Cerebral reeling from a heady writers grouping.
Parsing concepts of visibility / invisibility / transparency.
Aspiring and inspiring. Exhalation and extermination.
May resurface beside the mirror.
Carry on.
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The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a wartime authority that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation. The law permits the president to target these immigrants without a hearing and based only on their country of birth or citizenship. Although the law was enacted to prevent foreign espionage and sabotage in wartime, it can be — and has been — wielded against immigrants who have done nothing wrong, have evinced no signs of disloyalty, and are lawfully present in the United States. It is an overbroad authority that may violate constitutional rights in wartime and is subject to abuse in peacetime.
Has the Alien Enemies Act been used in the past?
The Alien Enemies Act has been invoked three times, each time during a major conflict: the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II. In World Wars I and II, the law was a key authority behind detentions, expulsions, and restrictions targeting German, Austro-Hungarian, Japanese, and Italian immigrants based solely on their ancestry. The law is best known for its role in Japanese internment, a shameful part of U.S. history for which Congress, presidents, and the courts have apologized.
I found the entire essay worthwhile. The bottom line or opinion expressed is that a purported "invasion" of dangerous immigrants, is not a wartime emergency in the nature of an "invasion or incursion" warranting the peremptory suspension of constitutional rights.
Along the same lines, I came across this essay concerning Hannah Arendt's concept of recognition of the 'right to have rights," and it's limitation in political theory. This reminds me of Arendt's dissection of antisemitism as product of the flaw of nation-state theory, in the Origins of Totalitarianism trilogy. Arendt's acknowledgement that human rights, in fact, the entire civic identity of the "other" are denied, abroad and outside the ethnic defined polity, by imperial practice. A state perceiving itself failing or threatened by the imperial social Darwinist competition, may resort to totalitarianism, (in anti-socialist movements, fascism; in socialist movements, communism) and attacks the "other" at home, denying civic identity and the recognition of rights at home, as well as abroad, in a desperate effort to attain or recover its former or potential status, either imagined or real. The shrinking penumbra of human rights extended by the movement to an all powerful state party, encompasses all, reflecting the impulse to recover and hold power at any cost.
Arendt’s unique contribution is to provide an empirical addition to that
literature: her work shows what happens when recognition is withdrawn, and humans are left stateless and thus rightless.
I know I can hardly do justice to Arendt's analysis. I'm not a philosopher, nor do I have anything near her depth of understanding. I think her understanding of the short comings of the law of human rights- nation state connection, in fact implied a critique of the dark side of the enlightenment tradition, particularly in the ethno-centric identity of the state as a national entity. Supporters of Zionism understood she was early critic. Current example on point, illegal immigrants are "poisoning the blood line." The movement now proceeds to arbitrarily attack legal residents, and universities, which now have no free speech rights, as the movement defines what isn't permissible in political speech.
@soryang
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It bleeds the question: has congress declared war on the Palestine state?
Or the ethnic majority of the Muslim world? Haven't seen any such legislation.
So a wartime authority does not exist. To say nothing of attacking Libya, Somalia,
Yemen, Lebanon. Or Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos for that matter.
Afghanistan, Iraq, and Russia are considered 'operations' with cute names.
Good for the MIC, not so much for the residents of those targets.
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a wartime authority that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation. The law permits the president to target these immigrants without a hearing and based only on their country of birth or citizenship. Although the law was enacted to prevent foreign espionage and sabotage in wartime, it can be — and has been — wielded against immigrants who have done nothing wrong, have evinced no signs of disloyalty, and are lawfully present in the United States. It is an overbroad authority that may violate constitutional rights in wartime and is subject to abuse in peacetime.
Has the Alien Enemies Act been used in the past?
The Alien Enemies Act has been invoked three times, each time during a major conflict: the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II. In World Wars I and II, the law was a key authority behind detentions, expulsions, and restrictions targeting German, Austro-Hungarian, Japanese, and Italian immigrants based solely on their ancestry. The law is best known for its role in Japanese internment, a shameful part of U.S. history for which Congress, presidents, and the courts have apologized.
