Is America the crime capital of the world, do police do a "better" job catching criminals, are prosecutors tougher on criminals, are our laws stricter than any other country, are judges more harsh in sentencing, is the land of the free actually the land of LESS freedom?  Why do we put so many people in jail?

PROFIT!

If anyone makes a profit putting and keeping people in prison, we MUST question the process and the motives as fundamentally flawed.  Is our prison industry focused on...

I think Trump is probably a huckster, and his so-called good accomplishentys, like the economy, is done by SMOKE-N-MIRRORS.

"We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong"

The official statistics say that the financial crisis is behind us. It's not.
By David Leonhardt       14 Sep 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/columnists/great-recession-economy-gdp.html

"As a technical matter, the current batch of official numbers are perfectly accurate. They also describe some real and important...

I have learned that the concern about the "sovereignty" of America, control over our "independence," has been over many years, perhaps emphasized in the last 70-100 years (after WWI?  League of Nations we chose NOT to join even while it was Woodrow Wilson's idea to help the world avoid future wars!).

Sovereignty is topic for analysis and concern by intellectuals as our government chooses to participate in international organizations.  But over many, many years if not always, the US has been...

Ford vs Senate GOP / Kavenaugh was not a debate or proper job interview.  Dems f**ked it up with their tricks.  In turned on a "He said she said" and the sex assault became a minor issue after Judge Kavenaugh showed his political inclinations in an angry, dismissive, entitled display of his true character.

"Bitter partisan battle wounded Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court he’s joined"

 By Robert Barnes    October 7 at 8:29 PM 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/kavanaugh-arrives-...

A 246 year head start for whites vs slaves.  No other system of slavery on earth was as uniquely cruel as the system America's white people created for blacks brought to America.  NO other slave system made slaves permanently slaves, generation after generation after generation. 

GENERATIONAL  Other slaves systems had ways to gain freedom.

I am going to give you a basis for Affirmative Action policy, and ask you to look at why white people owe black people, and possibly other people of...

Perfect picture!  Trump likes this picture.

President Trump hosted a school-report scenario TV broadcast in the White House Oval Office to tell Americans he knows about hurricane Michael.  This talk was a reality show/SNL-like skit, it was poorly orchestrated and clownish.  It was typical Trump/Tweety and it was childish!

The Fox News support and Trump's base will say he was showing he is managing the scene. 

I tried to see it that way, but the President did not even know what to say to...

We must care for victims, not accuse them or castigate them.  "Evidence" of sexual assault need not be absolute.  Evidence can be circumstantial.  It is VERY unlikely a girl or woman will lie about sexual assault and rape, statistics prove this as fact.

"Due process in the #MeToo era"

 by Diane Dimond, she writes about legal issues.            Oct 9, 2018

http://www.winchesterstar.com/winchester_star/due-process-in-the-metoo-era/article_e5aee1d0-7e93-5314-9d79-8b56b9aff0ff.html

"The U.S....

Is America satisfied with elections choices between [South Park named] "Giant Douche" and "Turn Sandwich" candidates who do not tell us the issues they plan to address?  Are we so tribal we do not care what the issues are, just what political party the candidate belongs to.

America must address immigration management, wise/mature/intelligent choices to aid the economy, improved jobs and wages/salaries, women's freedom and civil rights, racism, enhanced education, domestic security...

Tweety's Wall for three (3) states to solve an imagined, false, not real problem, is not something our century needs or can afford.  PERIOD.  FULL STOP.

Priorities for spending American tax dollars could not be more obvious:

  -  disaster relief for Americans in Texas, Florida, North and South Carolina, Puerto Rico, and Georgia to name the obvious states where help is needed,

  -  rebuilding America infrastructure come BEFORE superficial token images like a Wall on our southern border to...

Fox News is absolutely sure Kanye represents a credible black support for Trump!

Kanye is off his meds, but Fox News thinks he is speaking his "truth" and libeals just do not like to hear him speak good of Trump!  Wow!

Did Kanye West just play Trump in the Oval Office!?  That is a possibility!  lol!  It would be cool!  Kanye was asked about racism and he said if he was afraid of racism he would have left the United States a long time ago!  Think about that answer.  It could be Kanye says he...

