@enhydra lutris Cold here too. No doubt because the cold air is not at the poles where it's supposed to be.

noisy coyotes. Glad to hear that the surgery went well. There are a lot of possiblr bad jokes here today, dealing with briefs, of course, such as why legal briefs aren't and whether boxers wear them. Well, there are dishes to do and the desert beckons, so everybody have a good one.

@orlbucfan Me too. Always my favorite Beatle. I was devastated when he died, though I was only 12.

I am a major Beatle freak. John Lennon was a reason why.

The guy was a major talented musical writer aka 'bard.' His 2 bros, Paul and George, were major talented musicians who learned how to write off ole John. I always watch for and enjoy your OTs. Rec'd!!

@gjohnsit They have no answers, period. That's why they constantly talk about Trump.

It's scary how well it works.

I love the comments on this tweet

The latest attacks on Bernie Sanders by establishment Democrats show they are terrified of his likely 2020 run - and they are right to be, seeing as they have no answer to his policies and popularity, says @DavidShuster pic.twitter.com/vuBYzPn1aQ

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) April 10, 2018

@mimi The things I don't know. Thank you, mimi, for letting me know. I have so little of the history of socialism. Part of the effect of an American education. You have to be pro-active in this country to find out things that a)happen elsewhere, or b) have anything to do with socialism or left-wing anarchism, either here or elsewhere. Those two things have to be Evil, and that's all you need to know about them.

Me, I feel I should know things even about philosophies that are pretty obviously evil, like Nazism. It seems better to know things than to not.

I have a rather odd take on the being-thrown-out-of-the-Garden-of-Eden story, as you might imagine.

who was killed in Berlin Germany on April 11th, 1968. Our media cover his movement and assassination today in TV, as it is the 50th anniversary of his murder, it'sb asically a remembrance day of his life cut short so brutally. It was also the time I arrived in Berlin after I had finished highschool and more or less my baptism into into adulthood and political life as a student. The images in the video in the first link bring back a lot of memories to me. His American born wife is still living in Berlin today and she is a wonderful inspiring voice among all noise from all sides around til today.

If you want to distract yourself a little bit from the other awful happenings around the world, have a look and have a good day.

Attack on Rudi Dutschke on April 11, 1968
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Three gunshots 50 years ago that led to revolution on the streets of Germany
As I don't know if this article is behind a paywall for you to see, I post it here, because I paid for it. Hope it works.

Three gunshots 50 years ago that led to revolution on the streets of Germany
Rudi Dutschke. Photo: DPA
On April 11th 1968, a right-wing fanatic shot Rudi Dutschke three times from point blank range. The assassination attempt on the leader of the student movement sparked revolt on Germany’s streets.
Half a century ago on Wednesday, Dutschke was one his bike cycling down the the Kurfüstendamm, West Berlin’s famous shopping mile, on his was to the pharmacy to pick up cough drops for his infant son.

But he stopped when a slight young man approached him and asked if he was Rudi Dustchke. When he replied that he was, the man pulled out a revolver and shot him three times - twice in the head and once in the shoulder.

After hours of surgery, Dutschke survived. But he would not be able to speak again for three years. Eleven years later he died in the bathtub on Christmas Eve after suffering a seizure related to his brain injuries.

The shooter, 23-year-old Josef Bachmann, had pictures of Hitler hanging on his bedroom walls and was trained with weapons by neo-Nazis. He later killed himself in jail.
The incident was one of the defining moments of post-War German history, contributing to the radicalization of the 1968 student movement and leaving a black mark over the name of Germany's largest newspaper group, Axel Springer, which owns the tabloid Bild and the conservative daily Die Welt.

A professional revolutionary

Born in East Germany in 1940, Dutschke grew up in a protestant family which “never saw a contradiction between Christianity and socialism," as he later wrote.

He soon proved himself to be an uncomfortable figure for East German authorities though, declaring his support for German reunification and refusing to be conscripted. Banned from studying sports journalism, he went to West Berlin in 1960 to study sociology and found himself trapped in the democratic enclave by the erection of the Berlin Wall a year later.

