​The worst of the worst

By Ed Raymond

The bells are ringing for everybody on the planet

As ICE, the worst of the worst law enforcement agencies in the Divided States of America, continues to use unconstitutional procedures to find the worst of the worst Black, brown, Native American, Asian and others among the 22 million undocumented illegal aliens, the worst of the worst presidents the United States has ever had continues to tell lies 24-7. Trump’s “Make America Great Again,” worst of the worst MAGA gang is attempting to Make America White Forever (MAGF).

What will we celebrate soon? Will it be 250 years of difficult, confusing. capitalistic democracy, or the beginning year of an authoritarian dictatorship? English poet John Donne in 1624 in his “Devotions,” gave us good advice to lead us through troubled times as Homo sapiens; no human is self-sufficient, we are all a part of a larger, interconnected humanity. A person’s death diminishes everyone because we are all part of a single continent.

  No man is an island, Entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent,

  A part of the main, if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less.

  As well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends

  Or of thy own were. Any man’s death diminishes me,

  Because I am involved with mankind and therefore never send to know

  For whom the bell tolls;

  It tolls for thee.

Donne wrote this devotion while recovering from a serious illness that brought him close to death. His point: We are not isolated, self-sufficient human beings. We are all connected, and the loss of one person impacts the whole. In another sonnet, Donne comments directly about what he faced:

  Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful,

  but thou are not so. One short sleep past, we wake eternally and death shall

  be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

How worst of the worst Trump will destroy planet Earth

In 2025, the Divided States of America had 23 climate-related disasters, each costing well over a billion to mitigate, if possible. To our Great Leader, coal is clean and cool, oil is to be drilled, drilled and sold, wind and solar power is terribly expensive and all climate change science is a scam and a hoax.

Tom Englehardt sums up the worst of the worst: “Donald Trump is all too literally intent on making himself into the president from hell. The president of return, while ensuring that the rest of us will be living on one hell of a planet.”

What a son of undocumented immigrants accomplished for the U.S.

Luis Alvarez had Spanish ancestors. His grandfather was born in Spain, migrated to Cuba and then the United States. That’s why he had a Spanish-sounding name but looked Nordic. He was born in San Francisco in 1911 of Dr. Walter Alvarez and wife Harriet, the daughter of Christian missionaries who spent many years in China. Harriet came to the U.S. as an undocumented teenager and met Walter in high school in Rochester, Minnesota where Luis’s father Dr. Alvarez worked for the Mayo brothers.

Alvarez then went to the University of Chicago, graduating with a degree in physics with an interest in chemistry. But he had 100 interests a day according to a colleague, who said: “Fifty ideas were probably useless, another 25 too difficult to do, and among the remaining 25, one or two would be worth a Nobel Prize.”’

Luis won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for using new methods to find subatomic particles that no one had ever seen before. By that time he had accomplished many other fascinating and useful things. He invented a radar system that enabled pilots to land by themselves in very bad weather. Before the invention of that type of radar, pilots had to be guided down to the runway by radio voice. Ouch!

He worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer in New Mexico at the Manhattan Project on the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. He developed the mechanism that detonated the bomb. Oppenheimer probably would have won a Nobel Prize for physics if he hadn’t kept a dozen psychiatrists happy while seducing wives. Oppenheimer is famous for his quote about the bomb: “Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” He invented the method of collecting radioactive gas over Germany that would reveal whether Hitler and Germany were developing atomic bombs to use in WW II. He designed a fountain pen with a camera that was used by American and British spies in Europe. He developed a system to assist golfers in improving their golf swings. It worked so well President Eisenhower bought one for the White House! He proved by his study of gunshots that President Kennedy was killed from shots behind him. They weren’t from “the grassy knoll.” He searched for hidden rooms and areas in the Egyptian pyramids by using cosmic rays. He was the one person who determined how all the dinosaurs disappeared by using cosmic rays on rocks. A large asteroid in the Gulf of Mexico changed climates and destroyed the food of dinosaurs. Evidently, he had listened to his father who convinced him “to think crazy for two hours once a week!” He played classical and ragtime music on the piano by ear.

The main source for Alvarez’s life was an article by Alec Nevala-Lee called “Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs” in the New York Review of Books. Born of immigrants, he died in 1988 after contributing scientific wonders for five decades.

