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Sunday, September 7, 2025
The Secretary of War Proclaimed! Who Knew I'd be Watching History Changes Leading to WWIII??? Open Memoir!
Changing Defense to War Means One Thing to Me - What About You?
Work To Prevent WWIII
Be Sure You Can Vote!!!
Earlier we had considered that Trump could lead into a War Between the States...
But Now, studying what he has done toward Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Ukraine and Palestine (Owning Gaza!) The Man Must Be Stopped!
The World Does NOT Want WWIII!
DO NOT ALLOW THOSE SEEKING POWER AND MONEY TO TAKE OVER THE EARTH!!!
It is clear that the republican party wishes to Whitewash the United States by erasing our History, banning books without authority as one example
It Must Be Stopped - More on above Book just received Soon!
This administration has/is going after DEI, universities, museums, every part of our culture
No Donald, Chicago is not your war zone (Instagram)
I'm still somewhat amazed that, since 2015, I would become a student of history--the history now being made by a delusional leader who is being used by power thirty billionaires and others to change our world!
It was in 1944 when my father was killed in a coalmine accident--he was kicked by a horse which was being used to relocate coal from the mine where he worked. I was born in the next year to a widowed mother of 4 children... It is extremely hard for me to consider, and ruminate on the fact that 80 years after the last World War was ended, that it very much appears that a Third War, in many ways, instigated by the Unites State president is pushing forward in destroying America and any other location where he sees potential wealth!
And, that, in a supposed Christian nation which once opened its arms to the "tired and poor--your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." we are in the midst of such hate, violence, prejudice and more, that the majority of individuals across the world are shocked, unable to speak, unable to comprehend just how we got here in the year 2025. What a prosperous time for LAWYERS!!! Especially those who work for republicans...
We were a poor family, as each of the siblings got older, we helped provide financial support to the family. It seemed my mother was working 24/7 and I've shared her various jobs on another page somewhere... One thing about Mom... she always had us in Church, The New Geneva (PA) Baptist Church, where she also worked... I gather my family was republican. As far as I know it was never discussed at any point during my youth. I have no idea even whether my mother voted... Was that because we were of German descent? I'll never really know. Like my mother, I was a quiet child and didn't initiate many conversations, sad to say, today...
During those early years, Mom and her two sisters, were also members. And we all started calling them after the Andrew Sisters who had become popular during the War years... To be a little prejudice, all three of these sisters were excellent cooks and were always in church to help prepare for dinners or other special events... Fortunately, for me, I never got that interest in wifely skills, but always got invited to benefit from their expertise... LOL Perhaps, God's plan, which I had questioned the possibility of being married as a goal in my teens, God's plan began to take form even then... Certainly I had been a reader from the time I had first learned to read in Sunday and grade school.
From early years to now, all of my mother's children were working from early years...helping to clean house, delivering newspapers... handling chores for senior neighbors... In fact, off and on through the years I have quoted of my love for Work from Gibran:
And he answered, saying:
You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune.
But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when the dream was born,
And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life,
And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.
But if you in your pain call birth an affliction and the support of the flesh a curse written upon your brow, then I answer that naught but the sweat of your brow shall wash away that which is written.
You have been told also that life is darkness, and in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary.
And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge,
And all urge is blind save when there is knowledge,
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work,
And all work is empty save when there is love;
And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.
And what is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit,
And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching.
Often have I heard you say, as if speaking in sleep, “He who works in marble, and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone, is nobler than he who ploughs the soil.
And he who seizes the rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man, is more than he who makes the sandals for our feet.”
But I say, not in sleep but in the over-wakefulness of noontide, that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass;
And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine.
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.
From The Prophet (Knopf, 1923). This poem is in the public domain.
It certainly wasn't because of any average citizen who has lived their lives in relative peace, working to better their lives in any way they were able... I'm an average citizen, with only one advantage. I've been a constant reader for over 20 years... And, I've supported the rights of women both during my career at West Virginia University, as well as the day I heard a man named Donald J. Trump say, on tape, that he could grab the pussy of any woman and they let him... because he was a celebrity... along with other startling thoughts on beautiful women...
I vowed to myself that first time in 2015 I heard the tape that I would be watching and learning about exactly who this man was. My opinion has been formed through many books including two by his niece and one by his nephew. I know this man... and have written much about what he has already done and is doing right now to destroy America...
Consider if you would that Trump has attacked, most importantly, our personal health... He has given away secrets for our personal financial information and initiated attempts to take away those funds... Thousands have lost their jobs without reason or as described under law... Money has been pulled back to universities and other cultural programs without authorization, and which funds were correctly allocated in earlier years. NOTHING is routing going through Congress. Individuals in the cabinet are unqualified, yet placed. The Supreme Court gave immunity - although they seem to be beginning to regret what happened when they chose to break the law in doing so...
I could go on, but it is clear that there is NO LAW that is functioning in America EXCEPT the judges in the lower courts which, in turn, are being abused, accused, attempted to be replaced...or fired when possible... Cities are being invaded by the federal officials rather than local authorities overriding city leader's authority... If it can be thought of, Trump is doing it, no matter what laws are being broken... I thank God that many judges are being firm in their commitment to the laws they enforce....
