President what’s-his-name would hopefully get impeached too — guilt by association, accomplices after the fact. They shoulda known better. But then what would happen? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julian-assange-clinton-foundation-isis-same-money-saudi-arabia-qatar-funding-a7397211.html

The Speaker of the House would be next on the list. But who the freak would ever want Paul Ryan in the White House? No one, that’s who. So next it would go down to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate — and couldn’t we somehow arrange that to be Bernie Sanders? Bernie could end up in the White House after all! Or not. Who wants a Clinton supporter in the White House? https://healingjustice.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/how-us-aggression-in-ukraine-risks-nuclear-war/

Then the Secretary of State would be the next person eligible on the list. Téa Leone in the White House? I could live with that. http://www.cbs.com/shows/madam-secretary/

The advice from a sports editor who said, ” never say never and never say a team cannot win”,  might be just as relevant before the 2016 presidential election as it was when SuperBowl III was about to be played.

The New York Jets were the overwhelming pick to lose but it didn’t play out that way.

Harry Truman was expected to lose the presidential election in 1948 but he fooled the experts.

San Francisco Bay Area political activist Karla Gottschalk is predicting that Donald Trump may be about to add his name to the list of people who have scored notable upset victories.

Journalists who are preparing to crank out detailed explanations and analysis stories about the election of the first woman president should temper their enthusiasm and never say never before the results have been certified.

Is it true, as Alex Jones has reported, that NBC has already  filmed the Clinton Campaign making the victory announcement?

Extensive polling indicates that Hillary Clinton is very likely to become the first woman to be elected president of the United States (are pollsters permitted to make wagers on political events?).

Professional athletes are not permitted to make wagers on sports events but it seems that a large number of Jet fans may want to place a bet on Donald Trump to score an upset victory on Tuesday.

Rumors are hinting that Hillary is going to appoint Joe Biden as Secretary of State.

It is almost certain that Donald Trump wont …

But sports fans know it aint over…till the fat lady sings. (Just ask any Cubbies fan!)

If Karla becomes the only pundit predicting an upset win perhaps the audience for her political punditry column will increase exponentially.

The journalists who bet on a victory by Hillary Clinton wont be fired or even get a reduction in pay if they guessed wrong but a Trump victory will mean extensive changes in politics. Perhaps for the better?

Shouldn’t cautious journalists get some credit for a heads up warning?  By next weekend, most pundits will ignore any botched predictions they issued and will start focusing on the question “who are the front runners for the 2020 presidential elections?”.

According to Karla, in the last debate, Hillary said we are going to war and Trump said he would talk to Putin so Karla is dubbing Trump the Peace Candidate and saying that he will appeal to more voters who are war weary now.

If you are a well-informed voter then you probably know about the Lolita Express issue. If not, not.

Can you name any sports writer who predicted that Joe Namath would lead the Jets to a certain win?

Donald Trump may be about to become the Joe Namath of the political world.

Have a collect your winning bets kind of week.

Ps: Go Broadway Don!

So far, Afghanistan is America’s longest war — or is it? I can think of a lot longer ones. Hell, the burning embers of Reagan’s war on Central America are still alive and well in Honduras. Things are still at a boil in Somalia right now — even after 20-odd years, are Blackhawks still going down over there? Yeah. And what about America’s neo-colonial proxy war on Palestine? That’s been dragging on for decades already — and probably won’t end until the total war-crime-scale genocide of Palestine is complete. Not to mention America’s war on the Sioux Nation right here in North Dakota — at least a few centuries old, am I right or what!

But I digress. Back on topic.

Exactly what the freak is going on in Afghanistan these days? We hardly ever hear about that “war” any more. But after performing a quick and random information-grab, here’s what I’ve figured out: American soldiers are still killing Afghans. The Taliban is still shooting back. It’s still all about Forward Operating Bases verses caves in Tora Bora and Meals-Ready-to-Eat versus goats over there. And drones versus wedding parties. And testosterone versus motherhood and burkas. And oil pipeline proxy wars between American engineers and engineers from China.

What a circus. What a mess. What a money pit. This is gonna be Obama’s legacy? Yep.

According to journalist James Petras, “Obama reneged on his campaign promises to end the war(s) in the Middle East by increasing the US troop presence and expanding his drone-assassination warfare against Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Syria. US troops re-invaded Afghanistan, fought and retreated in defeat. The Taliban advanced.” http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/04/president-obama-the-race-for-the-imperial-legacy/

Good grief. If Clinton is elected, can we expect Hillary to continue her current support of the Bush-Obama multi-trillion-dollar “pivot” to chaos and to count on getting four more years of this mess? Looks like it. But can Afghans (and also Americans) survive four more years of this painful and costly Bush-Obama pivot to Afghanistan? I’m thinking not.

I’m currently reading a book entitled Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, written by Iraq veteran Roy Scranton, who basically tells us that human beings have pretty much screwed themselves due to the vast and rapidly-approaching nightmare of climate change. If this book was designed to scare the holy shite out of people, it certainly has succeeded. http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100064510

According to Scranton, “Human civilization has thrived in what has been the most stable climate interval in 650,00 years. Thanks to carbon-fueled industrial civilization, that interval is over.” Boom. http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2016/10/were-homeless-and-we-vote-homeless.html

But is anybody doing anything to stop this nightmare from happening? Only a few people are — mainly a small-but-courageous Indian tribe at Standing Rock, North Dakota. And what is America’s reaction to this heroic stand against death by carbon? We have just spent hundreds of thousands of tax-payer dollars trying to tear-gas them, harass them, arrest them, pepper-spray them and shoot rubber bullets at them. Way to go America! Or not. https://www.beforetheflood.com/

Thank goodness for the Standing Rock Lakota Sioux. Like it or not, they are protecting us. They are standing in place instead of us. They are bravely standing in front of a hurricane of climate-death and are doing it in our name. And all we do to thank them is to pay for the militarized police’s tear gas, dogs and bullets that attack them.

I propose another way to thank the Standing Rock Sioux. Let’s all go to Standing Rock this Thanksgiving — and show them that we really do have something to be truly thankful for.

PS: If you can’t figure out how to get all the way to the Standing Rock Reservation, then consider having your Thanksgiving dinner in front of the Capitol building in Bismarck instead. Can’t make it there either? How about Thanksgiving dinner in front of the US Congress or the White House.

PPS: Standing Rock protestors, Black Lives Matter, various Chicano movements and Occupy are practically the only true Americans these days — Americans who are courageous enough to actually stand up to the US military-industrial complex that is gobbling up the rest of us alive. We should honor these protestors instead of bombing them with tear gas and attacking them with dogs. http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/30/after-two-wars-standing-rock-first-time-i-served-american-people

The rest of us whine and grieve that we are losing everything — but do nothing to stop it and just go along.

PPPS: Aside from being victims of the climate-change hurricane that is now bearing down upon us post-haste, Standing Rock is also just more collateral damage right now (along with Syria, Palestine, Ukraine, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Nigeria, etc.) in the neo-con “wars” for oil. But who knows who the next “collateral damage” will be? Probably us. https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/102964/we-risk-being-collateral-damage-neocon-lust-war?utm_campaign=weekly_newsletter_255&utm_source=newsletter_2016-10-28&utm_medium=email_newsletter&utm_content=node_title_102964