This is not a great day for the USA, Planet Earth and Humanity.  MAGA for Donald Trump and our country today could well be the acronym for Make American Grim Again.  We've had worse days, but from all fronts, life is grueling. President Donald and Melania Trump went to Texas today, where flash flooding killed 120 people last weekend, with another 161 still missing.  Even though he will be in a Republican stronghold, he will be faced with the fact that  he cut back on FEMA and NOAA funding  that no doubt exacerbated the debacle.  This will not be a crowd that will heckle him for downplaying global warming, but the media will. The State Department will today fire 1300 employees, further drawing the U.S. into isolationism.  The Supreme Court this week cleared the way for these layoffs. The department has already dismantled the entire U.S. Agency for International Development. Is Elon Musk's American Party a concern? To Republicans and Donald Trump, yes. M...

It was a rough night.  Nightmare became reality.  Not only will Donald Trump again become president, but the U.S. Senate will be Republican controlled.  Probably the House too.  Said   Time : Trump campaigned on an authoritarian agenda that would   upend America’s democratic norms , and he is already preparing to deliver on it: mass detention and deportations of migrants; revenge against political enemies via the justice system; deploying the military against his own civilians. How far he chooses to go with the power the public has handed him is a question that will shape the fate of the country. A good look at  Project 2025  provides you the Trump agenda.   Global warming?  While it might not be a hoax anymore, the U.S. will not be cooperative, citing the actual recalcitrance of China and India as reasons.  Trump is also beholden to fossil fuel interests.  The world will suffer. Freedom?   Abortion rights will b...

Two days ago I reported on the Birmingham, Alabama shooting that left 4 people dead and 17 injured.  As of today, no suspects.  Most probably a gang-related event.  100 shell casings were found.   $100,000 reward for tips that lead to an arrest and conviction of those involved . On to the subject of the day:   KAMALA HARRIS WILL PREVAIL OVER DONALD TRUMP ON NOVEMBER 5 .  That is not my prediction, but that of Allan Lichtman, a historian renowned for accurately predicting 9 of the 10 most recent presidential elections.   This video actually says Lichtman's record is 10 for 10 . Who is Alan Lichtman? Born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents in 1947.  So he is 77 years old. PhD from Harvard. Is a Democrat. Has taught at American University in DC since 1973. In the early 1980s, while a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, had a 17-episode stint on the game show Tic Tac Dough, and won $100,000. Ran for the U....