A Blog for the People... + one.
Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order Requiring Return of Wrongly Deported Man
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. issued an interim measure meant to give the justices some breathing room while the full court considers the matter. A trial judge had earlier ordered the United States to return a man it had inadvertently deported to El Salvador.
Venting, letting off steam, but ultimately ineffective.
Why not push the US Congress -- the branch representative of the People -- to create a workable immigration policy for the nation?
ADDED: Didn't the people learn anything about how ineffective these mass protests are from the "Abortion Fight"? You have to do the work in the places of power. That's not on the streets. That is inside the places of power.
We have people in there: people allegedly representing voters. If your own representatives will not address the economic inequality, unchecked immigration, endless war spending... it's all for naught. Sure, get outside on a Spring Saturday, stretch your legs, test your vocal cords, wave your signs, but...
protesting on the streets is just something for old boomers to relive the civil rights glory days of their youth in 1960s. Those street protests were accompanies by so much more. That's how #Change is created. Not just by rallying outside of the ballot box. Hth. Good luck.
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* Not one news report I saw excerpted anything relevant he spent all those hours talking about... Did he read Dr. Seuss, akin to Ted Cruz? Did he lay out an effective plan to combat our housing needs, feed the war refugees taking shelter here, address the needs of newcomers being exploited as low-paid labor?
Everyone just wondered if he wore diapers, or didn't take a bathroom break during all that speechifying. #DoTheRealWork #Don'tJustProtestShowABetterWay
Who you got?
Love me an #Upset!
Cooper Flagg is 18; he'll still have that height next year...
Houston is a solid team, and they'll face Florida in the final matchup. Good game.
#NeverQuit
I never got into it really. Couldn't stomach the artificial ups and downs, and had some early losses decades ago that told me I am not much of a gambler... (or good with numbers, risk, or uncertainty, to be honest. I know myself and being a shareholder just was not for me. Not judging others who are invested.)
Just like we tell students that sports "is just a game", remember that life is risk, nothing is ever certain, and there is always tomorrow. I know people are hurting, and there is no happiness at others' financial pain, but have a healthy meal and count your blessings.
Always remember: Life Goes On.
It's could be, and it's a good message... 😒🙏😔
Tonight, I upset someone while driving. They followed me to a gas station and said some angry words. I wasn't sure what I had done wrong. I asked if they were okay and if there was anything I could do to help calm them down. They walked away angrily, and I wished them a good day. Normally, I wouldn't react this way, but as I've gotten older, I try to "Seek to Understand." I realized there was something else going on with them, and my driving wasn't the real issue.
45 minutes later, when I went back to my truck in the school parking lot, I found a note. It reminded me that you never know what someone is going through. It’s always important to seek to understand.
~Copied from QUORA
Oh, Master grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love with all my soul...
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Prayer of St. Francis (song)
Make me a channel of your peace
Whoop di do! The light-skinned pretty black man broke a record in Congress set by an old segregationist who would have blocked his Civil Rights.
What did Cory say? What did he achieve -- in Congress during his long career, or with his talking stunt? Nothing, absolutely nothing.
Oh we can see right through him: this stunt was supposed to make him a contender amongst all the other DEI candidates the Dems plan to put up in 2028 as "alternatives" to the boys currently flexing in Trump's stable as we look to see who us going to best shovel out the shit that has accumulated and hardened in Washington DC in the past decades...
Not Amy Klobuchar, the Woman.
Not Pete Buttigieg, the Gay.
and not Cory Booker, the Black.
I don't think Barry Obama, the alleged Chicagoan, would win today. We're so much smarter and wiser now, and don't believe pretty words. Congrats on breaking the record for longest filibuster in the Senate, Cory. Now get back to work?
It's about: Building More Housing; Securing the Border; Expelling Criminals and those foreign actors and organizations that want to "take over" our country; Shoring UP our social-safety net programs to meet the needs on the streets and visible in public today to anyone out and about in our country with open eyes...
