2016 Politcal Shorts

I have yet to hear anybody, especially the so-called educated corporate media call attention to the fact that America, in the form of the CIA helped topple the elected government of Iran in August of 1953 in favor of a dictator, the Shah of Iran. This is a fact that was a major catalyst in the events of 1979 when hostages in the US Embassy were taken by the Iranian people. The term backlash should be part of the discussion associated with this deal.

No effort as of yet has been made to investigate the people who created these videos. No effort has been made to show the actual footage of these videos to establish their authenticity, because there are lawsuits in place to keep that from happening. Fox News aired these videos without having properly investigated their authenticity, and should be held accountable for not doing, so. And yet the GOP has chosen to pursue legislation without all the facts in play. In my book, political business as usual!!!

I live in Colorado. Pikes Peak is almost literally in my back yard. The Broadmoor Ski Resort has not operated in more than 20 years, because the average daily temperature rose too high to keep ample snow on the ground for skiing. Cheyenne Canyon just west of the Broadmoor has been suffering from aggressive changes in temperature such that the evergreen trees in the canyon are dying out. As Colorado Springs is a central area for lightning strikes, a major disaster is in the making. Aspen trees of Colorado are suffering as well from a drastic change of climate. In recent years there has been the Waldo Canyon Fire, the Black Forest fire, and the biggest one the Hayman fire. Last but not least, the Colorado River is slowly but surely declining its water flow. What is happening in your neck of the woods as it relates to Climate Change?

Turning education into a business has taken the greatest education system the world had ever known, into the least effect education system among the industrialized nations of the world. You can thank Governor Ronald Wilson Reagan for that, as his protest against protesters of the Vietnam War pursuant to the University of California Berkeley.

The People who go to war to defend our country have earned the right to expect health care for life at taxpayers’ expense. If it should be done for veterans it should be done for everybody. Healthcare is not business it is a fundamental right of citizenship.

On August 6^th and 9^th of 1945, the United States used atomic bombs against Japan to end World War II. It is my belief that we have not been able to suggest that we ever operate from a position of weakness in the global events as a result. It is the power to destroy a city anywhere in the world in less than an hour and the ability to destroy the infrastructure of an entire country in less than two hours that makes such words of weakness empty headed nonsense.

The one part of this issue that nobody is willing to address is the need to apply the separation of church and state. Christians like Mike Huckabee insist that religious beliefs should be allowed to outweigh constitutional authority. The Supreme Court, in the form of those five justices who voted for the LGBT communities’ right to marriage was the correct choice.

When he spoke at Liberty University the most compelling thing he talked about, was the 15 richest people in America making a combined 170 billion dollars between them in the last 2 years. Two of those people are clearly the Koch Brothers. Is there any doubt who Washington works for? Is there any doubt how the Koch Brothers can be so, arrogant as to openly pursue buying the election of 2016 to the tune of almost one billion dollars. There should be no doubt, as to who has actually benefited from Reagan and subsequent Republican tax cuts and spending measures.