Promises, Promises...

I always really hated this song... so, listen to it, LISTEN TO IT AND SUFFER LIKE WE ALL HAD TO IN THE EIGHTIES!!!

So, back to Crazy Promises...

Crazy Promise #3:  Banning the Muslim Immigrants

On Dec 7, 2015, the anniversary of the "day which will live in infamy," then-candidate Donald Trump and his team pronounced a demand that was essentially a ban on all Muslims entering the United States, much to the delight of the his devotees and right-wing pundits, without much of a further thought on the subject, let alone that little anniversary thing, beyond digging the hole deeper.

By May of the following year, it was "merely an idea, not a proposal."

So then, on Jan 27 of this year, President Donald "Wow, didja' ever imagine that?" Trump signed Executive Order 13769, banning travel from seven mostly poor, troubled, war-torn (including war-torn by us!) and mostly Muslim countries.  It was done with people banned already in flight to the US.  Banned in mid-air.  The Trump people said it was intentionally done as such - wouldn't want to give a heads-up to the ter'ists, DUH!  Not that many ter'ists ever came here from any of those countries, as opposed to from say, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, or any of the more developed and "friendly" (with friends like that...) nations we have over there.  It included people who had risked theirs and their families lives to collaborate with the US on our completely failed "Mission Accomplished" in the Middle East.  Lawsuits followed quickly, Trump had to fire the acting-AG and others as they couldn't comply on ethical and legal grounds, and the courts found the ban violated the Establishment Clause, harmed the States, and had to be re-written in a competent and Constitutional way.

So, today, March 6th, we have a new Executive Order.  It's certainly more polished than the Cuneiform  product we got last time, so we'll see how it stands up.  But it's the same idea.

It doesn't "ban all Muslims," folks.  Just one's from some really poor, screwed-up places.  At least he had the decency to remove Iraqis from the list.  That was just horrible on soooo many levels.  But the name of the order, "PROTECTING THE NATION FROM FOREIGN TERRORIST ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES," is a crazy promise that is not here kept.  Expect the courts to be swept into this again shortly.

JMJ

I'm Back

I'm back.  I have no excuse, as my good buddies have churned away for years and are now retiring from posting, I have decided I will return to posting, something I haven't done regularly in years.

"Jersey McJones" was a moniker I picked out of thin air on the Hannity board back in the very early 2000's, when I first started blogging, mostly against the war and the then-GOP One Party State.  ANYONE REMEMBER THAT?  Anyways... The "Darths" as they were known back then (co-opting the negative connotation liberals had ascribed to Dick Cheney), kicked me off.  So I went through a bunch of other monikers, and kept getting kicked off, so I moved on, but I took Jersey McJones with me.  It was the name the Darths all knew me by.  Jersey McJones was banned again, this time by Gillespie over at Hit 'n Run.  So much for Reason.  The Confederate Yankee even tried to get me in trouble at my work, until my IT buddies stepped in and put a quick stop to that sleaziness.

For many years now, I have only commented, and only on a few blogs that I like (see the listed).  One's I mainly agree with, I read, but rarely if ever comment.  They're there more for your perusal.  I prefer to debate.  And Lord knows we have a lot to debate about.

First let me say, I am glad Donald Trump won the election.  He has already mobilized more popular support for the Left than Bernie Sanders to the tenth.  I am not glad to see the GOP back in charge of literally everything.  If their main complaint is that government doesn't work, than perhaps it is they who are making that so, for it is they who have been the majority party at the local, state, and federal level for decades now.  It is no coincidence, in my anything but humble opinion, that the country has been in the doldrums ever since.  Now they have even more power.  How badly will they use it?  What about Trump?  What happens when they fail spectacularly?

So let's start off like that.  I'll deck out the page more in coming days.

JMJ