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Showing posts with label Marco Rubio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marco Rubio. Show all posts

Friday, July 24, 2026

"To him who has the sharpest sword."

             
            

             Planet earth languishes in a gray shade on the scale between
 potential and probable nuclear war and devastation. The fool tyrant, King Tangerine, is trying to push us all in the direction of hellfire.

            The Trump crime family greased the skids for cronies to pocket a few million dollars but the Saudi Nuke deal is Pyrrhic and promises to be a death pact. Giving Saudi Arabia, run by MSB, the capacity to build a nuclear weapon, is a leading malevolent and stupid act since humans began to shout at each other. 

            A few learned and skilled minds around the globe agree and said so and so King Tangerine, running true to form, has now invoked a qualifier, the Abrahamic accords.

In the last months we have seen Trump next to MSB wiggling, knee touching and giggling with flirty glances like a goomar in heat as the feckless duo hatched their Faustian deal. 

We’ll see how invoking the new condition will play out, but the notion of Tangerine’s willingness to start selling nuclear trinkets to the named parties in that region remains dunderhead shortsighted and malignant. The Armageddon scenario that could unravel from the deal is perhaps the single most revealing idiot moment that Trump is just too dangerous to tolerate.

            This term has been the proof that he is, as people warned, unqualified and unfit of character and would prove to be a danger to the US and the world. 

            A man who picked a war fight with a rugged and gristly enemy, and who did so with no planning, no expectations, no calculus for duration or departure, and without consent of the people, is not the stature of man that deserves support. The fact that man is Donald Trump, with everything the world knows about him and his inability to speak truth, is all the more reason he should be deposed. The people hired him, the people must now fire him.

            This is problematic of course, but in some 15 weeks the nation has a chance to change the balance in the House and Senate that could result in, finally, a successful impeachment.  I would prefer something quicker. It is not impossible. Members of Nixon’s Republican party spoke to him at another low point in US history, and he resigned. Perhaps the castratos in the Republican caucus can make a “deal” to buy him out. Maybe war criminal Bibi Netanyahu, certainly upset with the Saudi bargain, 

has a workable idea. 

            King Pyrrhus of Epirus, an ancient Greek drove his armies in the savage Battle of Asculum, where they defeated the Romans. His own army suffered such massive losses it prompted him to say “ if we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans we shall be utterly ruined.” That is how and why the term Pyrrhic or Pyrrhic Victory has come into common use. On his deathbed he was asked to whom he would he would leave his kingdom. He echoed the words of his cousin Alexander the Great

“To him who has the sharpest sword.”  

            Marco? JD? Thune? Cassidy? Tillis? Bibi?

 

See you down the trail.

 

Monday, February 22, 2016

SEEING IT & SUPERB!


Barrels with a view
Paso Robles West Side 
February Color
Political Scraps
    Regardless of the politics, you've got to feel sorry for Jeb Bush. Those who know say he's a lot smarter, classier and more capable than his brother, but he just never caught on in this year of political anger and bombast. 
     As the improbable Trump parade continues Ohio's Kasich remains the adult in the crowd.  Cruz is an extremist. If you call him a nut case I won't disagree. Rubio is the hope for many, especially the less right wing or those wearing evangelical blinders. The knock on Rubio is John Kennedy and Barack Obama- another young man from the Senate who could benefit from more vintage time.  Others see his youth as a plus.  Kasich has been on the Hill, knows the way around legislation and Washington including the military and has been a governor. He's got a more pedigreed resume.
     Sanders tenacity and the abiding loyalty of his supporters can't make up for lack of super delegates and numbers, but seems bound to keep the Democratic race interesting in the immediate future.
     Clinton has a generation gap issue and trouble with likability. Her negative numbers could be harmful in the general election.
     Barack Obama should put forth a nominee to fill the Scalia  vacancy and the Senate Judiciary Committee and full Senate should consider the nomination. That is the Constitutional way. The Thurmond Rule being sited now is complete garbage. Strom Thurmond, a bigot and racist, used the tactic against Lyndon Johnson when the fellow Democrat nominated Jewish Abe Fortas, already on the Supreme Court, to be Chief Justice. It was a political tactic and has no value. The Constitution speaks for itself-as the late Justice Scalia would say.
     Mitch McConnell should check into a cryogenic tube or should be volunteered to be the first man on mars!
    
FOR FOODIES ONLY
    Chef Jose' Dahan of the late but remarkable Cafe et Voila now does special dinners including this grand evening at Sinor-LaVallee Winery in Avila Beach. 
   The evening started with a sparkling brut rose' from Alsace. 
 The appetizer: Ratatouille, seafood bisque, duck pate' with cornichon and shrimp in mustard sauce.
  Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc
Salad: Baby wild arugula, orange, haricots verts, fennel and goat cheese in olive oil and citrus .
Entrees: Roasted rack of lamb with wild mushroom risotto and ratatouille Nicoise with garlic, herbs and Syrah reduction
  Sautéed sea bass with braised baby bok choy and fingerling persillees' topped with a creamy ginger drizzle. 
Desert trio: Citrus and Ginger creme brûlée, bread pudding with bourbon creme Anglaise, chocolate raspberry tart
  The Wines of the evening were all Jose's choice and were French-unusual in California Wine country-but we heard no complaints.




See you down the trail.