By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
In honor of quiet heroes, both past and present. A movement from the aptly named Eroica Symphony by Beethoven. God bless and keep each and every one of them.
Enjoy the the music and as always enjoy your day and Memorial Day weekend.
fascinating lawsuit in nytimes:
Mr. Heimbach’s claim of indemnity — and his demand that Mr. Trump honor his promise to pay legal fees — is highly unusual, legal experts say. But his counterclaim against Mr. Trump has nonetheless probed the limits of free speech and public protest while confronting the courts with a unique legal argument.
“You certainly don’t see that very often,” said Leslie Kendrick, a law professor at the University of Virginia, referring to a defendant’s seeking a free legal pass and legal fees for acts committed at the behest of a stranger — who in this case happened to be the future president. Indemnity, or impleader, cases typically involve workplace or business relationships.
Absolutely perfect selection Jace. Thank you.
excerpt from Alexandra petri’s BOOM PUNCH POW! AMERICA IS GREAT AGAIN!
Enough of this “civilization” and these “journalists” who want to fight “words” with “words” instead of with fists.
As a private citizen, there is only so much harm you can do. You can break one reporter’s glasses, maybe. Tops. But then they run to the police and you face jail time and fines.
I want leaders who will do this, but to millions of people, but without the possibility of breaking a nail. I want to throw 23 million people off their health insurance. I want to purge the weak. I want to be strong and manly and fierce again. I want to take America back, all the way back, to when we were hunters and beat our chests and growled and the only insurance you had was your trusty spear. When men were men. Those were good days.
Good compilation of all the non-Muslim mass murderers. She was a little forceful in her answer, but just click for all the pictures and statistics.
https://twitter.com/mickeysnoel/status/868498150079819777
Beautiful choice, Jace. We must explore Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar’s work with Mahler as well. So much music, so little time! Thanks again
Flatus
As a private citizen one can respond to ‘fighting words’ with fists
All those sacrifices so that we could be represented by an administration that sold us out to the Russians. Disgusting.
Try ’em and fry ’em (if found guilty in a court of law). Happy Sunday!
My relatives fought the Soviets in 1939, the Soviets killed my great-grandmother. One of the hardest things I had to do in the military was accept the Soviets as a “friendly” nation, this was just over thirty years after the Winter War. As a U.S. Air Force airman I did as I was told. Once out I held the Soviets in contempt once again and do to this very day. That a Soviet agent was elected president of these United States is so horrible and it hurts so bad I cannot fathom a worse fate. I am happy that most of my relatives are not with us anymore so they are not subject to this humiliation. We can only hope that justice is done and this senile old man sits the rest of his life talking to his toes, alone.
BB,
I have similar feelings about official Japan which over the centuries has invaded Korea at will; the last time taking one of Kumcho’s sisters with them for morale uses (we assume). She was never seen nor heard from again. The single thing that will unite North and South Korea is a fight against Japanese expansionism into the East Sea fishing grounds and islands.
BB, I stand beside you to help carry the burden of your rightful anger and indignation.
Flatus
Flatus – Thank you. Too many have been deluded when they consider a Democratic Party member is worse than the KGB/SVR/FSB/GRU and vote for a Kremlin agent.
My family came to this country fromRussia. They were Germans from Russia often referred to as Volga Germans. The old timers, and I knew many of them, could agree and disagree about many things, but one thing was almost an article of faith among them. You can’t trust the Russians! As true today as it was then.
Lovely selection — Mr C and I have quite the cocktail chat going with all our new found musical knowledge — thank you Jace
The Homeland Security General Moron –Jared did the right thing…if he did it
Remember what Ike said..Beware of the military industrial complex
from latimes:
Europe’s reaction to the Trump style ranges from envy to ‘you tiny, tiny, tiny little man’
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Trump’s image as an outsider continued in Italy on Friday at the G-7 meeting in Taormina, Italy, where the distance between Trump and the others was as much physical as it was political. The presidents, chancellor and prime ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom walked the streets of Taormina.
Trump followed in a golf cart.
must have been to hard to haul that fat ass around
maybe he is not so healthy after all —
A DER SPIEGEL Editorial
It’s Time to Get Rid of Donald Trump
Donald Trump has transformed the United States into a laughing stock and he is a danger to the world. He must be removed from the White House before things get even worse.
