Well....Donald Trump is not the Devil, as depicted in  The Bible .  However, the results of recent court judgements show that he is, indeed, everything you thought he was, and worse. Key issues and resultant fallouts now become more relevant: Is the Republican Party in mortal danger? Now we know why Nikki Haley continues to run against Trump.  All those lies and cons about losing his 2020 presidential election and weaponization of the Justice Department should be ignored.  Okay, few of his supporters will, but the case is building. He is a judged fraud.  He revealed that and worse when he was once president.  And he will almost surely become the Republican selection to run against Biden. The Supreme Court will probably rule that he will be eligible to do so. However, all that has happened, and more--say, dealing with the matter of democracy--will surely convince that body to indicate that he will not be immune to prosecution in a criminal case.  And, I think, by this summer, if not soo

Remember the parable of the  Blind Men and an Elephant?   Well, the Republican Party is at a crucial crossroad about where they're headed. First Republican presidential debate?   Read this .   And this . Japan releasing nuclear contaminated wastewater into the Pacific?   Read this .  Dumping of radiated fluids will need to go on for the next forty or so years.  International relationships?  Totally screwed up.  A quote: Bob Richmond of the University of Hawaii (we are in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology), scientific advisor to the Pacific Island states, which like China and most countries are adamantly opposed, analogized that Japan's extensive monitoring plans do not actually mitigate health risks posed by duming the wastewater into the ocean: Its' the same thing as saying, 'I'm going to smoke three packs of cigarettes a day, but I'm not worried because I'm gonna get a chest X-ray every year.  That's my monitoring program.'  One

But let me start with some bad news, although many would consider the latter two to be almost expected: The COVID-19 pandemic is raging. Donald Trump has initiated his judicial coup strategy. Two more coronavirus infections for the Administration:  Mark Meadows, Chief of Staff, and Ben Carson, Secretary of Health, etc. Defense Secretary Mark Esper was just fired .  This is an unusual period for this to occur, but more might well be coming. Ah, but the disasters I experienced on Saturday have turned around.  Today, for example, I weighed in at 155.8 pounds, the lowest in more than a decade.  My right knee appears to be back to normal, which is not necessarily all that good, but no cane today.  Plus, my replacement driver's license arrived in the mail today.  I can now drive again.  And even one more:  I slept for seven straight hours last night, for the first time this year. Also, all the late returns seem to be indicating that Biden will reach 306 electoral votes, to Trump's 23