Archives for 2017

Rough Day

January 22, 2017 by Michael Boyle

For a Republican, losing Fox News on Day 2 portends an ill fate. Even Chris Wallace has defected. Watch…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M0ZmrpVyoTk

Trump Promised to Resign From His Companies — But There’s No Record He’s Done So

January 22, 2017 by Michael Boyle

To transfer ownership of his biggest companies, Trump has to file a long list of documents in Florida, Delaware and New York. We asked officials in each of those states whether they have received the paperwork. As of 3:15 p.m. today, the officials said they have not. Trump and his associates “are not doing what they said they would do,” said Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush. “And even that was completely inadequate.”

Source: Trump Promised to Resign From His Companies — But There’s No Record He’s Done So – ProPublica

À suivre: a continuing report card on Donald Trump’s first 100 days as president

January 22, 2017 by Michael Boyle

This should be interesting.

Follow daily updates on the 45th president of the United States as we track Trump one day at a time

Source: Donald Trump’s first 100 days as president – The Guardian

What’s going on is that I have decided to revive this blog. I can’t guarantee how long this will continue, but the inauguration of Donald Trump and the massive Women’s marches on Washington today have moved me to try and memorialize the Trump presidency through links to relevant articles.

The times we’re living through at the moment are not normal. Donald J Trump is no normal President. The election he won was no normal political contest, and his Presidency has already gotten off to a rocky start.

I could – and probably will – write a long essay on the matter – but for the moment I prefer to let the articles and photos I choose to speak for themselves.

If you are a big tree, we are a small axe

January 21, 2017 by Michael Boyle

From my old friend Joe Macdonald, who has been burning it up on Facebook recently with some amazing, insightful and deeply moving writing. He says,

I first heard this deep cut by Bob Marley when I bought a cassette of rarities in a grocery store in northern British Columbia in 1986. If you are a big tree, we are a small axe. Ready to cut you down. Watching the extraordinary turn-outs of these Women’s Marches is the most hopeful thing I have seen in years and years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E28RoPgmsU

The lyrics are apropos:

Why boasteth thyself/Oh, evil men
Playing smart/And not being clever?
I said, you’re working iniquity/To achieve vanity (if a-so a-so)
But the goodness of Jah, Jah/I-dureth forever

So if you are the big tree
We are the small axe