U.S.A. (1776-2016) R.I.P.

By Effey

The headline for this blog is taken from the latest headline of the New York based "Village Voice" weekly newspaper.  The message could not have been any clearer and/or more appropriate!  The values for which we fought for decades will go down the drain with the current President Elect, unless we make our voices clearly and loudly heard through massive organized protests and letter writing.  Listed below you will find all the important names and the address for all of the people who have his ear. Bombard them with your letters and complaints. I suggest you do not use your return address on the letter, so that the recipients have to open the letters.

Donald Trump has become the President Elect by lying, lying and lying again as well as by dividing the country and making up all kinds of stories (which we do not need to repeat again.  You already have your own archive of his lies!).  I still wonder how come the DNC got hacked but, not the RNC?  Did he have anything to do with this?  I suspect that he did have his hand in this, too, but that he won't admit it!

Since Donald Trump has not released his tax returns we have to assume that he has failed to pay his share of the Federal Income Taxes.  No wonder our infrastructure is crumbling!  No wonder we had to shrink our military capacity!  No wonder we have an exorbitantly high budget deficit.  No wonder we could not afford to maintain a decent level of security at our Benghazi Embassy!  Federal Income Taxes are the revenue which pay for our infrastructure which we enjoy; keeps us safe, and of course our armed forces, their equipment and weaponry. The Republicans being in the pockets of the billionaires refuse to create a simple tax code which would make everybody pay their fair share of taxes and eliminates all the loopholes in the tax code.

The pundits tell us to give our President Elect a chance to put together a decent cabinet.  Are they nuts?

When you have a small fire in your house, do you say "Wait a minute.  Let's first see if the fire will spread!"  Or do you do whatever is necessary to douse the flame?

No wonder Hillary lost the election.  The pundits and the pollsters had it all wrong.  Actually nobody who would have been a half way decent candidate could have won against Pinocchio!  Not Bernie Sanders.  Not Barack Obama.  Not Joe Biden.  Not even Mitt Romney, had he been a Democrat!  Why?  Because he kept on lying and, even worse.  He told the people what they wanted to hear, not what was a feasible or a realistic vision or policy.

This last statement is what dictators throughout history have done.  And this is what snake oil salesmen do when they try to sell you snake oil which will cure all your ills and make you a millionaire in two weeks if you use the oil daily as prescribed!  Will Pinocchio deliver on his promises?  Dictators, in the beginning of their reign usually do deliver on their promises.  But they never have the money to pay for their kept promises!  This was one of the many reasons Hitler wanted the German Jews out of Germany, so that he could steal their money to pay for the projects he did build, like the Autobahn and do rocket research to eventually bomb London, etc.!!! 

The time to stop the President Elect from keeping Steve Bannon in his cabinet is now, while there still is time for Pinocchio to ditch Bannon. 

Case in point:  Billy Kristol is the editor of the neoconservative magazine "The Weekly Standard".  He is also Jewish!  So, what does Bannon have to say about Kristol?  "A Renegade Jew". 

Didn't Pinocchio at one of his rallies announce that Ivanka, his daughter, has converted to Judaism when she married Jared Kushner?  And didn't he tell all those Southern Crackers and Red Necks, who make up the majority of his audiences, that his grand children are also Jewish?  Doesn't he care about them, either?

Don't just rely on the Anti Defamation League or the NAACP to fight for you.  Write letters to Ivanka Kushner at the Trump Organization at the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City.  Flood their mail boxes!  If we all do so they will get the message and whisper into Pinocchio's ears.  Don't leave things up to fate.  Get involved.

And this other joker, General Flynn!  He believes that we should bomb the hell out of Isis and turn their territory into a Parking Lot.  He is still using old tactics which worked when you were dealing with legitimate, conventional armies.  ISIS is a bunch of guerillas.  WE need a new, different approach in guerilla warfare.  I also believe in defeating Isis, but the victory has to be a reasonable civilized and humane victory, without a lot of collateral damage of civilians. Not a scorched earth strategy!  We already had 1600 bombing sorties which has cost us billions of dollars.  How much more do we want to inflate our Deficit?  And the repairs of our infrastructure and the building of the wall which we will wind up paying for, not Mexico, as he keeps on wishing.  Mexico will become our enemy, not our friend and ally!  Unless you want another six million people out of work, keep on antagonizing Mexico.  It takes six million Americans every year to produce the goods we are selling to Mexico!

And abrogating the Iran deal!  Iran will just walk away from the table as it has done in the past, before we managed to get them to them to agree to our deal.  Face the unpleasant fact that Iran is in the driver's seat.  Iran does not need to agree to anything!  They can just further develop the nuclear bomb.  They already had completed 80% of their development.  What will a completed Nuclear Bomb do for us?  Will we be safer than we are now?  I seriously doubt it!  And how will it encourage others to do the same?

Give me a break!

Have a happy Turkey.  Although we should not give thanks for having this President Elect!

Stay tuned and forward this blog to your like minded friends.

Red beans and Ricely yours.

Effey

PS:  Here are the addresses for the people who have Pinocchio's ear.

The Trump Organization

725 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Mr. Donald Trump, Jr.

Mrs. Ivanka Trump-Kushner

Mr. Eric Trump

Mr. Jared Kushner

Mrs. Melania Trump

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PINOCCHIO'S PROMISES

BY Effey

Pinocchio's father, Fred Trump, was together with Samual Lefrak one of the early developers of low and middle income housing in New York City.

Neither he, his father, and even his grandfather have a clean record.

Fred Trump was implicated in several Federal Investigations, including having been arrested at a KKK meeting.  Donald claims that his father was protesting the rally although it was reported that Fred was a part of it.  

Both his father and Pinocchio operate on a very common and simple system, called OPM - "Other People's Money".  It is a system very commonly used in Real Estate as well as in other big financial projects.

The problem though is that Pinocchio never gives the investor's a chance to make a nice profit from the project.  Pinocchio does not subscribe to this philosophy.  He tries to make money for himself first and then files for bankruptcy.  He really does not care whom he stiffs in the process, as long as he gets what he wants.

He also has a keen sense of what people want to hear, because all along in his life he has operated like a snake oil salesman, promising them everything they want to hear but delivering nothing!

During his campaign he heard the people and like most demagogues promised to fix their problems, whether the problems can be fixed or not, as long as his followers adore, glorify and believe in him.

Case in point:  The coal miners.  Because of clean renewable energy and better, more efficient methods of coal extraction and cheaper ways of providing fuel to the mass markets, the coal industry has been imploding for the last 40 years.  It is more or less a thing of the past. 

The problem is that nobody had the courage to inform the coal miners of this reality!  And what is even more important, nobody offered them the advice to change their "careers", as if they ever really had one!

But Pinocchio promised them what they wanted to hear, that he will bring back the coal Industry.  He does not adhere to the concept of climate change.  What does he care?  He is willing to tear down every agreement the United States made with other countries to preserve our planet and people's health, no matter what the price, as long as people believe him to be the new Christ, their Savior!

Folks, don't adhere to the principle of "Let's give him a chance"!  Some of the things he proposed are dangerous for the rest of the country.  Stop him with a loud outcry of "NO" before the genie gets out of the bottle and we can't put it back into the bottle.  All the progress we have made over the last 70 years, all of our achievements will be going down the drain and in the end we will be the ones left, holding the bag.

Stay tuned and forward this blog to your like minded friends.

Red beans and Ricely yours;

Effey

The Fox Guarding the Chicken Coup

By Effey

America voted and the minority won.  "Only in America" can something like this happen!  This is absolutely disgusting!!!

In every major organization where decisions need to be made by more than one person, the decisions are always based on the vote of the majority.  Of course there are also kangaroo votes, votes which are stacked by some vested party

Hillary, like Al Gore in the Presidential Election of 2000, won the popular vote.  And all along the American voters are told that their voice counts!  Yet it is the Electoral College, not the majority voters which decides who won the election.  Mind you the Electoral College was written into the Constitution, but when several problems with the Electoral vote caused major problems Congress made an amendment to the Constitution and gave voice to the majority.  What has happened in between?  There have been several amendments made to the constitution, why has this anomaly not been changed?  The answer is quite simple.  Because it has always benefited the Republican Party!!

So, in a sense Pinocchio was right; the elections are rigged!  Except he thought it was favoring the Democrats.  It is high time that Congress gets rid of the Electoral College altogether and only uses the college when both parties win the exact same number of votes and there is no other decisive factor.  But leave it to the Republican Party to complicate things as long as it favors them!!!

So, the chances of this anomaly being changed are nada, zilch.  Until the Democrats have the majority of both houses again nothing will change, unless there are massive protests, violent ones, which will become costly to the Republican Party.  But that will only happen when the moon and sun meet on planet Jupiter!

The Electoral College has been changed several times since the Constitution was written, because it had created unusual circumstances which achieved the exact opposite of what the Federalists had intended when they wrote the Constitution.  Throughout the last two centuries we have had at least 5 elections which created problems.  You can look it up for yourself!

