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So, Greta Thunberg might have won the title person of the year from Time Mag. this year but nobody would argue that for most Americans Donald J. Trump was the person that dominated most of the news and most of the headspace in the country in 2019. Click on the link  https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/our-year-of-trumpschmerz?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagenewsletter_Daily_ZZ&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_123019&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9dfbb2ddf9c72dc35f2a4&cndid=12003452&esrc=&mbid=&utm_term=TNY_Daily  and take a quick read of Susan Glasser's article today.

SECRET - R.I.P. Our sweet kitty girl of 17 yrs. passed last week. We are all deeply saddened by her passing and our lives suddenly changed. She greeted us every morning and accompanied us through our days. The rhythms of our home are suddenly askew without her.

Democracy at the Crossroads     I want to be candid about this, increasingly large segments of the so-called  Republican party are no longer supporters of democracy. Stridently anti-democratic factions hold sway from the WH on down into the ranks and base of the party today. They are supported by a deeply anti-democratic segment of the right-wing media. A form of right-wing Populism - Nationalism has married itself to the Corp. wing of the party, add the these folks the right-wing religious factions and white supremacists and what you end up with is a deeply reactionary and fiercely anti-democratic movement looking to replace our present Constitutional order with something that looks more like today's Russian kleptocracy/autocracy  with a supreme leader or quasi-Dictator like Putin and a weak fig democracy ( the DUMA.) Sadly, I don't see this getting any better in the years ahead. The party is now reaching for Authoritarian leaders like Trump and ...

   If we are to ever slow down the accelerating negative effects of climate change / global warming most scientists of good faith believe Carbon Capture technologies are going to have to be developed and deployed to reabsorb and reprocess much of the present CO2 overhang. The average amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere are known to have been between 190 ppm to 280 ppm ( approx.) over at least the last 4-6 mil. years. The low pts. being in the middle of Ice Ages and the high levels of concentrations in inter-glacial warm periods like the one we're in now ( the Holocene epoch.) The problem now of course is we've added over 135 ppm above the 280 high average and considering that the Atmosphere and Climate system is known to be extraordinarily sensitive to these limits we are now on track for radical change to these systems.                          A REVOLUTIONARY NEW METHOD OF CARBON CAPTURE I've linked here to a ...

A great article in Salon detailing what's going on with Trump's AJ Mr. Barr. Click on the link and take a look for yourself.  https://www.salon.com/2019/10/25/bill-barrs-alternate-universe-investigation-has-a-goal-right-wing-authoritarian-rule/

   I'm suffering from almost three straight years of Daily Donald? I have to admit I've stopped watching the Donald J. Trumpf shitshow on TV and can hardly bear to read anymore OP-eds and articles about him and his gang. In short, I'm suffering from emotional and mental fatigue as regards him. Are you?