These young men and women make enormous sacrifices for not a lot of pay. While I'm sure there are exceptions, they do it for noble reasons and wouldn't change their choice. It's a shame they have to serve under this potus and secdef - constantly being beaten down, having decades of crucial experience being passed over or fired, and being forced to survive awful conditions beyond what would normally be expected in combat scenarios. I can't even imagine what morale must be like at this moment.
Heartbreaking and criminal. The POtuS should be charged with false imprisonment, in addition to the other 87,000 crimes he has been committing and continues to commit daily.
I contacted both our senators here in Georgia as well as the Rep from my district about the USS Lincoln. Hoping enough people do so to make a difference. Thanks God for the links in the newsletter!
I worked offshore for some time. Enough time to have total empathy for what these sailors are experiencing. Fucking Trump and kegswort have cemented a million times over their ticket to being hailed as the worst military leaders in our country’s history. When those two pathetic meat sacks die, their graves will be used as dumping grounds for all the honey bucket juices collected from every event going forward.
The minute the FIRST sailor tried to jump, that should have been the minute the deployment ended. These brave people are losing their minds, bring them home! Also, at least Odysseus was being punished by the Gods, not his own country.
God - thanks for the invite to write to Congress. I always feel like I am trying to do something when asked to contact Congress with specific ask. Also, I write one letter with the info like:
(It has recently come to my attention that the USS Abraham Lincoln has been deployed for 200 + days now and the men and women aboard have not been able to be with their families. They are working 14 hour days with no rest. I believe that they are in crisis and this administration doesn't give a damn about them. I feel helplesss to change anything but perhaps you can do more than I can to help these brave men and women.
Sincerely,
my name
constituent)
And copy and paste it to the other two. It's fast and easy. I put mine here so others can copy if they want. Even easier!
Cadet Bone Spurs is a disgrace. He doesn’t deserve to be within 10 miles of that uniform, even in AI mode. And Susie "I’m very concerned" Collins keeps running ads here in Maine, saying she’s done soooo much for veterans. She needs to get off her knees in front of the Tangerine Palpatine and freaking do something. I’m sick of her shit.
Bring the USS Lincoln home now! And bring those heroes home for an extended break, while a clean-up crew comes to spit shine the whole ship - For them. And after they are rested and psychoanalyzed, they Might be able to go back to this ridiculous, self-imposed war.
Amen! My son(age 24) went to the theater last week to see the movie: The Odyssey. He told my wife and I that it’s a very good movie. My wife, son and I traveled to northern Michigan this past weekend for a few days to spend quality time with my in-laws. There was sixteen of us. Seven of them traveled from out of state and they staying at a Airbnb for the week.
This word, taxation, is feared by the ultra-rich, and it should be the most understood term by the rest of us. In essence, think about it this way: let's say you just inherited 30 million dollars, and I say I want 5% of that money, and you say hell no. Taxation is just that. Questions like Where do you get the right to take 5% of my inheritance? Where do we get that right? It can be said that the Constitution says that this new government can collect taxes, but how it is collected, how much, and from whom are not defined. What is fair or what is right?
In a family, is it right to give one child more than the others? Again, what is right or what is fair? Before the seventeenth century, it was accepted that royalty lived in castles and that people with low incomes provided them with most of their earnings. No one questioned that, and no one questioned anything in previous cultures where the special class lived at the expense of the lesser class.
We see signs of disagreement with this caste system among certain religious leaders, who proclaim that caring for others is God's will, or “do unto others as you want done to you,” as seen in Jesus washing the feet of Mary Magdalene or in Buddha leaving his parents' castle to live among the rest of the population. This raises other questions: where did this idea come from? Was it God, or from somewhere else? Were we wired to see things as right or wrong?
I watch birds building their nests and the mother feeding all the baby birds without distinction, or the mother elephant caring for her baby while other members of the elephant group assume care if the mother is unable to do so. How do they know all this, and do we also know what we should do? I think we all inherently know values about right and wrong, good and bad. I know that Buddhism teaches that we all have embedded knowledge about our nature, which we cover with falsehoods, and that Jesus taught that “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." So there were teachings, but they were limited to a few and could not be shared with the public until later.
Then came the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries, which followed the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries, beginning with Andreas Vesalius and culminating with Isaac Newton. The revolution produced changes that challenged the Catholic Church, including the idea that the world is round rather than flat and that the sun does not revolve around us; we revolve around the sun. The Enlightenment saw writers like Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, and John Locke use new printing techniques to propose ideas such as individual liberties, the rule of law, and religious freedom; they also discussed the establishment of secular states. This was a period of developing ideas about right and wrong, with topics like Hume's science of man, Locke's philosophy of social contracts, and discussions of natural and legal rights. Locke and Rousseau argued that individuals acquire civil rights by accepting the obligation to respect and protect the rights of others, thereby relinquishing certain personal freedoms in the process. Locke defines the state of nature as a condition in which humans are rational and follow natural law, in which all men are born equal and with the right to life, liberty, and property.
