@laura-f Not yet but it's on the list my wife and I keep adding to! :-)
The secret of turning the crank is not to think about how long you've been turning the darn thing! ? ? ?
Especially tonight with the Roger Stone news. I recorded a small group of 8 of our community theater juniors singing a song for a virtual arts festival tonight at my in-laws (proper distancing, sterilization, etc. took place, all outside, all siblings and facing different directions) - a rum and coke and editing sound and video of beautiful kids (including my own!) singing Happiness from You're a Good Man Charlie Brown awaits me tonight as an escape from the horrors of today.
Thank you for your reply. Let's hope and pray that it never comes to this and that there is a decidedly Blue Wave. Then we can all take a deep breath, begin rebuilding our hope and country and know that justice for Rump and his enablers will begin...
I live in Texas--very red, although my city is not--and I am seeing much the same as you. The resistance to masks among some of my fellow citizens is unbelievable. My career (performing arts) is hanging by a thread thanks in no small part to the selfish, shortsighted, "stick-it-to-the-libs" magical thinkers who live here.
What interests me is the discussion among my teacher friends and family. Teachers as a group tend to skew a little conservative in my experience, but there is 100% agreement across the board among the teachers I know that trying to return to in-person school in August is a terrible mistake, will put lives at risk, and will end badly with a shutdown in October at the latest anyway. This is among friends and relatives who teach elementary school, middle school, and high school subjects including math, science, English, and music; some vote red and some vote blue but all of them, without exception, are up in arms about the possibility of school opening.
"Now, I am not psychic. I don't have the ability to see the future, so my dreams are likely nothing more than a manifestation of my fears. But many of you do have the gift, so I am hopeful you will post and say something encouraging for my area while I am waiting for the proverbial ax to fall? Also, to my fellow members who live in a red state like me, I wanted to see if (1) you are seeing the same things I am and (2) I wanted to reach out and tell you that you are not alone in your anxiety.
So...I guess my message is to watch the red states for the next few weeks, as they may very well determine the future of this election and the country. If a mass die off does occcur, then a prediction I saw once predicting that Trump's approval rating drops to 25% may very well come to pass (I can't remember who saw it. Sorry!) But if we can try to send as much light as we can and try to shield as many of the innocent as we can (and everyone else, because we are light workers and we don't discriminate), then I would greatly appreciate it.'
I think you are very gifted in ways that are even better than what you call "psychic" and claim not to have abilities in. Really and truly you are reading the signs and entries of people and events and putting those puzzle pieces into the broader picture where we can see it all layed out so well.
A wonderful articulate, intelligent, and gifted ability to see others and patterns very, very well Allyn.
So glad you are here. I so appreciate your insights and gifts of sharing them all with us.
Question for @Allyn :
If Stone's sentence is commuted, does that mean that in future he cannot invoke 5th Amendment for any proceeding involving the same facts/investigation?
No. Only a pardon takes away a person’s right plead the Fifth and remain silent. It does so because there is no need to worry about being convicted of anything since you've already been pardoned. Commutation does not take away that right, so Stone now cannot be forced to testify.
@share Watching so many of us come together after the death of George Floyd made me think exactly this. You wrote: But in my dream, someone said that this negativity must happen for us to learn and grow from it otherwise we’ll all be complacent and the change will only be momentarily not permanent.
@Allyn greetings from your red neighbor from the north, KY. Our only saving grace is we have a Democrat for a Governor. Andy, bless his heart, is fighting as hard as he can to keep us from going down that great cesspool caused by the virus. Believe me it’s a battle. Now we have a progressive left Booker going around the state telling people McGraft is not good enough to be senator. He will help MoscowMitch get re-elected just for spite.
Thank you for your insight into the tax returns, I would not be at all surprised if opps! Someone leaks them. I had to laugh, someone posted on Twitter that Muchen (?) said the Dems only want the tax returns released to embarrass Trump. Someone ask him what was in them that would be embarrassing. He got a blank look on his face and shut up. Sometimes these guys just don’t know when to shut up! As for a Stone I think there are plenty of other charges out there for him. His arrogance will get him sent up yet.
there are three more months, lord help us, before the election. I agree the Dems have to get tough. That paired with GOO not being able to keep his mouth shut hopefully will bring on a blue wave.