Saturday, March 18, 2023

Tracks in New Snow

 

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  1. Rabbit maybe? Definitely not Sasquatch.
    ---Alan

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  2. Trump has announced he's to be arrested next Tuesday. Better the circus do a trial run in New York than Georgia.

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    1. Thanks for the heads-up, Hannah; I must review the procedure. [Click] Ought to beat a baseball game six ways from Sunday from my perspective. [Full disclosure: I am not a baseball enthusiast.]
      ----Alan

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    2. And this will just be a trial run [pun fully intended] for him; several more trials likely coming up, both civil and criminal.
      ---Alan

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    3. Trump Expects to Be Arrested Next Week [Click]
      March 18, 2023 at 9:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard:

      Donald Trump said Saturday he expects to be arrested in connection with the investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney next week and called for protests as New York law enforcement prepares for a possible indictment, CNN reports. [Click]

      Trump, referring to himself, said the “leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States will be arrested on Tuesday of next week.”

      He added: “Protest, take our nation back.”

      In a separate post, Trump said America is “now third world” and “dying” while claiming that “American patriots are being arrested and held in captivity like animals.”


      —Alan

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    4. He wants a January 6th reprise.

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    5. ^ {listener}

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    6. Trump attempts to incite riot to interfere with his arraignment and arrest. [Click] I figured as much. I am reminded of a courtroom in a basement of the old (1930’s) courthouse in downtown Oakland (CA) that was designed for trials of mafia bosses; behind multiple steel doors, with a gun rail that commands the entire courtroom. I think the courtroom may no longer be in use, but it remains available. New York should have something comparable.
      —Alan

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    1. League of Women Voters: Uppity since Valentine's Day 1920.
      ---Alan

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  4. Very slightly cloudy at the moment (0830 hrs); predicted high 72F, three days of light rain starting tomorrow.
    ---Alan

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    1. Today's predicted high here was 27F. A bit windy, but not as much as yesterday.

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    1. Howzabout bringing back the Glass-Steagall Act, or a reasonable approximation thereof?
      ----Alan

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    2. I'd settle for Dodd-Frank. . . .

      puddle

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  6. The clouds have been getting gradually thicker here since this morning; the river appears to have risen slightly (maybe three inches or so). The river might be about a mile wide and 70 feet below our house, which is on top of a very thick layer of very hard hardpan, and behind a lower levee that forms an old irrigation canal that was never used (because it leaks like a sieve).
    Flow is well controlled by a big dam completed in 1942.
    ----Alan

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  7. Think women have never had it so good? You should take a look at medieval days [Click] “History shows that progress in gender equality is neither steady nor inevitable.” A pair of dandy-sounding books!
    —Alan

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    1. The Trump Juror Who Got Under America’s Skin [Click] “Behind our institutions are ordinary people. Emily Kohrs is their new face.”
      I swan, this is of a piece with the books mentioned above!
      ---Alan

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    2. I'll swan! Old phrase took flight in England

      "If it was a real corker, she might go all out and say, ‘Well, I'll just be swanny!'” he told Buck. "Can you tell me where this expression came from?”

      Buck's mama used the same expressions, often saying, "Swan to goodness, Buck!” when he tracked mud in the house.

      In present-day England, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, the verb "swan” means "to travel, move or behave in a relaxed way for pleasure, and without caring that others may feel annoyed.” In Oklahoma and the American South, "I swan” is a rough equivalent of "I swear.”

      The American Heritage Dictionary consulted the Oxford English Dictionary and came up with this plausible explanation: In the north of England in days of yore, people were wont to say, "I shall warrant ye,” which, translated into contemporary Oklahoman, means "I'll flat-out guarantee you.”

      If you say "I shall warrant ye” fast enough and with a heavy English accent, you come out with something like "I swanny.” The expression came to America on the lips of English immigrants and found a congenial home in the South.

      "Luther has gone a whole day without a drink,” Gopher said.
      "He couldn't help it,” Floyd said. "Hortense decked him with a punch to the mouth, and it swelled shut.”

      "Well, I swanny,” Miss Lulabelle said.

      "Yeah, but Luther swooned,” Floyd said.

      Send questions for Buck to columnist Gene Owens, 1004 Cobbs Glen Drive, Anderson, SC 29621 or via e-mail to BucksEnglish@aol.com. Please let Buck know what town you're from.
      ---Alan

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  8. Personally, I think skin color is a red herring. The reality is that supremacists are into population control-- they get their jollies controlling other people. However, our governmental structures preclude that (indeed, public officials are servants), unless individuals subject themselves by causing injuries to others. Law-abiding persons are inviolate and, as a matter of fact, incidence of crime (though not the reports) have been decreasing for three decades.
    So, who's going to be subject to community control? Children are an ideal population because under the U.S. Constitution they are classified as property and "protecting property" is the primary governmental mission.
    Is that because when the Constitution was drafted a significant population of humans (slaves, indentured servants, wives, children) were considered to be the property of the male parent, as defined in the British common law? Probably. Neither women nor children are mentioned in the Constitution and the characteristics of the "natural person" are not identified. "The people" govern, but who constitutes the people is not mentioned, neither are their human rights. It has been assumed that the high fallutin' principles of the Declaration survived the following decade, but the Articles of Confederation had to be reformed because commerce did not flow as freely as desired. There was no mention of human rights. Still isn't.

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