Welcome, March!
Spinnaker is so excited that the rodents are waking up from Winter's sleep!
Fun Fact: Red squirrels frequently tunnel through snow, often creating elaborate networks to navigate between food caches, trees and feeding areas. These subnivean (under-snow) tunnels help them conserve energy, stay warm (around 32ºF), and escape predators, as they can travel under a foot or more of snow.
It's St. David's Day.
ReplyDeleteLinks pertaining to the Netanyahu/Trump war on the last thread.
Anyone else wake during the night and check the news before going back to sleep, to see if any dangers were headed our way?
ReplyDelete“Trump’s attack on Iran scorns the will of the people and their constitutional right to decide whether they want to pay for a war with their money and their lives. That disdain for democratic government reveals that Trump’s military adventure against Iran is also fundamentally an attack on the United States of America.”
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From HCR’s same daily letter:
DeleteScholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder noted in Thinking About… that Trump’s personal corruption is another interpretive framework for thinking about his decision to go to war. Trump’s sudden foray into regime change after years of attacking other presidents who tried it raises the question of whether he is acting for other countries in the Middle East he considers his allies.
“Given the stupefyingly overt corruption of the Trump administration,” Snyder wrote, “one must ask whether the United States armed forces are now being used on a per-hire basis.” Snyder noted that Gulf Arab states eager to curb Iran’s power “have generated extremely generous packages of compensation for companies associated with Trump personally and with members of his family.”
More HCR here
DeleteThat certainly sounds possible. If so, they're getting exactly what they deserve. Apparently, the UAE and Qatar among others find themselves under attack by virtue of the U.S. bases they host. Israel is also in a bad way. But the consensus seems to be that Trump is under Netanyahu's thumb. Another popular view is that this dreadful war is yet another attempt to divert attention from the Epstein mess, wherein Trump seems to show up as more and more deeply embroiled every day.
DeleteMy own view is that Trump is a war criminal, dragging our country into his crimes, and should be impeached, convicted and removed toute suite.
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ReplyDeleteWe are safely home from Maine, where we attended granddaughter's excellent play about the White Rose Society anti-Nazi Resistance in WWII Germany! Had some fun with two younger grands too. Then, enroute home we got word from Shiloh's widow that today she scattered some of his ashes in Denali, Alaska. She went there with her Dad for that (and it was -35º!!), got to ride on a dog sled and was amazed by the beauty all around. Emotional.
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