March 2025

3/30: America’s Free Press was never free. 
There was always a price to pay. The coins of the realm was a commitment to honesty and integrity. Of course there were always freeloaders but now those coins have been banished by threat and fear. And it appears that the old coins are being thrown into the Potomac River.

3/29: Constitutional Freedom of Education
Regarding Georgetown University’s threat from the Washington DC, Attorney General: Dean Treanor, a constitutional scholar and former Justice Department official, responded by letter that the Constitution “guarantees that the government cannot direct what Georgetown and its faculty teach and how to teach it.”

Indeed, he wrote, “given the First Amendment’s protection of a university’s freedom to determine its own curriculum and how to deliver it, the constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the university’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution.”

3/28: Democracy lost the ability to fight back in Turkeye. 
“Once you are at a stage where you think, ‘Oh, that’s not acceptable,’ you don’t have the tools to prevent it,” Aytac said. “The judiciary is already captured. The media is already captured.”

3/27: The Coup to take over America began in 2021 
when Vice President J.D. Vance explained in a 2021 interview, he and his ilk believe that American “conservatives…have lost every major powerful institution in the country, except for maybe churches and religious institutions, which of course are weaker now than they’ve ever been. We’ve lost big business. We’ve lost finance. We’ve lost the culture. We’ve lost the academy. And if we’re going to actually really effect real change in the country, it will require us completely replacing the existing ruling class with another ruling class…. I don’t think there’s sort of a compromise that we’re going to come with the people who currently actually control the country. Unless we overthrow them in some way, we’re going to keep losing.” “We really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power,” he said.

3/26: Nietzsche famously wrote that he who has a why to live 
for can endure any how. If you are gripped by a profound desire, you can endure the setbacks but proceed with determination.

The psychologist Carol Dweck once wrote: “Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means that you care about something.”

3/25: Regarding the KEYSTONE-COP CABINET, it is more mystifying that more than 18 Trump administration officials discussed that timing of the Houthi attack war plan on a commercial if encrypted app, whose servers are ***outside the United States***.

3/24: Now that the current administration is mostly filled with actors and TV newscasters, what began as reality TV has now regressed through unreality TV to become a horror movie!

3/23: Freedom’s Project 2025 items: (A reason why Congress needs to be majority blue.)

Redefine the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to bring it up to date. Then finally ratify it.

There are two ways to amend the U.S. Constitution: two-thirds of both Houses of Congress may vote to approve it, or two-thirds of the states may request a convention. Then, either three-fourths of the state legislatures or three-fourths of each state’s conventions would have to ratify the amendment.

3/23: On June 1, 1950, with Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy sitting two rows behind her, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, of Skowhegan, Maine stood up in the Senate to speak. “Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism,” she said. Americans have the right to criticize, to hold unpopular beliefs, to protest, and to think for themselves, she said. She condemned those trying to stifle dissent.

“I do not want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear,” she said. “As an American, I condemn a Republican Fascist just as much as I condemn a Democrat Communist. They are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country. As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.”

Senator Smith ended with a warning: “It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.”

Senator Smith’s speech is as appropriate now as it was in 1950. In fact, it should be engraved on the plinth of the Statue of Liberty alongside the “huddled masses.”

But it’ll take a woman to take Trump down!

This topic was brought to light by historian Professor Heather Cox Richardson in her Substack post “Letters From An American.”

3/23: Regarding Trump chastising Maine Governor Janet Mills,  I envision a gross, X-rated political cartoon of Trump getting a “full-throated” apology followed by a drawing of a bloody book cover. Its tittle is X-rated but authored by Tiger S Revenge 😝

3/23: Governor Mills ought to show Trump her gratitude and thank him personally for showcasing that it takes a woman to stand up to him.

3/22: "Since its establishment in 1898, the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Plant Germplasm System (N.P.G.S.) and the scientists who support it have systematically gathered and maintained the agricultural plant species that undergird our food system in vast collections such as the one in Aberdeen. The collections represent a towering achievement of foresight that food security depends on the availability of diverse plant genetic resources.

"In mid-February, Trump administration officials at what has been labeled the Department of Government Efficiency fired some of the highly trained people who do this work. A court order has reinstated them, but it’s unclear when they will be allowed to resume their work. In the meantime, uncertainty around additional staffing and budget cuts, as well as the future of the collections themselves, reigns.

