Objective of this Blog

It is my intention of posting items here that I find of interest to the general reader who has a concern for what is happening in the United States today. My view is from a left of center perspective. This is done with the knowledge that my sources or myself might be wrong. I will not print anything I don't have good reason to believe is true knowing that someone else may not agree.

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

"Lock her up"

"Lock her up" he yelled at every campaign stop.  He said her use of e-mails could have divulged classified info to the enemies of this country.

Remember the media going ballistic over the news  that  Andrew Weiner was reading those electronic ejaculations because he was married to an aide to Hillary Clinton?  Oh, the threat to national security was beyond incredible.

Now we know that he (you know the "big fool" in the words of Pete Seeger and his "Waist deep in the Big Muddy") has personally shared classified information with several Russians who are his business partners and also officials of the Russian state.

Need I say it?  LOCK HIM UP.

Friday, May 5, 2017

Andrew Jackson and Slavery

It just happens that there has been some talk of late about President Andrew Jackson due to the comments by Donald Trump indicating that Jackson was a favorite president of his.  Trump, of course, claimed that Jackson would have somehow stopped the Civil War from happening.  "he would have worked it out" said the donald.  The fact that Jackson died some 15 years before the Civil War broke out didn't seem to bother Trump.

In a Virginia paper recently there was a article about Presidents Jackson and Jefferson being slave owners and some slave ads that appeared for runaway slaves of theirs.  Jackson's ad stated that he would pay $50 for the return of a runaway and an "...extra $ 10 for every hundred lashes andy person will give him, to the amount of three hundred".  Jefferson's ad noted the runaway by name and age and the fact that he was corpulent. 
(Source: "Cataloging cruel ads to hunt runaway slaves" by Doneen Brown of the Washington Post. In The Virginian Pilot on April 12, 2017.)