IMPEACHMENT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED?

Published February 17, 2025 by Nan Mykel

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/19/trump-2020-campaign-selling-10-plastic-straws-for-15.html

–(And I thought we were supposed to quit using plastic straws!)
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Given that Trump immediately made hostile remarks and/or moves on several of our allies, signed executive orders on schools, the military, birth citizenship and…what more will be in the news today. the word suggesting impeachment has finally appeared. For detailed info about the reasons for impeachment in the US I’ll refer to Google.
Five broad categories of impeachment evidence:

1.EVIDENCE OF BIAS
2 EVIDENCE OF DEFECTS IN PERCEPTION AND RECALL
3 EVIDENCE OF BAD CHARACTER FOR TRUTHFULNESS
4. EVIDENCE OF PRIOR INCONSISTENT STATEMENTS
5. CONTRADICTION (One DAY TRUMP ANNOUNCED February AS black history month & almost immediately his directive doing away with special months was announced. Not cited as cause for impeachment by yours truly, but example of current level of governing.

PUT ANOTHER WAY,
Impeachable offenses
Culpable violation of the constitution.
Treason.
Bribery.
Graft and corruption.
Betrayal of Public Trust.
Other high crimes.
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After 11 Days 100,000 Had Already Signed a petition to ‘Impeach Trump Again”- The Guardian
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It is fairly well known that President Trump has a low opinion of military service personnel–At least the ones who were captured, died, etc. I was surprised, then, to read that He spoke so proudly of our military the other day in his rejection of trans individuals from our fighting force, defining them as not living up to the high standards of the military–

“Defending [Protecting?] Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government) shall apply to this order.”
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HRC files 2nd legal challenge to Trump’s anti-trans military ban: The lawsuit lays out precisely how Trump’s ban harms the lives of military members and their families (and hurts national defense as well). LGBTQNATION. ON HOLD?
By Daniel Villarreal Thursday, February 6, 2025
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REMINDER;

HRC – Human Resource Council

DOGE – Recently I saw on Google that The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, said in a post on social media it terminated 89 contracts totaling $881 million. DOGE, which billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk leads, also said it cut 29 diversity, equity and inclusion training grants worth $101 million. And by the way, you probably already know that Musk’s 19-year old acolyte known as Big Balls, has taken on new roles as a senior adviser at the State Department and at the Department of Homeland Security, raising concerns among some diplomats and others about his potential access to sensitive information (Yahoo news)

WILL THIS BE ONE OF THE DISCOVERIES castrated by our new version of “America?” See Scitechweekly.com:

Rice University bioengineers have developed a groundbreaking construction kit for building customizable sense-and-respond circuits in human cells, enabling them to detect disease signals and trigger precise therapeutic responses. This breakthrough in synthetic biology could revolutionize treatments for complex conditions like cancer and autoimmune diseases by creating “smart cells” that react in real time.

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NOTICE: I think I’m coming down with daymares, and I wonder which one will remain standing at the end of this act…Or who?

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OLD REFLECTION by Nan

The World Is Flat After All

Dubbed Democracy, it used to be

top of the line, the lead ship, at sea,

and on the land it served us well,

until the strains of its death knell

fell,

baring an underbelly swole

with all the pilfered things they stole

in broad daylight, and on t.v.!

Gone is the half-belief in he

who’ll take us safely to the shore

while staying steadfast to the core.

The compass nestles in the deep

while those on board remain asleep.

They used to say the earth was round,

that right makes might, but I found

that all I knew I now know not,

nor how to tell the truth from rot,

and not so sure that we’ll endure,

to make a safe arrival.

C@ Nan

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NOT A SURPRISE

I see today in the headlines that an effort is underway to impeach our president.

Does He Really Not Salute?

Published January 10, 2025 by Nan Mykel

SEROUSLY, in this age of no Fact Check, will someone please tell me if the President elect has a problem with saluting the U.S. flag. I published the photo I had from 2015, probably, but I just spied him at President Carter’s funeral, where everyone else seemed to be saluting, even his wife, but he was not. If there’s some situation or pecadillo I’ve missed, I’d like to know. I’d hate to mislead anyone.

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GNARLY FOLKS

Once as innocent as snow,

Certain friends grew up to know

Nefariousness and more

In their search not to be poor.

Cops and Robbers, fun to play

Perfect for a childhood day.

Doesn’t fit when we are grown,

Taking on a querulous tone.

Families split, old friends too.

If prayer works for you, please do.

The Poetry Store

Published October 9, 2024 by Nan Mykel

WAITING

Published July 13, 2024 by Nan Mykel

W A I T I N G

Old, tall and alone, he sits

in Outpatient Surgery’s

waiting room amidst many,

neither speaking nor spoken to;

no eye contact nor observation

of those around him. For

hours, impervious to his setting,

staring ahead at his hopes or

memories? Though drawn,

I remain afraid to reach out.

