Living On the Diagonal

  DETROIT- HAMTRAMCK, SHOULD WELCOME UKRAINE’S REFUGEES U.S. and Ukraine flags aloft in SE Michigan President Joe Biden has pledged to admit 100,000 Ukrainian refugees in Poland and other NATO countries. It seems to be a very small number in comparison. Over 5 million have fled the barbaric Russian war in Ukraine. Poland alone has taken in over 3 million. Rafal Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw, appeared on MSNBC  for an interview by Mika Brezinski .  Mayor Trzaskowski is appealing to step up and “share the burden” like Poland to meet the needs of refugees and resettlement.   There is a common-sense solution to the refugee crisis. As the United States comes to take in one hundred thousand refugees we stand to take in much more in Michigan. The number pales to that of Poland  which is taking on the largest relocation in Europe since the second World War. The city of Warsaw has grown thirty percent with 300,000 new residents. Poland is not only taking in, but we...

HISTORY OF AN ATROCITY,  MEXICAN  REPATRIATES AND TODAY THE PRESIDENT IS IGNORANT OF THE LAW AND A HISTORY OF CRUEL IMMIGRATION Trump continues to mislead Americans, obfuscating the nature of the crisis at the Mexican border. His surrogates serve to confound and confuse the  "zero tolerance policy"  and tie it to a "law" that does not exist. Trump seeks to elude all responsibility at any means. The "sero tolerance policy first emerged in a February 2017 meeting  with White House officials and then DHS chief, John Kelly. The policy targeted Latin Americans who illegally gained entry and therefore be subject to family separation. Children are taken from their parents and placed in detention centers. While young children face a lifelong effect of trauma while caged while the parents are deported. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General sees it as upholding the law and this is a method of retaliation as an act of deterrence. It is to serve as a warning for any Latin f...

Friday, June 8th, 2018 TIME FOR FANS TO VOTE FOR THEIR FAVORITE PLAYERS TO TAKE THE FIELD FOR BADEBALL’S  CLASSIC ALL STAR GAME Nicholas Castellanos   AND THIS A SHOUT-OUT TO DETROIT AND BASEBALL FANS EVERYWHERE TO SPEND A FEW MOMENTS TO VOTE FOR RIGHT FIELDER NICK CASTELLANOS Should the true, die hard baseball fans fail to vote  Nicholas Castellanos  as starter to this year’s All-Star game it will serve as an injustice for him, the Detroit Tiger organization and to the best traditions in our game. It is not so much as the game itself, but the individual honor to the player. (A list of facts / stats will follow at the end). For many, this is ho-hum and a non-event during the "dog days of summer" where once again not much rides on the outcome. The winner's advantage for World Series home field advantage I believe was an act of possible "collusion" among National League team owners as a long losing streak shortened odds and...

August 16, 2017 ALL ABOUT DONALD: IT IS NO LONGER WHAT THIS PRESIDENT SAYS, BUT IN WHAT IS LEFT UNSAID  HIS NAKED TRUTH UPDATE! There is  one optic that is becoming abundantly clear . This President does not comprehend that  his   role  is not one written for  reality TV,  there are no re-takes and his words and actions cannot be snipped from the tape left to fall to the floor. When I wrote and posted the original piece on Monday afternoon, little did I know that the President Trump would emerge from a Trump Tower elevator and began a verbal holocaust upon the press and the American people.  When the President with a straight face stated that  "both sides"  were to blame.  He explained how he now strayed from his first two statements ("one beautiful") and "waited to learn all of the facts" before issuing such an important statement. This is his biggest lie to date. Tuesday's resulting rampage  i...

DETROIT NO LONGER A CITY OF MOANS  BUT ROARS! Or Consumer Driven Marketing Matthew Stafford Readies for a Snap with Injured Digit * Dateline Detroit, December 15, 2016 Much has been written about the demise of Our Great City of Detroit over the past four or five decades, once as The Murder Capitol , a torch lit tradition of Devil's Night, race riots and white flight, neighborhoods besieged by blight and high crime and other misdemeanors and a history of scandal and corruption within local politics. If this were not enough, add the economic malaise followed by City Bankruptcy extending to General Motors and Chrysler. At the same time, Detroit became known as "The  City of Champions" dating back to an era before many sports fans were born. The Red Wings, Tigers and Pistons all labored to win a fair share of championships while the Detroit Lions whimpered along without touchdown glory for what is now fifty-nine (59) seasons with nary a Super Bowl ap...