THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP BOMBED IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES AS A FAVOR TO ISRAEL

That's my take.

I woke up in the middle of the night and checked the news - and was appalled. I'm worried sick this morning after not being able to fall back to sleep. Not only did Trump bypass Congress but ignored United Nations agreements when giving the military orders to bomb Iran's budding nuclear facilities. We are living under a Dictator who rules, not a President who leads.

I AM for a strong DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA on our OWN LAND.  We may now NEED IT. 

So here is what we need to be prepared for:

Terrorist attacks on our own land which will likely kill, disable, or traumatize Americans.

Cyber attacks on all systems that run on computers including military installations, hospitals, energy grid, government, and all else.

Individuals and families who are here from Iran or come from Iranian heritage being targeted for bullying by individuals who favor war.

"Christians" who WANT World War 3 as a harbinger of the END TIMES and THE RAPTURE.  (I've already encountered some of these blood thirsty "Christians" at the library.)

More Pro Palestinian versus Israel protesting here in the United States and in Europe. (I wonder if the vegetarian "Peaceniks" are celebrating this morning.)

More Anti-Semitism. In the United States this term is usually applied to Jewish people

"The term "Semite" refers to people who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including Akkadians, Arabs, Arameans, Canaanites, and Habesha peoples. It is also used to describe people descended from Shem, one of Noah's sons in the Bible. The term is primarily associated with the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.

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Less than ONE SQUARE MILE of Los Angeles was WRONGLY REPORTED as AN ENTIRE CITY IN RIOT AND INSURRECTIONS very recently, and the Federal Government sent in thousands of National Guards and Marines ... Further the emptying of the country by CRIMINAL ILLEGAL OCCUPANTS of OUR COUNTRY - which we thought meant gang affiliated violent criminals who lost their souls - is now interpreted to mean just anyone.

Here is the truth about the size of (and relative peace) of Los Angeles:

"It is significantly larger, covering approximately 502.7 square miles. This area includes both land and water, with 468.7 square miles of land and 34 square miles of water. "

C 2025 Christine Trzyna  

CONGRESSWOMAN LAURA FRIEDMAN ON PROTEST CHAOS IN LOS ANGELES

 

GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA NEWSOM GIVES SPEECH ON THE TROOPS SENT BY TRUMP TO LOS ANGELES

TRIVIAL or SUPERFICIAL or LIGHTHEARTED ; THE LIST OF THE MOMENT

WHAT'S NEW?

I'm Curious : 

Will the advent of the Olympics really inspire the Powers That Are to end Homelessness in Los Angeles, or will the city put up facades that lie, kind of like the peasants did in Austria, to hide their poverty, when King Franz Joseph and his entourage came through?

Who even wants to be President of the United States any more? (A CEO earns more.)

What happened to my high school friend's children who were such brats twenty-five years ago? Did they grow out of it or are they demanding adults?

I Might Just Be Done With : Going to any event that advertises that FOOD TRUCKS will be there. 

So funny! : I went with a friend to an adult crafts class that was so childish (felt lady bug cut outs glued to magnets) that I told her I was going to have to start wearing a paper pinned to my shirt that said "If I'm lost please call my mother."

AM I WHO I KNOW? Impossible. I don't know anyone!

Celebrity I (once) met (just saying) : Marty Balin (Martyn Jerel Buchwald) singer/songwriter of the Jefferson Airplane who passed in 2018.

IF I COULD TRAVEL BACK IN TIME : Late spring/early summer 2023.

I'M LISTENING TO : Coverage of the so called "riots" and "insurrection" which never happened in the last few days Los Angeles. (Someone get out a dictionary and show President Trump the true meaning of these words.)

INDULGENCE? I wish! A long deep soak in a pristine claw foot tub.

Book I Recently Read Cover To Cover : I've read no books from cover to cover in recent months, though I have skimmed. This question should be "What magazine article did you read in its entirety? 

Book(s) I Keep Meaning To Re/read : Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris, 

Films I Recently Watched From Beginning to End : Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, A Rainy Day in New York (Woody Allen), The Hoax.

