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Why #47DonTheFelon Picks Miscreants For His Political Appointments

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #47DonTheFelon, American Politics, Associations, Good, Heaven, Hell, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vile on March 2, 2025| 2 Comments »

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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And The Truth Will Set You Free

Posted in History, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #47DonTheFelon, America First, American Politics, Baltic States, China, David Frum, Economics, Edmund Burke, England, Evil, Former President George W. Bush, Good, History, I Didn't Have My Glasses On, Japan, Lele Saa, NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Other Blogs, Pax Americana, Philosophy, Poland, Politics, Quotes, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Russia, SEATO, Slava Ukraini, South Korea, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Spain, Taiwan, Triumph, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, War on March 1, 2025| 7 Comments »

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
9:56 AM · Feb 28, 2025

– David Frum
Speechwriter for Former President George W. Bush

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

– Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

– Edmund Burke (generally attributed to)


art credit: Lele Saa (a Spanish illustrator living in England)
The illustration was posted on one of the blog sites I follow: I Didn’t Have My Glasses On
The specific post was: Slava Ukraini
Please visit the original site if you have a few spare moments…

[I find it difficult to express the amount of disgust I have for our current American Presidential administration.

Americans and our former allies (NATO and SEATO) should make NO mistake, BOTH Russia and China are authoritarian nuclear superpowers and are intent on supplanting the United States as the world’s dominant national actor – economically and militarily.

President Trump may or may not be a “puppet” of Russian leader Putin, but Trump is not acting in the long term “best” interests of the United States or our allies. While all three of the superpowers have the ability to destroy the world, none have the ability to unilaterally command the rest of the world’s nations to do their bidding – and, yes, I include the United States under that limitation.

There is no “Pax Americana” without our allies support.

I am opposed to Ukraine signing any mineral treaty with the United States in exchange for “security”. A U.S. guarantee of security is purely an illusion for the Ukranians (and the rest of the “free” world). There can be no U.S. backed guarantee of security for any country as long as we have our current convicted criminal in the Oval Office. Let’s be clear: President Trump is a man without honor and a contract, which is all a treaty is, means less to him than the paper it is written on. Trump has a lifetime history of ignoring his side of any contract and he has been responsible for the failure of many businesses which made the mistake of delivering on their side of a contract before full payment has been made by his companies.

All of the NATO allies should take full account of President Trump’s actions and recognize there is NO Article V, guarantee of mutual support and defense by the United States any longer (now or in the future). When it is possible for an unethical criminal to be elected President of the United States (and then re-elected), all of our allies must assume it will happen again and base their current and on-going security policy free of illusion.

For now, the other NATO countries are fortunate that Ukraine has so weakened Russia over the last three years, that it will take years for Russia to rebuild their conventional forces so that Russia is again a major ground threat to ALL of Europe. The key for a free Europe is to start developing your security forces NOW, not in two years time when Russia completes their rebuild and finally crushes Ukraine or 3-4 years from now or when Russia invades Poland or the Baltic States.

Unfortunately, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan have not had an immovable object (like Ukraine) to blunt / spend the buildup of conventional Chinese forces as Ukraine as done to Russia for the benefit of the rest of Europe and the Middle East. So, what was true for NATO is now equally valid for SEATO: you cannot rely on the United States for mutual defense.

Trump’s “America first!” really means “America Alone…” to the rest of the world.

A word to the wise should suffice.

— kmab]

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The Spirit Of A Fighter, The Heart Of A Saint

Posted in History, Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, Change, Commitment To Change, Evil, Georgia, Good, History, Leadership, Light, Love, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, RIP - John R. Lewis, Speak Up, Truth, U.S. Representative John Lewis on July 18, 2020| 2 Comments »

Rest In Peace: John R. Lewis
U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district
21 February 1940 – July 17, 2020

You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone — any person or any force — dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates. […] Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won. Choose confrontation wisely, but when it is your time don’t be afraid to stand up, speak up, and speak out against injustice. And if you follow your truth down the road to peace and the affirmation of love, if you shine like a beacon for all to see, then the poetry of all the great dreamers and philosophers is yours to manifest in a nation, a world community, and a Beloved Community that is finally at peace with itself.

― John Lewis

Take a long, hard look down the road you will have to travel once you have made a commitment to work for change. Know that this transformation will not happen right away. Change often takes time. It rarely happens all at once. In the movement, we didn’t know how history would play itself out. When we were getting arrested and waiting in jail or standing in unmovable lines on the courthouse steps, we didn’t know what would happen, but we knew it had to happen.

Use the words of the movement to pace yourself. We used to say that ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part. And if we believe in the change we seek, then it is easy to commit to doing all we can, because the responsibility is ours alone to build a better society and a more peaceful world.

― John Lewis

Both quotes are from his book: “Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America“

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Good Knowledge

Posted in Faith Family and Friends, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged God, Good, Knowledge, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, Spinoza, The Mind on March 22, 2012| 2 Comments »

The greatest good of the mind is the knowledge of God.

— Spinoza

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Click here (22 March) to see the posts of prior years. I started this blog in late 2009. Daily posting began in late January 2011. Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts.