Where to Begin?

 There was pond scum in the bottom of my Keurig.  They got into trouble for this before, when the tank was not visible and detachable.  I drank coffee yesterday, and it made me sick.  The need for clean water is paramount.  America's answer to clean water was to bottle polluted tap water and sell it for a profit.  Polyester resin bottles have become a worldwide nemesis.  The film Chinatown chronicled the "Water Wars" of Los Angeles at the beginning of the twentieth century.  Plentiful clean water and a healthy burgeoning populace are synonymous.  Cumberland County, the host county of Fort Bragg, has the poorest water in the state of North Carolina.  Michael S. Regan, the sixteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden Administration, made strides in regulating the amount of PFAS in local water supplies.  While DuPont continues to disguise the hazard and dissemination of Gen X into the Cape Fear River Basin, Mr. Regan successfully classified the substance as a carcinogen.  Immediately upon election President Donald Trump announced plans to rescind regulations on four types of toxic PFAS compounds keeping only two in place.  Largely these two chemicals have been phased out having been replaced by various mixtures of these nebulous and nefarious toxins.  It is a deceptive game of Three Card Monty gambling with human mortality.  In local news Kirk Deviere, Chairman of the Cumberland Country Board of Commissioners, nixed the one hundred and fifty million dollar downtown event center project.  After having been approved and was underway, Deviere commissioned a review conducted by Scott Flowers of the Hutchens Law Firm.  It was prudent stewardship in light of both W.B. Brawley Company and Mohammad Construction LLC (which changed its name to Apex Contracting Group) defaulting on their multi-million dollar city contracts for a new Fire Station No. 4, a Mazarek Park Tennis Center, and various Mable C. Smith Park recreational projects.  In the last year certain parts of Fayetteville have come to resemble a forgotten ghost town.  Half-built abandoned structures, burned carcasses of dilapidated buildings, and now a barren, empty, dirt lot that cost the taxpayers thirty million dollars and relinquished needed parking spaces for downtown.  Mr. Deviere, a former democratic state senator and city council member, has made a wise decision to reel in aberrant spending with judicious city contracts that have proven detrimental to Fayetteville.  The Mirror Lake dam cost the city over five million dollars for what is now a sludge-covered duck pond.  The Chinese Communist Party has been using graduate students at the University of Michigan and Stanford to spy on American research.  Likewise a Chinese researcher and her boyfriend have been charged with smuggling Fusarium Graminearum, a fungal plant pathogen into the country.  U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement is at the forefront of a flashpoint for civil rights.  Recent raids on undocumented aliens have provoked protests which have spread nationally.  President Trump has dispatched the National Guard and the Marines to quell potential violence citing an alien invasion.  With tanks rolling into Washington, DC for a Saturday parade commemorating the anniversary of the army and his own birthday, the stage has been set for what could unfold as another Kent State or Tiananmen Square.  Trump carefully has set the stage for more divisive and polarizing activity staging the United States military against American citizens.  The enforcement of current immigration legislation along with many other federal programs now are more difficult with recent severe cuts by DOGE.  As an aside, and although the United States does not have recent history of domestic deployed troops, I feel it is appropriate for the Commander in Chief to make that decision.  Widespread drug smuggling and human trafficking at the southern border merit a forceful response, and the federal government has not been effective curtailing either.  The dissemination of Fentanyl has worsened as have deaths by overdose.  To use the deployment of troops to fight such issues should not be an example for the widespread domestic use of the military, especially against citizens.  Considering the history of violent protests and looting in Los Angeles, it is reasonable to utilize these resources to ensure peace.  What is interesting is President Trump quickly and easily deployed the National Guard to California at the objection of its Governor.  On a day when the nation's Capital was besieged by violent protestors, no such deployment occurred.  It would seem we have a selective President who chooses to use national resources for his own use.  The stage has been set for Saturday.  The first ever militaristic commemoration in Washington, DC and hundreds of thousands of protestors is an ominous foreshadowing of ensuing human carnage.  Will Donald Trump use this opportunity to solidify his new role as a self-proclaimed American dictator?