This is the invitation to my book launch in Riberas del Pilar, Jalisco, Mexico. Both books are also available on Amazon U.S. and Amazon Mexico.
(Please note that the prices on Amazon Mexico are given in pesos, not dollars. Use Amazon Mexico only if you want the book delivered to Mexico and the Amazon U.S. for delivery elsewhere. Its price is in U.S. dollars.)
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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #46.” Today’s number is 167. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.
This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. Above are my contributions to the album:
for Weekend Skies
911
The fire sighs and flips the ravaged timbers to the floor,
sends soaked ashes swirling in currents toward the door.
Blue flames lick at skins of walls, then weave around the beams,
trying to escape the fire fighter’s streams
as they emerge in masks from the house’s inner places,
assassins of those flames who’ve chosen not to show their faces.
Thus is the conflagration robbed of its power and beauty
by this crew that sees extermination as its duty.
For The Sunday Whirl
The prompt words are sighs fire flip ravaged blue floor emerge masks ashes soak skin weave
Screenshot
For Cellpic Sunday
Yesterday I saw a report of a 14-year-old girl who had died of sepsis because the emergency room would not treat her until she had additional tests because she was pregnant. I can’t find that message, but saw this related post on ForgottenMan’s site. Please think before you vote on letting an outright ban on abortion control who you vote for. What if this was your daughter?
The famous orange politician/reality celebrity has come to the end of his campaign with a racist-filled speech highlighting his usual us versus them style. He has successfully divided the country by denouncing certain classes, ethnic backgrounds, women, and people of color. It seems to have worked as almost half the country is ready to vote for him. While he may lose the popular vote by millions, he may take the electoral vote in an antiquated system that has brought out the worst in political parties, particularly the red one.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” – Abraham Lincoln
After Trump’s recent 6-hour campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, comparisons to fascist campaigns, particularly that of the Nazis, have been pouring out. The length of the event and the attacks on minority groups would be worthy of any wannabe dictator.
“Maybe it’s just something you have; you have the winning gene. Frankly, it would be wonderful if you could develop it, but I’m not so sure you can. You know, I’m proud to have that German blood, there’s no question about it. Great stuff.” – Donald Trump, 2016
Trump’s repeated comments on the subject either imply or outright state that certain races are superior to others. This hateful approach is similar to that of Adolf Hitler at his rallies. The world has since condemned the words of Hitler. Trump is getting a pass in certain circles.
“You have to be born lucky in the sense that you have to have the right genes.” – Donald Trump to Oprah Winfrey, 1988
“I always said that winning is somewhat, maybe, innate. Maybe it’s just something you have; you have the winning gene.” – DJT, 2016
Hitler believed he was superior and tried to rid the nation and the world of those he deemed unacceptable. Trump wants to rid our nation of immigrants. He thinks of many of them as criminals:
“Many of them murdered far more than one person, and they are now happily living in the United States. You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” – Donald Trump describing immigrants, Octrober 7, 2024.
There is no proof that any of this statement is true. As we have learned, the orange one is not against making up “facts” in his interviews and speeches.
“They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump told a New Hampshire campaign rally last year when speaking about immigrants.
Hitler referred to “blood poisoning” in his attack on immigrants and the mixing of races in “Mein Kampf.” “All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning,” Hitler said. Is this not close to what Trump believes?
“They’re destroying the blood of our country. That’s what they’re doing. They’re destroying our country,” Trump said of immigrants in a campaign speech in Iowa in December 2023.
Trump claimed not to have read Mein Kampf, but his ex-wife Ivana Trump claimed in a 1990 Vanity Fair article that Trump kept an anthology of Hitler speeches, “My New Order” by his bed. “”If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them,” Trump responded but was he telling the truth?
“The Democrats say, ‘Please don’t call them animals. They’re humans.’ I said, ‘No, they’re not humans, they’re not humans, they’re animals.’” DJT on immigrants, April 2024
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” DJT on immigrants, particularly from Haiti, El Salvador, and certain African countries, January 2018.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” DJT, June 16, 2015.
This was part of the infamous announcement of Trump’s first presidential run. Despite the criticism for entering the campaign with a hate-filled speech, Trump went on to capture the electoral vote in 2016.
On “the blacks:” “I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks,” Trump said in April 2011.
That is probably not very true. According to John R O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Trump said, “Laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that.
On The Japanese: “Who the f knows? I mean, really, who knows how much the Japs will pay for Manhattan property these days?” DJT, January 1989
DJT was asked if he could estimate his wealth. His response included an ethnic slur.
To Jewish businessmen: “I’m a negotiator like you folks” “Is there anyone in this room who doesn’t negotiate deals?” DJT to Republican Jewish Coalition, December 3, 2015
Trump’s remarks included typical stereotypes often used against Jewish businessmen. “You’re not going to support me even though I’ll be the best guy for Israel,” he added.
On women “You have to treat ‘em like shit,” New York magazine profile November 1992.
On his opponent: “She’s so bad. She’s so pathetic. She’s so fu*king bad” DJT, July 3, 2024
There are mountains of insults Trump has hurled at women. They are so frequent you can not even count them all. This one, however, should have ended his chances for office, but his devoted followers did not even seem to care about it.: “I’ve got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything … Grab them by the p**sy. You can do anything.”
Most Republicans are afraid to push back against the racist comments of the former and possibly the next president. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had this to say: “He’s disgusting, and what he’s doing is dog-whistle to Americans who feel absolutely under stress and strained from the economy and from the conflicts around the world, and he’s dog-whistling to blame it on people from areas who don’t look like us.”
Does the Orange One have the character to be president? Didn’t his first term teach us anything?
Sources include: “After The Gold Rush,” by Marie Brenner, Vanity Fair, vanityfair.com, September 1990.
“Trump doubles down on immigrant ‘blood’ remark, says he ‘never read Mein Kampf’,” by Zoe Richards, nbcnews.com, December 19, 2023.
“How Trump’s racist talk of immigrant ‘bad genes’ echoes some of the last century’s darkest ideas about eugenics,” The Conversation, by Shannon Bow O’Brien, The University of Texas at Austin, Yahoo! News, yahoo.com October 29, 2024.
“Trump says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler,” by Ginger Gibson, nbcnews.com December 17, 2023.
“Donald Trump says there are ‘a lot of bad genes’ among migrants in the US,” By Gram Slattery and Kristina Cooke, Reuters, reuters.com October 7, 2024.
“87 things Donald Trump has said about women,” By
See also: SCARIER THAN HALLOWEEN, Project 2025 Worst Ideas, SERENDIPITY, October 29, 2024.
DEMOCRACY FOR SALE, Cautionary Fairy Tale, SERENDIPITY, October 24, 2024.
AN ORANGE VICTORY, Why The Orange One Wins, SERENDIPITY, October 13, 2024.
TILTING AT WINDMILLS, The Orange Don Quixote, SERENDIPITY, September 29, 2024.
LIES, MORE LIES, AND MISINFORMATION, And Sometimes Statistics, SERENDIPITY, September 22, 2024.
2025 OR 1984, A Cautionary Tale, SERENDIPITY, September 22, 2024.
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