The verdict is a major defeat for Durham, who has spent 3+ years and $3.8 million looking for misconduct related to the Trump-Russia probes.
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
U.S. marks Memorial Day weekend with at least 12 mass shootings
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Quarius Naqua Dunham, a third grader from Portsmouth, N.H. was killed over the weekend when police say he and his family were victims of a random shooting in South Carolina.
According to the Florence County Sheriff's office, 40-year-old Charles Montgomery Allen allegedly shot at three cars as they drove by his home on Saturday.
Dunham was rushed to the hospital after being shot in the neck. The 8-year-old was removed from life support on Sunday and later died. His father was hit in the leg, but is expected to survive.
Charles Montgomery Allen, the killer who shot the 8-year-old New Hampshire boy.
Monday, May 30, 2022
MEMORIAL DAY
For the Union Dead
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam."
The old South Boston Aquarium stands
in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows are boarded.
The bronze weathervane cod has lost half its scales.
The airy tanks are dry.
Once my nose crawled like a snail on the glass;
my hand tingled
to burst the bubbles
drifting from the noses of the cowed, compliant fish.
My hand draws back. I often sigh still
for the dark downward and vegetating kingdom
of the fish and reptile. One morning last March,
I pressed against the new barbed and galvanized
fence on the Boston Common. Behind their cage,
yellow dinosaur steamshovels were grunting
as they cropped up tons of mush and grass
to gouge their underworld garage.
Parking spaces luxuriate like civic
sandpiles in the heart of Boston.
A girdle of orange, Puritan-pumpkin colored girders
braces the tingling Statehouse,
shaking over the excavations, as it faces Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens' shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garage's earthquake.
Two months after marching through Boston,
half the regiment was dead;
at the dedication,
William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe.
Their monument sticks like a fishbone
in the city's throat.
Its Colonel is as lean
as a compass-needle.
He has an angry wrenlike vigilance,
a greyhound's gentle tautness;
he seems to wince at pleasure,
and suffocate for privacy.
He is out of bounds now. He rejoices in man's lovely,
peculiar power to choose life and die--
when he leads his black soldiers to death,
he cannot bend his back.
On a thousand small town New England greens,
the old white churches hold their air
of sparse, sincere rebellion; frayed flags
quilt the graveyards of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The stone statues of the abstract Union Soldier
grow slimmer and younger each year--
wasp-waisted, they doze over muskets
and muse through their sideburns . . .
Shaw's father wanted no monument
except the ditch,
where his son's body was thrown
and lost with his "niggers."
The ditch is nearer.
There are no statues for the last war here;
on Boylston Street, a commercial photograph
shows Hiroshima boiling
over a Mosler Safe, the "Rock of Ages"
that survived the blast. Space is nearer.
When I crouch to my television set,
the drained faces of Negro school-children rise like balloons.
Colonel Shaw
is riding on his bubble,
he waits
for the blessèd break.
The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
giant finned cars nose forward like fish;
a savage servility
slides by on grease.Sunday, May 29, 2022
AMERICA'S SICKNESS.
I don't know where this is, but the young boy has a t-shirt on with "Texas" on it, so maybe it's somewhere in that benighted state.
Think of all the money these morons spent on this arsenal when they could have put it toward something that builds instead of kills.
We are a sick, sick country.
Saturday, May 28, 2022
NO DANCING THIS SATURDAY NIGHT -- TOO DAMN UPSET
Friday, May 27, 2022
IN OTHER HORRIFIC NEWS...
Donald J. Trump, former POTUS, approved of the chants from his thugs saying, "HANG MIKE PENCE!"
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Jeremy Richman-died by suicide 7 years after his daughter Amelie was murdered at Sandy Hook.
Austin Eubanks, survived Columbine. Spiraled into addiction within 1 year of surviving that Massacre. He got clean, became a motivational speaker. He died of a heroin overdose in 2019.
Sydney Arielle- survived Parkland. Died by suicide in 2019
Calvin Desir- also survived Parkland. Died by suicide in 2019.
IS THE RIGHT TO OWN AR-15s MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE LIVES OF THESE CHILDREN?
These are just a few photos of the children who were slaughtered yesterday.
This country is sick.
I blame the politicians who refuse to do anything about this sickness.
President Clinton banned the sale of AR-15s. That ban lapsed when George Bush became president, and he refused to renew it (as he had promised while campaigning for the presidency).
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
This is your current Trumpublican party and its gun-worshipping/fetishizing politicians:
REMEMBER THIS?
The gutless
@GOQ ghouls cheered this.
#RepublicansAreTheProblem #GunReformNow
Texas Republican leaders promised action on gun safety after the El Paso shooting. Instead, they passed permitless carry.
The Texas Legislature passed a bill allowing Texans to carry handguns without a license or training — an expansion of gun rights so divisive Republican leaders in previous years refused to touch it.
Mitt Romney has taken more than $13mil from The NRA, far more than any other Senator.
He's right that prayer/condolence are grossly inadequate.
But the fact that he won't do more proves his soul is, too.
It's not enough to be better than Trump, Mitt.
Joni Ernst has taken:
$3,124,773 from the NRA.
26 years ago, a gunman entered
Dunblane Primary School in Scotland,
killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK
govt responded by enacting tight gun
control legislation. In the 9400+ days
since, there have been a total of O
school shootings in the UK. #Uvalde
Twenty minutes in response to a peaceful protest of less than 100 people.
And it will do nothing for those dead kids
