Kyl, Flake can stop Trump’s foolish bows to the Saudis

Trump had the CIA report in hand that concludes in detail that Mohammad bin Salman is behind the murder of journalist and U.S. permanent resident Jamal Khashoggi.

Trump has deflected blame and instead talked of economics.

This gives any world despot a future pass on the murder of its citizens, and it diminishes the U.S. standing as a nation of laws and responsibility.

Senators Jon Kyl and Jeff Flake, there are steps you can take:

First, stand in front of the Senate and voice your objection to this hideous and financially-tied decision, and support the CIA conclusion.

Second, vote against any further funding of the war in Yemen by voting for SJ Res 54.

It’s not only the right thing to do, it's really the only thing you can do and still have a clear conscience.

My friends are in pain because of new law that regulates opioids

This year I started noticing that some of my friends who recently had joint replacements were in a great deal of pain.

A few of them were actually crying because of their pain. I know that some of these surgeries caused a lot of postoperative pain, but thought the pain medication should have taken most of it away.

I asked them why they weren’t taking their pain medication. Every one of them told me that they had not been given enough and were now out of medicine. They further told me they were unable to get any more from their surgeons.

I could not believe this so I started asking questions. My physician friends told me that our governor signed a new bill this year that limited them from prescribing more than five days worth of pain pills after surgeries and also stipulated the maximum strength of this pill.

This law is called the Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act.

I have read this law and there are some good parts in it. But limiting physicians to what they can prescribe after major surgeries is not well thought out.

Our governor and Legislature have no business telling a physician how to treat his or her patient.

Looks like I was wrong: We’re not the most powerful nation on Earth

So the question is why?

Mike Pompeo said today Saudi Arabia is absolutely critical to our national security.

Are we so afraid of the Saudis that we must bow to their every whim?

I was always under the belief that the United States of America was the world’s most powerful nation. Guess I was wrong.

We seem to bend over backward to countries like Russia, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Vatican City (the smallest country in the world), and whomever wants to intimidate us.

Don’t you get it? No one is trying to stop legal immigration

Thank you, Tony Putrino for recognizing that almost all of us come from immigrant heritage.

Actually we are from immigrant heritage! Even Indians came from Asia from the Eastern Hemisphere.

Fortunately, most of our descendants came through Ellis Island in the beginPresident ning of our established nation, than through our established immigration system which still takes in around a million people every year. Legally!

Many lands and countries throughout time have been overrun for their resources. We did it to the Indians. England was the biggest nation-builder of all.

So we have to protect our nation if we value what we have!

Why can't some of you understand the simple difference between people who follow the established process and those who skip the line?

Nobody is saying stop

Please stop this nonsense. People who expect the law to be obeyed are not racists.

Take a trip to Ellis Island and see the museum. It’s very enlightening. immigration!