I’m traveling at the moment, so posting is difficult. But do talk among yourselves.
15 thoughts on “On the Road”
I was starting to wonder. Hope you have a good time.
Here's to hoping you're marching some where!
“March for Our Livesâ€: bigger crowd than the inauguration?
Dickeylee,
I think all of us liberals are with the young people in their marches against guns today – even if only in spirit.
Sadly, my physically marching days are done. My legs, lungs, and heart don't allow me to do what I loved to do my whole adult life: Speak truth to power.
But I march with all of my heart with all of the people around the world who aspire to a better, kinder, more accepting, safer and cleaner world.
The marching is done, but the liberalism lives on – as does this liberal.
Tom_b,
LA's Coliseum seats more people than were at tRUMP's coronati… inauguration.
Btw – I turned 60 in early March.
And I've been joking that about 5 years ago, my 55-Year Warranty ran out.
🤕 ðŸ˜
Keep on keepin' on Cundgulag!
I am sorry to say we passed on the march in Asheville today, it's quite a drive, and the animals need tending.
But, as I see videos of the young people behind this movement, I take heart again. It rankles me when the empty shirts, NRA shills and their ilk dismiss them as "children." But, they do it because they don't have much of a valid argument to put forth. It won't serve them well as these young leaders come to voting age.
My fond hope is that one of the students, or the group from Parkland will be named Time's "Person of the Year." That would put the hurtin' on someone we all know. Regardless, they have expressed themselves with more insight, wisdom and clarity than the supposed leaders who were elected to represent them.
"When I was a child, I talked like a child, thought like a child, reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of my childhood behind me."
I'm about to check the news about the march, so here's my soundtrack.
Israel has 1/5 the firearm related deaths of the US. And this with many more external and internal enemies to deal with. In Japan it's more like 1/174th that of the US. Gee, I wonder what the statistical differences are between them all?
A fact flying under the radar, as I see it, regarding Trump's defense team and the Mueller inquiry revolves around the legal risk which an attorney incurs if he participates in perjury. Trump has been in and out of court for decades suing and being sued. It seems likely to me that Trump lies under oath but he knows he can't tell his lawyer it's a lie. The risk to the lawyer is being disbarred if he knowingly participates. And gets caught.
SUppose Trump is guilty of something major. If he's not, he's doing a hell of an impersonation of a guilty person. It might be money laundering paired with tax evasion and/or active conspiracy with a foreign government in his election. Trump himself wants to construct his own perjury on the fly depending on what he discovers that Mueller can prove. The problem is that Trump can't have his defense lawyers actively participate in constructing a defense based on Trump's perjury or soliciting perjured testimony from key witnesses.
The Trump defense team of Beevis and Butthead do not know what Trump did. He's telling them nothing except that he's innocent and being persecuted. Dowd may have based his cooperation with the Mueller investigation on the expectation that the investigation would find nothing because he believed Trump had done nothing. He may have stepped out of defending Trump because the evidence he discovered showed Trump had been lying to him (Dowd) all along and Dowd was concerned his license to practice law would be at risk if Trump continued to run his own defense based on fabrication – which Trump would do himself, and the lawyer was expected to prop up. At some point, it's impossible for the lawyer to not know and if he continues, his next career is at McDonalds.
My guess is that Dowd stepped out before he crossed the line he clearly saw. The current team is (as I read the evaluations) not qualified legally and they are going up against the legal equivalent of the Super Bowl champions in Mueller's team. They are not working on Trump's defense because they KNOW NOTHING! What's odd to me is that no one has picked up on what Dowd's departure means and that the defense team is completely in the dark. Trump is stonewalling his lawyers who know nothing and are up against a crack team who know everything.
The people who dismiss the kids marching for being children are forgetting that many of them are 17. Some may turn 18 before November and plan to vote. This will not be the last we have heard from these young people. I am very proud of them. They are articulate and know what it is to have an AR-15 pointed at them. Some have had friends die in their arms. These are things that teenagers do not need to experience. They want to be the last teenagers to know what that feels like. All that is good is on their side and their opponents do not yet know that they have bitten off more than they can chew when trying to denigrate them. I say "Hooray!!" for these smart young people who have given me hope.
Good to be with young people marching. Felt a bit like the anti-VietNam war rallies of the 70's.
I too am very proud of the teenagers and feel they are wise beyond their years. Having been a member of Toastmembers in the past, I recognize how anxiety provoking talking before an audience is. Not only did these kids get up in front of thousands of people but were on national TV. One girl actually threw up, then acknowledged it and said it felt good. That takes courage. I was especially impressed by an 11 yo and the granddaughter of MLK Jr. Glad these young people are the leaders of the future.
Goatherd,
Excellent anti AR-15 video, hopefully it makes it into the mainstream!
Proud to say I participated in local March organized & led by local HS students. Most moving speech was by local State Rep and his wife, whose son was shot & killed a year ago behind a local bar… adjacent to the elementary school where he grew up…
Rep De La Cruz mentioned two pending Bills awaiting action in the State House (prohibiting Bump Stocks and "ghost guns" – kits with no serial#s). He said that Reps are already getting mail from gun-lovers against those bills and asked us to contact our Reps. Inspired me to get off my lazy butt & contact my Reps.