AM I WHAT I EAT?

I'm Drinking : black tea

I Just Overate : potato salad

I'm Craving : potato salad

I'M GETTING BETTER AT :  threading a sewing machine and filling a bobbin

I FEAR : The Republican agenda to break Los Angeles.

C 2025  Christine Trzyna

THIS PARODY SONG WRITER - MUSICIAN DOES EX-PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HIS DUE : WEIRD AL YANKOVIC WATCH OUT! LOL!

PATRICK FITZGERALD

THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA  ( Original song was by Charlie Daniel's Band)

In this STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF MOMENT (war in Israel, Ukraine, Genocide....) only the war has the ex-President's fiasco number two in the headlines) I take a moment to have my funny bone tickled. 

DEFINITION OF TRAITOR - TREASON

TIME : BENEDICT ARNOLD TRAITOR (Definition of TREASON)   This article from 2018 concerns President Donald Trump and Treason.  Excerpt:  Not that the definition of treason is complicated.  To the frustration of the President's critics, Article III, section 3 of the U.S. Constitution narrowly defines treason against the United States as consisting 'only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort."  Americans shared this understanding of treason, rooted in English Common Law, even before the Constitution was written.

SHUT UP TRUMP ! BRENT RENAUD - AMERICAN JOURNALIST KILLED BY RUSSIAN MILITARY

Ex President Donald Trump cannot shut his yap as if he is still campaigning for another bout of Presidency, going against President Joseph Biden, not even at this time of catastrophic invasion by Russia of Ukraine.  In my opinion his behavior is quite possibly treasonous to the United States of America and all our allies who believe in Democracy. Basically he is touting his relationship with Putin and his comparatively macho stance with Putin and thus Russia, as compared to the gentlemanly approach of Biden.  He says this war against Ukraine would not have happened if he were still President.  As usual, it is all about HIM.

Which were YOU on the schoolyard?  THE BULLY WHO STARTED THE FIGHT?  THE GANG LEADER?  THE PERSON WHO GOT PICKED ON?  THE ONE WHO TRIED TO BREAK IT UP? Did you walk away and decide it was best not to get involved because you didn't know who started it or what the fight was about?

Yea, Trump and Putin have a lot in common: They are both Bullies who spin Fake News. Evil people mess with our minds, and that is what if felt like every damn day of the Trump Presidency. Sick of being confused by the Princes of Lies, people felt they had to choose between being a member of a cult (The Republican Party) or dealing with the trauma that cult inflicted on the rest of us.  You had to choose sides.  For someone like me, whose beliefs were moderate overall - it was especially excruciating. What happened to honest debate? 

Does an ex-President have a 1st Amendment Right to Free Speech? Yes, he does. He should be reminded that citizens of Russia do not. Those who protest the war or anything else in Russia are being arrested. It is only because of those who have dared risk this arrest - and unknown future - that we know that all Russian people are not in agreement with their government  Does he have a moral obligation to speak the Truth? Yes. However, there is The Truth and then there is His Truth.

How do we know what information is True?  We rely on JOURNALISTS.

The killing of a journalist who might reveal the Truth through reportage Brent Renaud, is telling.  

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This morning one of the first news stories I picked up was that bombs had hit Lviv which is twelve miles from the present Polish border.  An airfield that was used for training and staging of Ukraine military air force was bombed.  Strategic?  Sure.

Remember the reports of Russian jets flirting with the borders of various countries a while back?

That WAS the hint of war to come.

C 2022 Christine Trzyna

TUNES IN MY HEAD AS I PREPARE FOR HOLIDAYS DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS and CRAZY LADIES AROUND

I was somewhat Grinchy about Thanksgiving a couple years ago. This year, not so. An Auntie of mine used to say the later holiday was really just for children. It feels that way to me.  But why the hell is the song "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" coming into my head as I wash dishes? It is just so cheery!