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Nothing is as it should be in this White House. Everyone working there has been compromised multiple times and now they all despise each other – and everyone except for Trump despises Trump. Because of all that, after just 120 days of the Trump administration, we are witness to an American tragedy for which there are five theoretical solutions.
The first is Trump’s resignation, which won’t happen. The second is that Republicans in the House and Senate support impeachment, which would be justified by the president’s proven obstruction of justice, but won’t happen because of the Republicans’ thirst for power, which they won’t willingly give up. The third possible solution is the invocation of the 25th Amendment, which would require the cabinet to declare Trump unfit to discharge the powers of the presidency. That isn’t particularly likely either. Fourth: The Democrats get ready to fight and win back majorities in the House and Senate in midterm elections, which are 18 months away, before they then pursue option two, impeachment. Fifth: the international community wakes up and finds a way to circumvent the White House and free itself of its dependence on the U.S. Unlike the preceding four options, the fifth doesn’t directly solve the Trump problem, but it is nevertheless necessary – and possible.
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The U.S. elected a laughing stock to the presidency and has now made itself dependent on a joke of a man. The country is, as David Brooks wrote recently in the New York Times, dependent on a child. The Trump administration has no foreign policy because Trump has consistently promised American withdrawal while invoking America’s strength. He has promised both no wars and more wars. He makes decisions according to his mood, with no strategic coherence or tactical logic. Moscow and Beijing are laughing at America. Elsewhere, people are worried.
[….]
In “Game of Thrones,” the Mad King was murdered (and the child that later took his place was no better). In real life, an immature boy sits on the throne of the most important country in the world. He could, at any time, issue a catastrophic order that would immediately be carried out. That is why the parents cannot afford to take their eyes off him even for a second. They cannot succumb to exhaustion because he is so taxing. They ultimately have to send him to his room – and return power to the grownups.
one man’s opinion
As usual, Ms Wino, you offer up insightful commentary with a delightfully deft touch…..thanks for Sharon and Karen…..
That “act right” feller is in Oklahoma…..that’s a good sign.
that simple picture is worth a hundred “protests”
A Russian once told me to never trust Russians. 🙂
Building on Sturge’s picture: That boy don’t have a bubble in his level.
Der Spiegel oversteps.
The truth though
flatus, is der spiegal’s 5th option [the international community wakes up and finds a way to circumvent the White House and free itself of its dependence on the U.S. Unlike the preceding four options, the fifth doesn’t directly solve the Trump problem, but it is nevertheless necessary – and possible.] where you think they overstepped?
it is much like angela’s according to today nytimes report: Ms. Merkel said on Sunday that traditional alliances were no longer as reliable as they once were, and that Europe should pay more attention to its own interests “and really take our fate into our own hands.”…“The times in which we could rely fully on others, they are somewhat over.”..“This is what I experienced in the last few days,” she said.
Given this new context for international relations, she said, “that is why I can only say that we Europeans must really take our fate into our own hands — of course in friendship with the United States of America, in friendship with Great Britain and as good neighbors wherever that is possible also with other countries, even with Russia.”
But Europe must stand up for its own interests and become more self-reliant, she said, including on defense, an issue she has often raised since the British vote to leave the bloc. “We have to know that we must fight for our future on our own, for our destiny as Europeans,” Ms. Merkel said.
I can’t tell you all how devastated I was about the news of Greg Allman’s death. I’ve seen Greg Allman yeah pretty much all of the configurations of his bands from the Allman joys and Hour Glass through the Allman Brothers band and theGreg Allman band, and have loved all of it. It’s a tremendous loss, and one that I take personally. I think I first saw Greg Allman and twine at the Oporto armory in about 1967 when they were still playing armories and medium venues. I believe they were touring is the Hour Glass at that point. Damn.
Oh, yes, the truth. But, they’ve had their own problems over the years. Our media has been largely outspoken on our problem during this four month period. Where was Der Spiegel during the 30s and 40s?
Dad potting Impatiens today, Mom’s favorite. With this sight and Jace’s music, a lovely Sunday.
Pat, quite simply, Europe, without NATO, does not have the strength to repel, in Western Europe, the incursions Russia has already made in Eastern and Central Europe.
Craig, he looks pooped. That’s how I felt when I got through with our yard yesterday afternoon. I was halfway down the trail thru the Habitat when the tractor and I ran into a tree that decided to be upended across said trail. Some morning I’ve got to go up their with a chainsaw and finish things up.