"This should unnerve every American who eats. Our food system is only as safe as our ability to respond to the next plant disease or other emergent threat, and a strong N.P.G.S. is central to our preparedness.

"Moving fast and breaking things may work in some sectors. But the disruptions underway threaten irreversible losses of crop genetic diversity. Such losses directly undermine the United States’ ability to ensure continued food security and dietary diversity amid challenges to our agricultural systems.

"For the sake of all Americans, we denounce any attempts to weaken the N.P.G.S. The generations before us understood that it is the minimum function of a responsible government to invest in the long-term ability to feed its citizens." — NYT

3/21: What Canadians think of Americans:

3/21: "Education is the best way to overcome the tribalism, corruption and AK-47 culture that have so damaged his nation." — Valentino Achak Deng, via NYT, about the school his VAD Foundation built in Sudan, Africa This applies worldwide.

3/20: "I’ve always said, to me, Trump and Netanyahu are brothers from different mothers, 
and there’s only one good thing about both of them, and that’s God only made one of each." — Thomas Friedman, NYT

"I think Putin and Netanyahu both understand that forever war is their friend. It’s Putin’s friend because he uses it to completely strangle any political opposition in Russia. He absolutely reinforces his iron grip on power. … Putin wants the war to go on. It’s what reinforces his grip on power."

DO NOT LET TRUMP START A WAR — for this same reason!

3/19: "Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges" — NYT headline.  This is so unrelated to any of Musk’s business interests. What is Musk’s game and ultimate goal?

No one is talking about Musk’s Neuralink company which implants brain chips. Is there a darker objective with eerily sinister but similar goals as depicted in Apple’s “Severance" streaming series?

3/18: Yay. The astronauts have safely landed in the Gulf of Mexico!

3/18: There’s one glaringly conspicuous area where evolution lost its way. 
Evolution missed homo erectus evolving its spine to compensate for standing on two legs.

3/18: Two days ago, media outlets noted 
that the Arlington National Cemetery website and Department of Defense websites had deleted content about Black, female, and Hispanic veterans.

The pages were replaced with “DEI” blanks.

The erasure of Indigenous, Black, Hispanic, and female veterans from our military history is an attempt to elevate white men as the sole actors in our history. It is also an attempt to erase a vision of a nation in which Americans of all backgrounds come together to work—and fight—for the common good.

After World War II, Americans came together in a similar spirit to create a government that works for all of us. It is that government—and the worldview it advances—that the Trump administration is currently dismantling.

3/18: Is America law fair?
Not always, especially in litigation lawsuits. From personal experience, if your adversary is capable and willing to outspend you, you will either lose, give up, or compromise the outcome. In other words, the golden rule is real — “He who has the most gold wins!”

3/17: Is speaking off a teleprompter a form of artificial intelligence?

3/17: Is it Left-Woke or Right-Woke?
It’s interesting to note how the NYT uses the pronoun ’they’ when referring to a transgender person. Is this capitulating to the enemy? "M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the author of 11 books, including “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” which won the National Book Award in 2017."

3/15: It’s the Ides of March. Brutus, where are you when we need you?

3/14: Today is Pi day
in honor of the numerical constant that allows calculations of something round. But the number is off by eight/ten-thousandths. Eight years ago the date was 3.1416. How about baking a cucumber pie circumscribed with a watermelon rind ring?

3/13: “If we let the government decide what foods we eat and what medicines we take
our bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny,” State Senator Bob Ide of Wyoming, quoting Thomas Jefferson, regarding mass produced lab-grown meat.

“But cultured meat has also been swept up in the nation’s culture wars. That’s in part because proponents often describe lab-grown meat as a “no kill” humane alternative to farmed animal products. Many also see it as a way to reduce the environmental impacts of raising millions of cows, pigs and chickens — and of the large quantities of antibiotics required to keep them healthy in crowded feeding sheds.

“There’s no way we can sustain healthy food the way we’re doing today with livestock production, because we just don’t have the land and the resources,” said David Kaplan, an expert on cellular agriculture at Tufts University. “We need alternative options.” — NYT

3/13: How to double your money:
buy all the French wine you can now. Trump’s tantrum will raise its price by 200%. So then sell yours for half price!

3/13: Isn’t shutting down USAID effectively committing mass murder?

3/13: First, they came for the socialists

And I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

“Need to address this now before they take away our first amendment rights with their second amendment rights.”