I found the entire essay worthwhile. The bottom line or opinion expressed is that a purported "invasion" of dangerous immigrants, is not a wartime emergency in the nature of an "invasion or incursion" warranting the peremptory suspension of constitutional rights.
Along the same lines, I came across this essay concerning Hannah Arendt's concept of recognition of the 'right to have rights," and it's limitation in political theory. This reminds me of Arendt's dissection of antisemitism as product of the flaw of nation-state theory, in the Origins of Totalitarianism trilogy. Arendt's acknowledgement that human rights, in fact, the entire civic identity of the "other" are denied, abroad and outside the ethnic defined polity, by imperial practice. A state perceiving itself failing or threatened by the imperial social Darwinist competition, may resort to totalitarianism, (in anti-socialist movements, fascism; in socialist movements, communism) and attacks the "other" at home, denying civic identity and the recognition of rights at home, as well as abroad, in a desperate effort to attain or recover its former or potential status, either imagined or real. The shrinking penumbra of human rights extended by the movement to an all powerful state party, encompasses all, reflecting the impulse to recover and hold power at any cost.
Arendt’s unique contribution is to provide an empirical addition to that
literature: her work shows what happens when recognition is withdrawn, and humans are left stateless and thus rightless.
I know I can hardly do justice to Arendt's analysis. I'm not a philosopher, nor do I have anything near her depth of understanding. I think her understanding of the short comings of the law of human rights- nation state connection, in fact implied a critique of the dark side of the enlightenment tradition, particularly in the ethno-centric identity of the state as a national entity. Supporters of Zionism understood she was early critic. Current example on point, illegal immigrants are "poisoning the blood line." The movement now proceeds to arbitrarily attack legal residents, and universities, which now have no free speech rights, as the movement defines what isn't permissible in political speech.
Movements may or may not be successful.
My two cents.
Thanks for the open thread QMS!
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#2
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It bleeds the question: has congress declared war on the Palestine state?
Or the ethnic majority of the Muslim world? Haven't seen any such legislation.
So a wartime authority does not exist. To say nothing of attacking Libya, Somalia,
Yemen, Lebanon. Or Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos for that matter.
Afghanistan, Iraq, and Russia are considered 'operations' with cute names.
Good for the MIC, not so much for the residents of those targets.
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a wartime authority that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation. The law permits the president to target these immigrants without a hearing and based only on their country of birth or citizenship. Although the law was enacted to prevent foreign espionage and sabotage in wartime, it can be — and has been — wielded against immigrants who have done nothing wrong, have evinced no signs of disloyalty, and are lawfully present in the United States. It is an overbroad authority that may violate constitutional rights in wartime and is subject to abuse in peacetime.
Has the Alien Enemies Act been used in the past?
The Alien Enemies Act has been invoked three times, each time during a major conflict: the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II. In World Wars I and II, the law was a key authority behind detentions, expulsions, and restrictions targeting German, Austro-Hungarian, Japanese, and Italian immigrants based solely on their ancestry. The law is best known for its role in Japanese internment, a shameful part of U.S. history for which Congress, presidents, and the courts have apologized.
I found the entire essay worthwhile. The bottom line or opinion expressed is that a purported "invasion" of dangerous immigrants, is not a wartime emergency in the nature of an "invasion or incursion" warranting the peremptory suspension of constitutional rights.
Along the same lines, I came across this essay concerning Hannah Arendt's concept of recognition of the 'right to have rights," and it's limitation in political theory. This reminds me of Arendt's dissection of antisemitism as product of the flaw of nation-state theory, in the Origins of Totalitarianism trilogy. Arendt's acknowledgement that human rights, in fact, the entire civic identity of the "other" are denied, abroad and outside the ethnic defined polity, by imperial practice. A state perceiving itself failing or threatened by the imperial social Darwinist competition, may resort to totalitarianism, (in anti-socialist movements, fascism; in socialist movements, communism) and attacks the "other" at home, denying civic identity and the recognition of rights at home, as well as abroad, in a desperate effort to attain or recover its former or potential status, either imagined or real. The shrinking penumbra of human rights extended by the movement to an all powerful state party, encompasses all, reflecting the impulse to recover and hold power at any cost.
