The Big Picture - 
By Glynn Wilson - 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – What if the wildlife could vote?

I don’t know if the white-tailed deer would be Republicans, Democrats or independents.

Would the bucks be conservatives and the does and fawns liberals?

Would the male and female Northern cardinals argue about whether the federal government should have more or less power to regulate and govern?

What side would the eagles be on? And what about the robins, crows, ravens and buzzards?

Would the foxes and raccoons lobby for wildlife crossings on the busy roads around national park campgrounds?

Do grey squirrels discriminate against black squirrels?

I can’t read the minds of animals. But I suspect they would be for candidates who support science and work to combat global warming and climate change.

As humans continue to botch their own survival system, we threaten and endanger the future of wildlife species at an alarming rate, one of the long missions of scientists and writers like E.O. Wilson from Alabama, who reached the zenith of the biological sciences at Harvard and provided the research needed to answer some of our most pressing questions in human evolution. Considered by many to be the modern heir of Charles Darwin, Dr. Wilson died recently in Burlington, Massachusetts. He was 92.

Week in Review

Arguably the biggest news event of the past week was the first anniversary of the Trump Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t watch and refuse to keep running the horrifying footage from that day. It’s just not psychologically healthy to keep watching that footage over and over again, like the footage of 9/11.

What’s important is to understand what we must do to prevent it from happening again in 2022 and 2024.

There is something we can do about that. And you can help. Share this story link all over social media.

I advised the House Select Committee investigating the attack to find Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the investigation. I emailed them all the stories full text showing how Bannon worked to undermine democracy and was working to undermine democracy still, in state after state.

Here’s one: Heeding Steve Bannon’s Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP — and Reshape America’s Elections

They took my advice and ultimately the full Congress found him in contempt and recommended that the United States Department of Justice indict him, which they did.

Now I’m recommending that Bannon and Trump be tried and convicted not only for obstructing Congress, but for inciting insurrection.

Will the committee listen?

Maybe if “the people” weigh in by sharing.

The New York Times recently reported that only convicting Trump and the Republicans for participating in the insurrection would permanently disqualify them from serving in public office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof….”

They forgot to mention this, but I’ve cited this law before, and will cite it here again for the record:

18 U.S. Code § 2383 – Rebellion or insurrection

“Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”

That would get the job done and we could say goodbye to Trump forever.

According to a historian interviewed on CBS “Sunday Morning” Trump will remain way down at the bottom of the list of presidents in American history, competing with other “losers” for the distinction: “worst president ever.”

Notice the MSM’s fake fair and balanced headline trying to please viewers from all sides. Don’t be fooled. The historian concludes Trump was a failure.

How historians view Trump – and how Trump sees himself

Other News Links

We ran the full text and video of President Joe Biden’s brave speech on Jan. 6, 2022 without commentary this week.

Video and Full Transcript: President Joe Biden Speaks to Congress on Jan. 6, 2022

We also shared Maureen Dowd’s column in The New York Times from Saturday, concluding with:

“Biden must make good on his speech and make sure the Vandals who sacked the Capitol are not able to do it again. He must find a way to enact new voting rights laws to head off the Republican efforts to control election certification. If the Dems keep flailing, they could be looking at a wipeout in the House and maybe the Senate and years of kangaroo trials. Hopefully, Merrick Garland is not another Robert Mueller.

“This is not a moment for punch-pulling.”

Trump’s Coup, Part Deux

Do you have any idea how much grief I took from Democrats for calling the Mueller investigation a failure?

Well, maybe they will believe Maureen Dowd, years after the fact. I was right all along. People better start listening to me. I am usually right about such things.

See my other shared news links on Facebook. I can’t summarize them all.

Coronavirus Pandemic

Loyal readers may notice that I do not write a lot about the coronavirus pandemic.

I have in the past, but figured out early on that anything I write would be obsolete the minute we hit the publish button.

Also, the advice for what people can do about it long ago started sounding like a broken record which millions of people were not going to listen to anyway. So I mostly share links on Facebook from other news outlets keeping up with the trends.

The New York Times ran a column this week from a scientist who made some predictions about the future spread of the Omicron variant based on computer models.

Here’s When We Expect Omicron to Peak

The bottom line?

“The long-term implications of Omicron remain unknown, but in the near term, everyone should expect an intense month of disruption. Still, the familiar advice remains the best: get vaccinated, get booster shots and prepare for a bumpy January.”

Also, continue to wear the best mask you can find and use an alcohol based hand sanitizer whenever you have to go out and shop in public.

The best advice is to stay at home or at least away from other people whenever you can.

The less we travel the more it helps the environment anyway, even the wildlife.

More Photos of the Wildlife After the first two Blizzards of 2022

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