Pope Francis spent a peaceful night but is still on oxygen. His condition is still critical and his prognosis is “guarded.” The Pope spent most of Saturday sitting in an armchair, which sounds hopeful. But Vatican news emphasizes that he is not out of danger. From Vatican News: Pope Francis had a peaceful ninth night in the hospital, the Holy See Press Office published on Sunday morning, issuing its latest note to journalists as the Holy Father is being treated... Read more
Pope Francis is in critical condition after what Vatican News describes as an asthma-like respiratory crisis of prolonged intensity, which required the administration of high-flow oxygen. He is also suffering from thrombocytopenia, which is a low platelet count. I have no idea what the cause of thrombocytopenia might be in Pope Francis’ case, but a Google search came up with information that said it can be caused by high doses of steroids. I’m not a doctor, but I’ve had to take... Read more
Nazi salutes are showing up everywhere in MAGA world. Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute at Trump’s presidential inauguration a month ago. Musk, in typical MAGA fashion, tried to gaslight by claiming that he didn’t do what we plainly saw him do. He claimed he was giving a “Roman salute.” In other words, Elon was claiming that he was saying “Hail Ceasar” to Trump instead of “Heil Hitler.” That’s not a whole lot better, but I am convinced it was... Read more
NOTE: The illness I describe in this post was more serious than I thought. It was COVID that got rolling with my asthma and turned into pneumonia. Even though this post — which I never got around to posting — is now a month old, I’m sad to say that I think it’s still relevant. The past month has been worse than a coup. It has been the malicious deconstruction of our government and our democracy and the injection of... Read more
It took Hitler six months to completely destroy German democracy. Trump is moving much faster than that. Many of the things he and Elon are doing are flat-out illegal. But no one raises that question because no one believes that the law applies to Trump or Elon or any of the gang of thugs who are now running our country. They are dismantling our country and setting up an absolute dictatorship. it’s too much to discuss in detail and too... Read more
Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they do not defend. The widow’s plea does not reach them. Isaiah 1: 23 Trump put tariffs on Mexico and Canada last Saturday. Unlike Jeff and Mark, who knocked one another down in the rush to sell themselves to Trump … also unlike most of America’s “news” outlets, who folded up like wet washcloths in front of Trump …... Read more
Lies are unsuited to a godless fool — how much worse lying lips to a ruler! Proverbs 17: 7 Donald Trump did his usual after the tragic air crash this week. He held a splashy press conference and lied and slandered to cover his own incompetence. As always happens with him, nothing he said had any basis in truth. And, as always, the entire right wing media support machine immediately swung into action, repeating and amplifying his lies. Right wing cable... Read more
My life closed twice before its close— It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. Emily Dickinson We make many assumptions, just to get us through each day. Perhaps the most necessary is our bland assumption of life itself. We go to bed at night with our alarms set and food... Read more
Elon Musk gave a straight up Nazi salute at last Monday’s presidential inauguration. True to MAGA form, he then said it was something else … a “Roman salute” or some other inanity. That’s just their standard lying. They do it to give their whore preachers and MAGA faithful an “out.” That way they can say, “He didn’t mean it. He just says that. It wasn’t really a Nazi salute,” — and all the rest of the ridiculous lying that Trump’s... Read more
November 5, 2024 was a watershed election. Historians will look back on this pivotal moment and rehash it for generations to come. Pundits and podcasters have worked themselves into a lather “explaining” why so many Americans voted to be ruled by greed-driven billionaires, liars, traitors, sexual predators and kings. The finger-pointing and blame-assessing has gone on for weeks. I’ve heard one fantastical explanation after another. In all this talking, theorizing, nit-picking, accusing, abusing and excusing, I have not heard one... Read more
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