Trump’s Attack On Science

Trump’s lack of knowledge of science continues in unbelievable ways

https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-trump-bans-apos-transgender-053051424.html

Im sure this can get a lot worse, but isn’t this bad enough? How does any rational individual defend something like this?

Zz.

Donald Trump Undermines Marriage

OK, so we all know that Donald Trump can't keep getting married to just one woman. But it is highly amusing that he is also helping to destroy other marriages.

A new study is reporting that there is an increase in couples splitting up due to their disagreement over Donald Trump's policies and presidency.

The survey included 1,000 participants nationwide, and what it found isn't particularly shocking to those of us who had political squabbles with relatives over the holiday season. According to the results, 22 percent of Americans know a couple whose relationship has been negatively affected by Trump's election, while 24 percent of Americans who are in a relationship or married report that since Trump was elected president, "they and their partner have disagreed or argued about politics more than ever."

Whether intentional or not, the FACT of the matter here is that Trump presidency is causing the nation to disintegrate and fracture.

It is funny that many people make claims that gay marriages "undermine" traditional marriages, without offering any shred of evidence to back such claims. Yet, here we have clear evidence that Donald Trump is undermining and even destroying marriages.

Where are those proctecting-the-sanctity-of-marriages folks now?

Zz.

Mosque Burnt Down, Jews Handed Over Keys To Their Synagogue

Story like this does not get highlighted enough, especially during the hate-filled and hateful period since the US Presidential election.

The mosque/Islamic center in the small town of Victoria, TX burnt down under suspicious circumstances earlier this month, right after the President signed the travel ban executive order. This story would have ended there if it were for the generous and kind folks of the Temple Bnai Israel.

"We have probably 25 to 30 Jewish people in Victoria, and they probably have 100 Muslims. We got a lot of building for a small amount of Jews."

One of the mosque's founders, Shahid Hashmi, said: "Jewish community members walked into my home and gave me a key to the synagogue."

There are A LOT of lessons to be learned here. Boys and girls, if you want to promote whatever it is that you believe in, and show to the world how wonderful it is, nothing can be better than showing us your best feature dressed in your best outfit. This is what those people at Temple Bnai Israel have done. They not only reveal to the world how kind and generous they are, but also on the nature of their beliefs and practices.

If you want to sabotage and ruin the reputation of your beliefs, then you form something like ISIS or the Westboro Babtist Church. There's no quicker way to destroy the good name of your belief than to act that dumb.

Zz.

Travel Ban Would Not Have Stopped Previous Attacks

The claim by the Trump administration that the travel ban from these countries would make the US safer and would have prevented previous attacks is quite hollow. The Washington Post has an article that basically said that the current policy would not have stopped those attacks, because the attackers were either US citizens, permanent residents, or were not from one of those banned countries.

This is a table that summarizes the attacks by so-called Islamic extremists since 2001.

“The ban is less about national security and more about advancing a worldview based on religious and racial exclusion,” J.M. Berger, a fellow with the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism at The Hague and co-author of “ISIS: The State of Terror,” wrote in an email Sunday. “It’s not likely to make us safer, and it is far more likely to help our real enemies, ISIS and al-Qaeda. We don’t do ourselves any favors when we make their talking points into reality.”

So instead of making us safer, it has made us even more vulnerable.

Zz.

Happy Birthday, Fred Korematsu

Today, January 30, 2017, Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of activist Fred Korematsu, who fought the US government way back in 1942 on the internment of Japanese US citizens during World War II.

Korematsu refused to comply with the order and fled from his home in San Leandro, California to Oakland. Korematsu was soon captured and convicted, but he appealed the decision. Although the Supreme Court ruled against him 6-3, the decision was overturned in 1983.

In the original Supreme Court ruling, dissenting Justice Robert Jackson said that the only crime Korematsu committed was “being present in the state whereof he is a citizen, near the place where he was born and where all his life he has lived.” Justice Frank Murphy called the executive order “legalization of racism.”

“It is the case of convicting a citizen as a punishment for not submitting to imprisonment in a concentration camp, based on his ancestry, and solely because of his ancestry, without evidence or inquiry concerning his loyalty and good disposition towards the United States,” they wrote. “If this be a correct statement of the facts disclosed by this record, and facts of which we take judicial notice, I need hardly labor the conclusion that Constitutional rights have been violated.”

And now, more than 70 years later, history is almost repeating itself, where whole groups of people are being persecuted not because they did anything wrong, but because they are assumed to already be guilty just simply for who they are.

Zz.

I Started A Food Blog

Yeah, I did! I decided that all the stuff about food that I would have posted in here belongs in a separate blog than this.

http://epicuriousitykillstheschrodingercat.blogspot.com/

So no more food stuff in here! :)

Zz.