I KNOW one thing at this point. This catastrophe must never be permitted to happen again. Political Parties, The Supreme Court, Members of Congress can no longer be able to be in control. They do not support the Will of the People, which is what makes our Democracy work. In my opinion, we must start at the top. The Supreme Court must be either eliminated, or reconstituted to provide an even membership from political parties so that a majority must never be allowed again. Those on the Court who have been found of partisan prejudice must be relieved of duty based upon those facts. If necessary, the Court may need to be created by an outside organization to affirm no political partisanship is permitted. The Heritage Foundation must be banned from participating in our government ever again. All individuals in the present administration must be removed/impeached. A separate court should be established to evaluate/interview/determine which members of Congress may be permitted to remain in office, based upon a regurgitation of their loyalty to the Constitution and the Laws, as they were in the year 2000 (not as changed during the administrations of Donald J. Trump).
Once the Supreme Court is recreated. Then a national referendum of some sort must be held to rewrite and document the laws, rights, and confirm the duties and responsibilities of the President, as NEVER being able to be above the law! This should be done by national elections. If the national election does not result in ensuring the president must Never be above the law, Then a National election must be held to determine which political party is voting against the constitution. That political party(ies) must be declared illegal and convicted for Sedition!
If we must start over again, let's make sure we KNOW the credentials of ALL people involved...Credentials which will be evaluated before an individual is even able to run for state and federal office.
Finally, We were told by God to support our Constitution. Let's be sure that God is never again used as a cudgel for violence, anger, greed, power! Separation of Church and State MUST be clearly written and made into law with a provision that a national election must override any change...
This should also be done for any law, such as Roe, and others related to Civil Rights, Personal Freedom, which is being questioned... National Voting MUST be the only way to allow overthrow of any individual rights as defined by law as of 2000. This will be time to allow any questions to be placed before the nation that were overridden by questionable means by government.
Further, all information related to the use of government funds outside of America must be known to all citizens--an online site shall be established to do so. Once a group has been established such as NATO and confirmed and approved, NO president can pull out of such groups without national support through voting!
By National special election, all fired employees and deleted program must be reinstated and funded immediately... At that time--once Trump is out of Office and we are our of the chaos, an ongoing program evaluation shall begin where each program must work each year to justify program continuation and funding. I did this every year for a state-wide university. There should be no problem in doing it at the state and federal level either!
The next presidential election shall begin immediately by allowing interested parties to apply for the position. Each application shall be shared on the site, which, in my opinion, should be outside of th government at this time...perhaps a university? known for technology expertise could volunteer. Carnegie calls to mind in my state... Since Harvard won their appeal, they probably would be glad to participate? The public will begin participating by allowing all interested citizens to provide concerns about the applicants before anything else happens. This could be a simple/year/no...which allows for comment if desired...Narratives could be reviewed at the university level, conduct research to verify the concerns one way or another. ONLY then, would the applicants be able to proceed into the FBI routine applicant evaluation... 2 years before the national election of a new president, a vice-president must be named and begin the same process as the president. By the final year before election, the nation shall be provided with a possible slate for the president and vice-president. The nation as a whole must accept all applicants for both positions...before the political party begins to publicize and debate... There MUST be a maximum amount for publicity, free advertising, and equal news coverage...for the final year. No early announcements shall be permitted. One year is sufficient to acquire a president and vice-president because it will be based upon early review, decisions, and qualifications as well. Considerations should be also reviewed for all positions in government.
Presidents cannot be permitted to appoint anybody without outside involvement either through a university as above, or as defined by Law... No exceptions to legal review are permitted. For instance, there was a question about Judge Kavanaugh by an outside reviewers. Instead of permitting a full review of those accusations, it was stopped. This cannot happen again. Full disclosure of anything NOT following law, shall be documented and shared on national info site. Of course, other than classified... I do not consider elections classified.
Yeah, let's get serious about a government by the people, of the people and for the people. Further, all such gameplaying such as gerrymanding, filibuster, etc., must be immediately eliminated as practices, even if long termed. A special nonpartisan group, created immediately after the national update of the census will, if necessary, redraw maps in each state. They shall be reviewed and approved by each state, as is now allowed, but with full awareness that it can never be used to affect voting based upon racial segregation! This should be approved by appropriate levels of jurisdiction.
Imagine this, everybody, it took me about an hour or two to write the above suggestions/directions... Please ensure that an outside group such as Heritage never be permitted to write a "mandate" for America again! Use the brilliance of universities and their professors who are known as experts in political science and government activities, be chosen to DRAFT proposals... It's a beginning... It took over 200 years to find what a man like Trump can do to America. Let's take the rest of this term to ensure it never happens again... And that means... yes, I call on anybody who is in the same situation as I am right now--we cannot believe or understand what has happened... Then, start doing your research, read... and vote out the party that is NOW in control and creating the very real possibility of both a civil war and a world war...
Now is the Time to Act - WE CANNOT TRUST OUR GOVERNMENT IN THE PRESENT SITUATION!
And by the way, Let's start screaming loudly to change the Second Amendment so that there is NO Way that Our Children Can be Murdered Ever Again by citizens!
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