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I spoke to a childhood friend the other day. She told me about the passing of Tommy Moriarty who died at the age of 62. Tommy had down syndrome. He lived with his rather large family on 16th Avenue in at the time was called East Paterson. Tommy and I were the same age. I lived two blocks away on 18th Avenue. My memory is hazy but some of the details of my childhood have stayed with me. We grew up together for the period of roughly 1965-1968. Many hours were spent sleigh riding on the small hill located near Tommy's house on 16th Avenue. One day my family's dog ran out the door and it seemed like at least 20 children including Tommy tried to catch him. Pepper ran into the woods near the Garfield Water Works. Eventually despite the snow and other dangers Pepper was returned. I asked my Mom about Tommy being different and at the time the term retarded was used. My Mom who was generally soft spoken told me that God made all children in his likeness. Soon after this I was s...

UNITED STATES CITIZENS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT IN PROCESS AGAINST TRUMP/RUSSIA In conjunction with the recent lawsuit by DNC chair Tom Perez and the party to refocus attention on this frightening attack on our democracy. ELECTRONIC WATERGATE While no adversaries broke down a door to the DNC headquarters, what Trump/Russia did was even more of an intrusion on our democracy. They burrowed into the DNC computer system and lurked there for more than a year, siphoning off private emails for later distribution via WikiLeaks, to undermine Hillary Clinton's campaign. They sought to destroy the Democratic Party by sowing discord and division, discrediting the DNC nominee with salacious lies and disinformation, and forcing the DNC to spend untold millions to protect data, remedy the hacking, and set up a firewall against additional hacking. RUSSIA The U.S. intelligence community agrees that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election to favor Trump. The Trump campaign had multi...