And here we are in this increasingly worrisome Covid-19 Crisis; It's 2020 and we are going into 2021.  Restaurants can no longer serve people inside or out. Friends have lost their jobs. I know of a few people who are facing eviction. The tent city closest to me must have elected a mayor as the tents were artfully arranged from large to small the other day.

People are going out of their minds with worry, fear, restlessness, anxiety, lack of hope, boredom, and sleep irregularities and sleeplessness.  I'm not immune to any of this. 

So is this why for three strait days two lines from "Along Comes Mary," by the Association, kept running through my head? "When we met I was sure out to lunch.  Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch. Sweet As the Punch."

It's not that I can't fill my time, making slow progress on a research project, or start reading that stack of books other people wanted me to read. But yesterday I felt a little wigged out as the theme song from Sesame Street, Sunny Days, started playing in my head  I once babysat kids who would cry if I took the TV off and so they had Sesame Street on for hours every day.

I walk my dog and around the corner are some children who I suspect are not getting anything for Christmas.  But they have proud parents.  So I've been discouraged from leaving gifts on the porch steps.

I just had another crazy lady in the street start yelling at me re Trump.  And just like last time, I stopped and talked to her, sure she had actually gone insane in the Trump Cult and that something I might say could help her through the Transition.

"I'm a Mexican.  I used to be a Democrat!  I'm ASHAMED that I was a Democrat!" she wailed.  "Do you know what you people DID to that POOR MAN!?  (What, is he the latest to be nailed to a cross?) He has done more for Black People than any President!" And on it went.  I backed away as her finger swang in the air and pointed towards me. "You'll see!  You'll see!  Biden will DIE. Kamala will come in and she'll have those woman with a TOWEL on their head come in.  We'll be SOCIALISTS!" 

I told her not to fear.  I suspected she had not been raised in the United States and probably knew very little about The House, The Senate, The Congress, and our "checks and balances."  I said, "We are electing a President, not a King!"

Sweet As The Punch.

I went home and pulled out stacks of children's books that I intend to give as Christmas presents. I wrapped them all in festive papers. Then I pulled out the recipe for buttery rolls flavored with leaves of bay that I intend to bake and take to a Thanksgiving dinner. I pulled the recipe from the newspaper a while back and it needs yeast.  I went to a couple stores looking for yeast.  Wondering if my search for yeast would end me up in the hospital.

The plan is that everyone will go single file into the house to serve ourselves at the table and then sit outdoors in a backyard ten feet apart to eat.  I'm looking forward to this, but I would also be OK with staying home and watching The Crown. 

I'm in the mood to cheer you up.

Christine Trzyna

C2020

JOE BIDEN WON and IT RAINED

It was 150 days with no rain in Southern California. That statement is probably in error as Southern California is thousands of square miles and it probably rained somewhere in all that territory in the last 150 days.  

However, we have been waiting for it.  

Real rain.  Not morning mist.  Not a little drizzle, though I'm sure the plants would love to have their leaves dusted off so they can breath.  

We wanted a downpour.  An inch.  Rain enough to stop using the hose and racking up the water bill. Rain enough to plant a garden and expect it to sprout.

It happened, for a few minutes. Then it happened again. The wind whipped through the trees.  The pavement was damp. The leaves glistened. The temperature went down and we pulled out the sweaters and warm fuzzy blankets from storage.

Soon after it was announced that Joseph Biden is our President Elect, it rained.

It was as if we had all been holding our breaths,  The fires consumed much of the state.  And then, he was elected.  And then the sky let it out.

That's my perception.

My friends and I opened a bottle of wine.

We all slept a little bit better.

Though we know "It ain't over yet."  (Where is the fat lady these days? Hopefully the White House.)

Then the catnip addicted cat, who now loves me, squinting it's eyes and looking up at my forehead, perhaps at my glowing third eye, got up on their table, though, because he is aging and bony it took more effort, and put out his hand-shaking paw.  "More"

I bought the catnip, claiming to be the world's strongest, at a dollar store. 

I bought it after he got beat up by some studly, younger, and mouse eating cats.