Arendt’s unique contribution is to provide an empirical addition to that
literature: her work shows what happens when recognition is withdrawn, and humans are left stateless and thus rightless.
I know I can hardly do justice to Arendt's analysis. I'm not a philosopher, nor do I have anything near her depth of understanding. I think her understanding of the short comings of the law of human rights- nation state connection, in fact implied a critique of the dark side of the enlightenment tradition, particularly in the ethno-centric identity of the state as a national entity. Supporters of Zionism understood she was early critic. Current example on point, illegal immigrants are "poisoning the blood line." The movement now proceeds to arbitrarily attack legal residents, and universities, which now have no free speech rights, as the movement defines what isn't permissible in political speech.
Movements may or may not be successful.
My two cents.
Thanks for the open thread QMS!
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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Trump decides to screw AMD as well as Nvidia. Only an $800million fine for them, though. Twisting the knob on the export control licensing requirements retroactively is bad juju.
If I were the CEO of a semiconductor manufacturer, relocating the business entirely to the US would *not* be on my list of things to do, given this administration's antics. If everything is going to be built in greater Asia for the next decade anyway, I'd be going to the Chinese to make a deal. This is utter madness.
On edit- with respect to the Le Guin quote, I have to answer with my favorite Yogi Berra quote: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." Thanks for the OT, Skipper!
@usefewersyllables
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in global commerce without focus is a vast
understatement. Shooting from the hip does
little but to make holes. And destroy processes.
Perhaps he should aim his peashooter at the clouds.
Does less damage until they fall back to ground.
Practically speaking.
Trump decides to screw AMD as well as Nvidia. Only an $800million fine for them, though. Twisting the knob on the export control licensing requirements retroactively is bad juju.
If I were the CEO of a semiconductor manufacturer, relocating the business entirely to the US would *not* be on my list of things to do, given this administration's antics. If everything is going to be built in greater Asia for the next decade anyway, I'd be going to the Chinese to make a deal. This is utter madness.
On edit- with respect to the Le Guin quote, I have to answer with my favorite Yogi Berra quote: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." Thanks for the OT, Skipper!
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A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
when my wife and I first moved from back East to California- we moved into a place in Mountain View, a nice little condo complex with an outdoor pool and hot tub. We decide to spend our first New Year's Eve in the hot tub with a bottle of sparkling wine, just to be really California about it. Couldn't figure out why nobody else was out there, because it was a nice night.
And right at the stroke of midnight, it sounded like the entire friggin' 82nd Airborne started a live-fire drill just down the block: you see, we hadn't lived there long enough to know what East Palo Alto was really all about just yet. We learned quickly. My Gawd, it sounded like everything from handguns to rifles to shotguns to a 40mm Bofors antiaircraft gun, all on full auto, just ripping magazine after magazine after magazine into the sky.
We laughed about it for a minute, until we started hearing the spent rounds raining down through the trees around us. Then, we *beat feet* for cover, toot sweet.
That's a sound that, once heard, cannot be forgotten. Not a fan...
#3
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in global commerce without focus is a vast
understatement. Shooting from the hip does
little but to make holes. And destroy processes.
Perhaps he should aim his peashooter at the clouds.
Does less damage until they fall back to ground.
Practically speaking.
when my wife and I first moved from back East to California- we moved into a place in Mountain View, a nice little condo complex with an outdoor pool and hot tub. We decide to spend our first New Year's Eve in the hot tub with a bottle of sparkling wine, just to be really California about it. Couldn't figure out why nobody else was out there, because it was a nice night.
And right at the stroke of midnight, it sounded like the entire friggin' 82nd Airborne started a live-fire drill just down the block: you see, we hadn't lived there long enough to know what East Palo Alto was really all about just yet. We learned quickly. My Gawd, it sounded like everything from handguns to rifles to shotguns to a 40mm Bofors antiaircraft gun, all on full auto, just ripping magazine after magazine after magazine into the sky.
We laughed about it for a minute, until we started hearing the spent rounds raining down through the trees around us. Then, we *beat feet* for cover, toot sweet.
That's a sound that, once heard, cannot be forgotten. Not a fan...
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A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 states, "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."
Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 states, "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."
