It is a puzzling experience in life to have to deal with the reality of a man who is incapable of telling the truth. Listening to this man is like hearing a child fabricate a tale of the penguin who ate the cookies. You listen with a smile, because the
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Babel-on-the-Bay: Only fools annoy us.
There will be many fine words used to describe John Lewis who died last week. He was a leader of the U.S. civil rights movement and the long-serving representative for Alabama’s Fifth Congressional District. But the words that need to be remembered are those attributed to John Lewis himself. In
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Ford follows mentor Trump.
From the low of being booed at the Raptors’ celebration in Toronto last year, Ontario premier Doug Ford feels it is time to hear some applause. After all the exposure he has gotten from the pandemic, he is ready to go on the road again. Like Donald Trump in the
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trump’s ‘Far-Left’ Fascism.
Donald Trump is obviously testing ideas for the November election. One of his claims in the recent Mount Rushmore speech was to complain about the “new far-left fascism” that is intent on “wiping out” American history. While it is obvious that he has never studied political science, to erroneously mix
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The options for Mr. Trump.
Donald Trump has the media guessing. As America heads towards its November election, president Trump is watching his options narrow. As he just plays more and more golf, you cannot assume that he is not doing some thinking. In fact, with the way he plays golf, he has lots of
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Pestilence rides the pale horse.
The cull continues. The deaths mount. Do the continuing failures of those who govern America take precedence over the battle with covid-19? Does pestilence allow a time-out for protest? And what of the other three horsemen? Is famine reserved for other parts of our world? Is the war with the
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trump’s Terror.
We were spell-bound Monday evening watching the television coverage of events around the American white house. We had heard recordings of what he had said to many of the U.S. state governors earlier in the day and dreaded how it might play out through the evening. This was the belligerent
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trump will not go gentle into that good night.
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was talking about older people and death in that often-quoted poem. It is much to far ahead of the election to make a confident prediction but I can cheerfully suggest what might happen when Joe Biden beats Trump in November. When all avenues for dispute are
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Mr. Trump’s Stupid Wars.
It is hard to say what the Americans have done wrong to deserve this. They have the best equipped standing army in the world and they elect a guy like Donald Trump as commander-in-chief. It’s enough to make you cry. That jerk could not understand the strategy for a snowball
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Who’s voting for stupid?
The ignorant and the gullible are on the march in America. They are coming to his rallies and buying his snake oil. Donald Trump has his eye on the prize: the November election. That is quite a prize for a serial killer who has already helped the pandemic take the
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: And the show goes on.
Just when you have lost all interest in America’s president Trump, he finds something more ugly, more tawdry with which to entertain you. There seem to be none of the deadly sins of pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, anger or sloth that do not entice and enthrall him. Is this
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Making a stand, in Dixie.
It is only appropriate. If any music is right for the coronavirus in the United States, it is Dixie. In the American Civil War, Dixie was the song of defiance and it took many from the American South to a needless and untimely death. This came to mind the other
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: “Are we there yet?”
That man-child in the American White House reminds me of taking the kids on a road trip. How soon they would tire of their prison in the back seat of the family sedan. And, no matter how many games you had lined up for them, you eventually hear what every
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The impatience of Donald Trump.
While Canadians have mostly been enjoying the unusual unanimity of their federal and provincial leaders in this time of the pandemic, the situation in the U.S. is reversed. In a frightening replay of the Spanish flu of 100 years ago, the states and their federal government are fighting their own
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: A man and his ideas.
Bernie Sanders has taken himself out of the race for the democratic nomination for president. He left his legacy behind. The Vermont senator is probably tired but he can be very proud of what he achieved. He left most of the pundits, arguing about the policies on which presumptive candidate
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The lost year.
It was when sitting through the excruciating ignorance of a Donald Trump briefing with his Gong Show covid-19 crew that it occurred to me. With this kind of leadership in the U.S., the country will be lucky to be out of the woods before Christmas, 2020. North Americans still have
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: What Value Trust?
Do you trust U.S. president Donald Trump? Why would you when his actions are erratic, his decisions changeable, his sources of information questionable and his attention span so limited? In approving the revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), did the parliamentarians consider this man’s weaknesses and frequent whims? They
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Can a conman cure a coronavirus?
U.S. president Donald Trump is impatient with the progress in curing covid-19. As a perpetual con artist, he will grasp at any straw as a solution. It is his nature. It is what also makes him a continuing pain in the ass in politics. Trump is deluding his followers and
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: US Politics: One Party, With Two Right Wings
Stephen Lendman described and contextualized it well in his article, “US Indifference to Public Health: The Shame of the Nation” (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) He wrote, “Both right wings of the US one-party state serve privileged interests exclusively at the expense of public health and welfare. It’s been
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trump trumps a coronavirus.
Which would you rather have, Donald Trump or Covid-19? Life is certainly a series of difficult choices, is it not? At least, the nincompoop in charge at the American White House has changed his tune, a bit. He is starting to use some words of concern. Whoever got to him
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