We were tricked and yes Pinocchio was right!  The system is rigged!  But it is not rigged in the manner in which he was trying to convince us.  It is rigged by the Republican Party which gerrymandered different voting districts to keep African Americans from voting.  There was also voter suppression reported to the Justice Department on November 8, the day of the election. 

As you can tell, I am not too thrilled about the outcome of the election.  If the Election had been fair and square I could have accepted the outcome.  But not how this election was rigged and handled!

And we have the audacity to talk about other countries having rigged elections?!  Give me a break!  

No, I will not be gracious in defeat! 

I believe that the Electoral College, even though mandated by the Constitution, is a travesty of justice!  This process of deciding the winner of an election needs to be eliminated and replaced by an amendment that gives the people the real power to decide who should be the people's new president, not just look like it is a fair system, because it isn't!

Throughout our history the Electoral College has been amended and changed, but it was always in favor of the Republican Party.

So now we have one of the biggest crooks in America, and also the biggest liar and cheat of them all, who has cheated the American people by not paying millions of dollars in Federal Income Taxes.  The taxes we pay are used for our military, for our infrastructures and generally for running our government.  

And supposedly this crook will lead our country and make it great again!  First of all, our country is great.  It was founded by immigrants.  And it was the immigrants who made this country great by their contributions to this country!  And this president wants to stop immigrants from entering this country and bring well needed changes to this country!!!  Do you think that he will send his wife back to where she came from because she too is an immigrant!  I doubt it.  Is he for real???  Most of the changes the previous immigrants have brought to this country have only helped make this country what it is-today, great!

What we really need to do is to make sure that the candidate is not a misogynist and has not been sued over 4000 times while a private citizen. 

We need to bar candidates who talk over each other in debates.  We should spray them with a water pistol, if they do so and turn off the microphones at the same time! 

And we must make sure that the candidates speak the truth, not lies, like Pinocchio did all along during the campaign.  He called Hillary crooked when in fact it was he who was crooked!  History has shown that when dictators have problems, they reflect the people's attention by blaming others for their own problems.

Frankly, I think we will now have even more problems than we already had, when the Republican's refused to work with President Obama.

We also need to find a way of bringing legal action against a party which refuses to vet a proposed Supreme Court Justice!

Just look at the money to be spent while the taxes for the very rich are to be lowered!  Where will all the money come from if we lower our sources of revenue?

The Inspector General's Office, before the election, calculated what it would cost to implement the plans put forward by the candidates.

If Hillary would have won it would have cost us 200 Billion Dollars!

But if Pinocchio would win it estimated it would cost the American Taxpayer 3 Trillion Dollars!

And worst of all, Pinocchio will benefit from the tax cuts more than anyone else!  The Russians must love what they are seeing and hearing.

Already thousands of people are protesting in the streets in ten major cities.

We are in doody, big doody!

Stay tuned and forward this blog to your like minded friends.

Red Beans and Ricely yours.

Effey

SO WHAT NOW?

By Effey

On Sunday, November 6, 2016, James Comey, the Director of the FBI, announced that the FBI had concluded their investigation of Hillary Clinton's e-mails, and although the FBI had found Hillary's handling of her classified e-mails, careless and reckless, the FBI concluded that none of these mistakes were made with malicious intent.  The "intent" is critical!  In other words it was made by mistake and nobody is perfect, not even Pinocchio!

So what does Pinocchio have to say now?

What has always amazed me about Pinocchio is that he tries to deflect from his mistakes by only talking about his opponents.

He is like all dictators.  Trust me.  I will solve all your problems.  The hell he will!

The Office of the Inspector General has looked at what both candidates proposed to do to fix our problems.  With Hillary's Tax Plan the country would add $200 Billion to our deficit.  With Pinocchio's Tax Plan it would add 3 Trillion to our deficit!

Pinocchio's Tax Plan puts less money in your pockets and more money into the pockets of the wealthy!  Billions!

It is my gut feeling that Hillary, in the end, will trounce him in the election.  That is what he deserves!

He has alienated millions of people by insulting them.  On Election Day he will get his payback!

Stay tuned and forward this e-mail to your friends.

Red Beans and Ricely Yours

Effey

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WHAT'S IN STORE FOR OUR FUTURE?

By Effey

Hillary is trying to build on the accomplishments of President Barack Obama and honor his legacy.  I am with her!

What does Pinocchio have to offer?  Zilch!  Just creating mayhem in the elections like a Banana Republic does.