BUT
Article I is concerned with Congress, except for section 10 thereof, which lays certain restrictions on the states. Nothing prohibits the executive (the orange dotard and and administrative deprtments, agencies and the like) from doing so.
be well and have a good one
Trump decides to screw AMD as well as Nvidia. Only an $800million fine for them, though. Twisting the knob on the export control licensing requirements retroactively is bad juju.
If I were the CEO of a semiconductor manufacturer, relocating the business entirely to the US would *not* be on my list of things to do, given this administration's antics. If everything is going to be built in greater Asia for the next decade anyway, I'd be going to the Chinese to make a deal. This is utter madness.
On edit- with respect to the Le Guin quote, I have to answer with my favorite Yogi Berra quote: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." Thanks for the OT, Skipper!
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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Fine way to start the day. Did a small stack of outside chores, but its bleak and grey and cool. Luckily, it's my turn to bake bread and I think it's time for the next step in the process, so I'm off to play in the kitchen.
be well and have a good one
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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
@enhydra lutris
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today is a store run to get the fixings for the cooking group mañana
decided to make enchiladas, cause I never have. Have the beans and
ground bif thawing, flour tortillas, corn and spices on hand. The rest
is just sauce, shredded cheddar and big bottles of wine.
Gray, windy and cool here also.
Fine way to start the day. Did a small stack of outside chores, but its bleak and grey and cool. Luckily, it's my turn to bake bread and I think it's time for the next step in the process, so I'm off to play in the kitchen.
be well and have a good one
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A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
China's President Xi Jinping called for Asian nations to unite in resisting geopolitical confrontation, unilateralism and protectionism, as he continued his Southeast Asian tour amid a sharp deterioration in China-US relations https://t.co/zfTnqShML7pic.twitter.com/JYlX7fFYcf
@humphrey
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seems to have no problem bashing the rest of the world
probably doesn't care if we are loosing allies left and right
his beautiful hotels and golf courses won't suffer until they
are burned to a crisp. Resistance is still simmering but growing.
Rather than making enemies, why not alliances?
China's President Xi Jinping called for Asian nations to unite in resisting geopolitical confrontation, unilateralism and protectionism, as he continued his Southeast Asian tour amid a sharp deterioration in China-US relations https://t.co/zfTnqShML7pic.twitter.com/JYlX7fFYcf
#6
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seems to have no problem bashing the rest of the world
probably doesn't care if we are loosing allies left and right
his beautiful hotels and golf courses won't suffer until they
are burned to a crisp. Resistance is still simmering but growing.
Rather than making enemies, why not alliances?
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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
It is strange how people on the exact same journey perceive it differently. Be it life, a world tour, or fishing trip, everyone will end it with different memories, different impressions about what ere the most important or cherished or horrific moments along the way.
The porch project construction will be completed tomorrow with only the painting to finish it up.
What I believe I am doing is those final residential projects to see me out of this world, on to the next, and leave this property in good shape for that next person to live the life here.
Lot's of opinions floating around about whether the tariff war will isolate China, or isolate the US. So far, Asian countries seem to be sticking together, bu I can't determine if Western Europe will stick with us. We shall see.
Thanks for the OT, dear friend!
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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
@on the cusp
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toward improving your environment are to be applauded.
Hopefully they will make you fulfilled in your lifetime.
Pretty sure the recent attacks on the Asian economy will backfire.
Dealing with a much stronger 'imagined' adversary have repercussions.
Wishing you the best of your allotted time. May the madness not follow.
Q
Bye the bye, a reference to 'cooters' was made today. Have a vague remembrance of it being
used by a kid from Louisiana (worked as a pecan picker) as referencing a group of people.
What is in your lingo a Cooter?
It is strange how people on the exact same journey perceive it differently. Be it life, a world tour, or fishing trip, everyone will end it with different memories, different impressions about what ere the most important or cherished or horrific moments along the way.
The porch project construction will be completed tomorrow with only the painting to finish it up.
What I believe I am doing is those final residential projects to see me out of this world, on to the next, and leave this property in good shape for that next person to live the life here.
