Month: March 2018

War. Whether a trade war or a real shooting war aimed at “regime change”, is something to be avoided like the plague. In a real war, there are no winners, only losers. Too many human beings lose their lives. Too many others lose their livelihoods, their occupations, their way to earn a living. Sovereign treasuries get emptied. Arms merchants get rich while misery gets spread around with plenty for everyone. There should be one, universal, goal and that mission should be to relegate the notion of a shooting war, not only to “last resort” status but to that of NO WAY, NO HOW! Congress should make that clear to Mr. Bolton.
Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>

Four-star general Barry McCafray has finally put into words a short description of our current president. It is what so many of us have feared so deeply ever since he was selected. The general described Donald Trump as: “a serious threat to United States national security.”. Put that together with the Stormy Daniels case and everything else swirling around the White House since Donald Trump arrived and it makes one wonder: how bad can it get?! And what must we do to protect our country?
Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>

When Bernie Sanders was first describing what he termed his “revolution”, he naturally became the target of the most virulent right wing ranting. But, if Tom Hayden were around today, he could offer a quote from a statement he, himself, made back in 1962: “If we appear to seek the unattainable, then let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable.” Unimaginable pretty well sums up the Trump agenda, doesn’t it?
Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>

How often do you plan to run commentary by Marc “NRA as the real Americans” Thiessen? Once a year would be more than enough, but you published two of them in close succession recently, and a little bit of Thiessen goes a long way. However, we should be grateful to him for telling us how to distinguish “real Americans” from the rest of the us slobs who live in this part of the world.
Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>

On page 8 of your March 19/26, 2018, issue is a political cartoon so powerful, it should be offered for sale in an enlarged, suitable-for-framing format. It shows a celestial hand reaching down from the storm clouds, offering to Uncle Sam a delete sign over an assault rifle and the caption, apparently Uncle Sam asking: “what’s your point”? Please reserve a copy for me if you decide to publish it in a larger format.

It seems that whatever scandal erupts in “Washingtin” is soon replaced by another, and then another, so that the principal product of that place is not government, but scandal. Surely, there are other noteworthy things happening; Paul Ryan must have the House of Representatives working on something, isn’t he? And Mitch McConnell should be over his reluctance to do anything for which Obama might get credit. Lord knows, he’s had over a year now to get the hatred of Obama out of his system. Republicans were able to ride the Trump wave all the way to total control of everything, but apparently the obligation to govern didn’t come along with all that power. Congress took the very worst feature of American society (that is: the disgusting inequality of wealth and income) and made it worse with a tax law that directs enormous monetary benefits to the wealthiest. The American voting public should probably be demanding some sort of a do over.
Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>