Whether ’tis enough for the country to suffer The stings and lies by an outrageous leader, And then to take arms against a foreign country And by doing so cause many there to die and to weep. Yes, it is said today is the day when the person in the clothes of the president will…
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The United States of Retribution: Is That What We Have Become?
You don’t have to be around for a long time in this country to understand that we have slipped into a state of where retribution reigns supreme. If you are from Massachusetts as I am you have seen that four of our local boys, JFK born in Brookline, Mike Dukakis born in Brookline, George H.W….
A TRT: A Marriage Made in Hell!
A Trek’s Rest Thought: Having read Frank Rich’s article in the New York Magazine: “Roy Cohn, Donald Trump, and the New York Cesspool” the line identifying Trump as “an enduring strain of political evil that is as malignant in its way as the AIDS virus, just as dangerous to the nation, and just as difficult to…
A Trek’s Rest Thought: Democratic Party
As a life long member of the Democratic Party I’m still scratching my head trying to understand how it let a Socialist into its party’s presidential 2016 primary. The puzzlement continues because it apparently plans to do so in the future. Perhaps the leaders of the party are so old they no longer think there…
Massachusetts’ Big Problem With Police Union Contracts
I’m for paying the police well. I believe that the worst thing society can have are dishonest cops. If they are paid well then the incentive to be dishonest is decreased. They have to weigh losing the good pay they receive if they involve themselves in any illegal shenanigans. For some on the police forces,…
A Trek’s Rest Thought: Duped Again
When I go to Florida I have my mail forwarded to my address there. When I leave I have the mail sent back to my local address. I do this through the Post Office. It costs about a buck which the Post Office charges to verify who I am. I have to give them my…