April 20, 2017

That Which CAUSES What it was Designed to PREVENT is Obsolete

And must be scrapped!

April 20, 2017

At Commerce, Ricketts becomes latest Team Trump casualty

Source: CNNPolitics

Washington (CNN) Todd Ricketts has withdrawn his nomination as deputy commerce secretary, officials said Wednesday, becoming the latest casualty of President Donald Trump's early wave of high-ranking staff selections who stepped aside before being confirmed to serve in the administration.

Ricketts, whose family owns the Chicago Cubs and spent about $1 million in helping to elect Trump, struggled to reconcile his family's complicated finances with the Office of Government Ethics.

"He wanted to serve, but couldn't untangle all of the finances," a person close to Ricketts told CNN.

The announcement of Ricketts to serve in the number two position at the Department of Commerce, which Trump made back on November 30, was among the earliest decisions made by the President-elect. But nearly five months later, Ricketts had yet to face a confirmation hearing in the Senate because his financial paperwork had not been approved by the ethics office.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/19/politics/todd-ricketts-trump-commerce-department/

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I wonder why all these people have decided not to get on board the U.S.S. Trump?

April 19, 2017

Bill McKibben: Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau. The man is a disaster for the planet

From the Guardian.....

Donald Trump is so spectacularly horrible that it’s hard to look away – especially now that he’s discovered bombs. But precisely because everyone’s staring gape-mouthed in his direction, other world leaders are able to get away with almost anything. Don’t believe me? Look one country north, at Justin Trudeau.

Look all you want, in fact – he sure is cute, the planet’s only sovereign leader who appears to have recently quit a boy band. And he’s mastered so beautifully the politics of inclusion: compassionate to immigrants, insistent on including women at every level of government. Give him great credit where it’s deserved: in lots of ways he’s the anti-Trump, and it’s no wonder Canadians swooned when he took over.

But when it comes to the defining issue of our day, climate change, he’s a brother to the old orange guy in Washington.

Not rhetorically: Trudeau says all the right things, over and over. He’s got no Scott Pruitts in his cabinet: everyone who works for him says the right things. Indeed, they specialize in getting others to say them too – it was Canadian diplomats, and the country’s environment minister, Catherine McKenna, who pushed at the Paris climate talks for a tougher-than-expected goal: holding the planet’s rise in temperature to 1.5C (2.7F).

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/17/stop-swooning-justin-trudeau-man-disaster-planet

Hey, maybe I won't get banned for posting this blasphemy!

April 19, 2017

Proof that Donald Trump is Getting Crazier: The Resistance with Keith Olbermann GQ

This was posted on YouTube roughly ten hours ago, so, if I'm duplicating anyone here on Du, please let me know, and I'll delete it.