The Old Mill awaiting repairs
The retaining wall in front of the Mill collapsed last year.
Funds are being raised and it is hoped that the work can commence come Spring.
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Just read the prexnit's speech to his minions. It seems largely like a reprise of his phone call to Georgia last Saturday. It's as if he has this permanent script running, all the time. I didn't find it compelling, but am not pre-triggered like his brew.
ReplyDeleteHere's one for you, listener (I wonder if I might have sent it along before):
ReplyDeleteThe History Guy on The Vermont Republic [Click]
Thank ye kindly, Alan. (Love the bow tie!)
DeleteAnd I really love Vermont. Seems to me Vermonters still have that solid, stalwart spirit.
I happened upon this:
ReplyDeleteThe Arizona GOP [Establishment] Is Destroying Their Statewide Chances [Click]
As is Georgia, per the speaker.
DeleteTravel security tightened for members of Congress after harassment [Click] “The new measures come after at least three lawmakers were confronted at airports by Trump supporters.”
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ReplyDeleteMan With Assault Rifle Charged With Threatening Pelosi, Officials Say [Click] “The Department of Justice said on Friday that Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr. was one of 13 people who had been charged in federal court after a violent pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol.”
Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ Myth Reaches Its Catastrophic Conclusion [Click] “Reflections on violence in the heart of the American empire by Paul Blumenthal.” This is by far (IMO) the best essay I have yet read about the recent denouement of US “Conservatism.”
ReplyDelete“President Trump has not ordered the flags on federal buildings to fly at half-staff in honor of Brian D. Sicknick, a police officer who was killed after trying to fend off pro-Trump loyalists during the siege at the Capitol on Wednesday,” the New York Times reports.
ReplyDelete“Mr. Trump has not reached out to Mr. Sicknick’s family, although Vice President Mike Pence called to offer condolences.”
As of yesterday, the House article of impeachment had 185 co-sponsors, up from 150 the day before.
ReplyDeleteNYT reports 190 now.
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ReplyDeleteThe White House finally lowered the flag in honor of the U.S. Capitol policeman who died during the riots last week.
President Trump has not spoken to Vice President Mike Pence since last week’s violent riot at the Capitol, NBC News reports.
Prosecutors mull charges for theft of national security information after laptops and documents are stolen in Capitol siege.
But first they have to find the people who stole them; I suppose that really shouldn’t be a big problem for the FBI.
Schwarzenegger video re Capitol assault; compares to Kristallnacht, assures that US is unlikely to follow the path of Austria. [Click]
OHIO; COVID cases 777,065 and 9,627 deaths
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DeleteGuardian summary:
ReplyDeleteInsurrection Day: when white supremacist terror came to the US Capitol [Click] One thing that has struck me as so typical is that Trump said he would go to the Capitol with his mob, but as soon as he got down from the stage he went back to the White House instead. Maybe his bone spurs were acting up again.
Just heard...
ReplyDeleteA second Capitol Police Officer has died, this time of suicide, feeling remorse that he couldn't do more on Wednesday.
That's terrible. His blood is on Trump's hands too.
DeleteMerciful Heavens.
DeleteI am so proud of Daughter, who posted this today on her Facebook page:
ReplyDelete"This week was awful. I have refrained from posting anything until now because I have alternately been too angry or too exhausted. To all of the people suddenly waking up and calling the insurrection a “bridge too far” and now are walking back your support for a racist, corrupt, narcissistic President that you were fine with because his horrible actions didn’t personally impact your family - where were you for the last 20 bridges? When he treated refugees like criminals? Separated babies from nursing moms and permanently scarred 1000’s of young children, many of whom still haven’t been reunited with their families? How about the praise and pandering to dictators and rejection of allies? Replacing RBG with an extreme right-wing justice? Mocking a journalist with disabilities was just the beginning...then we had “very fine people on both sides”, Proud Boys, non-stop racist and misogynist rallies and tweets. Not to mention a complete bungling of Covid (remember “I like this stuff, I really get it” and then we were supposed to drink bleach?), nepotism and corrupt top advisors, incompetent political appointees (Betsy Davos, anyone?) and a general tornado of destruction of democracy that will take years to restore. The fact that nearly half the country voted for this horrible person for a SECOND term, knowing full well who he is, breaks my faith in America. The number of colleagues and former friends who said things this week like, “well there are extremists on both sides” or “I’ll agree the mob at the Capitol was going too far” - really? That’s the best you can do? If you voted for Trump in November, you are as much to blame for the mob at the Capital as the assholes trolling the halls with Confederate flags and KKK tattoos...you enabled this, you built this. Own it."
There may be extremists on both sides, but extremists on the left generally want to do MORE for people, and extremists on the right generally want to kill people.
ReplyDeleteCapitol Police were overrun, left vulnerable against rioters. Bottom line is that the Capitol Police were prepared and instructed for a peaceful protest, with no provision for facing a riotous mob.
ReplyDeleteA gross failure of leadership, I dare say.
DeleteAccording to the Rev. Al Sharpton, whom I heard briefly earlier this evening, both the FBI and the NYPD passed along to the Capitol police in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6 credible info that there would be violence. Whoever decided not to tell the officers themselves about it is a murderer too.
DeletePerhaps more accurately an accessory before the fact--who shares guilt with those who commit the act.
Delete“Stripe will no longer process payments for President Trump’s campaign website following last week’s riot at the Capitol,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
ReplyDelete“The financial-technology company handles card payments for millions of online businesses and e-commerce platforms, including Mr. Trump’s campaign website and online fundraising apparatus.”
Another example of private enterprise taking the lead in the effort to excise the cancer that is Donald Trump from the body politic.
DeleteDang, the blog ate my comment about listener's wunnerfull daughter, and how proud she should be.
ReplyDeleteboo hiss et al.
Awww. Stupid "Blogger"!!
DeleteThanks, puddle. The Kidz are all right!
It's a bit of a PITA but if you have a potentially long or important comment, you might want to write it in a word processor or text editor and maybe even save it before posting here. That can save a lot of heartburn.
DeleteIf it's long, I usually right click, save all then copy, both here and a fb.
DeleteVT cases: 8967-8790=177
ReplyDelete2796 active cases
156 deaths (0 x 2 days!)
Recovered 6015 (67.1%)
Hospital: 37(+4) ICU:10(+3)
Tests 279,163 (+1903)
I told Senator Harris I thought the following would be a good model for the article of impeachment for Mr. Trump. Longish for a blog, but still a good read after 371 years. Although even the English seem to consider the punishment extreme, the trial and its result made it very clear that Parliament had the upper hand.
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Articles of Impeachment of King Charles I (1649)
High Court of Justice for Trial of the King [Click]
Oh, and in the monarch's robing room in the UK parliament, a copy of the death sentence for Charles is posted.
DeletePGA Strips Major Championship from Trump Club [Click]
ReplyDeleteCapitol Police, Requested and Denied National Guard Backup Six Times Before Riot [Click] This calls for investigation, certainly.
Nearly All Arrested for Capitol Riots Identified as Trump Fans [Click] No, they weren’t antifascists out to give MAGAts a bad name.
Important to note that it was the two Congressional Sargents-at-Arms who denied the request. Both are now out of a job.
DeleteThanks for catching that, Bill; I hadn't read through to the full article.
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