MLK DAY
Each year, on MLK Jr. Day, I try to center
on a quote from him that challenges me.
Here's this year's:
on a quote from him that challenges me.
Here's this year's:
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It seems the high winds predicted for today are in southern California, not here. Not uncommon at this time of year.
ReplyDeleteAttorney Roberta Kaplan is about to make Trump’s life extremely difficult [Click] I suppose this qualifies as human interest story—a nice way to start the day.
ReplyDeleteWhat's she gonna do? Paywall in the way and I'm in NO MOOD to mess with it.
DeleteNever mind. I googled her.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/lindsey-graham-2650010724/
"Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was roundly denounced Sunday after sending a letter to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer that characterized President Donald Trump's pending trial as "vengeance" and "political retaliation" that he argued would further divide the nation."
So Lady G wants us to give a free pass to the fascist racist who tried to destroy our democracy? Lindsey has gotten so disgusting and so WRONG that the sight of him practically triggers my gag reflex.
ReplyDeleteEzra Klein: Biden’s Covid-19 Plan Is Maddeningly Obvious (NYT, paywall) [Click]
Same story in the Salt Lake Tribune, no paywall. [Click]
Odd things during our morning walk today.
ReplyDelete1) No neighbors in evidence, until toward the end one car (that belongs here) came onto our cul de sac and went straight into its garage.
2) Police paddy wagon parked in front of the vacant house next to ours; we stopped and inquired, and the cop (there was only one) said everything was OK, he was just stopped in a quite place to read (his scanner/monitor). Note: we are bordered on three sides by the city, but are in the county.
No reports of roving gangs of Trump supporters in today's local newspaper. Just an evidently inconsequential earthquake swarm near Mount Hood.
Deletequite place = quiet place
Delete“Census Director Steve Dillingham will be stepping down on Jan. 20, cutting short by nearly a year the five-year director term, which was scheduled to expire on Dec. 31,” TPM reports.
ReplyDeleteRep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) told CNN that he saw QAnon-curious freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) leading a “large group” through a tour of the Capitol in the days before the riots.
ReplyDeleteThe Atlantic:A Troubling New Pattern Among the Coronavirus Variants [Click] “The most concerning versions of the virus are not simply mutating—they’re mutating in similar ways.”
ReplyDeletePfizer vaccine protects against UK and South African Covid variants, research suggests
Deletehttps://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/pfizer-vaccine-protects-uk-south-africa-covid-variant-b757501.html
VT cases: 10,220-10,057=163
ReplyDelete3232 active cases
163 deaths (0x3days)
Recovered 6825 (66.8%)
Hospital 43(-2) ICU:7(0)
Tests 289,315 (+1482)
Positivity Rate 2.7%
DeleteDeath Rate 1.6%
OHIO; COVID cases 831,066 and 10,281 deaths.
ReplyDelete1.237%
DeleteToday:
Delete4,312 new cases and 81 deaths
They are just now turning on the vertical lights among the Field of Flags on the Washington Mall representing the 50 states and all. Nice touch.
ReplyDeleteYou can watch it on CNN.
Delete41.5 hours!
ReplyDelete"Here’s Biden’s response to aides who use overly academic or elitist language: “Pick up your phone, call your mother, read her what you just told me,” he likes to say. “If she understands, we can keep talking.”
ReplyDeleteI don't know what is meant by "overly academic or elitist language," but my response would be in very clear standard pre-Norman English: DAMN YOU. Followed by giving him all items in my possession associated with his organization(s) and exiting the premises never to return.
DeleteWhy, Alan? If he were talking with the person regarding something scientific or academic, fine. But when he is talking about conveying it to the public, he needs them to listen to themselves and think how to say it such that it can be heard.
DeleteThere was a great, tiny book about this very sort of thing, given to seminarians to read before they went off to inflict their theological jargon on a congregation. It was by Helmut Thielicke and called "A Little Exercise for Young Theologians." And it was spot on!
For starters, my mother is dead.
DeleteAnd the implication that mothers don't understand "academic or elitist language" strikes me as both sexist and ageist. My mother never had a chance to get much education, but my son's mother would understand.
DeleteMine is dead too. I understand the frustration. But remember that he's allegedly speaking to young aides. It does sound ageist, unless you listen to some of the aides he's speaking about. I have listened to aides in DC and they speak in so many anacronysms and abbreviations that you'd have to be living that life to understand half of what they're saying. Biden can talk old folksy, though. Some middle ground would help.
DeleteBBC Travel: Grass trees, stromatolites and thrombolites, oh my! [Click] Thrombolites and grass trees are new to me.
ReplyDeleteImages of a police officer wearing a MAGA hat and collaborating with Trump supporters have gone viral—but what is the real story? [Click] I can’t link to this directly, but follow the link and scroll way down to see the video. Another Capitol Police officer who deserves a medal or at least a commendation, it seems. As the commentator points out, there is no training for this sort of event, and no way to train for it.
ReplyDeleteToday, Vermont's only Representative in Congress, Peter Welch, shared this:
ReplyDelete"In the summer of 1967, I was working with a community organization on the West Side of Chicago. In August, I joined a group of young people from the neighborhood - I was 20 myself - on a two bus caravan to Atlanta to attend the annual convention of Dr. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
"But before the annual gathering, we all attended church at the Ebenezer Baptist Church where Dr. King was the pastor. Hosea Williams and Ralph Abernathy, two close allies of Dr. King, two people who like him had been vilified, like him had been subjected to violent threats, like him had been arrested for demonstrating for the civil rights of African Americans and like him lived lives where they were in constant danger--they both gave rousing and uplifting sermons. I thought it impossible for anyone to do better.
"Then Dr. Martin Luther King took the pulpit.
"I don't remember his exact words but I remember like it was yesterday how his words stirred me. While the victim of violence, he spoke of love. While the road ahead was long and arduous, he spoke of hope and commitment. While he worked in a hostile South surrounded by people who wished him harm, he spoke of forgiveness.
"His words and encouragement to all of us assembled to overcome our fears, to forgive our adversaries, to take that next step forward no matter the obstacle, to find common ground with our foes - embedded in scripture, eloquently and poetically delivered in that magnificent voice only he possessed were all the more powerful since he lived the life he described every dangerous day he led the civil rights movement. And all of us knew, or certainly feared, that one day this brave and noble man would be taken from us.
"We still have so far to go to overcome the racist history of our country and build a more just society. But it is that memory of that day in the Ebenezer Baptist Church with that man, Dr. Martin Luther King, that sustains me, and I think millions of Americans.
"Dr. King, thank you. And thank you to all of the activists in Vermont
and across the country that are continuing his legacy. – Peter"
Los Angeles lifts air-quality limits for cremations as Covid doubles death rate [Click]
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