Holocaust Denial in the White House

The White House failed to mention the slaughter of Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day.  This was the same day Trump issued an executive order issuing a ban for 120 days of all refugees from seven primarily Arab nations.  Coincidence?

About That Refugee Ban

The Trump administration just placed a ban on refugees from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.  According to an analysis from the Cato Institute, between 1975 and 2015, not a single American was killed by any refugee from any of these countries.

Also not a single one of the 19 hijackers which participated in 9/11  were from any of these countries.

The Radical Right Runs America, But Democrats Still Don’t Get It

From Crook and Liars.  Author Claire Conner breaks down the Radical Right's agenda.  Imagine taking this country back to the 1900s before those evil liberals started bucking the rich white male power structure.

"Where's the opposition to a cabinet of wealthy plutocrats, military hawks. and radicals who want to destroy the agencies they're going to elad.

Good question.  The Democrats are rolling over promising to work with the Trump administration. Where are the progressives?

Read the entire article here.

From Think Progress - This Week in Trump's America: Week 1

The website thinkprogress.org  has a rundown of the first week of the Trump takeover.  We should all be concerned.  Our civil and human rights are eroding.  resist before it's too late.  

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-week-one-553e77774801#.jowtuyi5s

Fake News? Look no further than Fox News.

There's a lot of talk about fake news these days.  There's fake news, and there's networks who proffer in propaganda and sheer speculation.

Compiled from many more credible sources, the link below lists 403 ways Fox News is the biggest mainstream fake news network   Some favorite headlines include:

     Fox News apologizes for falsely reporting that Clinton faces indictment
     Let's compare the backgrounds of science writers for Fox and NPR
    The Top 5 times Bill O'Reilly has been dishonest with America

Fun and informative.

http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/issues.php?issue=fox

Excerpt from Obama's last speech to U.S. Troops as Commander-In-Chief

So let my final words to you, as your Commander-in-Chief, be a reminder of what it is that you are fighting for, what it is that we are fighting for. The United States of America is not a country that imposes religious tests as a price for freedom. We’re a country that was founded so that people could practice their faiths as they choose. The United States of America is not a place where some citizens have to withstand greater scrutiny, or carry a special I.D. Card, or prove that they are not an enemy from within. We are a country that has bled and struggled and sacrificed against that kind of discrimination and arbitrary rule, here in our own country and around the world.

We’re a nation that believes freedom can never be taken for granted, and that each of us has a responsibility to sustain it. The universal right to speak your mind and to protest against authority. To live in a society that’s open and free. That can criticize our president without retribution. A country where you’re judged by the content of your character, rather than what you look like, or how you worship, or what your last name is, or where your family came from. That’s what separates us from tyrants and terrorists.

We are a nation that stands for the rule of law, and strengthened the laws of war. When the Nazis were defeated, we put them on trial. Some couldn’t understand that. It had never happened before. But as one of the American lawyers who was at Nuremberg said, “I was trying to prove that the rule of law should govern human behavior,” and by doing so, we broadened the scope and reach of justice around the world. Held ourselves out as a beacon and an example for others.

We are a nation that won world wars without grabbing the resources of those we defeated. We helped them rebuild. We didn’t hold on to territory, other than the cemeteries where we buried our dead. Our greatest generation fought and bled and died to build an international order of laws and institutions that could preserve the peace, and extend prosperity and promote cooperation among nations. And for all of its imperfections, we depend on that international order to protect our own freedom.

In other words, we are a nation that, at our best, has been defined by hope and not fear. A country that went through the crucible of a civil war to offer a new birth of freedom, that stormed the beaches of Normandy, climbed the hills of Iwo Jima, that saw normal people mobilize to extend the freedom of civil rights. That’s what makes us who we are. It makes us stronger than any act of terror.

Remember that history. Remember what that flag stands for. For we depend on you. The heirs to that legacy. Our men and women in uniform, and the citizens who support you, to carry forward what is best in us, that commitment to a common creed, the confidence that right makes might, not the other way around.

David Petraeus is still in the running for Secretary of State.  The job Hillary Clinton used to hold.  Now, who actually did get caught passing along top secret material, to his mistress, while head of the CIA at the time?  Not exactly the best candidate for Secretary of State.  But, this is Trumpland.  Watch this space.