THOUGHTS OF CHAIRMAN MAC

  Believe it or not, there is overwhelming evidence that Donald Trump is the real-life reincarnation of New York’s notorious mob boss John Gotti. No wait … before you think this is just silly and click off, take a few minutes to review the indisputable facts that lead to no other conclusion than that Trump is Gotti reincarnated. Consider these irrefutable facts … Both Gotti and Trump were bred and raised in New York.                                                 ### From a young age both Gotti and Trump were schooled in the family businesses. For Gotti it was crime and for Trump it was real estate.                                                 ### Both Gotti and Trump were manically dedicated to rising to the very top of their chosen fields of endeavor.                                                 ### Gotti learned how to survive and thrive in “the Mob.” Trump learned to successfully deal with “the Mob” that controlled real estate construction in New York.   

  What does history have to do with the current Israeli-Palestinian crisis and our own future?   Time is the echo chamber of history. History reverberates through time to torment those who do not learn the lessons it teaches. It is the knowledge and understanding of history – especially the mistakes – that can lead us as individuals and as a society to a better future. If not, we will be trapped in the whirlpool of repeating the historical mistakes of the past. That is why it is so perilous to fall prey to the disingenuous and incendiary diatribes of ambitious, but deeply flawed politicians and demagogic wannabe leaders, who don’t want us to know or make sense of our country’s history; let alone learn from that history.   The current cadre of these duplicitous politicians use the buzz-word “woke” as a dog-whistle, signaling that trying to understand and correct historical mistakes is in some way wrong. They take this approach because they recognize that if we have knowledge and

  In the early 1960s Rod Sterling created a social phenomenon of a TV show called The Twilight Zone. The premise of the show was that individuals would find themselves entangled in extraordinarily unbelievable situations. They were in the “twilight zone” trying to extricate themselves from a mind-bending quagmire of fantasy they could never have imagined becoming reality. But it had. It has been over 50 years since the last episode of The Twilight Zone was broadcast, but it has been reprised as a live “reality show” that is called the United States House of Representatives. Rod Sterling was creative but … As creative as he was. even Rod Sterling would have been hesitant to suggest a scenario where 8 Republican Representatives could “out vote” 210 of their Republican colleagues to oust their leader Kevin McCarthy, pushing the House of Representatives into a real life “twilight zone.” But unlike Sterling’s stories, this was fact not fiction. But this was not the end of the show or