"Putin? Never heard of him." - Donald Trump

I am a Bernie supporter, and I admire the man greatly, up to and including his support for Hillary Clinton. To young Bernie idealists/zealots - I know you are disappointed. The accomodations of politics brings many disappointments, but it's a long road with many twists and turns, includes dazzling moments such as one of the best Presidents in our history, Barack Obama. An old saw is that the perfect is the enemy of the good. The 2000 election of GWB and all the disasters that ensued is an example of that in my mind. But for a few thousand Nader/Green Party zealots in Florida and perhaps another state or two, Al Gore might have been elected and an alternate history of our country might have been written. Donald Trump is a dangerous fascist lying narcissist con-man who must not be elected........That's my story and I'm sticking to it. * * * * * * * * * * God weighed in on the US Presidential race last week and released a statement of support for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine. "Although I personally liked the Jewish guy better, Hillary is still pretty good," God said. " Tim too. And Lord knows, being married to Bill was no picnic. But I can't stand that orange haired pompous know-nothing blowhard. Didn't like him when he was stealing that woman's home in New York City to build a parking garage. Didn't like him then; don't like him now." * * * * * * * * * * * Donald Trump's Russia connections were in the news this week. Early in his campaign Trump claimed to have a "relationship" with Putin. Uh huh. Trump is apparently deep in debt to Russian banks to the tune of several hundred million; his campaign manager has ties to Russia oligarchs in Ukraine. Trump said he'd "take a look" at legitimizing the Russian takeover of Crimean. And Vladimir Putin made Donald Trump an "honorary Russian" today. "He's my kind of guy," Putin said at the ceremony, seated on a horse, flexing his bare-chested muscles from his Crimean vacation compound. "With enemies like him, who needs friends?" Putin joked. Smarting from criticism of his Russia connections and for his call for Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton's email, Donald Trump now claims he never met Putin.* * * * * * * * * * * Melania Trump is still reeling from plagiarism charges about her inclusion of portions of Michele Obama's speech in 2008. Her old website in which she claimed to have a University Degree was taken down and a new one put in place which documents her 3 PHDs, her 19 books on topics as diverse as 14th century Prussian ceramic art, 18th century Maldovian history, philosophical discourses Vol. 1 - 9, and thousands of her scholarly journal articles on topics such as nuclear power in the modern age, nucleotide formation in salt water marshes, hermaneutics, maritime imagery in New England Renaissance poetry, and many more. . Other notable additions included The Congressional Medal of Honor, information about her 5 Nobel Peace Prizes, 9 Pultizer Prizes, 12 Peabody Awards, and numerous other prizes and awards all of which prize money is donated to the Mother Theresa Foundation. * * * * * * * * ** * There were so many good lines at the Democratic convention but one that stands out for me is this one: "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons." ~ Hillary Clinton