Watching Trump's name being chiseled off of a hotel in Panama may be the best thing you will see all day.

Trump name chiseled off the Trump International Hotel in Panama after weeks of tensions over control of the property. https://t.co/KQuDrUckyr pic.twitter.com/Ph6xlHgwBr

— ABC News (@ABC) March 5, 2018

Courtesy of ABC News: 

More than a dozen police wearing bulletproof vests entered the lobby of the Trump International Hotel in Panama on Monday morning and evicted the Trump Organization’s staff, a move that comes after weeks of simmering tensions over control of the property.

The Trump Organization manages the hotel in the 70-story tower overlooking the Punta Pacifica Peninsula and the new majority owner had gone to court in the U.S. and Panama to evict the company run by President Donald Trump’s sons. There were scuffles as police arrived to carry out the eviction, and Panamanian court officials were present. 

“I am the owner,” said Orestes Fintiklis, who last year obtained control over more than 200 units in the tower, as police and Trump employees pushed and shoved one another. “Love and peace!” 

Fintiklis gained access to the tower’s main office late Monday morning. The colorful property owner told reporters he would not be commenting about the morning’s actions at this point. He then played a song on the piano for the gathered onlookers with lyrics that, when translated, said, “Fascism will not prevail.” 

Okay I could watch that video all day long.

LITERALLY all day long. 

And I predict that this is just the beginning for Trump.

By the time his train wreck of a presidency has gone up in flames, NOBODY is going to want to be his business partner anymore, and his brand will join the likes of Benedict Arnold and Samuel Mudd, the man who treated Abraham Lincoln's assassin for a broken leg, as the very definition of a traitor to this country.

Rachel Maddow's fascinating expose on Donald Trump's business ties with the Iranian National Guard.

The inspiration for this segment came from this article by Adam Davidson of the New Yorker:

No evidence has surfaced showing that Donald Trump, or any of his employees involved in the Baku deal, actively participated in bribery, money laundering, or other illegal behavior. But the Trump Organization may have broken the law in its work with the Mammadov family. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, passed in 1977, forbade American companies from participating in a scheme to reward a foreign government official in exchange for material benefit or preferential treatment. The law even made it a crime for an American company to unknowingly benefit from a partner’s corruption if it could have discovered illicit activity but avoided doing so. This closed what was known as the “head in the sand” loophole.

As with everything that swirls around Donald Trump there is a fog of scandal but rarely enough evidence to directly tie him or his company to that scandal.

This episode follows closely on Rachel's other piece on that Russian oligarch following the Trump campaign and evidence of a possible money laundering operation.

There are a lot of loose threads but it appears that Rachel is really starting to tie things together.

Navy cowardly backs off decision to ban Bibles in military hotel rooms.

Courtesy of Stars and Stripes:

Gideons Bibles are going back into Navy lodges. 

The Navy on Thursday ordered the Bibles returned to rooms and said it is reviewing a decision by the Navy Exchange to remove them from its worldwide network of military hotels. 

Atheists had cheered a victory after a complaint prompted the exchange to begin moving the Bibles to its lost-and-found bins this summer, but the Navy said the decision was made without consulting senior leadership. 

“That decision and our religious accommodation policies with regard to the placement of religious materials are under review,” Navy spokesman Cmdr. Ryan Perry wrote in an email to Stars and Stripes. “While that review is under way, religious materials removed from Navy Lodge rooms will be returned."

Yep they're going back in permanently, no doubt about it.

Dammit and I was so impressed with the Navy for showing some balls.

Fine put them back in, but I suggest that if that happens people need to start demanding equal time for other religious tomes such as the Koran, the Tao Te Ching, the Book of Mormon, the Hindu Vedas, and Dianetics just for a start.

After all if a government entity is forced to offer the opportunity for religious indoctrination in their hotel rooms for one religion, then it only seems fair to offer the same opportunity for religious indoctrination for ALL religions. 

Navy has instructed housekeeping to remove all Gideon Bibles from hotel rooms on their bases. Sarah Palin rant in 3..2..oh never mind it will be on her pay-per-bitch channel so we don't have to watch it.

Courtesy of Canada Free Press:  

The U.S. Navy has instructed housekeepers to remove Gideon-placed Bibles from every hotel room on its military bases after it received a letter from the atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). 

“We were told today, June 23, 2014, that due to a new policy by the CEO of NEXCOM, Rear Admiral Robert J. Bianchi, we were to remove the Bibles from the rooms,” a housekeeper told AFA in an email. “They told us to put them in boxes, where they would be taken to a donation center somewhere.” 

NEXCOM (Navy Exchange Service Command) issued the directive to bases offering hotel accommodations, ordering them to impound Bibles from 34 Navy Lodge locations and 24,000 Navy Gateway Inns & Suites guest rooms on Navy bases worldwide. 

The directive orders lodge managers to contact base commanders and Chaplains and facilitate removing the Bibles and other “religious material currently in the guest rooms.”

Apparently the Navy attempted this back in 2012, but after public outcry they caved and put them back.

So  let's see if we have progressed enough to make it stick this time.

My favorite story about bibles in hotel rooms is the one told by actor Ian McKellen who tears Leviticus 18:22 out of every bible he finds in his hotel room.

Good for him.