Lyin’ King doesn’t realize Mar-a-Loco is six feet above Atlantic

More than 16 million Floridians out of the population of 23 million live in coastal counties, and 7.4 million live within six feet of the current sea level. When the Greenland ice cap melts into the Atlantic, Palm Beach and Donald Trump’s home will be under 14 feet of water. (Please notice I did not say “if.”) Most of the 16 million live within five to ten miles of the coastline or barrier islands.

When I was stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina we lived on New Topsail Island, a barrier island off the coast which was eight feet above normal sea level. We had to evacuate the island six times because of hurricanes, so, we have experiences with violent storms. The Divided States of America have 25,000 miles of coastline. Most of the coastline has population densities over five times higher than the national average. The Paris Agreement of 2015 to limit increases of global temperature to 1.5 C might as well be buried in the Mariana Trench which. by then, will be more than 7 miles deep. Because Trump has stated publicly he hates all Democrats, he actually is president of only 157 million Republicans living in rural areas and less densely populated states. He is not representing 184 million Democrats living in the DSA in higher population coastal states because he hates us.

Trump wants to be the worst of the worst world serial killers

According to the Christian Reverend Franklin Graham, son of Billy, God chose Donald Trump, a malignant narcissist, to be president of the United States. In that he loves only himself, he has kept busy murdering Black and brown people in small fishing boats off our coasts and now murdering possibly thousands of Iranians in the crime of international war. Now he is preparing to replace the world’s champion serial killer Adolph Hitler with himself by preparing to kill everybody on Planet Earth by filling Washington dumpsters with climate change regulations and canceling hundreds of world-wide WHO health and food programs formally supported by previous presidents. In the middle of February, he terminated all Environment Protection Agency regulations regarding scientific findings by an overwhelming number of climate change and human health scientists and researchers in the entire world.

“This is as big as it gets,” said EPA Director Lee Zeldin of Trump’s Clown Car Cabinet. “We are officially terminating the so-called ‘endangerment finding’, a disastrous Obama-era policy. This is the single largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States. We will save auto manufacturers and other associated businesses an estimated $1 trillion.”

Evidently, Trump, his billionaires, and the Trumplican Party do not realize they are “officially terminating” human life on Planet Earth. Trump says he uses “my own morality. My own mind.” He has neither. As a malignant narcissist, he is immoral and tragically ignorant.

Trump has frozen or cancelled eight thousand federal research grants covering scientific subjects. Will the administration recognize that winters in the Divided States of America are nine days shorter than winters just three decades ago? Climate Central, an independent climate science and communication group, examined snow, ice and temperatures in 195 major cities to arrive at that figure. It’s amazing that Juneau, Alaska had 62 fewer winter days and Anchorage had 49. That’s shockingly significant!

When the East Coast was suffering from a few cold days this last winter, I checked temperatures in Australia where it was summer. Several Australian cities were reaching 120 F. before noon. To flyers: As temperatures have increased, clean air turbulence has almost doubled. Keep your seatbelts fastened!

Burgum, the Incredible Shrinking Man, does not bend to kiss

Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service has determined global temperatures have increased 2.5 degrees since the 19th century. The Incredible Shrinking Man Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum — who enthusiastically clapped every time his Great Leader dropped a big lie at his State of the Union debacle — now repeats the administration’s policy on carbon dioxide: “CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to grow. They thrive with CO2.”

Doug, you are already about three feet tall so you don’t even have to bend to kiss the butt. You evidently are working hard to follow the worst of the worst to the Oval Office Thrift, Grift, and Gold Gilt Store. You will probably be able to boil White House eggs on the National Mall during your administration. When the Chosen One sandbagged the building of five wind farms off the East Coast, you were right there with a pack of lies to support the decision to cut wind farms from the power grid.

“The prime duty of the United States government is to protect the American people,” you said in a statement. “The decision on wind farms addresses emerging national security risks, including the rapid evolution of the relevant adversary technologies, and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our East Coast population centers.”

If you distilled those words after using a blender, one would come up with pure bullshit. If large rotating blades cause so much trouble with radar and other electronic equipment, why put wind farms in the ocean? Why don’t we surround our important national targets with wind farms so our enemies can’t find them---on radar? We can use the cheap power created by them to reduce local power costs!