Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
- The Dim-0-RAT$ & their enabling Dim-0-CRAPs in our phake opposition party? The professional cla$$e$ from their seats at the table, going along to get along in the legacy organization$?
Social media and fed up citizens?
Fed Up Citizens and social media?
Ok, I just found that in my draft section. Now, it has come to haunt me and I post it in relations to some comments I made this morning, Sunday 22nd of January, 2017.
(BTW, I think we would need a Nightly OPEN THREAD on weekends. I comment at EST early night hours and don't know where to put them. Would be nice we had an Open Thread during night time hours on the weekend)
Here starts my old draft:
Well, the 2016 High Speed Rail unlock has been postponed to 2018 or 2020.
When transportation policy at the Federal level is grabbed with both hands by the Oil and Gas death lobby, we have to turn to the state level. Now, in Ohio, it might not look like that offers a prospect any better ... but unlike 2010 and 2014, in 2018 the Gubernatorial cycle will be in an election cycle with a President in the Republican party ... which leads to a predictable midterm backlash.
That midterm backlash tends to be strongest in the first midterm ... and it seems likely to be even stronger, given the character of the Republican who happens to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
And so bringing the focus of sustainable transportation policy from the Federal level to the State and Local level was in my head when I read: Oxford commits to funds, support for Amtrak stop. The City of Oxford, Ohio, the college town that hosts Miami University (not, of course, "the University of Miami") has committed $350,000 toward the construction of an Amtrak station for the Cardinal that runs through town three times a week to Chicago and DC/NYC. This matches the $350,000 committed by Miami University.
More about building up The Cardinal as a Knowledge Corridor, below the fold.
Listen to Waniya Locke on the frontlines at Standing Rock.
She only speaks for 5:35 and is worth your time. Please watch and share.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrLA3V2KIt0]
Afternoon folks.
I changed the site font. Did you notice the All Caps are gone? The only way to get rid of them (caps) was to change the font.
Give me some input as to how the fonts look on your machine/device. Too big? Too small?
It's impossible to please everyone, but I hope to strike a happy medium.
OK, let me have it, I've mummified myself in bubble wrap!
While mainstream media decried a little property destruction during the inauguration (see #disruptj20 for tweets, images, and videos), they simultaneously ignored the unrelenting aggression directed at the protesters in DC and at the water protectors in Standing Rock. The uniformed thugs acting as agents of the oligarchy continue to deploy teargas, pepper spray, water cannons, percussion grenades, rubber bullets, and other “less-lethal” tools in attempts to shut down the people’s voices and to prop up authoritarianism.
A Georgia judge who denied two transgender men name changes last year has been overruled by the Georgia Court of Appeals.
It's been raining profusely in my part of the swamp, which is personally pleasing. It also gives DT (delirium tremens) a chance to drain Obama's swamp and restock it with his own. The more things change, etc.
The provocation for today's comment was an email received jointly from Keith Ellison and Social Security Works. I don't know the connection, but I have had my opinion of KE change dramatically with one short debate.
They had their chance and royally blew it.
Watching the Pussy Grabber's inauguration show with its American Exceptionalism on steroids, I expect the mushy centre [on both sides] to fold as per usual.
