Everyone with the ability to search has already checked out the clause of the Constitution which applies to receiving gifts from foreign states without Congressional consent (Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8). So I won’t belabor that point. And any number of Constitutional scholars and law professors have reacted in horror to the completely immoral acts of the sitting President.
But I did want to point out that there is another word which some people may be confusing with this one. That is the word emollient, which is a technical term for a moisturizer. Again, my trusty technology (known as my phone) gives me all I ever wanted to know about this word. It turns out that petroleum jelly is one of the best.
Meanwhile, I heard another misuse of terms in one of the many speeches I have been following. I don’t know whether it was incorrect in a written text or whether it was an extemporaneous speech but it sounded incorrect to me. Either way, I just want to point out that there are two words which sound somewhat similar but have quite different meanings. The words are “exacerbate” and “exasperate” with the former being the one which would have been appropriate in the context but the speaker seemed to use the latter. Of course, it may just be my incredible bluetooth hearing aids which noticed the subtle difference, but I do tend to be rather judgmental about language usage. But perhaps that’s my British heritage with class distinctions based on accent. [Thank you, Miriam Margolyes, for so cleverly switching between dialects in your recent travelogue “Australia Unmasked” which I thoroughly enjoyed on Netflix.]
My final thoughts this Sunday morning include the fact that I know very little about any religion. I was actually taken aback when I began reading yet another of the books in my pile and learned that the Bible is used by both Jews and Christians. The first five books of the Bible are used by both religions. Honestly, how did I get to be this old and not know that? I think I knew that Muslims have the Koran about which I know next to nothing, but I always thought the Torah was a unique item. Again, what I don’t know would fill way more than a book! I see now why some people study religion all their lives. But enough of what I don’t know.
What I do know is that we are in an extremely dangerous time. The “Blood and Politics” book that I am reading first thing every day on my Kindle is giving me even more understanding of how diabolical the plotting of the anti-everything party has become. Do you know the name David Duke? He’s actually still alive (born July 1, 1950) and his Wikipedia entry highlights the information I’m learning from Leonard Zeskind’s book. Duke is a neo-Nazi, conspiracy theorist, and former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the Republican Party from 1989 to 1992. Any coincidence that Mike Johnson hails from that state?
Enough is Enough! We must rally round the flag and save this democratic republic from the corrupt, cruel, corpulent and most of all criminal grifter-in-chief.
RESIST ALWAYS
TTFN
The fight in the street will be won by numbers. We have to go there and do that. That fight is what will give us the end result. We must remain in the streets even after their shooting us begins. Saving democracy sounds so benign, but its cost is paid for in blood. That is the way it has always been. Steel yourselves. Think on this Memorial Day. Remember those that gave their last full measure of devotion. Our time is at hand.
Carl said the Truth of the Day. Viet Vet. Who knows the real story. Thanks to Katherine, Sasha, Debbie and Karen research