Good Morning. Woke up to some hopeful news from Politico. It seems that Florida is not pleased with DeSantis.
Good Morning. Woke up to some hopeful news from Politico. It seems that Florida is not pleased with DeSantis.
About time. A few months ago I posted that I didn't think DS was totally evil. I think differently now. He's not only drunk the KoolAid, he snorted the powder straight from the package.
And I am pleased to say that my county was one of the first two school districts to give him the big fat middle finger.
@ana Hahahahahahaha. I'm rolling with the KoolAid sniffing visual. Someone once told me that God drops subtle hints to help us or get us to take action. And if we don't listen, each hint gets a little louder. Eventually it's a brick upside the head. There are a lot bricks flying right now and it didn't need to happen. Better late than never.
Six of his children do not support parole.
I see that there can be forgiveness, but you can be forgiving and still expect accountability. RFK's murdered not only killed a beloved person and robbed him and his family of what his life could have been, but he also robbed the world. He dragged the country into a very difference timeline. Imagine what could have been. A life sentence if fair.
@jeanne-mayell In the song "American Pie", The day the music died has always been the day Buddy Holly died.
Wow things are moving fast.
A U.S. military strike has conducted against an ISIS-K-planner and they say they got him without civilian casualties. ( Wow that was quick)
U.S. has told people to leave the airport area again as they say another attack is imminent. ( This is so difficult unsettling).
Families are beginning to release names an information of their killed service members.
(Very difficult to hear these loving heartfelt tributes of young and brave loved ones who have given their lives in service to their country. In helping humanity during a major crisis. May their memories be a blessing).
9 family members including many children have been killed in the latest drone strike. I am truly sickened to the pit of my stomach with what is occurring over there.
Sirhan Sirhan murdered Robert Kennedy in 1968
I would like to know how his eldest son, Joe Kennedy II, feels about the parole. He was sixteen at the time of his father's death. I bristle at the thought of RFK's murderer being allowed to go free.
Well, Joe Kennedy II, Bobby Kennedy’s eldest son who was sixteen when his father was murdered, has now spoken and he feels just as I would have expected: No way should Sirhan or anyone who murders people who run for office, ever go free. He described the pain of his fathers death including that not a day goes by that they suffer from missing their dad.
Optional backstory: I had a close brush with Joe Kennedy in my twenties when he dated and later married a woman who worked for the small think tank where I worked. Theirs was a tumultuous relationship and I quickly learned that Joe was a passionate young man with a lot of fire —sometimes too much fire. So too was this young woman he married and had twins with. He became our congressman and wet to Washington. After they divorced, she wrote a scathing book about him that ended his political career. Then one of their twins, Joe Kennedy III, took up the family gauntlet and became my Congressman.
The book has closed and the last U.S. military flight has left Afghanistan.
Other books shall be written, but the 20 year war co-authored by 4 presidents is officially over.
It sure feels as if Biden could use a hug...
Read in the Guardian reported earlier today"
"More news to make some leading Republicans sweat, as Reuters and CNN report that the 6 January committee intends to make a third round of requests for records as it investigates the deadly assault on the US Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to overturn the election result.
More than 600 people have been arrested over the assault, around which five people died. The records in question may include those of Donald Trump himself, and his family members.
Last week the House panel, predominantly Democratic but with two Republican members in the Trump critics Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, ordered federal agencies and social media companies to hand over records related to the violence.
The committee also intends, Reuters reports an anonymous source as saying, to ask telephone companies to preserve records of people involved in organizing the rally that preceded the riot.
That was a “Stop the Steal” event near the White House which was addressed by, among others, Trump and his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. As Reuters puts it:
The source on Monday confirmed a CNN report that the committee’s request is expected to include preservation of phone records of then-President Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka, and his sons Eric and Donald Jr. CNN said the list of individuals whose records the committee is asking phone companies to preserve also includes Republican members of Congress who were strong supporters of Trump and his false claims that Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the November 2020 election was tainted by fraud.
The committee hasn’t commented but one person who has is Sidney Blumenthal, the Clinton aide-turned Lincoln biographer who is also a Guardian contributor.
In two pieces this summer, Blumenthal has concentrated on what Jim Jordan of Ohio, a leading rabble-rouser on the right in the House, knew about the assault and when, and on a possible precedent for compelling Jordan to testify in front of the 6 January committee. The latter follows at the end of this post.
On Sunday, Politico reported that Jordan had a hitherto undisclosed second conversation with Donald Trump as the riot unfolded"
I think there is a hit in this one too...didn't Baba or someone else "see" Jim Jordan in the news and being "unhappy"? I could swear I saw that!!!