This one, he's an Egyptian. The smartest.  From the Pharoahs.

One of those other cats had put a neat slice in his head near his ear. It was deep and oozing. He was barely walking. He was in pain. His own eyes appeared foggy.  As he went out, my friend said, "In my gut I think he is going off somewhere to die."

A day later he came back.

I made a perch for him on top of their record album collection in the hall. Layered it with blankets.  

He had never had catnip before. The idea was to give him some bliss before it was all over. The idea was to increase his appetite.

Now, whenever he sees me, he wants some.

He is eating.  He is well. His eyes are bright and alert.  From their porch he watches the other cats carefully.

Joe Biden is President Elect.

Will we all get better?

C 2020 Christine Trzyna

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MELANIA and ME by STEPHANIE WINSTON WOLKOFF : CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEW

I was handed the hard-back copy that a friend had just bought and read and will be passing this book to another reader shortly. I know what certain critiques and articles expect me to think about this book but I'm not dictated to.

This book is one long immensely detailed bitch about being overworked, underpaid, disrespected, and under-appreciated in the work place, and ultimately in a friendship. Most of us have had that experience.  I know I have.  That might be my life story - or yours - but I wasn't a child of privileged, able to put a toe into prestigious Vogue to work there first.  Events I planned and saw through were not benefits for the Met's fashion ball. I've met a few celebrities and a few millionaires but my social life is not among them.  Stephanie Winston Wolkoff was immensely qualified for the assignment she was vetted for by First Lady Melania Trump. That she kept at it to the point of suffering financially and health-wise, is her fault. She was not one of us who has to work for a living.  Not that I think it's wrong to be well off and ambitious. But why do us commoners stay at jobs we hate?

The story of the chaotic Trump White House is as expected, sorry to say, and not a surprise.

The book reads as though S.W.W. was keeping a diary on top of everything else she was working extreme hours on. If not a diary, then a journal or at least a calendar, of her work struggles, including having lawyers work on a contract that might describe her title, responsibility, and pay. 

Very little is said about the FRIENDSHIP that the title of this book depends upon. There are mentions of brief smiley interactions, and many references to emails that are brief and full of emojis.  First Lady Melania actually seems appreciative, if not one to go on and on in her communications.  There are lots of air kisses on both cheeks, so to speak.

THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN SAY ABOUT MELANIA TRUMP after reading this book are the things noone would dare say about JACQUELINE BOUVIER KENNEDY.

That she prefers supporting her husband and his career and taking care of her child, then having a career of her own while also the First Lady.

That she's not in the loop about political issues, though once in a while she has influence on her husband.  She has a mind of her own as he does and is not always cooperative about what others want her to do as First Lady.

That she has very little personal power and then it's hiring staff to advise on fashion, hair, diplomatic expectations, protocol, and entertaining dignitaries.

That she goes off on relaxing vacations alone while others toil.  They are paid after all, while she is not.

That she shows up on the campaign trail not so much.

That she embodies tranquility and it seems that is what President Donald Trump looks forward to and depends on.

I think First Lady Melania Trump has mastered what few women seem to these days - That she is enough.

The real story here is how Trump's grown children, in particular Ivanka Kusher, are present, and domineering and can be sneaky or savvy about sabotaging Melania. It's the story of how a good soldier (Stephanie) on Melania's side goes to battle with Ivanka's side.

For that, Melania must, in my opinion, resort to supreme patience, philosophy, and prayer.

As for the preternaturally tall for his youth, Barron Trump, or his father, the author takes aim to diagnose.  Fair when it's about our President.  Unfair when it is a child.

C 2020  Christine Trzyna

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9/11 as I REMEMBER IT - VIOLENCE REDEFINED

The morning of 9/11 I was listening to KFI - Bill Handel on the radio.  Bill is still on the air but I don't listen to KFI much anymore.  (Audio Books suffice.)  He is known for a sort of jokey sarcasm - and an exaggerated way of telling stories - on himself - and on others.  For instance, he once gave a blow by blow account of a death row inmate being fried that was compelling.  So Bill is a character - a personality - and when he started talking about what was happening in New York, there was a question in my mind - it's a joke right?  But it was not.  The television set confirmed it and of all people to call first, I called my then building manager. He didn't believe me. Then I called my best friend - who didn't answer the phone. Like everyone else, I was riveted to the television set. 

