Status of the two prominent wars: Peace on the Gaza Strip.  How will it be possible for any kind of treaty, for the goal of Israel and the U.S. is to eliminate the Hamas from this site, with they being the other participant in the negotiations?  At least President Trump's off the wall solution for the USA to gain control is one possible solution for a longer peace.  What he did was set the terms so ridiculously against the Hamas, that some other Middle East country might be able present a more logical pathway to a longer peace. On the Ukraine War, with President Trump so anti-Ukraine (he said Ukraine started the war and Zelensky is a dictator, while blackmailing the country to give us their rare minerals or else), no doubt Russia will get what it will want for peace.  Meaning holding on to winning territory and preventing Ukraine from joining NATO.  Trump is also upset at many NATO nations not allocating sufficient funds to the Organization, and in this he is ri...

Before getting into Pearl's Ashes on this nostalgia Tuesday, a couple of Trump matters. Federal judges are blocking most of Donald Trump's seemingly unconstitutional edicts. The  White House is looking into impeaching any judge that rules against Trump . The House first impeaches this judge, and the Senate needs to convict. However, two-thirds of Senators need to vote to convict, so this won't happen anytime soon . This has happened 15 times in our history, the most recent, G. Thomas Porteous Jr. in 2010. Trump will keep appealing, leaving it to the Supreme Court to decide.  If this body routinely supports the President, we will have a serious Constitutional Crisis.  Democracy will fall to Dictatorship. If Hamas doesn't return Israeli hostages by Saturday afternoon, "the   ceasefire   will be terminated," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday in a statement following a meeting with his security cabinet. Netanyahu's statement comes after  P...

  Anyone know anything about President James Polk? In 1795 was born in a log cabin in Mecklenburg, North Carolina?  Remember Mecklenburg?   Badly damaged by Hurricane Helene last year . Became a lawyer at the age of 23.  Sure sounds like Abraham Lincoln. Was an Andrew Jacksonian Democrat.  The Whigs were the competing party. Served seven terms in the U.S. House, two as Speaker, and also governor of Tennessee. Was elected the 11th President of the U.S. His presidency led to the most expansionist period in our history, linking the Atlantic to the Pacific. It was not easy. Was a workaholic and had no time for golf. His main goal was to fulfill  America's  Manifest Destiny , which was to spread from  sea to shining sea . We had a war with Mexico. Texas became the 28th State. Instead of war with Great Britain, he used negotiations to annex a good part of the Oregon Territory.   Lowered tariffs and established the Federal Treasury. During...

I did say I would post part 2 of my Democracy series today, but I haven't quite perfected a better future for   Mayday Mayday , so this will come later in the week.  Instead, as this is nostalgia Tuesday, I will reach back and specifically look at the eighth ash drop for Pearl at the Taj Mahal.  However, first, a few of the latest developments imposed on the world by President Donald Trump. Trump had a press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, the first world leader to do so.  Shockingly, Trump indicated that the USA will take over the Gaza Strip.   Watch this video .  Previously, he took credit for brokering this peace, but new American boots on the ground in the Middle East is almost beyond the pale. China is the only country currently struck with Trump's tariff, 10%, and announced a counter tariff. Remember my travels to China and how this blog site had problems because of the ongoing  fuss with Google , which began in 2...