OGT DAILY Day One Hundred and Seventeen STRENGTH and ACTION II

In keeping with the theme of strength and action, I realized as I often do after falling asleep, that there was so much more to say.   Mainly that it requires real strength to remain firm in the face of outright hypocrisy, tyranny and lies.   But in addition the action that we've all been awakened to take is building on itself.   I feel it building.  You can sense the tide turning when the likes of Jeff Flake R-AZ begin denouncing the timing of the Comey firing.  The Republicans are beginning to smell the scent of their own blood wounds.   Not to say that anyone of us should let down our guard.  And I mean that across the spectrum of political leanings, because it is the group of disenfranchised, blue collar workers who are going to get smacked the hardest by the so-called "American" Health Care Act and Trumpinomic Tax Reform.

There were victories this week despite the outrages.  Wars are won sometimes by the accumulation of small battles rather than thru epic campaigns:   The Congress maintained an Obama Era ruling on methane gas caps.   Sally Yates made both John Cornyn and Ted Cruz look like midgets with the magnitude of her integrity, and Senators Lindsey Graham, Warner and Burr are continuing their investigations despite the White House's dismissal of them.  Deputy Director Andrew McCabe of the FBI is carrying on with testifying about Russian meddling in our election and association with Trump's campaign.   He's defending his boss despite the denigration of him by the president.

Tonight I had dinner with my fellow artists from the Upstream Gallery and my friend Rachel Whitlow told me about her experience being one of 200,000 people at the Climate March on Washington.   She was marching with a contingent from her synagogue and gave me permission to share some photos of Yiddish inspired climate change slogans.  Enjoy!

Don't Be a Schlemiel Climate Change is Real 

Oy Vey We've Gone Astray

Photos courtesy of Rachel Whitlow