If you're not with us, you're against us. If you're not working on those priorities, you're grandstanding. If you're in office and not getting the job done, DON"T PLAY DEAD and continue to Do NOTHING. Have the grace to cash in your chips and resign. If you don't go voluntarily, you will be replaced.
It's a new world this Springtime, and we're not going back to the window-dressing days of DEI. If a person can do the work and achieve real results that translate to better lives for people in the country, you've got the job and can stay on as a Servant - Leader. If not, stop wasting our time with your personal best records that don't mean fiddley fig here in the real world.
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Can someone in the MSM copy me and get that message clear to those in Washington DC? Chuck and Nancy... go out with class, don't make us drag your rotting corpses out of the buildings. Doesn't anybody remember how Ruth Bader Ginsburg trashed her legacy by not getting out alive?
making his concession speech yet?
I hope he leaves that poor little boy of his at home with his mother coloring some books or reading books together or playing cars on the floor. Home, where all the kids belong. They can't consent. Leave the kids alone, that's the message the country sent to Elon tonight...
We're not like you. We'll never be like you, Rolf.
In other news, the good people of Wisconsin took Elon's money and ran. They have an independent streak, and cannot yet all be bought...
Trump needs to pull the weirdo autistic man from the cover of his campaign magazine. Guys like him, like his father, do not value life and have no idea how the straight-armed salute, jumping around on the stage at 53 year old, looks to real men and women out here.
He has children he does not acknowledge or take care of, and treats their mother(s) shabbily. We the American people didn't like that look in a grown-ass Hunter Biden, and the RichestManInTheWorld does not get a pass either...
Boys to Men! Elon is never going to "grow up" because he doesn't have to. The Peter Pan fairyness jumping around the stage might play well in HIS mind, but nobody wants to be around that, or associated with that.
The Mad Genius myth is fine: he can build Starlink, mass manufacture electric vehicles, play the clown puffing lightweight drugs in media interviews, but nobody wants their kid to grow up to resemble that. Nobody names their child "Elon".
It's not too late for Donald Trump to STOP FIRING WORKERS who are needed to process Tax Returns, and help get through the backlog of Social Security claims.
We have people living on the streets that need to be sorted out here. It doesn't mean you chose that lifestyle anymore. We have no place to put people, because we have too many people living here now that the government cannot take care of...
It's NOT the government's job to take care of people, you shout!
Well, it's never been the American government's job to kill them off either. Except in Wartime. With people like Elon as the Face of Our Nation (and JD, and MJTandHerBoyfriend, and all the Ugly Ugly people who have glommed onto Trump's coattails...), I don't think the people who won WWII -- that whole generation at home and abroad-- nor the Quiet generation who followed them, would recognize our country anymore...
Fight, Fight, Fight to take back our country from foreign invaders like Elon, determined to remake the whole thing in THEIR image, not in God's. The Wisconsin victory means something. It shows that off the Coasts, outside of the MSM, there is still a fighting spirit in the American people that rejects the BigMoneyWays of the World.
We cannot keep going on like this... Human Life Matters here still, and the lives of all living creatures depend on us to protect them. Good can triumph over Evil, and the leaders will be forced to follow if only to save face, and get back to work doing what they were elected to do: Help the country, not harm us.
Congress can end this massacre anytime it wanted by simply shutting off the engine sending all those billions in weaponry to Netanyahu's Israel... Where is the Democratic leadership and priorities??
They are long in the tooth, Nancy and Chuck. They no longer need AIPAC's money to fund their lifestyles and campaigns. Why can't they be brave and turn off the Killing Machine? It might chug on for days, even years to come, but...
They hold the keys and can flip the switch and show us if they value human life and non-fatal leadership any time they choose... "I Wanna See You Be Brave!" on the way out. #Repent and #DoTheRightThing.
What are we waiting for??? Does Human Life still have value? Do innocent children matter? "Do Unto Others as You'd Have Done to You"... If now now, when? If not you, who? God knows, if you have a voice, and prioritize life, you will Fight, Fight, Fight to preserve it. The life you save might be your own...
This...
