Mystery Light
I never noticed that bright light on the slower right until I downloaded the photos.
What do you think? Airplane headlights?
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Worth consideration; but it still leaves DT mentally incompetent to hold any position of public trust.--Alan
ReplyDeleteWhy Trump Has a Soft Spot for Russia
July 21, 2018 at 7:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 71 Comments
Andrew Sullivan: “Everything Trump did in Europe — every horrifying, sick-making, embarrassing expostulation — is, in some way, consistent, and predictable, when you consider how he sees the world. It’s not a plan or a strategy as such. Trump is bereft of the attention span to sustain any of those. It is rather the reflection of a set of core beliefs and instincts that have governed him for much of his life. The lies come and go. But his deeper convictions really are in plain sight.”
“And they are, at root, the same as those of the strongmen he associates with and most admires. The post-1945 attempt to organize the world around collective security, free trade, open societies, non-zero-sum diplomacy, and multicultural democracies is therefore close to unintelligible to him. Why on earth, in his mind, would a victorious power after a world war be … generous to its defeated foes? When you win, you don’t hold out a hand in enlightened self-interest. You gloat and stomp. In Trump’s zero-sum brain — ‘we should have kept the oil!’ — it makes no sense. It has to be a con. And so today’s international order strikes Trump, and always has, as a massive, historic error on the part of the United States.”
”This is why he has such a soft spot for Russia. Its kleptocratic elites see the world in just the same way. And if you wanted to undo the international system created by the U.S., an alliance with Russia is the first step you’d take.”
Yikes!! But, that's seriously sick! Besides which, it's diametrically opposed to everything taught in the Gospels, so he can't possibly consider himself a Christian!
DeleteWhen Dad and I saw each other for the first time this morning, he read my T-shirt.
ReplyDelete"Resist!"* Then he groaned. "Ah, Christ!"**
Keeping face impassive and voice level I asked, "What?"
"The movements you associate yourself with," he exclaimed, halfway between disgust and despair.
I allowed myself a small smile. "They always seem to come out on the right side."
That reduced him to bluster. "Yeah? Well, I don't think that's gonna last."
"Nothing lasts forever," I pointed out mildly. He had no answer for that.
*There's actually a period on the T-shirt. The exclamation point indicates Dad's reading.
**My father very seldom takes Our Lord's name in vein. So, when he does, you know things are pretty bad.
You handled that moment well, Cat.
DeleteI had to smile when your Dad read "Resist!" and responded, "Ah, Christ!"
I feel the same way; but with a tweak of the punctuation:
"Resist." "Ahhhhh: Christ."
LOL
DeleteI think those bright lights in the photo are the aliens doing an abrupt U-turn and heading home after they get a look at the cluster-fck out world has turned into.
ReplyDeleteYou may have something there, Susan! 😆😜🙃
DeleteLOL Susan. More scared of us than we are are of them?
DeleteBill, the reason I didn't mention that the NPR audio included the text is that I never saw that it did. I heard the piece on the radio initially, and when I hunted for the link online, it opened at the page I posted. But the topmost part only shows the link to the audio on my screen. You have to scroll down to see the text. And as I'd already heard it, I simply harvested the link.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, NPR nearly always provides a transcript.
DeleteI hardly ever do online stuff like that.
DeleteFather of two Parkland shooting survivors killed during robbery.
ReplyDelete(Actually, he was robbed at his store and the guy left with money, then returned and shot him.)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/health/father-parkland-survivors-shot-and-killed-trnd/index.html
So what was today? Today was the day of the Disability Pride Parade. Chilly enough that I wished I'd worn a long-sleeve shirt under my Parade T-shirt. A light sprinkle of rain -- the first time in 15 years we had rain during the parade. I was selling our T-shirts (legally speaking, providing T-shirts in return for a $15 donation). That went well -- not enough left to be worth selling on-line. And despite last-minute problems with the arrangements for our post-parade festivities, everyone had a good time.
ReplyDeleteWe had a shopping and visiting trip to the SF Bay Area today (Saturday--still today here). Had a very good allegedly Chicago-style deep-dish pizza with Naomi at a restaurant in Berkeley which we had visited about ten years ago. Then shopping at a pottery sale in Berkeley, groceries in Oakland Chinatown and San Jose, and home before sundown. Except for what seemed to be a huge number of people heading to the baseball stadium in Oakland, the traffic was really good.
ReplyDeleteAlan
Sunday morning--thread continues.
ReplyDeleteWoke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep. —Alan
The black detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan[Click] Spike Lee movie in the theaters soon! Trailer looks pretty good.
Oakland's Hollywood moment: films shine light on city's 'grit and beauty'[Click]
Businesses claim it's hard to hire 'good people'. The solution is pretty simple[Click]
Trump isn’t acting like a real Russian agent.[Click] So what does Putin have on him? My suspicion is that it is not evidence of kinky philandering; it has to be something more powerfully motivating for Trump. Maybe—probably—public revelation that he is actually a world-class LOSER, kept afloat only by dirty money from Russia. That is just what Mueller’s inspection of Trump’s tax returns and money laundering would be expected to do.
Object lesson: Microfilm.[Click] listener—does your library have a microfilm reader?
ReplyDelete—Alan
Come to think of it, a modernized microfilm reader/copier would produce a computer-compatible copy rather than a "Xerox" copy. *.pdf, for example.
DeleteAlan
Thanks for holding down the fort, Alan!
ReplyDeleteNEW THREAD at last!!