The editing of the constitution was not a coding error but a fantasy of Trumps, and guess what? Thanks to the republicans, it is closer to reality than our fantasy of fairness and America values and honesty from public official. The Supreme Court said he can break the law and surprise surprise, he does everyday. On another note that Christmas Eve broadcast is still with me and I listen to it every Christmas Eve. I thought the earth rise photo might usher a sense of family for the human race, silly me as a young person.
...yes, to the Jim Lovell tribute. As a child, my earliest answer to what do you you want to be when you grow up was: an astronaut. "Space" / the universe / the planets and stars- continue to inspire wonder. If we "blasted off" today in a "rocket ship" and traveled for a century in any direction, we would be no deeper in space than we are right here right now: in an infinite universe there is, simultaneously, no center- and the "center" is everywhere. We are in an ocean- with no surface, and no floor, and: no shore, "swimming," as well as we can...
"Madison summed it up perfectly: "Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
And now we have a president who is using the military to occupy our capital city:
"The U.S. military is preparing to activate National Guard troops in the nation’s capital as part of President Trump’s campaign against crime there, a Defense Department official said." (NYT)
I'd love to see every D.C. law enforcement officer, all the "brass," detectives, even civilian staff, go on strike -- regardless of whether the city has something similar to New York state's Taylor Law that forbids unionized law enforcement personnel to do so. NYS correction officers defied the Taylor Law over the winter, forcing National Guard soldiers to help staff state prisons. Imagine National Guard soldiers, maybe even active-duty military, being thrown into an unfamiliar city to keep the peace! My understanding that U.S. military are, by law, forbidden from making arrests; they can only assist sworn officers. And as in L..A., where are all these soldiers going to sleep, be fed, housed during off-duty? And how long will they be missing from their regular civilian jobs? This is what passes for normal in today's America.
The Lowell story was maybe when people could have looked at you and said...."THERE goes his future self...once a nerd, always a nerd"...and thank GOODNESS!!! The range of things you cover continued through your official newspaper days and continue now; it just doesn't stop, and we, your substack readers, are so lucky!
I volunteer for the VA's suicide prevention initiative, running a veteran support group close to home in the 1000 Islands. The husband of one of the group's members works for NASA as a real rocket scientist, having designed a part of our Mars Rover. I'm dying to talk with him about his space work, & his opinion of Russia, China, & the US all trying to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. What could possibly go wrong?
His wife's a Native American who I think has finally accepted that she's a real combat veteran, even though she was an airplane mechanic who didn't have a gun and didn't get to shoot back at the Taliban who were shooting at her several times in Afghanistan.
You mention the riots, etc. of 1967-8. We who were in uniform overseas back then, wondered if we would have a country to come home to, because of what the war was doing to the US. We also worried whether we'd be let back in, because it was obvious we couldn't win that war. Finally we wondered if we'd all be scapegoated as baby-killers.
Another group member in a walker with Agent Orange and PTSD, was part of a generation of the Vietnam vets who our government wouldn't admit had Agent Orange before they passed it on to the children they later had. Our society needs to make it right for those families.
You are right. Will Doolittle did some important reporting on Bluewater veterans while at The Post-Star and actually got one veterans' benefits restored.
AND perhaps the best example of why we need the fourth estate.. especially small newspapers.
As someone who asked repeatedly for pos_tfnKKK's office to help with a 'government' (i.e. a trmpedo administration) issue.. and received no help* I know these things will not be taken care of by pos_tfnKKK or any other republican
* I eventually had to call up the person 'helping' me and explain to him.. I was no longer asking for help, I was trying to share with him what the solution was.. so he could start using that to help others. (I would say more, but since the ol'crone has been stalking and trying to dox... I will leave it there)
Again, Ken, you stirred up memories. Your reflections reminded me that when I was serving my first church in Medfield MA, there was a young family in the church for two years who were from Texas. The father, Dr. Clarence Jernigan, had been sent by NASA to get a Masters in Public Health from Harvard. The family was quite active in the church those years. Clarence participated in an early Wednesday morning men’s study group I led.
Several years later, then living in Ohio, we were watching the return of Apollo 11 from the moon. When the astronauts came aboard the USS Hornet (I believe) and went into immediate isolation, the attending flight surgeon who went into quarantine with them was Clarence. I can still feel the excitement we felt that day.