Later, while getting the car,

I see him heading down the

sidewalk among many, still

alone.

What was I afraid of?

He has followed me

home to this page.

Nan 7/13/24

THINGS and INSIDE

Published June 20, 2024 by Nan Mykel

DOESN’T SEEM FAIR…

Published April 29, 2024 by Nan Mykel

IT DOESN’T SEEM FAIR…

that the word black has so many negative meanings. They could/should push “Black is beautiful” more, I guess, but then that’s such a divisive topic, like turning over a rock to see if is covers a black widow spider.

I can remember my beloved dixiecrat grandfather saying of the maid, “The only thing black about Charlotte is her skin.” “Black humor” isn’t funny, and now I have “black mold” in my condo, which is much less funny than green. I shant include a photo of it so as not to add to the unfortunate pairing of the word with bad. I thought of calling the shades of black “rainbow”–so it would be a “rainbow man.” Then I thought of the link between “rainbow” and “homosexual,” so I went to Google for more info and found it: “Sexuality, or sexual orientation, has to do with who a person is or is not attracted to either sexually or romantically. There are many ways of identifying sexually, and a person may identify more with one sexuality than another at different points during their life” The Medical News Today article discusses what sexuality is and provides some definitions. To date, I guess there’s LGBTQIA+…

They could/should push “Black is beautiful” more, I guess.

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SPIDERS ON MARS?

Not really

Seasonal, spider-like features have been spotted sprouting through cracks in Mars’ surface. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter captured new images of small, dark features that resemble spiders scuttling across the Martian region known as Inca City near the Red Planet‘s south pole. This phenomenon appears when spring sunlight warms layers of carbon dioxide deposited during the dark Martian winter. In turn, carbon dioxide ice in the bottom layer turns into gas, which builds up and eventually breaks through overlying ice up to 3.3 feet (1 meter) thick, according to a statement from ESA.

IF THESE were really spiders on Mars, would we not have already sent Orkin aloft to make room for humans with souls? What is the policy if and when we come across another life form in outer space? (I would add a photo of the suspected spiders if my helper wasn’t sick nor I so lazy).

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WHAT I DO FOR FUN

I read in bed but I write at my computer because not even I can read my handwriting. Anyway, I guess this is a tricky way to get into my first entry. I was taken by the writing this week (in bed at night) of parts of

Dean Koontz’s Odd Hours, and I wanted to share a couple of paragraphs with you. They occur at the opening of Chapter Twelve, and had an effect on me in the middle of the night:

“Paw after paw silent on wet blacktop, the fog crept along the alleyway behind Hutch’s house, rubbing its furry flanks against the garages on both sides, slipping through fence pickets, climbing walls, licking into every niche and corner where mouse or lizard might have taken shelter.

“These earthbound clouds swathed nearby things in mystery, made objects half a block away appear to be distant, dissolved the world entirely past the one-block mark, and raised in the mind a primitive conviction that the edge of the earth lay near at hand, a precipice from which I would fall forever into eternal emptiness.” p. 86, Bantam Books. Then he ate a chocolate-Pumpkin cookie he had made.

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TYING UP ENDS

I once wrote a poem

called Tying Up Ends,

but never acted

on my Muse’s hint.

Now there’s so much more

to be confessed–yes,

flaws and selfish genes,

weaknesses galore.

I’ve so much unsaid,

and thoughts unproclaimed

if I started now

it would never end. Nan 12-12-22

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POEM?

Published April 16, 2024 by Nan Mykel

THINKING’S ENGLISH

Stand up for your rights!

Raise the roof!

It’s a hard life, so

Pay Peter to Pay Paul

and shake up the crowd!

Don’t tiptoe through the tulips.

You’re such a crybaby.

Lend a hand, scaredy cat.

Long gone, I figure, but

you take the cake, mate.

Don’t be down in the dumps.

Chill out. High as a kite?

Shake a leg, hit the road.

He’s a nut on a blind date

and a bear before coffee.

That’s a hard one to swallow,

I swan! Give me a hand here,

Get the lead out. You’re the cat’s

pajamas, knuckle head. Too hot to trot.

Nan 2024

1917 “Night of Terror”

Published April 6, 2024 by Nan Mykel

Obstructing Traffic or Exercising Free Assembly?

Both in court and later in prison, suffragists arrested on criminal charges of obstructing traffic demanded to be treated as political prisoners. They asserted that silent picketing and peaceful assembly were protected First Amendment rights, and that their arrests were politically motivated, as Mary Winsor’s sign suggests. Winsor was arrested twice, the first time on September 4, 1917, during Draft Day festivities holding a banner questioning why women had no voice in a government that was conscripting their sons. Recently released from Occoquan Workhouse after serving a lengthy sentence for picketing on Draft Day, Baltimorean Lucy Branham unfavorably compared the U.S. government to Tsarist Russia, which had earlier imprisoned historian and liberal statesman Pavel Milyukov.