I was starting to wonder. Hope you have a good time.
Here's to hoping you're marching some where!
“March for Our Livesâ€: bigger crowd than the inauguration?
Dickeylee,
I think all of us liberals are with the young people in their marches against guns today – even if only in spirit.
Sadly, my physically marching days are done. My legs, lungs, and heart don't allow me to do what I loved to do my whole adult life: Speak truth to power.
But I march with all of my heart with all of the people around the world who aspire to a better, kinder, more accepting, safer and cleaner world.
The marching is done, but the liberalism lives on – as does this liberal.
Tom_b,
LA's Coliseum seats more people than were at tRUMP's coronati… inauguration.
Btw – I turned 60 in early March.
And I've been joking that about 5 years ago, my 55-Year Warranty ran out.
🤕 ðŸ˜
Keep on keepin' on Cundgulag!
I am sorry to say we passed on the march in Asheville today, it's quite a drive, and the animals need tending.
But, as I see videos of the young people behind this movement, I take heart again. It rankles me when the empty shirts, NRA shills and their ilk dismiss them as "children." But, they do it because they don't have much of a valid argument to put forth. It won't serve them well as these young leaders come to voting age.
My fond hope is that one of the students, or the group from Parkland will be named Time's "Person of the Year." That would put the hurtin' on someone we all know. Regardless, they have expressed themselves with more insight, wisdom and clarity than the supposed leaders who were elected to represent them.
"When I was a child, I talked like a child, thought like a child, reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of my childhood behind me."
I'm about to check the news about the march, so here's my soundtrack.
https://youtu.be/f3jdbFOidds
Wow! Have you seen this?
https://youtu.be/v4k5t5LcexY
Israel has 1/5 the firearm related deaths of the US. And this with many more external and internal enemies to deal with. In Japan it's more like 1/174th that of the US. Gee, I wonder what the statistical differences are between them all?
A fact flying under the radar, as I see it, regarding Trump's defense team and the Mueller inquiry revolves around the legal risk which an attorney incurs if he participates in perjury. Trump has been in and out of court for decades suing and being sued. It seems likely to me that Trump lies under oath but he knows he can't tell his lawyer it's a lie. The risk to the lawyer is being disbarred if he knowingly participates. And gets caught.
SUppose Trump is guilty of something major. If he's not, he's doing a hell of an impersonation of a guilty person. It might be money laundering paired with tax evasion and/or active conspiracy with a foreign government in his election. Trump himself wants to construct his own perjury on the fly depending on what he discovers that Mueller can prove. The problem is that Trump can't have his defense lawyers actively participate in constructing a defense based on Trump's perjury or soliciting perjured testimony from key witnesses.
The Trump defense team of Beevis and Butthead do not know what Trump did. He's telling them nothing except that he's innocent and being persecuted. Dowd may have based his cooperation with the Mueller investigation on the expectation that the investigation would find nothing because he believed Trump had done nothing. He may have stepped out of defending Trump because the evidence he discovered showed Trump had been lying to him (Dowd) all along and Dowd was concerned his license to practice law would be at risk if Trump continued to run his own defense based on fabrication – which Trump would do himself, and the lawyer was expected to prop up. At some point, it's impossible for the lawyer to not know and if he continues, his next career is at McDonalds.
My guess is that Dowd stepped out before he crossed the line he clearly saw. The current team is (as I read the evaluations) not qualified legally and they are going up against the legal equivalent of the Super Bowl champions in Mueller's team. They are not working on Trump's defense because they KNOW NOTHING! What's odd to me is that no one has picked up on what Dowd's departure means and that the defense team is completely in the dark. Trump is stonewalling his lawyers who know nothing and are up against a crack team who know everything.
The people who dismiss the kids marching for being children are forgetting that many of them are 17. Some may turn 18 before November and plan to vote. This will not be the last we have heard from these young people. I am very proud of them. They are articulate and know what it is to have an AR-15 pointed at them. Some have had friends die in their arms. These are things that teenagers do not need to experience. They want to be the last teenagers to know what that feels like. All that is good is on their side and their opponents do not yet know that they have bitten off more than they can chew when trying to denigrate them. I say "Hooray!!" for these smart young people who have given me hope.
Good to be with young people marching. Felt a bit like the anti-VietNam war rallies of the 70's.
I too am very proud of the teenagers and feel they are wise beyond their years. Having been a member of Toastmembers in the past, I recognize how anxiety provoking talking before an audience is. Not only did these kids get up in front of thousands of people but were on national TV. One girl actually threw up, then acknowledged it and said it felt good. That takes courage. I was especially impressed by an 11 yo and the granddaughter of MLK Jr. Glad these young people are the leaders of the future.
Goatherd,
Excellent anti AR-15 video, hopefully it makes it into the mainstream!
Proud to say I participated in local March organized & led by local HS students. Most moving speech was by local State Rep and his wife, whose son was shot & killed a year ago behind a local bar… adjacent to the elementary school where he grew up…
Rep De La Cruz mentioned two pending Bills awaiting action in the State House (prohibiting Bump Stocks and "ghost guns" – kits with no serial#s). He said that Reps are already getting mail from gun-lovers against those bills and asked us to contact our Reps. Inspired me to get off my lazy butt & contact my Reps.