3/12:A Modern Take On A Namaste Poem:

I honor the place in you that
Is the same in me.
That place is called Faith 

I honor the place in you where 
the whole universe resides. 
That place is called Universal Conscience 

I honor the place in you
of love, of light, of peace and of truth.
That place is called Soul 

I honor the the place in you
that is the same in me.
That place is called God

There is but one
And it’s a part of all of us!

Namaste. 
David 

3/12: This is precisely the danger President Dwight Eisenhower warned about
In his 1961 farewell address. He foresaw a world in which private industry would shape military strategy, not just supply it. He warned that the rise of the military-industrial complex could lead to a future in which war was dictated by the interests of private companies rather than elected governments.

Eisenhower worried that defense contractors and arms manufacturers would become so embedded in national security that they would start dictating war policy to elected leaders. What he did not predict was that a single entrepreneur, through control of critical infrastructure, could decide in real-time how and where a war is fought.

The West is not just outsourcing military infrastructure to private actors; it is ceding strategic control.

Is Musk allowing Starlink access to the Russians? How can we find out for sure?

3/11: President Trump’s border czar, Thomas Homan said
He did not know what legal justification was used for Khalil’s detention. But he told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting in Albany that Khalil was considered “a national security threat” and in “violation of our foreign policy objectives.” He added, “When you hand out leaflets inciting violence on a college campus, that’s illegal.” About two dozen protesters surrounded Homan as he left the State Capitol, and they yelled that Khalil’s arrest undermined the First Amendment.

Is it hypocrisy or double standards that considers enticing a crowd to riot in the Capital Building is not illegal?

3/10: I bet Musk’s $300 million investment in Trump
is close to a $300 BILLION loss in his paper net worth. His real net worth is already in the garbage bin.

3/10: Daylight Savings Time:
I am basically not attached to the reality of time — only when I associate with others as with meetings. Otherwise I have no time constraints. The hour or so when we watch TV is via streaming in Apple TV. Even the PBS News Hour is streamed. Even the stock market is too crazy these days to take seriously. Ive cut back to keep my powder dry. In fact, I hope it crashes taking down Tesla. Wouldn’t that be bittersweet.

3/10: This is in regards to the detention by ICE
Over the weekend of Mahmoud Khalil, an activist of Palestinian origin who was a PhD candidate student at Columbia University and a green card permanent resident with an American wife who is eight months pregnant.

A newly naturalized U S citizen called the Trump administration’s demonizing and defunding of universities “a kind of vandalism — it is the American Taliban blowing up the Bamiyan sculptures.”

My take: The ,first amendment protecting free speech applies only to speech that the Trumpiban officials approve of. Anyone whose speech is not approved is subject to immediate internment at a facility at least 1,000 miles from its occurrence while processing the ‘violator’ to be deported — regardless of citizenship status!

3/9: CRASH MUSK’S COMPANY SHARE PRICES
Musk’s net worth, which makes him the world’s richest man, is entirely based on paper and built on a precarious foundation — a virtual house of cards. Like Trump, he achieved his virtual wealth through deception and manipulation, convincing investors into their extravagant and ill-conceived ideas. This success is not attributed to insightful corporate management, but rather to his ability to bluff and deceive.

From the NYT — "This trick is precisely what Mr. Musk has mastered. His messianic status, which was birthed in the explosion of social media, created a powerful cycle of outsize returns on ventures that lead to investors providing him with more and cheaper capital to diversify his empire that, in turn, attracts yet more investors fearful of missing out. Skyrocketing Tesla shares have made fans and investors so devoted that all he has to do is mention a new ambition to goad them into buying even more. And the larger the stated ambition, the more wealth and power they hand him. So why not try for Mars? The final step in this process is to consolidate power in the political sphere to ensure that the outsize ambitions can be nourished forever. If Mr. Musk had played it well, his empire may have been impregnable.

"In short, until the next election, the battleground over U.S. politics won’t be entirely in courts or in Congress — it’ll be in financial markets as well. And, it promises to be a hell of a fight."

3/8: Neither Donald Jackass Trump nor John Fake Kennedy seem to give a damn about the lives of their kids and grandchildren.
They have enabled Elongated Musk to dismantle the means to research and protect from — mercury in fish, lead in drinking water, bird flu in cattle, oceans flooding the cities, undetected tornados and hurricanes, no firefighters to protect the forests, hackers to steal our cryptocurrency, Russia invades Europe and the UK. And after that, no FEMA to recover. And this is just the start. Elon jumps into his starship and blasts off to Mars — good riddance!

3/7: we need four new constitutional amendments.

• All American citizens have absolute control over their health and their body. This includes decisions concerning abortion and ending one’s life.
   
• No American citizen is immune to the law. This includes all members of the American government.
   
• The Supreme Court shall consist of 13 members each with a term of 13 years which are staggered such that one justice term shall expire each year. A justice can be reappointed but can only serve a maximum of three terms. No Supreme Court seat shall remain vacant longer than five months.
   
• The national anthem should be encoded within the constitution to be “America The Beautiful”. Replacing The Star Spangled Banner.”
   
• All voting shall occur on Sundays, never during the work week.
   
• Eliminate all laws that allow Citizens United PACs.
   
• Get us onto all world-wide standards like the Metric System so we can compete globally on an equal basis.

3/6: Our top priority now is to find and support a strong, charismatic, pro-democracy leader
who has the will, wisdom, and courage to stand up to and replace this menace and traitor in the White House along with his succulents.

Without this leader, we would not have any traction.

3/5: Ash Wednesday:
"as ash was smeared on my forehead with the familiar, sobering mantra: Remember, man, that thou are dust and unto dust thou shalt return."

The mantra’s interpretation in Quantum Mechanics is: Remember, man, that thou are Quantum fields and Quantum fields thou shalt remain.

3/5: “We were at war with a dictator,”
said French center-right politician Claude Malhuret of Europe’s stand against Putin. “[N]ow we are at war with a dictator backed by a traitor.”

3/3: Trump came to Putin’s defense
And put himself squarely within the Russian dictator’s embrace. “Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,” he responded. “He went through a phony witch hunt.”

We need action from members of Congress. They are there because, presumably, they wanted to serve their country. They took an oath to uphold the Constitution. If this was a functioning Congress, there would be a prompt move in the House to impeach and in the Senate to convict both the president and the vice president for engaging in high crimes and misdemeanors. Of course, that is extraordinarily unlikely to happen with this crowd, but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep up a constant demand that they do the right thing. Democrats in Congress, in turn, need to refuse to cooperate with a leader who has lost his legitimacy and makes a mockery of the notion of governing.

3/2: “During the 2024 campaign, Trump said repeatedly that he would end the war in Ukraine.
Shortly after the election, a newspaper reporter asked Nikolai Patrushev, who is close to Putin, if Trump’s election would mean “positive changes from Russia’s point of view.” Patrushev answered: “To achieve success in the elections, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. And as a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.” — Joyce Vance, Substack

3/1:An Ode To Lady Vance

Did she not know, did she not see,
How power warps, how men break free
Of truth, of oaths, of honor’s claim,
And stain the soil with blood and shame?

Did Eva not whisper, in darkened halls,
That ruin comes before it calls?
Did Clara not cry when Il Duce fell,
Hung like a beast, left cold in Hell?

Does history not press its mark,
On wives who smiled while tyrants stark
Carved their names on broken bones
And feasted high on shattered thrones?

O Lady Vance, must you stand by,
As nations weep, as widows cry?
Your husband kneels to butcher’s hands,
And laughs while war consumes the land.

This ain’t a stage, no flashing light,
No script to twist, no game for spite.
It’s death, it’s ruin, it’s tears untold
A fate once warned, a tale once told.

So pull him back, or let him burn,
Please don’t just stand there,
letting his evil wheels turn.

— by Ted last name unknown, on SubStack

3/1: Heather Cox Richardson mentioned this in her message last night:
“the Republican-dominated Senate Intelligence Committee in 2020 released an exhaustive report detailing that effort. (2016 Russian election interference)

One of the things Russian operatives believed Trump’s team had agreed to, the report said, was Russia’s annexation of the parts of eastern Ukraine it is now trying to grab through military occupation.”

Could this annexation deal be the reason for Trump’s arrogance toward Zelensky and his cuddling in Putin’s hands? That he wants to make good on his earlier promise?

Let’s not let this thread die. This potentially unearths some of Trump’s hidden agenda. What other hidden debts does the creep have for which he will prostitute America?

What is next in store for us?

3/1: That horrible Oval Office TV drama
looked like a “Shark Tank” episode gone off the rails.

Others said it looked like the worst episode of The Apprenticce.