"EXCLUSIVE: ICE arrested over 100 undocumented immigrants without criminal convictions in that big Oakland raid"
 
By David Noriega          Oct 11, 2018

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/gye3pw/exclusive-ice-arrested-over-100-undocumented-immigrants-without-criminal-convictions-in-that-big-oakland-raid

Donald Trump is socially awkward.  I see it in his speech, his limited ability to observe things and express what he observes in words that are "adult" vocabulary words, words adults use.  Trump is child-like, really.  It is not a fault, necessarily, except that his base sees him as their savior despite this short-coming.  It is a serious flaw for the President of the United States, for sure. 

Trump has little ability to truly connect with people, and money is his way of compensating for...

Does the media have a liberal bias, or a bias against ALL abuse of power and authority.

Some media outlets on TV give us pause with stupid commentary and lack of analysis, so we need all the sources we can get.  I'll grant all media outlets broadcast dumb crap, but from what I have seen, Fox News perverts the facts and reality the most given "Fox and Friends" and "Outnumbered" as well as Tucker Carlson and Hannity leading the way.

Fox and Friends bring on a guest that says the chief reason...

A cartoon suggests serious concerns are coming from whiny kids.  Not true.  Tribal.

Trump says only he can fix it, and Trump is the adult among kids.  Funny.

No way this is realistic!  No way!  If Trump's behavior and lies are "adult," then I don't understand what "adult" means.

If Trump's past foretells his future, failure is likely.  Marketing crap is not a winning tactic.

Trump is NOT, never was, never will be the "ADULT" in the room.  Trump has serious child-like traits!  Trump is...

Rescue your tortured soul from Tweety's ugliness with a song.  Tweety believes jobs are more important than protecting Americans from murder by a Saudi leader of an American reporter that expressed opinions against Saudi human rights violations.

"The backlash to Khashoggi’s alleged murder is growing — except in the White House"

By Editorial Board                 October 12, 2018 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-backlash-to-khashoggis-alleged-murder-is-growing--exce...

Donald Trump did a 60 Minute Interview October 2018.  He said a lot, probably too much.  It was like "TMI" or too much information, and the world should now fear him more than before.  Here's why" Trump is a socio-psychopath!

Trump said, in a way, "I am a grifter and  love only me, and want everyone to love me." seemingly not aware he is doing so many things to make people hate him.

DEFINITION OF SOCIOPATH, PSYCHOPATH:

"Both types of personality have a pervasive pattern of disregard for...

When did we lose the idea of helping prisoners reform, repent, recover.   Must we make it impossible for a convicted criminal to regain a normal life?  For profits to grow and grow and grow, the Prison Industry does not want criminals to reform.

Prison Industry in the US - it is there to make profits for "businesses," self-interested, and NOT out to achieve justice for anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1fvr9rGgSg

See You Tube Ted Talk on White Privilege.

White Privilege elegantly...

As I grew up, I went to church every, EVERY Sunday, after services, my brother and sister and I went to Sunday School, then when summer came, I went to Summer Church School.  As a result, I did minor bad things, but I am not a sociopath, a psychopath, and mostly avoid criminal behavior.  I'm moral.

I have not been a "good" person by some standards in my before-getting-married years.  My excuse was a girlfriend I loved when I was 16 that literally killed me by dumping me with no warning, and...

Megan McCain has never impressed me as anything more than an average or less than average intellect on The View.  Then she said she likes win-lose in politics and describes politics as a "blood sport."

There are winners, of course, but the "loser" concerns have to be addressed don't they?  I think we must address all concerns to achieve the unity John McCain sought.  We aren't getting anything done by being tribal.

Newt Gingrich called politics a blood sport.  He missed the point of getting...

Only a sociopath grades his performance before anyone else can speak or even ask the question.

The United States government under Donald Trump has failed to help its people in disaster relief.

"Failure of imagination hindered federal Puerto Rico response amid rough hurricane season"

By Arelis R. Hernández and  Arelis R. Hernández [Joel Achenbach]    July 13, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/failure-of-imagination-hindered-federal-puerto-rico-response-amid-rough-hurricane-season/2...