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October 27, 2025- Monday President Trump is working to intimidate Venezuelan  illegitimate  president, Nicolas Maduro. Maduro continues to have a strangle hold on Venezuela.  Venezuela has become a haven for drug cartels and Venezuela has become a port for shipping drugs around the world.  We are being told boats are leaving Venezuela loaded with drugs headed for America . President Trump has authorized the United States military to blow a couple of these boats out of the water and is receiving criticism since the public has not been given totally verifiable information about what was actually on those boats. It would be a  fairly safe  assumption there were drugs on these boats. The bombing of the boats is  really more  of a message  to Maduro to cease and  desist  the government’s part in the drug trade. Trump has also insinuated American troops could  possibly start  missions in Venezuela.  That would more than lik...

Saturday, October 25, 2025 Zohran Mamdani is a Democratic Socialist raise by Hindu and Muslim  parents . Ilhan Omar is a Minnesota U.S. repres entative and lead the Democratic Progressive Caucus. She is a Muslim. Rashida Tlaib is in the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan. She is a Muslim  and is Palestinian. Lateefah Simon is a U.S. Representative from California is another representative who is Muslim. Andre Carson is another rep resentative from Indiana.  He is  Muslim. Keith Ellison, another Democrat from Minnesota in the House of Representatives who is Muslim.   Over the pat 15 years, there has been   a growing number of Muslims winning influential  political  positions  with  the backing of growing aggregated Muslim populations. This is a consciously planned strategy to gain influence and implement pro-Muslim policies.  In the United States, they are free to win free elections and move into positions of power.  On...

October  Topic of the Day: Define success for yourself. Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill, but first ask the question, “What is my hill?”   Most people have goals in life. Obviously, goals run the  continuum,  but most people work toward something. In my late teens and early twenties, I had life goals, but too many of my goals were to satisfy other people’s expectations.  I did not meet all my parents’ expectations, and my dad made that known in his will when I was not named as executor when he died.  I  did however succeed in  accomplishing  most of the goals I set.  I  continued through my life setting goals and meeting those  goals  with varying degrees of success. There are things I could have done better but overall, I consider the bulk of my life to have been successful.    W hen this type of question is asked, many offer things like good  relationships  and a variety ...