Tell your Dad that the garden looks magnificent
They learned the lesson of silence.
flatus, nor would we want to lose the convenience of all those bases, permission to make use of land storage and waterways and airspace in those countries…. doesn’t all that give us better opportunity to defend our own country by keeping watch and ready weaponry beyond our borders? not exactly a one way street there.
Now that I am officially “old” (allowed to retire by Social Security yardstick) and approaching full retirement age (by which I have to start retiring IRA’s) I find myself irritated and annoyed by little things I see and hear (does not include the KGB in the WH). Just now I am reading the online Baltimore Sun as I am sitting and do not want to expend the energy to walk to the kitchen where the print edition is sitting on the kitchen table, one article caught my eye. It was about a time capsule from Dundalk which was put away fifty years ago.
I do remember when I was young, say five or six decades ago, fifty years sounded like one hell of a lot of years. Now, fifty sounds a lot less impressive than say one hundred or one hundred fifteen years. But, now that those are closer those too fail to be important sounding.
World War One and the Yanks joining in was only one hundred years ago. My great-uncle James was still alive and had just enlisted in the Navy. His death would not come for another year, 1918, September 16 to be exact, as recorded by the German submarine commander who torpedoed his ship and the U.S. Navy. My mother turns ninety in a couple months. Even my siblings are older than fifty (actually in their sixties).
No. Fifty is not old anymore. My feelings are in great flux over this matter. I did die August 4-5, 1980, but confounded my doctors and nurses by not staying that way. So for me age is a vague subject based on that issue alone. But now, when every day or year is a bonus day or year, I look back and still say fifty is too young to dig up a time capsule. Many of us are still around and can verify the contents, and most likely add some to it. Unlike when a time capsule has been in the brickwork for two or three hundred years and the contents mouldered to a mush.
Pat, I would say yes if it weren’t for the fact that it is our humanity that is manning much of the most difficult front line, and our aircraft providing the key strength day-after-day, decade-after-decade. And, because we have been the ones with tactical nuclear weapons needed to blunt the attack, it is our bases most at risk. Self-serving? I’ve served my time over there; but that was part of our NATO commitment. Meanwhile, it’s our South Carolina state tax dollars that are building facilities for European mega-industries in the hopes that they will employ our cheap labor. Who needs whom?
flatus, you asked “Where was Der Spiegel during the 30s and 40s?” not far behind them were some of our own media. here’s an excerpt from
The Revolution of 1940: America’s Fight Over Entering World War Two reviewing some of the books on America’s aversion to entering war against Germany during that period:
Bankrolled by Gen. Robert E. Wood, chairman of retail giant Sears, Roebuck; editorially backed by the Hearst chain of newspapers, publisher Robert McCormick’s Chicago Tribune, and New York Daily News publisher Joseph Patterson; and given voice by avowed anti-Semite radio priest Father Charles Coughlin and many other leading media figures, the anti-intervention-movement rallies attracted crowds in the tens of thousands, often to hear Lindbergh speak, sometimes to call for FDR’s impeachment and Lindbergh to take power.
So to get this straight; Trump just completed his first overseas trip. And since he didn’t ask the Pope if he spoke English and try to French kiss King Saud (and since Melanoma didn’t do a pole dance anywhere) – they’re now being portrayed in the press as Jesus and Mary?
The bar is now soooo low – help?
DVitale – yes the bar is low. And, even worse the media is starting to warm up to the concept.
Oh, yeah ? Then where’s that slimey little creep pilate ? He’s late for Easter !
Meanwhile, in North Korea…
Biden Slams Democrats for Silence on Middle-Class Struggles – NBC News
https://apple.news/AKI2PYkDmSiS-7iplWQiGDA
don’t give up dvitale, don’t forget: Nixon got a parade in Egypt before he was impeached
100 Middle Schoolers Refuse Photo-Op With Paul Ryan During D.C. Trip – HuffPost
https://apple.news/A9PnPpmkWR42tZoNDxfAaSQ
There is hope for the future.
Trump Has Stayed Silent On The Portland Stabbings. Dan Rather’s Response Is Perfect
the dude has alzheimer’s……….”exhausted” they said…….riding in the golf cart….wandering off from the meeting…….etc etc
he’s got it
Der Spiegel: Donald Trump has transformed the United States into a laughing stock and he is a danger to the world. He must be removed from the White House before things get even worse.