And then, then I became depressed.

Someone gifted me something I really needed, something that no one else on this earth at the time would have thought to gift me, something that no one else I knew at the time could afford, and probably the most generous gift I ever received, but the box sat there unopened.  I wasn't even curious to open the Apple box.  I was moving through molasses. I awaited word that we were going to war, that war had been officially declared and called war, rather than a "military action."

At this time I went to a number of coffee houses in order to write.   I went over to one where I had a coffeehouse friend who was an artist, a painter of dog portraits, whose work was even published in a book not of his own making.  The artist told me his own mother had been in the building that the first plane hit.  In fact it probably hit her very office.  His family in New York City wanted him to get on a plane and fly there right away.  They were in denial.  They wanted him to go to the hospitals looking for their mom.  He didn't go.  He knew there was no chance she was alive.

The impact of the loss of his mom in such a horrific way was so strong that this artist could not paint.  He could not hold a brush.  Months later he was trying another form of creative expression - writing songs - to overcome the paralysis. He was clearly not in his normality for a long time.

A couple weeks after 9/11, while still feeling angry and powerless, I went ahead and opened the gift.  It was a laptop computer and I needed it to write.  It was intended as a practical gift but it became one in which self expression was also a way of maintaining the healing I needed because of this horrible event.

While the construct and enormity of 9/11 made it a special attack on an icon of the United States of America, I realize also that it was the closest thing to a military attack ON OUR TURF since Pearl Harbor.  Imagine though what it was for the Japanese when the United States dropped the atomic bomb.  Or enduring the Holocaust.  Or any other violent events that have taken place on this earth - and do now.

Is the world really getting more violent?  Mass shootings for no good reason beyond someone's hatred or insanity seem to happen with regularity.  Would they be as appealing to their originators if it were not for the fast global news coverage made possible not just on television but internet and cell phones?

A recent foray into a Fundamentalist Bible Study - long story as I know you know this is not like me - has been interesting in that just about every other woman there believes with certainty that we are in the End Times. Some people there think that President Donald Trump is in place, no matter how he screws it up, to usher in the End Times, citing his recognition of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. Trump and those like him are, to me, believers in the Prosperity Gospel, a kind of  New Age defilement of Christ's message. Christians feed the hungry, cloth and shelter those who have none, and there is a traditional acceptance and embrace of the poor as worthy human beings. The Prosperity Gospel to me is more like Janis Joplin singing Mercedes Benz.  I guess it could be argued that God gives prosperity to those who HAVE so they can give to the poor, but let's not talk about Amazon's unlivable wages, or that Google's blue collar employees live in RV's near the Silicon Valley "campus."
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Some think President Trump can do just about anything, because it's really Vice President Mike Pence who is the Real Believer and the Next President, one way or another.  There is lots of talk in this group about which politicians are "Believers" or not.  I'm not there to question the class or the teacher's belief system, just to absorb differences as comfortably as I can and learn some things that I didn't know about the lifeways of the ancient people of Bible times, particularly the few women mentioned.

As a more liberal Christian friend of mine said, "There have ALWAYS been wars.  So it's always the End Times."

One day in the class, someone said that Oprah Winfrey was leading millions of people straight to hell.  (On the list of deceivers was also Shirley MacLaine.)  So what is that if not intolerance?

And this is CALIFORNIA? 

I have no answers at the moment.  I just know that 9/11 became a pivotal moment in our history which marked a change of consciousness about our vulnerability and need for defense.

As a child in Catholic grade school we often prayed for the President, to make good decisions for us all, just as we did the Pope.  If you're a praying person, this is a good time to do so.

C 2018 Christine Trzyna  All Rights Reserved