Turning the other cheek is a way of moving toward the light. It’s a movement that calls for healing, despite appearances and base reaction. It’s a movement toward the most benevolent outcome for all.

Why did I write that? No idea.

Well, not quite. I’m thinking of how to think about people going to prison for January 6. How to end the whataboutism of the situation. And the violence we are confronted with in our daily lives, sometimes in the form of outward confrontation, sometimes of our own impulses, or those around us, held in check. Thinking. Meditating. Healing.

We are almost there. We are so close to a better world.

Here’s Daisy:

To make Routine a Stimulus

Remember it can cease –

Capacity to terminate

Is a specific Grace –

Of Retrospect the Arrow

That power to repair

Departed with the torment

Become, alas, more fair –

Emilie Dickinson

A postscript to Man Without Country collection

Note to Self:

I don’t wish to offend any animals but.

Did you hear?

The Elephant is leaving the GOP.

Elephant would like to be removed from political logos due to centuries of gun violence against elephants.

Yes. The elephants know all too well.

Usually animals take no stand on political matters, by minding their own business.

Times have changed.

Other animals have refused to be Republican Party mascots:

Snake
Porcupine
Skunk
Jellyfish
Dung Beetle
Buzzard
Junkyard Dog
Chicken
Termite
Cockroach
Lizard
Slug

Animals that object to being hunted down like humans (such as Wolf) have stood with Elephant against gun violence.

They are too numerous to list here. But they know gun violence can pretty much destroy paradise.

WAAG. Wild Animals Against Guns. They have neither website nor social media.

They do have feelings- and intelligence; it was the animals that originally taught humans what to eat and how to survive. They know a lot. We should listen.

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Lions have asked not to be stuffed and displayed in your penthouse. Thank you.

-So far we have 90% of the humans, and all of the animals, against gun violence and for common sense.

(No animals were harmed in the making of this public service announcement.)

Tiny Violins

Did someone ask my opinion of Rep Jim Jordan? Take a deep breath. I will tell.

Yes, of course I watch this shit! Jim Jordan’s Thing today.

Jordan Committee today is not about whistle blowers. The Red Party’s Coloring Book Club, the House Judiciary.

No, today’s meeting on the weaponization of govt is not courageous whistleblowers, it’s just more people with personal grievances.

A lone voice against the FBI? Oh brother. Please. Stop it.

These people aren’t taking about Countelpro, or illegal surveillance, or Earth First environmental attacks on activists. No.

The FBI sucks, but these guys practically volunteered to be dumped on. Their allegations may be serious, but they have more than a hint of the spurious.

The witnesses supposedly exposing FBI malfeasance did not act on duty. They did not expose facts. No. They actually withheld facts today!

They made a pretense, before the Judiciary Committee, of non-disclosure of their super-secret whistle-blowers activity.

Well, that’s unhelpful, and actually the exact opposite of what blowing the whistle is.

No: When they took actions that befell harshly upon them, they were acting on mood-altering Donald Trumpism , leveled against their superiors at the Bureau. Not much more.

There are facts to bear that out. But why bother? No minds to change.

When you elevate a grievance in a work situation it often does not work out well. Because it’s a form of insubordination. You are free to do so, but there are consequences to one’s own actions.

(That is the most conservative sentence I’ve ever written, right there. And here am I, a Far Left proponent of Democratic Socialism, preaching personal responsibility to Republicans.)

So: Tiny violin, for pathetic tea party Freedom Caucus minions.

Sadly, without exception, today’s witnesses before the Judiciary Committee on Weaponization, these capable Americans, are being used as political theater by Jim Jordan. They look like idiots, just by proximity to this doofus from Norwalk Ohio.

I find today’s witnesses credible, and pathetic. Much to admire, as long as they keep hidden their deep antagonism to American democracy. Which I believe they picked up listening to buttheads on right wing networks. Or from the pulpit on Sunday.

And, by the way, these ranking senior FBI employees, these guys, did not take their claims to the proper authorities.

They took their claims to Mark Meadows, who plausibly and even perhaps unwitting nearly destroyed the entire Federal Govt on Jan 6! Hoping for a loophole in the Constitutional Order the Red Party could exploit.

Oopsie! (And that gives Meadows huge undeserved benefit of a doubt , in terms of actual seditious conspiracy, components of which have already been found guilty and are facing decades in prison.)

Fortunately this letter includes the statutes required to make determinations, even if one distrusts Libtards.

And ps the Republicans were told exactly what to do and how to behave on January 6, 2020. The Constitution is crystal clear about the peaceful transition of power.

Actually Republicans also blew off the actual election results after many recounts and legal cases; they ignored the obligations of the General Service Administration to fund and support the transition to the Biden Administration after the the Electoral College determined the outcome; and in so so doing they increased vulnerabilities in terms of national security.

Who cares? We lost the election! We can’t lose an election! We are God’s Americans!

They disregarded every law and norm and guideline in their pathetic zeal to hold power indefinitely.

And now they are what we used to call wankers. Not whistle-blowers.

Oh yeah:

Morning May

Morning, May
We’ve confirmed your stay
-4 full weeks
Beginning today

Sunlit days and moonlit nights
Flowers in fields scenic delights
Luxurious accommodations for your stay,
May

For thirty one days you’ll have a splendid view
Just relax au naturel nothing else to do
Technically off- season so it’ll just be you
So voulez-vous

Oh May there’s one more thing
Each morn a bell will ring
The birds awake and they will sing
It’s a thing we do
In spring.

…Only one more thing to say
Good morning May

jk
5/1/18

The Antonin Scalia Memorial Pool of Bad Judgement

…High dive competition: Supreme Justices compete in the Justice Antonin Scalia Memorial Pool to see who has the most outrageous technique in the Olympic Bad Judgement Category:

First in was the Chief doing one double twist screwdriver of bad judgement right into the pool. The Mrs was standing poolside and is completely soaked! Did everyone see that? Amazing!

Next Clarence Thomas did a flailing floundering belly-flop of bad judgement, with a splash-out and all the bystanders are hit with a massive wave and then …he climbed the ladder and did it again! There’s nothing subtle about his performance. The crowd has moved back from poolside.

Next here comes Gorsuch. He’s steady, good form, and then does a tricky backflip into a pike position of bad judgement and that may be a winner. He looks confident that he has perhaps the worst judgement. We shall see.

Here’s Amy. She’s looking nervous, stands at the edge of the board but wait- she looks like she’s praying and just leans over and drops like a potato into the deep end of the bad judgement pool. Wow. It was a failed attempt at the classic cannonball. She’s coming up for air now. She needs a towel and a hug.

Now here is big Sam Alito. He’s on the high dive and he’s sitting there- drinking a snifter of wine. Wait he’s got friends up there on the diving board and they’re having a picnic up there. He’s shaking his head like he’s not going to perform his dive of bad judgement- Wait! there he goes! Uh oh , looks like he’s having trouble with his suit! Uh oh, we’re losing our picture-

We are back. Yes that was totally bad judgement!

It looks like all the justices performed with Olympic bad judgement all around!

Scores: 10!

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