Lot's of opinions floating around about whether the tariff war will isolate China, or isolate the US. So far, Asian countries seem to be sticking together, bu I can't determine if Western Europe will stick with us. We shall see.
Thanks for the OT, dear friend!
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A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
#7
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toward improving your environment are to be applauded.
Hopefully they will make you fulfilled in your lifetime.
Pretty sure the recent attacks on the Asian economy will backfire.
Dealing with a much stronger 'imagined' adversary have repercussions.
Wishing you the best of your allotted time. May the madness not follow.
Q
Bye the bye, a reference to 'cooters' was made today. Have a vague remembrance of it being
used by a kid from Louisiana (worked as a pecan picker) as referencing a group of people.
What is in your lingo a Cooter?
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Comments
Reflections on the water
Cerebral reeling from a heady writers grouping.
Parsing concepts of visibility / invisibility / transparency.
Aspiring and inspiring. Exhalation and extermination.
May resurface beside the mirror.
Carry on.
A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
The right to have rights
The Alien Enemies Act, Explained
I found the entire essay worthwhile. The bottom line or opinion expressed is that a purported "invasion" of dangerous immigrants, is not a wartime emergency in the nature of an "invasion or incursion" warranting the peremptory suspension of constitutional rights.
Along the same lines, I came across this essay concerning Hannah Arendt's concept of recognition of the 'right to have rights," and it's limitation in political theory. This reminds me of Arendt's dissection of antisemitism as product of the flaw of nation-state theory, in the Origins of Totalitarianism trilogy. Arendt's acknowledgement that human rights, in fact, the entire civic identity of the "other" are denied, abroad and outside the ethnic defined polity, by imperial practice. A state perceiving itself failing or threatened by the imperial social Darwinist competition, may resort to totalitarianism, (in anti-socialist movements, fascism; in socialist movements, communism) and attacks the "other" at home, denying civic identity and the recognition of rights at home, as well as abroad, in a desperate effort to attain or recover its former or potential status, either imagined or real. The shrinking penumbra of human rights extended by the movement to an all powerful state party, encompasses all, reflecting the impulse to recover and hold power at any cost.
Recognising Recognition: Hannah Arendt on (the Right to Have) Rights
I know I can hardly do justice to Arendt's analysis. I'm not a philosopher, nor do I have anything near her depth of understanding. I think her understanding of the short comings of the law of human rights- nation state connection, in fact implied a critique of the dark side of the enlightenment tradition, particularly in the ethno-centric identity of the state as a national entity. Supporters of Zionism understood she was early critic. Current example on point, illegal immigrants are "poisoning the blood line." The movement now proceeds to arbitrarily attack legal residents, and universities, which now have no free speech rights, as the movement defines what isn't permissible in political speech.
Movements may or may not be successful.
My two cents.
Thanks for the open thread QMS!
語必忠信 行必正直
Interesting perspective
.
.
It bleeds the question: has congress declared war on the Palestine state?
Or the ethnic majority of the Muslim world? Haven't seen any such legislation.
So a wartime authority does not exist. To say nothing of attacking Libya, Somalia,
Yemen, Lebanon. Or Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos for that matter.
Afghanistan, Iraq, and Russia are considered 'operations' with cute names.
Good for the MIC, not so much for the residents of those targets.
Arendt was astute. Thanks for sharing this.
朋友
A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
precisely!
Great melody. I have never heard that before. 谢谢
친구
語必忠信 行必正直
Excellent! Thanks, Soryang.
be well and have a good one
edit because can't type
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
And today,
Trump decides to screw AMD as well as Nvidia. Only an $800million fine for them, though. Twisting the knob on the export control licensing requirements retroactively is bad juju.
If I were the CEO of a semiconductor manufacturer, relocating the business entirely to the US would *not* be on my list of things to do, given this administration's antics. If everything is going to be built in greater Asia for the next decade anyway, I'd be going to the Chinese to make a deal. This is utter madness.
https://archive.ph/XYRP8
On edit- with respect to the Le Guin quote, I have to answer with my favorite Yogi Berra quote: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." Thanks for the OT, Skipper!
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
To say the trumpet regime is meddling
.
.
in global commerce without focus is a vast
understatement. Shooting from the hip does
little but to make holes. And destroy processes.
