If I recall correctly, this March 31, 2016 photo was from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia where visitors could leave post-its with ideas for the next president.
Month: March 2018
Taxpayers should not have to pay for Trump’s political speeches
Trump rarely gives a speech that is not at least partially a campaign speech. Taxpayers should not have to pay the costs for the speech if he is incapable of sticking to presidential business.
This is a summary of his “infrastructure” speech on March 29th. He told lies, bashed “fake news”, Hillary Clinton and former President Obama, and even talked about the ratings for “Roseanne”. I don’t want to pay for this! He should do this with his own money.
The top cable networks eventually cut away from the speech and they should have.
Trump took advantage of the networks in 2016 and he is still doing it. Trump is already running for reelection and Democrats should get equal time when he gives a political speech. Sad!
Citizens United
This has background on the landmark 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision which has enabled companies to give lots of money to political groups.
The Koch brothers (extreme conservatives) plan to spend $400 million on the 2018 midterm election. We need to get big money out of the elections (on both sides)! Sad!
Voter fraud – she tried to vote for Trump twice
Voter fraud is extremely rare but here’s an article about a woman who tried to vote for Trump twice. She thought her first ballot would be changed to a vote for Clinton. This is what she gets for believing Trump’s rigged election nonsense. Sad!
I hate the Colts
The Colts left Baltimore at night on March 29, 1984. Here’s the Baltimore Sun front page from the next day.
Like many others, I wish they had changed the name of the team and the uniforms and left the Colts legacy here. When the Patriots play the Colts, I call it “Cheaters vs. Deserters”.
I recommend ESPN’s 30 for 30 program on the Baltimore Colts marching band which stayed together after the team left town. Here’s the trailer. The Blu-ray also includes Bob Irsay’s outrageous drunken news conference.
Trump lies about Obama and judges
I hate Trump for a lot of reasons but one of the biggest is how he lies about Obama. Today he said that Obama left a lot of judicial vacancies because of complacency. The real reason was Republican obstruction that prevented Obama from filling the vacancies.
Here are more details on what the Republicans did.
HUD is reducing efforts to enforce fair housing laws
This article points out how the Trump administration intends to… “roll back the Obama administration’s attempts to reverse decades of racial, ethnic and income segregation in federally subsidized housing and development projects.”
Sad!
Police killings of unarmed black men are not a “local issue”
I strongly recommend this column from the Washington Post.
As it says: “…Trump, and his staff, repeatedly show that they do not understand the major issues impacting black Americans.”
Another right-wing conspiracy theory
Sad!
More on the EPA and climate change
The EPA wants to scrap fuel economy standards. This will cause a conflict with California which had the nerve to vote for Clinton so it must be punished.
Phoenix is working with Arizona State University to plan on addressing climate change.
More on the EPA’s approach to science:
“Sound science”, which the EPA wants to push, doesn’t exist.
Former top EPA officials say Pruitt’s approach will paralyze the EPA.
Even the man who led the EPA under Nixon and Reagan disagrees with Pruitt’s approach.
Sad! 