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I didn't get a good look at the golf course because of the vegetation and trees. New rain arrived last night. Imagine if all this rain was coming in the form of snow!
We can thank our lucky stars if there were no hazardous chemicals in the train incident. There have been some worrisome issues elsewhere in the country. That includes close to here like by Raymond MN. The pattern of incidents began in a place called "Palestine" which is not pronounced as it would be over by Israel. "As it would be." There is no formal nation called Palestine. I certainly think there should be.
The "Palestine" in Ohio is pronounced differently than the foreign entity. "PAL-es-teen." Imagine if that kind of train derailment happened here. There go your property values. Would make it even harder to keep UMN-Morris going. Can UMN-Morris (formerly UMM) hold on through the coming year? Maintain enough viability? Of course the main thing is to ensure we keep getting state $. If the financial foundation can be maintained, does anything else matter? Oh I'm being cynical.
Here's a question: Can we assume that UMN-Morris is in better shape with Minnesota as a blue state rather than red? It is true that Morris is in a beet-red congressional district. Almost to the extent of caricature. The landscape is dotted with churches that pay homage to Donald Trump and all those around him. Even Peter Navarro? Even him too.
Karoline Leavitt? Isn't she something? Trump made a notorious comment about the young blond Leavitt last week that was interpreted as having lewd insinuations. Really? Would Trump really do something like that? Well, you know. And his supporters would never object to any of it, even if the Epstein report came out and had shocking revelations. But it won't come out. A headline on the Drudge Report last week announced that Trump's name has already been redacted in the report.
Trump survives everything. He never would have been elected president without the nation's "Christians." There is a lot to answer for them. What would Jesus Christ think of Trump? You remember who Jesus Christ was, don't you? Pastors have reported getting criticism from church members when quoting from Jesus' "Sermon on the Mount." Objecting to the words of Jesus Christ? Well it's actually happening.
And ministers for the sake of their own professional survival are probably shying away from the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus' words could sometimes come across like Bernie Sanders! Unacceptable in the eyes of many. How will Christianity come out of this chapter of the American story?
"Evangelical" Christianity gets behind Israel 100 percent. So that's a problem. I consider Israel to be a terrorist nation. I admire the Jewish people. That is a whole separate matter. Many of the Palestinians are Christians. The Jews of Israel of course reject Jesus Christ as Our Lord and Savior. If that's their personal choice they're quite entitled to it. But oppressing the Palestinians is unacceptable and unforgivable.
Netanyahu looks 100 percent like a villain. And of course the U.S. should try to draw up some kind of appropriate response. But of course under our "presidential administration," if you want to call it that (as opposed to a gang of thugs), that won't happen. The opposite will happen.
Why do I talk about it? Good question. It does no good. I have had to withdraw from friends who for some reason have gotten eyes glazed over with their devotion to Trump. They don't just disagree with me, they will make ad hominem suggestions about me. Common putdowns from the Trump people include "you're just a Trump hater" and "you have Trump derangement syndrome."
Not sure how to even respond to such assertions. I disagree vigorously with Trump. I think the tariffs must necessarily cause inflation. I can think of nothing more dangerous than Trump wanting to assert control over the Federal Reserve.
First he put two Supreme Court justices in his hip pocket. The reference here is to Thomas and Alito whose whole presence on the Court is now directed at giving DJT as much power as possible. And the public isn't rising up about this.
Then we have the three appointees by DJT: Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Coney-Barrett. Merrick Garland got stiffed by Mitch McConnell. Will Trump's thugs in justice end up going after Garland the way they're now going after James Comey and Jack Smith? Supreme irony: it was Comey who gave the little speech just before the 2016 election that could well have handed the election to Trump. Now Comey may be the subject for a show trial and goodness knows what kind of punishment. Same with Jack Smith.
We learned last week that Trump now has two Federal Reserve board members in his hip pocket. The trend inches along.
The J-6 rioters got sprung after our publicly-supported justice system went through so much trouble to convict them.
People are reacting out of fear to DJT now. It's hard to blame them. Trump is weaponizing the levers of justice to a staggering degree. And if a news organization tries ringing alarm bells about it, that news organization will likely be sued. And in depositions, the people who run the news organization might have to break down and admit they support Democrats. Then we'll hear people scream about "bias!"
There is nothing wrong with bias favoring Republicans because the people in power do not consider that to be bias. It is the default position in America. Which means we're headed to a full-on autocracy, if we're not already there. And I think our local Apostolics will consider that to be just fine.
Hang on to your hats if you see interest rates pushed down to near zero. Totally "free money" (again). In perpetuity? What do you suppose will happen to our great nation? Trump recently called our Federal Reserve chairman a "numbskull." The avalanche is growing in intensity. My own personal safety may be in danger.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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