‘Our 2028 Nominee Will Need to Come From America, Not Washington’: Guest essay by Thomas Edsall in the NYT...
because you can't expect leadership to come from the Congress that led us here via their inaction, "going along to get along", and continued ignorance of the problems that the Dems are finally being forced to acknowledge happened on their watch and with their bipartisan blessing. (RIP Ross Perot)
Talk on, Sen. Booker, but the truth is: knowing what we know today, not many voters would fall for Barry Obama's promises and pretty talk again, no matter how diversely packaged. (Even Bill Clinton, and his wife, have been shown to be the hypocrites they always were... #Truth)
Cory Booker Slams Trump’s Policies in Marathon Senate Floor Speech
The New Jersey senator criticized the president’s plans for Social Security, education and health care, saying the “nation is in crisis.” He was still speaking in the predawn hours.
We're not going back. The status quo in this country is shattering as much as the once-strong and stable Middle Class.
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*even the "journolists" who collectively collaborated to silence critics who knew Obama's past (lack of) work in Chicago realize he can't butter their bread anymore... Looking at you Ezra (and Annie*, his then future wife, the "expert" who was so often cited to push the preferred narrative in the press... It paid off for them personally, as it did the Obama family, but look at where they have now left the country as a whole.)
* I believe I was the first one who informed Ezra in the comments section of the journalistic rule that you disclose your personal interests/conflicts in citing sources. After that, he disclosed. ("This is my girlfriend/wife; take her expertise in backing up the narrative we are pushing worth a grain of salt." There's a reason real journalists -- not Democratic activists -- can "hold power to account" by reporting what is really happening in our country. The MSM has failed us, and still are. We know what is being paid for, in our name, overseas and at home. Unmitigated greed, unaccountable destruction. and our working-class tax dollars paying for all the failure.
#ChangeIsGonnaCome...
For your Tuesday morning wake-up pleasures. (RIP Jim Peters; some are gone, but never forgotten...)
The US wants Greenland, China so far hasn't touched Taiwan...
Grab what you can get if you're big and powerful. April Fools?
Be still, and know that...
Party Pete** is storming the Philippines!
(I pray he doesn't preach to us about the Bataan Death March... Some history is best left to be read*, not by preaching while doing push-ups in your red-white-and-blue boxers, man. Take the hint?)
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* Educated people who can apply knowledge gained start to see similarities in the way Netanyahu is marching the Palestinian prisoners (and they're all prisoners at this point, really...) around the region, mercilessly picking them off here and there, and just watching fellow humans drop. #NeverAgain
** I really don't like JD's wife and children "riding along" for his visit to the US base in Greenland, but oh, for liability reasons alone, we should all be hoping the current Mrs. Hegseth and ALL his children are accompanying Daddy on this trip, just to keep him honest and as an escort party back to his own hotel room every night. "Don't let daddy pete out of your sight!!" #TrackRecord,Babe #DontLeaveAFutureBabyBehind,Pete... #DaddyWon'tReturn
(he really has a lot in common with hunter biden , except for the choice of drug and dress-up suit/costume. Same character type, really...imho #Entitled #NeededAGoodSpankinHeNeverGot)
HRC in today's NYT (not linking here):
"I visited 112 countries and traveled nearly one million miles as America’s top diplomat..."
This is as dumb as JD, wife and kids putting in "butts in the seats" frequent flier miles* to... protect our nation? Engage in "diplomacy"? (fund your family vacay's on the US taxpayers' dimes??)
For all HRC's alleged travels to ... "build goodwill/nation-build"??, look where the world is now. Trump didn't create this. You left us this, you globalist!. And now... the younger generations here in America are forced to clean up. Domestically... and Internationally, while innocent children pay the price of your "diplomatic work".
We're resentful, don't you get it??? Gtf out of our faces now; your time has passed to be in public preaching and denigrating the ... "fighting men".
#NAFTA and #MonicaLewinsky will be your husband's legacy. (you never developed a career independent of "supporting" his early political success and thus will be forever intertwined in the history books in how you both failed our nation...)
