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Hi All. Doing some cooking and cleaning today, general domestic duties day, with music playing. Thought I would share a favorite singer for my slow days like this. I often have music playing, and it sort of matches my mood – like most people. I hope you find him enjoyable. Hugs. Randy
ok…. back edit. I added some. Home you find them all enjoyable. The Trace Adkins one bumps a bit and wakes you up a bit. Don’t want to get too relaxed :).
Hello Everyone. Recently there has been some hijinks and controversy over the ousting of suspected/alleged gang members from the US. On the surface of things, I support the very thing that was done, but it was done quite wrongly and that is the problem.
The United States Constitution outlined our form of government in such a manner that things could – and could not! – be changed as we grew. Chief among these unchangeable is that there are three branches of the government: The Legislative, the Judicial, the Executive, and those branches are created so that no one branch could run unchecked. The sad truth is that no form of government can withstand the greed and avarice of powerful men and women, as has been made quite clear all too often.
Under the very tired and troubled Aliens Enemies Act the drumpf admin. chose to deport suspected ~ alleged Venezuelan gang members prior to the normal hearings and those very pesky things that the Legislative branch seems to like to throw around. This Aliens Enemies Act was last used to imprison Japanese Americans because the Nation of Japan attacked the United States 80+ years ago.
But, so what, right? I mean, they aren’t even citizens, and it would appear that they are gang members breaking the law. Why shouldn’t they be deported?
Ok, fair question. But, who says they are gang members? Who says they are breaking the law? For that matter, are we even sure they are not citizens? I mean, do you carry around your citizenship papers everyday?
The very people who will go to extremes to demand their 2nd Amendment rights seem to lose focus after #2. They don’t mind the violations of the 4th Amendment – until it happens to them. Until they need it. Until someone takes their rights. And it is the very presence of the 4th’s Due Process that gave us the idea that we are a land of laws and rights that can’t be violated at the whim of the powers that be.
There are those who voted this man in who cheer these violations of due process, but they are the same who voted in a man who supported an insurrection, who then pardoned people who broke into the house of government and vandalized, stole, disrupted, threatened, assaulted, brandished weapons and sought to kill the Vice President.
The same man who stole government secrets and papers, perhaps gave them to our enemies, who was convicted of felonies himself, or at least his administration while he naps and plays golf, is telling you that not only do these people not need a 4th Amendment protection, but that the Judge who demands those protections is to be removed. Perhaps they will see their error when he comes for them?
the post along with the comments beneath it are important to read. There are ways to make our directions to our government known. Even if a person can’t show up, a person can send a pizza or some cold drinks to a group who’s out speaking out. We can each do a thing. Meanwhile, please read Tengrain’s post, and the comments, as they’re important to know.
Ron doesn’t care for this guy, he says he is too hard to watch. As I am mostly listening to him and doing other things I had not noticed. He references cave paintings dating way back in the BC era to show that before religion the cave men were bisexual and had same sex activity without stigma. Hugs
You won’t get a long, thoughtful, in-depth, eloquent educational blog today (usually, just long) because I’m just having some fun. We also discussed this issue two days ago, so there’s really nothing to get outraged about here. Or is there?
When I wrote the last blog on this, someone left a comment (I don’t remember who but you can claim it) that the media needed to stop referring to the two astronauts with the extended stays on the International Space Station (ISS), as stranded.
I agree because they were not stranded. Even MAGAt Steve Kelley knows they weren’t “stranded” because if they were, then he would have drawn Superman saving them instead of kissing Elon’s ass. Superman knew the astronauts were safe, so he could focus on more important things, like saving Canada and Greenland from Trump.
This was not Apollo 13, where NASA had to figure out how to get the astronauts home. One of those astronauts was played by Tom Hanks in a film, who had also played a castaway in another movie. And it wasn’t like the film The Martian, when an astronaut was stranded on Mars, played by Matt Damon who also had to be rescued in Saving Private Ryan by Tom Hanks. Sonofabitch! It’s also not like the other times Matt Damon had to be rescued, like in Interstellar, Courage Under Fire, Titan A.E., Elysium, Syrianna, or Green Zone. We need to tie Matt Damon to Ben Affleck so we’ll never have to rescue him again. We’re not lucky enough to lose Ben Affleck.
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were NOT stranded. Also, it’s not like being asked to work a weekend like in Office Space where if you don’t go, Bill Lumbergh’s going to call you all Saturday.
“Yeah, hi…it’s Bill Lumbergh calling again. Uhhhh, yeah…I just wanted to make sure you knew that we started…mmmm, yeah, at the usual time this morning at the….yeah…International Space Station. So…. if you could come on in….yeah…and bring those TPS reports with you…that would be great…uhhhh, also, it’s…yeah…Hawaiian shirt day.”
Most astronauts want to spend more time in space. They’re not Matt Damon.
Williams and Wilmore’s trip was extended because the spacecraft that took them to the ISS had safety issues, so their trip was extended. They were NOT alone on the ISS as other astronauts were there with them. Were they also stranded? No. There are seven astronauts on the International Space Station right now. There are three more on the Tiangong Space Station (space commies). None of them are stranded.
In the case of Williams and Wilmore, NASA wasn’t trying to figure out how to get them home. They were trying to decide when and which craft. No one had to figure out how to get them home. They were picked up during the regular rotation of delivering and returning astronauts.
When you go to a bar and do the responsible thing and call an Uber to take you home, the Uber is not rescuing you (unless a Nickelback cover band is playing in the bar…and you’re sitting next to Ben Affleck, then you really are being rescued).
SpaceX is already contracted with NASA so it’s not like Elon came running to help from out of nowhere. NASA has contracts with other companies that deliver astronauts. Also, Elon didn’t volunteer to “rescue” these astronauts for free. Elon has been paid $13 billion by NASA over the past decade, and future payments will be higher.
While most readers will think this cartoon is just me having some fun, it’s also mocking all the fuckers who believe Elon rescued stranded astronauts.
And speaking of Gilligan, why can’t we lose Elon during a three-hour tour?
Music note: I listened to Van Halen, NOT Van Hagar.
Creative notes: I wrote this idea yesterday and saved it for today so I could draw the deportation cartoon, which I had been trying to do for a week. This cartoon, the second I’ve drawn today (the first was for the Advance which you’ll see tomorrow) took four hours.
I enjoyed the entire video. I love how he broke down the fascism that is already being implemented. I really enjoyed his words at the end of the video. Hugs
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