Captain Jim's Green Flash Sightings

This is Jim: A good friend forwarded the following Facebook post regarding Trump's efforts to protect the USA from terrorists sneaking into the country.  This addresses the manner in which popular opinion is managed/manipulated by propagandist (Goebbels of Nazi Germany fame perfected the process.)              From Heather Richardson, professor of History at Boston College: " I don't like to talk about politics on Facebook-- political history is my job, after all, and you are my friends-- but there is an important non-partisan point to make today. What Bannon is doing, most dramatically with last night's ban on immigration from the seven countries (originally selected by the Obama administration) -- is creating what is known as a "shock event." Such an event is unexpected and confusing and throws a society into chaos. People scramble to react to the event, usually along some fault line that those responsible for the event can widen by...

Pardon my humor. In fact, it is not meant to be humorous. January 20, 2017. I spent the day avoiding news and images of the inauguration. I truly can not wrap my head around the fact that President Trump is now our leader. His Inaugural Speech was not reassuring or confidence inspiring. His choice of words such as carnage to refer to the state of the country is insult/slur/rebuke to all Americans, that we as a Nation have failed and are failing and now, that now Trump is going to save us from ourselves. Apparently, he will make all the decisions for the Congress, he and the American people who support him and his vision. Somehow he has managed to say that will be all the American people, but there is no evidence from his remarks who among the American people is worthy of partnership in his agenda as he has belittled everyone who disagrees with him or challenges his constant outrageous exaggerations,  divisive remarks, insults, disparagement of people of color and no...

Article II, Section 1, last paragraph, U.S. Constitution: Before he [President Elect] shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: - "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." We military types and others who serve in the government all take the oath of office when we enlist and each time we are promoted. Retired military service members are subject to recall to active duty by the Secretary of Defense under 10 U.S. Code, Section 688. So our oath and obligation live with us for the rest of lives. The times in which the framers of the Constitution wrote out these requirements for oaths was a period when an oath was a very solemn and serious act. It was taken at face value that once given, an oath was binding and would be honored and respected. Men and women have died and suffered honoring their oath or...