John Burtis is a former Broome County, NY firefighter, a retired Santa Monica, CA, police officer. He obtained his BA in European History at Boston University and is fluent in German. He resides in NH with his wife, Betsy. Merrick Garland, the Department of Justice tovarisch in our present day judicial Potemkin village
Back in the bad old days of Empress Catherine II of Russia, the interior minister was a gent named Grigori Potemkin. And every now and then Catherine would announce to her court that she was going to travel to a particular part of her vast Russian Empire to see what the peasants were up to.
It should be recalled that the peasant had a bit of a rough go of it back then, living in thatched roofed huts, one step above wattle and daub, where the animals, maybe the family cow, a few head of sheep and maybe a few pigs would move inside when the first snowflakes began to fly, and the unpaved roads turned from a bottomless sea of mud to icy wrought iron. The animals would sleep together on the floor of these huts while the family slept on those ubiquitous shelves on the big oven. And at 30 or 40 below zero F, who could blame them. A phrase often used to describe peasant housing of that era was "mean little hovel."
When I think of the vaunted World Health Organization, under the guidance of the onetime big tooth on the crushing cog of the cruel Marxist dictatorship which used to run Ethiopia, erstwhile kidnapper and that great and good healer, good old Doctor Tedros Adhanom-Ghebreyesus PhD, I am reminded of the old vaudeville act of Abbott and Costello and WHO’s on first, especially when their routine, like WHO’s and old Doc Tedros’s, follows the money:
Have pity on all those Democrat voters who played by the rules. They watched Sanders get kicked to the curb in 2016, but thought it would never happen again. They will soon see, after the Iowa fiasco and all the crooked caucuses and primaries, that all their work and votes for Biden will get thrown down the toilet or into the burn bag and get destroyed--real soon.
We've finally regressed to the Nazi T-4 Program in all but name. You know, where we get to murder all "life unworthy of life".
That was the Nazi line which ok'd doctors to sign off on mental illness, chronic alcoholics, folks with gross anatomical abnormalities, folks with incurable diseases, people with STDs, babies with birth defects, babies afflicted with hydro- and macro-cephaly, babies with Down's syndrome, and send them to places like Bernburg, Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hadamar, Hartheim, and Sonnenstein.
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The Scarlet Letter: The Scarlet Letter explores guilt and revenge
Judge Brett Kavanugh is, by all accounts, a terrific jurist and a decent gentleman who believes, who trusts, in our Constitution and carries a copy with him.
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Stanford University
Dear President Tessier-Lavigne
I am writing to register both my concern and my fear about the violent writings one of your resident RA’s, a Mr Hamzeh Daoud.
What can I say? Absolutely nothing. But I tried, and so did all of my friends.
We all called Senator Hassan's offices to register our disgust with the activity of her sainted out of state college coed female intern's telling the President of the United States: "F**k You!"
