All of us got in touch recently…
The Mt. Paran Road area kids…
We were a gang as one can see.
Koolaid, Little Debbies. Brownies…Tree climbing.
Going to William’s Lake and the “Sittin’ Tree.”
“Fox Force Six… year olds.”
Category: Politics As Usual
Working for Trump
Columbia Journalism Review’s Big Fail: It Published 24,000 Words on Russiagate and Missed the Point … Good analysis by @DavidCornDC https://t.co/6WkFygzqn3
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) February 2, 2023
The police problem
No, they don’t need “more training.” And they don’t need to keep hiring even more stupid people, who are selected for their ability to do what they’re told, no matter what.
To even begin to address this corrupt national street gang, we need the kind of wide-ranging federal investigation they did into the Teamsters union — but into the deeply corrupted police unions instead. After all, they’re the leaders. They’re the Tucker Carlsons of police departments, revving them up and egging them on with fabricated stories about a bloody tampon in a cop’s drink.
Those poor, oppressed souls. So misunderstood.
They already have rules. They ignore them. And the police brass look the other way, because letting cops break rules is good for morale. The politicians don’t touch them because 1) police unions and 2) because cops do a very good job of collecting dirt on politicians. I guarantee that any time you see a cop indicted, the politicians had to get the approval of the union first.
There was a captain here who moved out of the city (you have to be a city resident here) and then showed up for work very rarely. The only reason something eventually happened to this cop is because the local paper put it on the front page. Everyone already knew he wasn’t showing up! Probably he was so bad at his job that the brass thought things were better when he stayed away.
That’s what passes for leadership.
I know cops have a tough job. But becoming crooks themselves is not how sane people deal with job stress.
A rare principled conservative
“And so it was that one of the most celebrated legal minds of his generation failed to ascend to the highest court in the land — freeing him to play another, perhaps more consequential role.” https://t.co/RLLctuHOom
— Poppy Harlow (@PoppyHarlowCNN) February 1, 2023
Happy Hour: Cannonball Adderley – The Jive Samba …
Here he comes again
1/2 : So here’s Clegg on Trump and Facebook: “In the event that Mr. Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed and he will be suspended for between one month and two years, depending on the severity of the violation.” https://t.co/hRE2YE4Ai6
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) January 26, 2023
2/2: And here’s the rub: Trump was already posting what Facebook would presumably define as unacceptable content shortly before he was reinstated. So how long do they expect this arrangement to last? And how rigorously are they going to monitor it?
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) January 26, 2023
Happy Hour: Freight Train – Kenny Burell and John Coltrane …
Wheee
New: President Carter found classified materials at his Georgia home on at least one occasion and returned them to Archives, according to source. Carter signed the Presidential Records in 1978 but it didn’t go into effect until Reagan was inaugurated. https://t.co/JCNlAOJYmt
— Farnoush Amiri (@FarnoushAmiri) January 25, 2023
Oh EJ, you’re forever the optimist
Are we destined to stay divided 50/50 in our politics forever? Which side can break the deadlock? For now, at least, it’s Biden who is reaching out to would-be converts while the GOP spends its energy ostracizing dissenters and coddling zealots.
My column https://t.co/bNWibrXj7O— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) January 22, 2023
Why can’t we do this?
The new high-speed rail link between Rome and Milan, launching on Monday, will offer a journey time of 2 hours and 45 minutes.https://t.co/FGYzWY81bR
— Wanted in Rome (@wantedinrome) January 22, 2023