I know which one I prefer.

Weird think about me iPad this am. It kept switching to other languages (Lithuanian, Japanese, then Spanish) I ended up removing all foreign keyboards. Weird.
Clouds, warmth, then the Lyric's Romeo and Juliet this eve. Ahhh.

Stopped by the old place to see what they've done with the decor. I see no reason to ever go back. Rancid, that is the word. Reminds me of when I returned to my old house on the N side of Chicago, about 5 yrs after I sold it. All the roses, painstakingly grown and fed? Dead. Ivy and wonderful flowing plants in front? Punked. The great Olde English rose by the garage? Ripped out, replaced by sod. The raspberries, blueberries, and perennials in back? I was shocked by their lack. When we moved, it was alive, green, flowery, and beautiful.
Replaced by . . . Grass? Yuck. Reminds me of what Dear Leader and his strum troopers are doing at dk, even before the Ides of March.

I started at the end which happens to be Page 7 today (must be logged in to see it). Great! Working backward the names are familiar no wonder this place seems so very friendly. Thanks good people!
Edit: Hah I learned about parens in links, again. Thanks!
Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous
Peace

I don't see Devil Makes Three mentioned often. I used to play in a band in Boulder Creek (north of Santa Cruz), and we played Old Number 7 pretty often, as well as some of their other songs. My favorite was Shades. And I LOVE Ali Farka Toure. He can turn anything into a Kora.

I once owned an Austin 7.

Played a bit of CK2 last night. Which is funny because I can always tell when I'm getting depressed by how long it's been since I exercised my brain. And I find myself obsessed this morning with obscure films that nobody bothered seeing, and glad to see on of my favorites on the open thread.

So with that in mind, here's my favorite Kurosawa...

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzR87VBlaoo]

and there are 717 members of C99. Probably a few more now, since I'm not the fastest typist in the world.

It's been hard to get by in the mornings lately, but I have a doctor's appointment soon so, ha ha! here I am. Great debate last night, so happy that Bernie was so blunt about the fracking--I loved that. I think many of us feel the same, no, I don't support fracking either. So there.

We are creeping toward 70 degrees for Wednesday - woohoo! I am so keeping my fingers crossed that Michigan shows Hillary and bubba the door.

I am logged out at dk. I like it that way. It keeps me from getting involved. I do go back for BNR and to check the rec. list for news of interest. No tips, no comments, just lurking with the fewest number of clicks possible. I think the few remaining Bernie people are being lulled into a sense of security and will get hammered on 3/15.

Over 700 registrations you say? Holy cow! How is everyone doing?

the rain will pass. I always wonder how I would handle your climate over there. Rain, clouds, not too hot (I assume). The only thing I really like here on the East Coast in the DC area are the many days that have a bright blue sky, sunshine and are not yet too humid and hot. I just love those. I am grown up near Hamburg, Germany, and there it's like London, lots of grey, lots of rainy muddy weather, but then, if it clears up .... aaahhh just gorgeous.

Have a good day, all.

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In 2009, Sadequee was tried, convicted, and sentenced to a 17-year federal sentence. But even after receiving that harsh sentence, the irksome fact remained that Sadequee had never actually committed an act of terrorism. The allegations against him amounted to statements and translations he had made online as a teenager. At his trial, Sadequee said that these online activities were “just talk,” and were never intended to manifest in an act of violence.

“Shifa was never accused of making any specific threat or plot. The government didn’t even have to prove that he did anything, just that he had the intent, which they did using his online chats and translation activities,” says Khurrum Wahid, who served as Sadequee’s stand-by counsel during the trial and who also appears in Homegrown. “It goes down to the issue of what you do when you come across a teenager making provocative statements online. As a society, is it our responsibility to string them along and send them to jail?”

Wahid is outraged about the government’s handling of Sadequee’s case and those of other young people that involve preventive policing. “In no other context would we accept that we arrest and jail people for further actions that haven’t happened,” he says. “The right solution in cases of teenagers like Shifa might be to call the families and do an intervention, which is what would happen in any other case. But for some reason, we decide that terrorism is different.”

Sadequee was not arrested until the age of 19, but it appears that the government had been surveilling him closely for many years before that. Among the accusations against him were that he had sought to join the Taliban in December 2001. At that time, Sadequee would have been 15 years old.