And so, we have it: the idea that what is right or wrong is a natural process embedded in our humanity. Consider a small village with two storage bins: one owned by the baron and the other by the poor people of that county. How do you think the poor people should accept that the baron's bin has enormous supplies of food while the peasants' bin is nearly empty? Would they think that is right? In the make-believe world, the baron would acknowledge the surplus in his bin and distribute food to the peasants; that’s in the make-believe world, but what about the peasants? What should they do? Should their families starve while they do nothing? No, they would revolt!
Now back to us: we should be outraged by the presence in our world of billionaires and MAGA-rich people who sit atop their fortunes and believe they do not have to share the wealth with those around them. This is where taxation comes in; we should reject their mentality and impose greater taxation on their fortunes.
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration reached a 94% top marginal tax rate in 1944. This rate applied to individual taxable income exceeding $200,000 (roughly equivalent to $2.8–$3.5 million today).
• Harry S. Truman: Maintained high wartime rates, and the top marginal rate remained at 91% to 92% throughout the Korean War era.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Kept the top marginal tax rate at 91% throughout his two terms in the 1950s
• The highest federal corporate income tax rate in U.S. history was 52.8%, levied in 1968 and 1969 (during the Vietnam War era, combining a 50% normal/surtax rate with a temporary 10% surcharge), compared with today's 21%. (Wikipedia)
We do not have any control over money passed on to others in an inheritance, and other countries have an inheritance tax. And finally, other countries have a direct tax on individuals' wealth, and we don’t. When are we going to wake up? Do you think our tax code just happened? Do you think our tax code favoring the rich just happened? You see, the rich know about tax codes and how to keep them favoring the rich, and they will fight any attempt to change them with all their wealth.
These young men and women make enormous sacrifices for not a lot of pay. While I'm sure there are exceptions, they do it for noble reasons and wouldn't change their choice. It's a shame they have to serve under this potus and secdef - constantly being beaten down, having decades of crucial experience being passed over or fired, and being forced to survive awful conditions beyond what would normally be expected in combat scenarios. I can't even imagine what morale must be like at this moment.
That’s probably why Hegseth thinks the solution is more testosterone.
Hegseth needs more functioning brain matter. I hate having to be so angry all the time.
Bring these folks home
Heartbreaking and criminal. The POtuS should be charged with false imprisonment, in addition to the other 87,000 crimes he has been committing and continues to commit daily.
I contacted both our senators here in Georgia as well as the Rep from my district about the USS Lincoln. Hoping enough people do so to make a difference. Thanks God for the links in the newsletter!
Thank you 🙏
Pure abuse of our own military by ass***** and mother ####### who are only out for their own personal gain. This is beyond sad.
Bring those sailors home. It is so sad to hear people are jumping overboard to escape. 😢
I worked offshore for some time. Enough time to have total empathy for what these sailors are experiencing. Fucking Trump and kegswort have cemented a million times over their ticket to being hailed as the worst military leaders in our country’s history. When those two pathetic meat sacks die, their graves will be used as dumping grounds for all the honey bucket juices collected from every event going forward.
The minute the FIRST sailor tried to jump, that should have been the minute the deployment ended. These brave people are losing their minds, bring them home! Also, at least Odysseus was being punished by the Gods, not his own country.
God - thanks for the invite to write to Congress. I always feel like I am trying to do something when asked to contact Congress with specific ask. Also, I write one letter with the info like:
(It has recently come to my attention that the USS Abraham Lincoln has been deployed for 200 + days now and the men and women aboard have not been able to be with their families. They are working 14 hour days with no rest. I believe that they are in crisis and this administration doesn't give a damn about them. I feel helplesss to change anything but perhaps you can do more than I can to help these brave men and women.
Sincerely,
my name
constituent)
And copy and paste it to the other two. It's fast and easy. I put mine here so others can copy if they want. Even easier!
Cadet Bone Spurs is a disgrace. He doesn’t deserve to be within 10 miles of that uniform, even in AI mode. And Susie "I’m very concerned" Collins keeps running ads here in Maine, saying she’s done soooo much for veterans. She needs to get off her knees in front of the Tangerine Palpatine and freaking do something. I’m sick of her shit.
