JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/johnadams-may-not-have-been-the-only-signer-of-the-declaration-of-independence-but-he-was-still-alive-to-see-and-act-as-vice-president-while-much-of-the-constitution-was-being-drawn-up-a-major-lawy

Citations in title of wordpress and twitter posts are from John Adams, a biography by David McCullough (2001) at 418.

It’s globalism, the U.S. Constitution and it’s applicability to refugees isn’t it? How does Merrick Garland weigh in on the dilemma of colliding worlds?

What about that GDP metric and climate change, transboundary air pollution?

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/dear-potus-youre-still-high-on-my-list-of-admired-presidents-your-family-is-admirable-but-somethings-wrong-whats-in-store-for-us

2 1 a #kibbutz, to another a #slave camp, to a third a #sanctuary with #bike paths to more #places than they’ve ever seen before. #Refugee x # of

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/what-does-each-refugee-seek-after-the-refuge-is-dealt

All review citations are to the publication Foreign Affairs, Volume 95, Number 5, [aka September/October 2016].

Juicy: International Monetary Cooperation: Lessons From the Plaza Accord After Thirty Years, Edited by C. FRED BERGSTEN AND RUSSELL A GREEN. Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2016, 300 pp., review by Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs at 169.

It had to be said: Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949, by DAVID CESARANI. Macmillan, 2016, 1,056 pp.

Book reviewer, Andrew Moravcsik, “[H]is book is a useful and compelling reminder that reality is far more complex than popular memory.”

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/what-do-you-thinks-gonna-happen-to-the-refugees-foreignaffairs-recentbooks-reviewerofreviews

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/thewizardoftwitter-u-dare-ask-us-for-payment-tweep-yes-sir-i-mean-yes-your-honor-thewizardoftwitter-silence-baum-edgarallenpoe-dickens

When 1 sees want & death around oneself, if ur like us, the senses get deadened to much misery. Some, like #MotherTheresa @POTUS don’t tire of doing good. Potus can be many of the Presidents we’ve had in different ways [if you want to include #43 taking care of Islamic refugees, mostly women and children seeking asylum].

“I Don’t Know.” Ozzy Osbourne intimates: Don’t expect to solve every problem. Meet it, shakes its hand then ‘kick ass’. Caveat: Ozzy may still be British and George Washington, other Americans, distained the practice of shaking hands.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/sometimes-potus-means-jimmyandrosalyncarter-barackandmichelleobama2

ps: the word “distain” and it’s past tense “distained” are being discouraged by word and google. Avoid, Avoided would be synonyms that work as well today.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/sometimes-potus-means-jimmyandrosalyncarter-barackandmichelleobama2

I thought of a novel that will probably never get written, at least not by you.  It’s about an incursion of refugees, fugitives, vagabonds and thieves into the United States and the “Second Amendment people” or “Alt-Right” people of which Donald J. Trump speaks of gun them down as enemy invaders/combatants.  In the alternative, Donald J. Trump has mentioned some illegal immigrants are armed and dangerous, especially one’s affiliated with drug cartels, but those screenplays are Predator and Predator II.

Merrick Garland to the rescue?  He loves his wife like you.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/speculativefiction-dear-potus

“[Masood] explores ongoing efforts to develop a satisfactory substitute, [supplement or corollary to the Gross Domestic Product number] that would yield a more accurate picture of economic activity and its effects.”

From Cooper’s book review of The Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making (and Unmaking) of the Modern World, Ehsan Masood, Pegasus Books, 2016, 352 pp. as it appears in Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2016 issue, 165, 166.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/one-neednt-always-take-what-is-offered-review-of-richardncooper-bookreview-on-ehsanmasoods-thegreatinvention-gdp

Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2016 Issue at 149; The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure by Henry Petroski. Bloomsbury, 2016 336 pp.

It’s time to take into consideration global warming and energy waste before, during and after the building and refurbishing process. Also water usage and filtration.

John Rubens https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/bookreview-by-aaronklein-theroadtaken-thehistoryandfutureofamericasinfrastructure-federalism-allows-major-improvements-for-less