This “Night of Terror” galvanized support for the women’s suffrage movement at a critical moment. The tortured prisoners included activists Dorothy Day and Lucy Burns. Some were left for dead after the beatings. They had been arrested for peacefully picketing for universal sufrage in front of the White House

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WHILE RE-READING THE PAGE “SECRETS” (top of post) I found this one:

51. Quote from Stephen Jay Gould;s Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes p 244: “We hold a mirror to nature and see ourselves and our own prejudices in the glass. ,,,Aristotle described the large bee that leads the swarm as a “king,” and this misidentification of the only sexual female around persisted for at least two thousand years… He also describes the embryonic separation of a unisex into male or female. “The female course of development is, in a sense, biologically intrinsic to all mammals. It is the pattern that unfolds in the absence of any hormonal influence.” (p 154). He discusses the peniform clitorises and false scrotum of female spotted hyenas, and crabs that have faces on their backs, (p 156, Norton, 1984).

Perhaps someone should alert members of Moms for Liberty in response to their charges of transgenders’ “lies.”

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END OF…

We came, we tried, we fought

and ate each other up.

We lived and died by our own hand.

If two survived and met on a plain

would we hug one another

or kill again?

nan

NO TEST FAILS

Published April 5, 2024 by Nan Mykel

NO TEST FAILS

Students may, and theories, but
tests are hardy souls and tell
it like it is.

We have failed this test of tests,
that’s all. It’ll be back to
ground zero but minus us;

Someone or something else may
pick up the ball and run with it.
No…drop that metaphor now!

Sometime, somewhere, let there be
no such thing as power, greed
and competition. Maybe

get it right next time, although
if time doesn’t exist, when
and how? Not our ball of wax

to shape. We’re out of here soon.
It’s okay. The traits dealt failed
to mix, that’s all. We just flunked.

Glad to be taking A.I. with us.

Nan 4/4/24

HOW LONG IS LOONEY?..

Published February 23, 2024 by Nan Mykel

Dreamers, 1899. John Brown. (USPD.pub.date, artist life/COmmons.

wikimedia.org)

HOW LONG IS LOONEY?

If we live long enough

it’s gonna be tough.

Tell-tale signs of age

spoken off the cuff

betray us and oh

how long and how sad

will it get to be

before…until…we

write bad verse and yet don.t hesitate

to remember to meditate

on what’s gone before

and what lies ahead instead?

Hey nonny nonny

honey, if it it’s not funny

why do we laugh at

our forget-me-nots?

When will we touch base

and head for home?

Not funny, dammit,

unless you’re like me

easier to laugh

than it is to pee.

Ha ha got you there.

You expected “cry.”

I know, poor taste

when e’re I try

and will until my

looney runs dry.

Ouch! Tell me I

didn’t write this.

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I know about the unholy National Christians; the Peru that forced sterilizations to reduce poverty; our unpatriotic Congessional turncoats; our seething mass of short-changed individuals provoking a fight and talking secession; the increased bombing of Gaza during cease=fire talks; the estimated two and a half million persons in our country who were driven from their houses as a result of emergency weather conditions in 2023; Navalny’s murder; frozen embryos declared God’s children in Alabama; the wealthiest successfully heading to space; the Biden age argument….as well as the truly unmentionable. How to select one to elucidate upon? Any would raise my already endangered blood pressure, thank you very much.

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FUNNY HAHA?

Not in the least…However, I cannot overlook the dark humor (mustn’t say black any more–what happened to ‘black is beautiful’?) revealed in the two opposing extremes arrived at by those who deign to de-humanize citizens by taking their personal rights away. During the dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori in Peru, more than 272,000 women and 22,000 men were sterilized in regions with high levels of poverty and a majority indigenous population, as part of Peru’s National Reproductive Health and Family Planning program. idehpucp.pucp.edu.pe/…/Análisis-del-Dictamen-Fiscal-sobre-Esterilizaciones-Forzadas.pdf One faction insists every woman should be denied an abortion–some even who are pregnant due to rape and/or incest. Apparently politics has moved the repercussions from the pregnant woman to the professional facilitating the abortion. As of 2024, California, Michigan, Ohio, and Vermont are the only U.S. states to have explicit rights to abortion in their state constitutions. Other states have implicit rights to abortion subject to state judicial review, such as Kansas and Montana, or simply protect it via state law such as Colorado and Massachusetts. The state constitutions of Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia explicitly contain no right to an abortion, even in cases of rape and/or incest.

So–we have on one hand the dictatorial folks mandating sterilization for the poor and on the other, forcing delivery by the pregnant woman, mandating no abortions for the pregnant. One U.S. Supreme Court judge has even suggested being against safe sex. This U.S. citizen (moi) is against limiting the personal rights of men or women, acknowledging that the rights disputed are most often against women, who were not allowed to even vote until 1920. Google says:

“Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle—victory took decades of agitation and protest.” WHY? What do you think?