Bring the USS Lincoln home now! And bring those heroes home for an extended break, while a clean-up crew comes to spit shine the whole ship - For them. And after they are rested and psychoanalyzed, they Might be able to go back to this ridiculous, self-imposed war.
Bring them home!
Amen! My son(age 24) went to the theater last week to see the movie: The Odyssey. He told my wife and I that it’s a very good movie. My wife, son and I traveled to northern Michigan this past weekend for a few days to spend quality time with my in-laws. There was sixteen of us. Seven of them traveled from out of state and they staying at a Airbnb for the week.
Thank you.
Did see the Odyssey in iMAX, third row. Brutal.
PS: Will call Congress again!
LET'S TALK TAXATION
This word, taxation, is feared by the ultra-rich, and it should be the most understood term by the rest of us. In essence, think about it this way: let's say you just inherited 30 million dollars, and I say I want 5% of that money, and you say hell no. Taxation is just that. Questions like Where do you get the right to take 5% of my inheritance? Where do we get that right? It can be said that the Constitution says that this new government can collect taxes, but how it is collected, how much, and from whom are not defined. What is fair or what is right?
In a family, is it right to give one child more than the others? Again, what is right or what is fair? Before the seventeenth century, it was accepted that royalty lived in castles and that people with low incomes provided them with most of their earnings. No one questioned that, and no one questioned anything in previous cultures where the special class lived at the expense of the lesser class.
We see signs of disagreement with this caste system among certain religious leaders, who proclaim that caring for others is God's will, or “do unto others as you want done to you,” as seen in Jesus washing the feet of Mary Magdalene or in Buddha leaving his parents' castle to live among the rest of the population. This raises other questions: where did this idea come from? Was it God, or from somewhere else? Were we wired to see things as right or wrong?
I watch birds building their nests and the mother feeding all the baby birds without distinction, or the mother elephant caring for her baby while other members of the elephant group assume care if the mother is unable to do so. How do they know all this, and do we also know what we should do? I think we all inherently know values about right and wrong, good and bad. I know that Buddhism teaches that we all have embedded knowledge about our nature, which we cover with falsehoods, and that Jesus taught that “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." So there were teachings, but they were limited to a few and could not be shared with the public until later.
Then came the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries, which followed the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries, beginning with Andreas Vesalius and culminating with Isaac Newton. The revolution produced changes that challenged the Catholic Church, including the idea that the world is round rather than flat and that the sun does not revolve around us; we revolve around the sun. The Enlightenment saw writers like Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, and John Locke use new printing techniques to propose ideas such as individual liberties, the rule of law, and religious freedom; they also discussed the establishment of secular states. This was a period of developing ideas about right and wrong, with topics like Hume's science of man, Locke's philosophy of social contracts, and discussions of natural and legal rights. Locke and Rousseau argued that individuals acquire civil rights by accepting the obligation to respect and protect the rights of others, thereby relinquishing certain personal freedoms in the process. Locke defines the state of nature as a condition in which humans are rational and follow natural law, in which all men are born equal and with the right to life, liberty, and property.
And so, we have it: the idea that what is right or wrong is a natural process embedded in our humanity. Consider a small village with two storage bins: one owned by the baron and the other by the poor people of that county. How do you think the poor people should accept that the baron's bin has enormous supplies of food while the peasants' bin is nearly empty? Would they think that is right? In the make-believe world, the baron would acknowledge the surplus in his bin and distribute food to the peasants; that’s in the make-believe world, but what about the peasants? What should they do? Should their families starve while they do nothing? No, they would revolt!
Now back to us: we should be outraged by the presence in our world of billionaires and MAGA-rich people who sit atop their fortunes and believe they do not have to share the wealth with those around them. This is where taxation comes in; we should reject their mentality and impose greater taxation on their fortunes.
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration reached a 94% top marginal tax rate in 1944. This rate applied to individual taxable income exceeding $200,000 (roughly equivalent to $2.8–$3.5 million today).
• Harry S. Truman: Maintained high wartime rates, and the top marginal rate remained at 91% to 92% throughout the Korean War era.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Kept the top marginal tax rate at 91% throughout his two terms in the 1950s
• The highest federal corporate income tax rate in U.S. history was 52.8%, levied in 1968 and 1969 (during the Vietnam War era, combining a 50% normal/surtax rate with a temporary 10% surcharge), compared with today's 21%. (Wikipedia)
We do not have any control over money passed on to others in an inheritance, and other countries have an inheritance tax. And finally, other countries have a direct tax on individuals' wealth, and we don’t. When are we going to wake up? Do you think our tax code just happened? Do you think our tax code favoring the rich just happened? You see, the rich know about tax codes and how to keep them favoring the rich, and they will fight any attempt to change them with all their wealth.