From the  New York Times  this morning: More than half of the major actions Trump has taken appear to violate laws or the Constitution, according to a Times analysis.   Here’s a look at all of them . The abrupt end to $44 billion in aid has been chaotic. And wasteful. Hundreds of millions of dollars of food may soon rot in the ports and warehouses where it is stuck. The battle against deadly disease, too, could suffer. Until last month, the United States   provided medication   for 20 million H.I.V. patients. The secretary of state said that work should continue, but now the program is in disarray. Without the meds, those lives are at risk and so is the effort to stop the spread and mutation of H.I.V.   ...the core of U.S.A.I.D.’s mission has been helping the world’s poor, and it was a means to an end. “You have to understand,” a veteran American diplomat told me, “we didn’t do this work because we’re all a bunch of bleeding-heart liberals. We did it for in...

This was a good week at 15 Craigside.  Not terrific, but above average.  As most readers know, I am in a Honolulu retirement community.  I lived next door in the Craigside condo for 32 years and saw my present building coming up, and merely out of curiosity almost 9 years ago dropped by for a visit, was convinced to move in, and now have been here for more than 8 years. A few months after becoming a resident, I posted on  COULD 15 CRAIGSIDE BE PURGATORY?   We are surrounded by graveyards and churches, as that article showed.  Then a few years later, in June of 2017, I posted on  FOUR SEASONS HUALALAI VERSUS 15 CRAIGSIDE .  This hotel is among my favorites, and you can read for yourself about this comparison.  Earlier that year ( in May ) I had a related posting titled,  OKAY, IS THIS HEAVEN OR WHAT?    This blog site has been vacillating about whether 15 Craigside is Purgatory or not.  Well, after my 44-day Global Adventur...