Donald Trump has the lowest approval ratings of any other president elected since World War 2.

Courtesy of Gallup:

Donald Trump averaged 41% job approval during his first quarter as president, 14 percentage points lower than any other president in Gallup's polling history. Bill Clinton had the previous low mark of 55%. The average first-quarter rating among post-World War II presidents elected to their first term is 61%, with John Kennedy's 74% the highest.

You know I so want to celebrate this, but the fact is that this asshole represents all of us now so unfortunately this is also a reflection on the entire country. 

God I hate Vladimir Putin right now.

Did the Pope just call out the Military Industrial Complex?

Courtesy of Ansa:  

Pope Francis said Monday that "many powerful people don't want peace because they live off war". The Argentine pontiff made the hard-hitting comment in response to a question from one of the 7,000 children taking part in an audience held with the Peace Factory organisation. "This is serious," Francis told the children. 

"Some powerful people make their living with the production of arms. 

"It's the industry of death".

Damn! Good for the Pope!

You know it must be getting harder and harder for the conservatives to support this guy.

Of course it should be noted that the first person to REALLY expose this group, was perhaps the last great Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Nobody seems to have listened to him at the time, I wonder if people are ready to listen to the Pope today.

If we impeach Presidents for using executive privilege to alter immigration laws, then how did these avoid a similar fate?

Courtesy of Pensito Review: 

Pres. Dwight Eisenhower: 

1956 

By executive order, circumvented immigration quotas to allow 900 orphans to join their adoptive families in the U.S. 

1956-1958 

By executive order, allowed 31,000 Hungarian anti-Soviet insurgents to emigrate. 

1959-72 

By executive order, allowed 600,000 Cubans fleeing Castro to emigrate. 

Pres. Gerald Ford: 

1975 

By executive order, allowed 360,000 refugees, mostly from from Vietnam, to emigrate. 

1976 

By executive order, allowed 14,000 Lebanese nationals to emigrate. 

Pres. Ronald Reagan: 

1981 

By executive order, allowed 7,000 Polish anti-Communists to emigrate. 

1982 

Allowed 15,000-plus Ethiopians to emigrate. 

1987 

By executive order, rescinded deportation of 200,000 Nicaraguans. 

1987 

By executive order, deferred deportation of undocumented children of 100,000 families. 

George H.W. Bush: 

1989 

By executive order, deferred deportations of Chinese students. 

1989 

By executive order, reversed visa denials of 7,000 Soviets, Indochinese. 

1990 

By executive order, deferred deporations of previously amnestied citizens’ 1.5 million spouses and children. 

1991 

By executive order, deferred deportation of 2,000 Gulf War evacuees. 

1992 

By executive order, deferred deportations of 190,000 El Salvadorans. 

George W. Bush: 

2002 

By executive order, expedited naturalization for green-card holders who joined military. 

2005 

By executive order, deferred deportation of students affected by Hurricane Katrina. 

2006 

By executive order, enabled 1,500 Cuban physicians to seek asylum at US embassies. 

2007 

By executive order, deferred deportation of 3,600 Liberians.

Strange but I remember hearing nothing about impeachment, or the threat of impeachment, concerning any of these "amnesties." 

Is it just the fact that they are Republicans that protects from conservative anger at their "shredding of the Constitution?"  Or is there another differnce that I just can't quite put my finger on right now that sets President Barack Obama apart from his predecessors?

Maybe now is a good time to revisit President Eisenhower's 1961 warning about the Military Industrial Complex.

The man was way ahead of his time.

A final thought for today.

A truth spoken so many years ago, yet one which is still ignored by those who could take it to heart and change the world for the better by clothing the naked, healing the sick, and feeding the hungry.

How much do we spend to improve our ability to take a life in relation to how much we spend in order to save one? And recognizing that incredible disparity do we still dare to call ourselves humane? Or evolved? Or Christians?

All of us in this country should look to our past in shame and resolve to move forward in peace and brotherhood.  If not now, when? And if not us, then who?

Good morning my friends.

I thought this would be a good way to start the day.

Many president's had tried, but this President succeeded.

And NOTHING the Right Wing can do will ever change that.