Every accusation is a confession.. this is a reality of ever republican in the gutter, from hmpy trmPEdo to pos_tfnKKK
It is true when they remove the constitution from whitehouse.com, which is something that clearly literal = on the website and in reality.
As with pos_tfnKKK she is obviously done with being the worst representative in congress, consequently the worst NY21 has ever had. While she took her goody-bye tour when she thought she was going to be the UN rep.. she had left the district long ago (which is an odd thing to say, when she never lived here.. she had residences, but never lived here).
She has been looking for bigger and better things.. I am thinking has been true since she was an eight year old.. and since that time.. she hasn’t matured.
When she attacks, there is a reason.. and it is often in her own failures. I am sure it hurt a lot when Harvard rejected her on their board. I wouldn’t be surprised that when it comes out about the law schools she was rejected from.. they are the same ones she claimed to be antisemitic. And does she look internally.. nah.. she supports the pedophile in the oval office who is the most antisemitic since Andrew Jackson
If you look and you don’t have to look close... when it comes to attacks.. if you are a woman or black.. you are at the top of her hit list (this is one chase where... pos_tfnKKK isn’t black and certainly lacks like she hates women).
And if you are a woman AND black.. well, she doesn’t need mr.murdrr.manda (noted gun lobbyist) to help her get that person in her crosshairs.
The thing pos_tfnKKK is trying to do, send out tracer bullets to see if she can move the polling.. and what WILL move the polling... because if the governor election was held today, the woman who’s policies kill children, would lose two to one.
Bless the reporters that called out this so called coding error. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck...it must be our corrupt autocrat in chief.
The editing of the constitution was not a coding error but a fantasy of Trumps, and guess what? Thanks to the republicans, it is closer to reality than our fantasy of fairness and America values and honesty from public official. The Supreme Court said he can break the law and surprise surprise, he does everyday. On another note that Christmas Eve broadcast is still with me and I listen to it every Christmas Eve. I thought the earth rise photo might usher a sense of family for the human race, silly me as a young person.
It felt that way for a time.
...yes, to the Jim Lovell tribute. As a child, my earliest answer to what do you you want to be when you grow up was: an astronaut. "Space" / the universe / the planets and stars- continue to inspire wonder. If we "blasted off" today in a "rocket ship" and traveled for a century in any direction, we would be no deeper in space than we are right here right now: in an infinite universe there is, simultaneously, no center- and the "center" is everywhere. We are in an ocean- with no surface, and no floor, and: no shore, "swimming," as well as we can...
Re: the "coding error". I have no doubt that the current rulers will decree that the founders used White-Out.
"Madison summed it up perfectly: "Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
And now we have a president who is using the military to occupy our capital city:
"The U.S. military is preparing to activate National Guard troops in the nation’s capital as part of President Trump’s campaign against crime there, a Defense Department official said." (NYT)
Dramatically reduce crime in our country: lock HIM up...
I'd love to see every D.C. law enforcement officer, all the "brass," detectives, even civilian staff, go on strike -- regardless of whether the city has something similar to New York state's Taylor Law that forbids unionized law enforcement personnel to do so. NYS correction officers defied the Taylor Law over the winter, forcing National Guard soldiers to help staff state prisons. Imagine National Guard soldiers, maybe even active-duty military, being thrown into an unfamiliar city to keep the peace! My understanding that U.S. military are, by law, forbidden from making arrests; they can only assist sworn officers. And as in L..A., where are all these soldiers going to sleep, be fed, housed during off-duty? And how long will they be missing from their regular civilian jobs? This is what passes for normal in today's America.
“The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.”
I love this sentence! We need this as a reminder to take better care of our Earth and each other.
Thank you for this piece.
Indeed we do.
The Lowell story was maybe when people could have looked at you and said...."THERE goes his future self...once a nerd, always a nerd"...and thank GOODNESS!!! The range of things you cover continued through your official newspaper days and continue now; it just doesn't stop, and we, your substack readers, are so lucky!
Thank you Barbara. Very humbling words.
She's a Carpetbagger!!!!
I volunteer for the VA's suicide prevention initiative, running a veteran support group close to home in the 1000 Islands. The husband of one of the group's members works for NASA as a real rocket scientist, having designed a part of our Mars Rover. I'm dying to talk with him about his space work, & his opinion of Russia, China, & the US all trying to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. What could possibly go wrong?
His wife's a Native American who I think has finally accepted that she's a real combat veteran, even though she was an airplane mechanic who didn't have a gun and didn't get to shoot back at the Taliban who were shooting at her several times in Afghanistan.
