We’ve got a cold snap with temps near freezing overnight. Hoping the blueberry flowers will not all succumb.
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Aborting Donald John?
That is the question for the United States Senate.
Re: Parnas and Fruman
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH: sets policy and provides resources
EXECUTIVE BRANCH: uses resources to carry out programs
JUDICIAL BRANCH: monitors legislature and executive for compliance with Constitution
None of these entities are tasked with dealing with individual natural persons unless they are asked
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Blueberry status
As predicted, the second year growth is putting out lots of blossoms. Now If I could just get some good pictures of the delicate pink and white flowers and the ball-shaped buds!
Coming to a screeching halt
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4846837/user-clip-close-prayer-event
I thought he said “I gotta pee,” but after listening three times, I realize he said “I got impeached.”
Before that, he said there are 160 million people working. A non-sequitur when the topic is prayer in schools.
Poor Donald John
A man of broken vows.
I’m still looking for simple explanations that are easy to understand.
Publicity Stunts
Trump does nothing. Trump instigates via inuendo. He has henchmen who carry out orders. He’s a triangulator par excellence.
This kind of behavior is what made RICO legislation necessary. And it is probably also why Trump was/is so sensitive to the charge of collusion and/or conspiracy. He’s is very careful not to commit things to writing and avoid overt threats. With “going through some things” he really skirted the edge.
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The Impeachment Managers
Speaker Pelosi has chosen seven experienced persons. Will the Dude grandstand and verbally attack each in turn? If he does, he should be ignored.
My nose
It has a recurring scab on its tip. It comes of and then it comes back. So, at the end of the month, I’ll have a doctor take a look at it.
Defining a person.
Whence comes the habit of defining a person in terms of their relationship to some other person or group? Individuals used ti be defined, at least in the Anglo languages, by their talents or trades or native origins. Scandinavians identified individuals as someone’s daughter (doter) or son. That is still a functional/organic basis. Trumpist or National Socialist or Rotarian seeks to identify a person not as a self-contained organism, but as part of a group. Groupism. Where does it come from?
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