Sunday, February 5, 2017

BLOG COMMENTS: Second Week... What's Next?



Dear Friends:

Seven days ago, we talked about the “Trump Explosive Start”. During the second week of the new Washington administration, the stormy winds declined. However, some initiatives of the President showed us that till now the ground looks unstable under our feet.

Peggy Noonan, famous columnist of WSJ wrote several days ago: “We are living through big history and no one here knows where it’s going or how this period ends. Everyone, left, right and center, feels the earth is unsteady under their feet. Too much is happening. Democratic senators boycott confirmation hearings, Iran tests ballistic missiles, President Trump has testy phone calls with prime ministers…” (Posted by WSJ with the title of “In Trump’s Washington, Nothing Feels Stable” Feb 2, 2017)

By the way, the most important news of the week was the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Justice Scalia’s vacant seat in the U.S. Supreme Court.

In relation with this Trump’s nomination, David Brooks, political columnist of The New York Times affirmed: “Clearly qualified, first-rate legal scholar, first-rate judge, first-rate mind, apparently a first-rate person. He’s what any — the best any Republican president would have done. So, I thought a very good pick for Donald Trump.”

Next, you can read some of my comments posted during the last week in the blog of Wall Street Journal and the reactions of the members of the Journal Community.

IMPORTANT: Frequently, I use my blog comments in WSJ and Twitter to “test” the opinion of my readers in both media. In Wall Street Journal, the “Recommendations” reflect the “Like” points of the readers. In Facebook and Twitter, the readers vote through the “Like” button.  The different between Twitter and WSJ is that WSJ/Journal Community is “closed community” where only a small group of people can vote.


Domingo Trassens
WORLD RETHINK
Rethinking the world with you
2017/01/29



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MY BLOG COMMENTS

 
We are entering into a new chapter of the Iranian-American war, a war without end till now.
02/05/2017 11:55:08 PM
1 Recommendation


(This story talks about a Russian journalist that was poised two times in Russia and now he is dying.)
It is the risk to open a lot your mouth in countries that are not democratic. 

In some of these countries, they poison you. In others, they cut your head or they torture till you fall dead in dirty floor of a cell full of “devils”.
02/05/2017 11:51:02 PM
1 Recommendation


Now, the 170 years of hostility between both countries is slapping Mexicans due to they didn't use the recent U.S. friendship in the right direction.

The Mexicans cry because they never learned to act as adults in the relationships with the neighbor of the North.  
02/05/2017 09:56:22 PM
6 Recommendations


Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has the right to act with independence from the White House.

But the media likes to show disagreement, differences, quarrel instead of showing the positive side of the government actions.
02/05/2017 06:11:10 PM
3 Recommendations


Who can guarantee that criminals like the Colombian rebels will become good people?
What will be the new business of these rebels?

The Colombian rebels with a new face of "peaceful and good people" have all the resources and legal frame to start a new rich drug industry.

Maybe, President Santos will be the new partner. (?)
02/04/2017 04:59:45 PM
1 Recommendation


The Iranian regime is looking for all the opportunities to show to U.S. that they don't like us.
02/04/2017 04:23:13 PM
1 Recommendation


Iran is trying to humiliate to the United States in all the possible ways.
02/04/2017 04:25:10 PM
5 Recommendations


And who weakened our position in front to the Iranian regime during the last few years?

Everybody knows that the openness of Barack Obama and John Kerry for the Iranians was more than the normal.
02/04/2017 04:31:26 PM
10 Recommendations


Social media plays important role for the two sides of the American politics: Democrats and Republicans.
02/03/2017 05:15:40 PM
1 Recommendation


This is only the start of Rex Tillerson – former Exxon’s CEO - as U.S. State Secretary.

We have to see if he will improve our foreign relationships in the right way according the current world frame.
02/03/2017 05:03:45 PM
1 Recommendation


The news says "U.S. added a robust 227,000 jobs in January". Are you talking about the "robust jobs" of $7/hour or $8/hour?
02/03/2017 04:54:33 PM
3 Recommendations


The Iranians continue with their military plans and terrorist activities because till now nobody stopped them. They want to be one of the powers of the world.
02/03/2017 04:46:41 PM
13 Recommendations

 
From my perspective, Betsy DeVos is a wrong “experiment” of President Trump. She doesn’t have previous real experience in education.

Independently of all the considerations, you cannot lead teachers if you cannot talk with them the same "language". The same that you cannot solve medical issues if you are not a doctor or you cannot lead troops to a victory if you don't have military background.

The "experiments" in education, military and healthcare with people who don't have knowledge about these 3 critical issues normally don't work.
02/02/2017 04:51:53 PM
5 Recommendations


The problems between Middle East Christians and Muslims exceed the Trump initiatives.

When they are majority, the Muslims always have excuses to act against Christians because they are not tolerant with other religions.
02/02/2017 04:06:05 PM
5 Recommendations

 
Germany has to fight against terror in the way to clean the country of this sickness.
02/02/2017 03:56:07 PM
2 Recommendations


Violence in the university is a classic attitude of the underdeveloped countries.
02/02/2017 03:39:11 PM
11 Recommendations


We have to hope Judge Gorsuch will be great Justice Gorsuch.
02/01/2017 05:14:57 PM
6 Recommendations


This is war between Saudis and Iranians.
01/31/2017 06:12:22 AM
3 Recommendations


While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues talking a lot about subjects that are not his business, he will have problems everywhere.
01/31/2017 06:01:06 AM
2 Recommendations


Acting Attorney General Sally Yates committed suicide in the political sense.
01/31/2017 04:11:46 AM
4 Recommendations


Republican Senator McCain normally is an independent mind in Congress. 

In a democracy, it is healthy when the lawmakers are not "acolytes" of the president.
01/31/2017 12:22:01 AM
5 Recommendations


The Trump's immigration order came as reaction of a previous weak attitude in relation with illegal immigrants and refugees.  (But it is a controversial issue.)
01/29/2017 11:08:39 PM
8 Recommendations



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SOURCES:

1) External Sources: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Twitter and PBS NewsHour.

2) Own Sources: My own research for previous publishing projects like TTT of Comlab Corp and others.

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