You mention the riots, etc. of 1967-8. We who were in uniform overseas back then, wondered if we would have a country to come home to, because of what the war was doing to the US. We also worried whether we'd be let back in, because it was obvious we couldn't win that war. Finally we wondered if we'd all be scapegoated as baby-killers.
Another group member in a walker with Agent Orange and PTSD, was part of a generation of the Vietnam vets who our government wouldn't admit had Agent Orange before they passed it on to the children they later had. Our society needs to make it right for those families.
You are right. Will Doolittle did some important reporting on Bluewater veterans while at The Post-Star and actually got one veterans' benefits restored.
I didn't know this story.. but it is a good one.
AND perhaps the best example of why we need the fourth estate.. especially small newspapers.
As someone who asked repeatedly for pos_tfnKKK's office to help with a 'government' (i.e. a trmpedo administration) issue.. and received no help* I know these things will not be taken care of by pos_tfnKKK or any other republican
* I eventually had to call up the person 'helping' me and explain to him.. I was no longer asking for help, I was trying to share with him what the solution was.. so he could start using that to help others. (I would say more, but since the ol'crone has been stalking and trying to dox... I will leave it there)
Does anyone really think that the aliens on the moon will allow those puny earthlings to spread their [nuclear, and otherwise] contagion there?
Excellent Point!
Again, Ken, you stirred up memories. Your reflections reminded me that when I was serving my first church in Medfield MA, there was a young family in the church for two years who were from Texas. The father, Dr. Clarence Jernigan, had been sent by NASA to get a Masters in Public Health from Harvard. The family was quite active in the church those years. Clarence participated in an early Wednesday morning men’s study group I led.
Several years later, then living in Ohio, we were watching the return of Apollo 11 from the moon. When the astronauts came aboard the USS Hornet (I believe) and went into immediate isolation, the attending flight surgeon who went into quarantine with them was Clarence. I can still feel the excitement we felt that day.
A coding error??? They don't even bother to make their lies believable anymore. Truly pathetic shameful, and frightening.
Trump: "And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,"
Good reminder.
funny how a 'coding error' is from the hmpy trmPEDOphile administration..
ª is 'coding error' a euphemism for: "you caught us"
º is it because they really don't have the best people working for them
ª is just project 2025
ª all of the above and of course they are f-ing liars
Our congress woman only recognizes her cult leader Trump as perfect…her constituents
Don’t count…..
her constituents - - - > don't count
A N D
pos_tfnKKK doesn't care
Every accusation is a confession.. this is a reality of ever republican in the gutter, from hmpy trmPEdo to pos_tfnKKK
It is true when they remove the constitution from whitehouse.com, which is something that clearly literal = on the website and in reality.
As with pos_tfnKKK she is obviously done with being the worst representative in congress, consequently the worst NY21 has ever had. While she took her goody-bye tour when she thought she was going to be the UN rep.. she had left the district long ago (which is an odd thing to say, when she never lived here.. she had residences, but never lived here).
She has been looking for bigger and better things.. I am thinking has been true since she was an eight year old.. and since that time.. she hasn’t matured.
When she attacks, there is a reason.. and it is often in her own failures. I am sure it hurt a lot when Harvard rejected her on their board. I wouldn’t be surprised that when it comes out about the law schools she was rejected from.. they are the same ones she claimed to be antisemitic. And does she look internally.. nah.. she supports the pedophile in the oval office who is the most antisemitic since Andrew Jackson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_antisemitism
If you look and you don’t have to look close... when it comes to attacks.. if you are a woman or black.. you are at the top of her hit list (this is one chase where... pos_tfnKKK isn’t black and certainly lacks like she hates women).
And if you are a woman AND black.. well, she doesn’t need mr.murdrr.manda (noted gun lobbyist) to help her get that person in her crosshairs.
The thing pos_tfnKKK is trying to do, send out tracer bullets to see if she can move the polling.. and what WILL move the polling... because if the governor election was held today, the woman who’s policies kill children, would lose two to one.
"Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void," Mary Roach
Is a great book....
And likely wouldn't had been as good with out the help from Jim Lovell
https://maryroach.net/pfmReviews.html
I pity the mess the next administration will have to untangle, if that's even possible.
George Orwell, writing presciently about MAGA and the GOP: “the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.”
Bless the reporters that called out this so called coding error. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck...it must be our corrupt autocrat in chief.