Wanna-be Dictator

In a Hallmark act of a wanna-be dictator, Donald Trump ordered Attorney General Bondi to indict—Trump-up charges—against his opponents.

The United States Attorney General is “we the People’s” chief counselor. She is not Donald Trump’s taxpayer-paid personal attorney.

Freedom of Speech II

Donald Trump’s demand that ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel or lose its broadcast license was blatant extortion!  With Donald’s assault on the First Amendment unstopped, America was on the path to Dictatorship.

It is essential to remember that Freedom of Speech is not about the veracity of our opinions and beliefs, but our right to express them, good or bad, right or wrong.  There is no better demonstration of this than Trump’s unchallenged litany of lies.

My belief is, framers of the Bill of Rights put Freedom of Speech First for a specific reason: “Government of the People, by the People, for the People” rests on the bedrock of Free Speech!

So long as Donald Trump’s assault on the First Amendment continued, all of America’s Freedoms remained under threat of abolition!

The Real Jesus

I feel affronted by depictions of Jesus Christ as a six-foot-one, fair-skinned, auburn-haired, male emerging, coiffured and scented, from a Parisian Salon.  Historical facts and common-sense fly in the face of this caricature.

In 2001 British forensic facial reconstruction expert Richard Neave employed a first century Israeli skull, clay modeling, and understood physical traits to construct a model of a Jewish men of Jesus’s era.

From the best available evidence, the face of an average Jewish man of Jesus Christ’s era did not resemble Matthew McConaughey. 

From the best available evidence, the face of an average Jewish man of Jesus Christ’s era may resembled Kash Patel.

Assassins

Donald Trump, September 10, posted, “In honor of (Conservative Activist) Charlie Kirk, a truly Great American Patriot, I am ordering all American flags throughout the United States lowered to Half Mast until Sunday evening at 6:00 p.m.”

After evangelical Christian and Rightwing Firebrand Vance Boelter executed Minnesota House Speaker Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, June 14, the President offered no comparable sentiment nor gesture.

Why?

Wheels

For millennia before the Book of Mormon’s father Lehigh set sail westward, wheels were commonplace throughout the Near, Middle, and Far East.

It seems to me that, soon after making landfall and dragging sea chests and portmanteaus up some alien strand, one of the castaways would exclaim, “We need wheelbarrows.  We need wagons.  We need wheels!”  And set to work crafting the requisite parts!

Curiously, over the past five centuries no wheel or evidence of a wheel predating Columbus—not a broken rim, splintered spoke, pictograph—has been found in the Western Hemisphere.

I have to wonder.