Obama\Hillary

Trump\Hitler

1.  Provided Healthcare for over 20 million people, who could not afford Healthcare Insurance. 2.  Reformed Wall Street, protecting the little guys! 3.  Got us out of Iraq.  This is what people clamored for in 2008 and 2012. 4.  Found and got Osama Bin Laden.  Remember him?! 5.  Saved the auto Industry. 6.  Stimulus package for the banks. 7.  Lowered the unemployment rate from 8% to 4.9%. 8.  Started to empty out Guantanamo Bay. 9.  Re-opened diplomatic relations with Cuba, which in the long run will greatly benefit American Enterprises. 10. Increased support for Veterans. 11.  Made deal with Iran to stop Nuclear Proliferation.  Had he not done so, Iran was ready to stop negotiations and continue to develop the Nuclear bomb!!! 12.  Signed a Credit Card Responsibility Disclosure Act. 13. Created the HARP Act to help people in Foreclosure. 14.  Improved America's Image Overseas. 15.  Made China closed down its dirtiest Power Plants. 16.  Eliminated Catch 22 to give women the right to sue for equal pay. 17. Improved Food Safety System. 18. Signed new START Treaty with Russia. 19. Expanded wilderness and watershed protection. 20.  Gave FDA power to regulate Tobacco. 21.  Pushed Federal Agencies to be Green Leaders. 22.  He trimmed and re-oriented our Missile Defense System. 23. He invested heavily into renewable energy technology. 24. Improved School Nutrition Programs. 25. Expanded Stem Cell Research. 26  Made America oil independent All of the above, plus!  Over 50 different accomplishments, despite a Republican Congress which was constantly trying to undermine him.  Think of what else he could have accomplished had Congress worked with him!

1.  Inherited $14 from his father, plus his credit and connections. 2.  Built 3 casinos and bankrupted them, destroying Atlantic City's economy. 3.  Stiffed his employees. 4.  Shafted tons of contractors. 5.  Filed personal bankruptcy yet owns Mara Lago. 6.  Has stiffed his government in paying Federal Income taxes for over 20 years. 7.  Has had 4,095 lawsuits in 30 years! 8.  Groped and denigrated women. 9.  Discriminated against people of color. 10.  Has divided our country. 11.  Has given voice to White Supremacists. 12.  Has accused our President of not being a US born Citizen and perpetuated this lie for over 5 years. 13.  Keeps promising his constituents things which he can not deliver. 14.  Thinks he knows more about war than the generals. 15.  Is in bed with Vladimir Putin. 16.  Is responsible for the hacking of the DNC. 17.  Told our eternal enemy to find Hillary's E-mails, thereby inviting them into our elections. 18.  Hires undocumented workers. 19.  Has a wife who is a nude model. 20.  In New York, he has driven up the already high cost of Real Estate, making it impossible for the Average person to live there. 21.  He threatened a revolution if he loses the election. 22.  Threatened to jail his opponent if he wins the election, just like Banana Republic dictators.

A Vote for Trump is a Vote for Anarchy.

Stay Tuned.

Forward this blog to your friends.

Red Beans and Ricely Yours.

Effey

AMERICA IN CRISIS

By Effey

Call this blog "Apocalypse Now, Part II", if you will. 

Yesterday, Pinocchio thanked Anthony Weiner, for drawing the FBI's attention to himself and in tandem to Hillary Clinton.  I wonder who is the bigger pervert, Anthony Weiner or Pinocchio?  I guess "Birds of a feather flock together."  (William Turner [1545]). 

Actually, I think that Weiner is less dangerous and even more honorable than Pinocchio.  Pinocchio has stiffed thousands of workers and shafted hundreds of contractors.  At least Weiner hasn't hurt anybody, except his wife Huma Abidin!

But guess what!  "When the going gets though the tough get going".  (Knute Rockne, [1888–1931]).  Even Pinocchio had to admit that much about Hillary Clinton at the end of the second Presidential Debate.  He almost broke his jaw when he made that admission!

And even though Pinocchio is trying to make a big thing out of the e-mail challenge which Hillary got herself into, she is still ahead in the polls and will trounce Pinocchio on November 8, in the election.  She has been through all kinds of stuff before.  People are jealous of her, how smart she is and how much she has already accomplished in her life-time.  Did you know that before there was Obama Care there was Hillary Care?!  Except, when the Republicans found out that Billy assigned her the job to try to create a healthcare program for children, the Republicans dirtied their pants and made her stop!  (The dry cleaners refused to work on their pants!  That's how much they dirtied their pants!)  That is how much the Republicans care about children!