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* I bet she had perfect attendance in grade school, and did ALL the extra-curricular clubs in HS too. #NotTheFlexYouThink #GetTheFOutOfTheSpotlightAlready #DidYOUvisitEpsteinIslandWithYourHusband hm.
when Congress chooses to abdicate its responsibilities for DECADES, don't expect another branch not to step up and fill the void. If you want to be the "show" branch, continue the precedent of a Do-Nothing Congress of wealthy folk out of touch with the American people, the work still needs to be done... Duh.
(How old is Susan again? She's determined to die in office, like RBG, eh? #Sad)
Navel-gazing in public is not pretty, friends. Go figure it out, and come back when you have the answer. We'll wait...
Why has fighting and opposing Trump proved so hard? It’s not just because Republicans hold all the cards in government.
The former first lady penned an editorial for them today.
(they're not even trying to reform the party to win, are they? Like John Candy was told in Trains Planes and Automobiles... "You're. Going. The. WRONG. Way!!"
They just can't learn, something about old dogs is called to mind...
Unleash the young pups, and I don't mean the David Hogg/Ezra Klein types who helped lead the party to where we are... #PeopleAin'tPlayingTheseGamesAnymore #YouDon'tThinkItCanGetWorse? #LieDownAndPlayDead?? Cmon, bunnies, think! Retire the old guard (and that includes the Butteigigs, and anybody remotely connected to the Biden administration...
#IfNotNow, When??
or just take his money and vote for independence? Plenty of stock remains outside the urban areas not impressed by rich men with money buying them off cheap to give up their freedoms...
#GDIndepenent
#WhatMakesTheGreenBayPackersDifferentFromEveryOtherNFLTeam? (do you know, Elon? ;-) and no, that's not "do you know Elon?" There's a difference educated people will understand. GBP fans too, I suspect... We like Trump, but #NotImpressedWithAManicSouthAfrikannerTurnedAmerican... No offense.
What a luxury it is to live your life every looking backwards, not even seeing what it happening while you are distracted. Plus, they travel in a pack now! The Dems are gifting the administration with distractions. #EyesOnThePrize
... or, Not "Kids" Anymore...
Out & about
Celebrated artists and actors, including Bruce Springsteen,
Michael Stipe and Scarlett Johansson, took the stage in tribute.
visiting the U.S. air base in Greenland in a joint appearance on vacation before returning home. The dog-sled excursion has been cancelled. (No word if the youngster's spring break will also include college visits.)
Greenland leaders made it clear that the U.S. delegation was neither invited nor wanted.
If the 2028 election were held tomorrow, my vote would be Marco Rubio for president. He has more years experience in the Senate, and seems the most mature voice in this administration thus far, imho. #Gravitas
I liked what J.D. was saying on the Signal discussion that was leaked -- this is not our fight; this will set a poor precedent in who will pay (to keep Israel safe) to keep the shipping channels open. But... J.D. is not a strong voice and always seems to back down on his beliefs. Very "go along to get along" venture capitalist like that...
Pete Hegseth is a boy itching for excitement. Not a leader. Doesn't understand how the constant need for adrenaline costs the country -- neverending flows of war refugees here when we bomb their homelands, as well as the costs of the military adventures themselves. (Clearly, this latest did not involve "defending" America and was not in our country's national defense interests. Shouldn't Congress be authorizing these "wars"?)
Sean Duffy... "I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok!" -- has a pretty face, and is known for his work on TheRealWorld. I just put him up with the others because they are all of similar ages (younger than Boomers) and trying to make their mark nationally.
Marco Rubio is likeable enough, and more mature. J.D. Vance is just plain mean, not likeable, and if he came into office declaring America needs to end the support of endless wars that cost the US so much, and focus those resources investing in the people here, he's being overridden a lot. (If we have billions to defend other people's lands -- and even help them expand their holdings -- we should not be threatening cuts to our own people.)
"Nothing you can do that can't be done. Nothing you can write that can't be run..."
