No Terror, No Wars
{Updated: Thursday, June 16th, 2016}
{Updated: Thursday, June 16th, 2016}
Since the right-wing extremism of the Tea Party ended my lifelong tenure as a conservative Republican, Kirsten Gillibrand has been my favorite U. S. Senator. A New York Democrat, she was named to the seat by Governor Paterson when Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State. Then Ms. Gillibrand was re-elected for her own 6-year term in 2012 with 72% of the vote, a New York record for statewide office. She comes from a family of lawyers and lobbyists and she herself was once a key lawyer for the tobacco giant Philip Morris. But in the Senate, she uniquely is not bought-and-paid-for. In fact, she is the first member of a lowly-rated Congress to post her daily meetings online every day "so New Yorkers can see who is lobbying their Senator and for what." Last night {Wednesday, June 15th} on the floor of the Senate, Ms. Gillibrand made her latest emotional plea for gun control, mocking the bought-and-paid-for members of Congress who allow 9 out of 10 people even on the U. S. terror-watch list to easily buy guns as the shooter in the horrific Orlando massacre had done this week. Like most Americans, Senator Gillibrand last night railed against the easy purchases of military weapons "that can fire 100 rounds a minute, weapons and bullets that are only meant to kill humans!"
The United States of America very badly needs a female President in 2017, especially Kirsten Gillibrand. Each day she is in the Senate, she goes online to prove that she is not bought-and-paid-for. That makes her very presidential.
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This AP photo shows the home-base for Stonegate Bank in Daytona Beach, Florida. It had made history -- Wednesday, June 15, 2016 -- when its MasterCard became the first credit card that can be used in Cuba. Its MasterCards feature art work by Cuban painter Michel Mirabel. Stonegate Bank in South Florida not only wants to be friends with Cuba, it has the courage to back up that friendship. HOW REFRESHING!!
This Reuters photo shows a happy David Seleski, the President of Stonegate Bank, showing off his new Cuban MasterCard. He said, "This is going to be huge for American companies down here. It puts pressure on other financial institutions to come to the table. If you really look at it, a lot has happened in the last 14 months." Mr. Seleski wants his small bank in South Florida to thrive and he wishes the same for Cuba.
President Obama is black; Pope Francis is from Argentina.
Fidel, almost 90, is still around to monitor its effect.
Has it changed Cuba more or America more?
Historians are still debating the answer....
....as Cuba's old revolution is turning new!
Meanwhile, this young Cuban wearing a Barack Obama-U.S. flag T-shirt, sits on Havana's Malecon seawall and gazes northward out over the Florida Straits toward Key West, Florida. A penny for his thoughts? How about a dollar? Or what about this guess: "Why did it take so long for someone like Barack Obama to become President of the United States?" Or better yet, what's your guess about what he's thinking?
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