Perhaps he should aim his peashooter at the clouds.
Does less damage until they fall back to ground.
Practically speaking.
A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
I remember back
when my wife and I first moved from back East to California- we moved into a place in Mountain View, a nice little condo complex with an outdoor pool and hot tub. We decide to spend our first New Year's Eve in the hot tub with a bottle of sparkling wine, just to be really California about it. Couldn't figure out why nobody else was out there, because it was a nice night.
And right at the stroke of midnight, it sounded like the entire friggin' 82nd Airborne started a live-fire drill just down the block: you see, we hadn't lived there long enough to know what East Palo Alto was really all about just yet. We learned quickly. My Gawd, it sounded like everything from handguns to rifles to shotguns to a 40mm Bofors antiaircraft gun, all on full auto, just ripping magazine after magazine after magazine into the sky.
We laughed about it for a minute, until we started hearing the spent rounds raining down through the trees around us. Then, we *beat feet* for cover, toot sweet.
That's a sound that, once heard, cannot be forgotten. Not a fan...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
It is the patriotic duty of the military
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.
to blow up the sky. Makes them feel powerful.
Glad you missed the shrapnel.
A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
True enough.
The roof in that place always leaked. Can't imagine why. We didn't live there long.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Sadly,
Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 states, "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."
Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 states, "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."
BUT
Article I is concerned with Congress, except for section 10 thereof, which lays certain restrictions on the states. Nothing prohibits the executive (the orange dotard and and administrative deprtments, agencies and the like) from doing so.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning Cap'n. Thanks for the Tuna, listened twice.
Fine way to start the day. Did a small stack of outside chores, but its bleak and grey and cool. Luckily, it's my turn to bake bread and I think it's time for the next step in the process, so I'm off to play in the kitchen.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Baking bread sounds like a wholesome activity
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.
today is a store run to get the fixings for the cooking group mañana
decided to make enchiladas, cause I never have. Have the beans and
ground bif thawing, flour tortillas, corn and spices on hand. The rest
is just sauce, shredded cheddar and big bottles of wine.
Gray, windy and cool here also.
A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
On Trump as the model for the S-word again
Glenn Diesen: "I don't understand what the logic is behind a lot of this." Perhaps there isn't any?
"Our Left is out to lunch" -- Richard Wolff
Me either,
cass, me either.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Trump's tariffs are pushing countries in that direction.
the egoist in charge of the US
.
.
seems to have no problem bashing the rest of the world
probably doesn't care if we are loosing allies left and right
his beautiful hotels and golf courses won't suffer until they
are burned to a crisp. Resistance is still simmering but growing.
Rather than making enemies, why not alliances?
A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
Silly person, one can't win an alliance.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good afternoon, Cap'n!
It is strange how people on the exact same journey perceive it differently. Be it life, a world tour, or fishing trip, everyone will end it with different memories, different impressions about what ere the most important or cherished or horrific moments along the way.
The porch project construction will be completed tomorrow with only the painting to finish it up.
What I believe I am doing is those final residential projects to see me out of this world, on to the next, and leave this property in good shape for that next person to live the life here.
Lot's of opinions floating around about whether the tariff war will isolate China, or isolate the US. So far, Asian countries seem to be sticking together, bu I can't determine if Western Europe will stick with us. We shall see.
Thanks for the OT, dear friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Your applied efforts
.
.
toward improving your environment are to be applauded.
Hopefully they will make you fulfilled in your lifetime.
Pretty sure the recent attacks on the Asian economy will backfire.
Dealing with a much stronger 'imagined' adversary have repercussions.
Wishing you the best of your allotted time. May the madness not follow.
Q
Bye the bye, a reference to 'cooters' was made today. Have a vague remembrance of it being
used by a kid from Louisiana (worked as a pecan picker) as referencing a group of people.
What is in your lingo a Cooter?
A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
A turtle.
Fresh water, edible.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
thanks
perhaps yankee dialogue is too refined
it referenced pussy, rednecks and other
weird shit. Connotations may be regional.
A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
@QMS Great and peaceful
Great and peaceful photo, QMS. Interesting diary, too. Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.