I am sure that when she becomes President one of her first priorities will be to appoint a commission to see what can be done to tweak Obama Care where it needs to be tweaked.

You see, Pinocchio just rants, raves and screams but Hillary has taken the time to speak to people, when they voice their frustrations.  I think she will do what Trump wishes in his wet dreams that he could do, namely "Make America Great Again!"

We all live in a drastically changed world!  It is time for the Republicans to realize that! 

The 1950's are a thing of the past.  Life will never be the same again, as it was then.  Thank G'd for that!!! 

Do we want to go back to segregation again?  Do we want the uncertainty of living with the fear of an atomic bomb?  Do we want typewriters again, instead of laptops?  Do we want the old mimeograph machines again or do you prefer the Xerox copying machines?  Do we want medical science to take a step back again to a time when we could not fight Polio or Tuberculosis?  Do we want to go back to a time when not all Americans were allowed to vote?  No, we have made a lot of progress.  Not enough, as far as I am concerned, but at least we have made progress!  We now know that we have done damage to our planet and to ourselves.  Thank you, Al Gore!

There are still people who like the old fashioned values!  But time marches on and they will be left behind in the dust.

We know now for sure that trickle down economics doesn't work.  Of course some people still dream that their old jobs will come back!  They refuse to accept reality and to change their careers, as if all these outdated jobs and industries will have a second life!  Wake up, America!

We lost jobs because we are no longer competitive in the global market place.  In the global market place our wages are too high.  In America, though they are too low.  But there is new, other work available.  There are new industries popping up on the horizon!  We need to prepare for them.

Now let me ask you a question.  What is an e-mail server?  Do you really know what it is?  What is the difference between your personal computer and an e-mail server?

Back in 2006 most people did not know the answer and I bet you that even now most people don't really know what it is. 

But all these investigations are made in hindsight with 20/20 vision.  We do not learn from what we know, we learn from our mistakes! 

Everybody makes mistakes.  Look at FBI Director James Comey, whom I respect immensely.  But even he overreached his authority with his recent disclosure about further investigating Hillary.  One hundred former Department of Justice prosecutors from both parties have come forward to claim that the FBI does not disclose if somebody is under investigation until the investigation is complete. (The FBI is part of the Department of Justice!)  These prosecutors are the ones who say that Comey made a huge mistake.  So why then don't the Republicans ever stop with their investigations?  If they want to investigate, let them investigate why the hackers have not hacked into the R.N.C.'s computers or looked into Pinocchio's' e-mails about his taxes?! One of Pinocchio's advisers, Roger Stone, is in cahoots with the hackers!  He admitted it himself on TV. 

And who really knows Pinocchio's relationship to Vladimir Putin? And do we really want a sexual predator in the White House?  At least Bill Clinton did not denigrate women and did not force himself onto them.  Monica L. pursued him not the other way around!  (She was a groupie!)  That means that their "sexual contact" was consensual.

In life there are Red Bloods and there are Blue Bloods.  Besides the difference in color, what is their difference?  Answer?  The Red Bloods complain about what the Blue Bloods are doing.  The Red Bloods are afraid to go out on the limb.  They look for others to rescue them.  Yet, the Blue Bloods are the movers and shakers of the world!!!  Hillary is a Blue Blood.

So, despite it all, it still looks like Hillary may be our next President.  And already the Republicans are plotting how to undermine her presidency.  They have created havoc for President Obama and the American People. 

Now Ted Cruz is telling the Republicans that they don't have to pass any recommended candidate to fill the 9th chair on the Supreme Court.  Ted Cruz should be tried for treason as Public Enemy No. 1.  He should be hung upside down by his testicles from the highest tree top we can find.  Doesn't he realize the damage he has already done when he shut down the government?  This is a self described Fiscal Conservative.  His actions in 2013 cost the American Tax Payers 24 Billion Dollars.  Is this Fiscal Conservatism?

And look at New Jersey Governor Christie, of Bridge Gate fame and one of the chief advisers to Pinocchio!  The Republicans claim that the Democrats like to raise taxes.  Governor Christie has just raised the gasoline tax in his state of New Jersey by 23 cent per gallon.  Under his leadership the cost of gasoline in New Jersey has gone from the third lowest to the sixth highest in the country!  Is that the Republican way!  Is that the Republican way of lowering taxes? 

The Republicans deserve to lose!

Stay tuned.

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Red Beans and Ricely Yours.

Effey

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