Breakfast Table Talk
The Bettina Oracle Speaks
This has been an incredible time for everyone – especially since you have all been faced with what for many is not understandable and for those of you who do understand what is happening, you are not able to speak about it out of fear. A man, surrounded by many who are there to take…
Read MoreThe Fourth of July, 2017
What a day we celebrate in a year during which our Republic is once again in jeopardy and we are in fear of all of the gains made by those who went before being trashed. And – we have only ourselves to blame. To celebrate the Fourth of July with Donald Trump as president of…
Read MoreAMERICA: your ethics are showing
From slavery – to Jim Crow – to the immense Black Civil Rights movement – to the painful Feminist movement – to the Peace Movement – to Americans for Respect of the Globe and the Universe – to Donald Trump? The election and ‘service’ of Donald Trump has exposed the United States’ underbelly the way…
Read MoreA New Harvard President!
by: Marceline Donaldson and Harold E. Doley, Jr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the 28th president of Harvard University has resigned her position effective June 30, 2018. A historian and former head of Radcliff Institute, Ms. Faust did an excellent job of continuing to move this private Ivy League institution, founded in 1636 in “New Town” –…
Read MoreWhat is Trump’s “Fake News” about!
by: Marceline Donaldson The retaliations have started and will probably get worse as time goes on. Anyone taking on Donald Trump is being put on notice by the firing of FBI Director James Comey. This comes after he fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates. What became clear in the hearings as Sally Yates gave a…
Read MoreWe Are Being Played! Trumped!
The “roll out” of Donald J. Trump’s tax program was amazing. It is the (1%) one percenters dream. If it goes through it create a country without responsibility to anyone except its top ten percent – the bottom nine percent of this top ten percent will be the recipients of this country’s “welfare”. It is the…
Read MoreCreating a Totalitarian State
What does it take to turn a democracy/republic into a fascist totalitarian state? We saw some of that happen during Germany’s change to the Third Reich. We are looking at another example with the United States. What struck me was the Executive Order of Donald Trump’s making all of the information on the internet –…
Read MoreTrump Tries to Trash Rice!
Well, if you thought Trump was just playing at being a bigot – have no fear – your thoughts are wrong. To attempt to control the public conversation and steer it away from the Russian interference with the American presidential election and his possible collusion with that Russian interference, Trump has attempted to destroy the…
Read MoreComey/Head of FBI/QuidProQuo?
Listening to the hearings on Monday was quite emotional. Getting feedback from many – it was amazing to hear that most of us agreed on the same thing. That is highly unusual. We tend to be a disagreeable lot! Most striking about those hearings was to know and remember that James Comey came out with…
Read MoreThe United States President = Pathological Liar
It is amazing to see “Mr. President” referred to every day as a Pathological Liar. I have lived through many presidents and not everyone has been happy with the current president, but all of them – except maybe Richard Nixon – have been respected even when one could not agree with some of their policies…
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