He remained a vocal proponent of socialism and dedicated himself to becoming a “professional revolutionary.” As a leading figure in the Socialist German Student Union, he decried what he saw as the injustice of capitalism and the imperial policies of the US in Vietnam.

In February of 1968 he told a crowd of enraptured students at the International Vietnam Congress in Berlin that “it is the duty of every revolutionary to carry out the revolution." Spiegel was just the largest German magazine to name him the face of the revolution, printing his face on its front page.

Dutschke was calling for revolution in a country in which almost half of Germans still insisted that Nazism was in principle a good idea, according to a representative survey from the time. But he was also calling for a break with the USA at a time when West Germany - and West Berlin in particular - was heavily dependent on American military support.

For the pro-American Bild newspaper, he became a figure of loathing, earning comparisons on its pages with Hitler and Napoleon.

Most infamously, Bild told its readers in early 1968 that ‘“all of the dirty work [of tackling the revolutionaries] shouldn’t be left to the police and their water cannons."

Tens of thousands of “upright Germans” listened to a call to arms by Bild and marched through Berlin carrying placards describing Dutschke as "public enemy number one."

The student movement themselves were hardly angels, though. Just days before the attack on Dutschke, left-wing radicals who later went on to create the RAF terror group bombed a shopping centre in Frankfurt, saying they would keep up their campaign against capitalism until people stopped consuming.

'Bild shot too'

Photo: DPA

As news spread of the shooting on Dutschke, it didn’t take long for the student movement to turn on Bild, saying that “Bild shot too”. That evening students marched on the Axel Springer building in Berlin's Koch Straße and threw Molotov cocktails through the windows.

In the following days street battles swept across the country, hitting Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne and several other major cities. Tens of thousands of students took to the streets and were met by 22,00 police officers with water guns.

Two people were killed in the ensuing chaos and hundreds more were injured. In Munich students raided an Axel Springer building and ransacked the offices.

But Klaus Rainer Röhl, a leading figure in the student movement, later wrote that the attack on Dutschke took the wind from the sails of the student movement.

“He had called people to the tough and lengthy march into the corridors of power through which he was preparing the greatest success of this movement,” he said, referring to Dutschke's call for students to involve themselves in politics.

But with the assassination attempt “the student movement lost the exhilaration and ease that it had at the beginning,” he wrote.

These days, the newspapers of the Axel Springer group concede that their reporting of events went too far.

“Bild and Welt did indeed report on the West Berlin student movement in increasingly harsh tones,” Die Welt recently conceded. “Often the boundaries of good taste were broken, and defamation and inflammatory slogans were mixed into the articles.”

Half a century later it is hard to say whether Dutschke or the Axel Springer newspapers had the last word on the 1968 student protests.

Bild is still Germany’s biggest selling and arguably most influential newspaper.

But, in a sign that the students did eventually get the upper hand - achieving cultural supremacy on minority rights, environmental issues and sexual liberation - one conservative politicians called this year for a “conservative revolution” against the 1968 generation.

And the Axel Springer newspapers have to live with the legacy of their campaign against Dutschke in one other way too. In 2008, Koch Straße - where the media giant still has its headquarters - was renamed Rudi Dutschke Straße.

All the best to you.

@HenryAWallace Thanks, Henry. Always good to "see" you.

is better than most people could produce on their best day, so no apologies from you are in order.

Glad the surgery went well and hope the next goes even better. I approve the choice of meatloaf and mashed potatoes, which is my personal number one comfort meal, with a side of either buttered green beans or buttered carrot coins. It's also one of my favorite things to order in a diner I know to be good. Bland, buttery, easy to eat, knife unnecessary. Nothing more comforting to me!

@gulfgal98 How wonderful! I assume you mean wild turkeys. We have a flock that occasionally roosts in the cemetery behind my back yard.

I had my doubts about living near a cemetery, but actually it's incredibly peaceful and even beneficent in vibe.

My walking partner and I went, as per usual, for our daily walk early this morning. We both live in what would be called the center of town, less than a half mile from city hall and the courthouse. As we were finishing our walk and standing in front of her house, she said that she thought she saw a turkey walking through a neighbor's yard, about a 100 yards away. Sure enough, we really DID see a female turkey walking down the street and toward the small park across from where she lives.