Engorgeous George

Marco from Tropoja.

So there are differences, then, between cops and your junk.

And probably rightfully so.

I have a tough time even getting to sedition for the protestors as a whole, as a group. I have no doubt that some elements within the whole nonetheless are easily definable thusly. Heck, a few extreme outliers at the event may have actually hoped for a literal insurrection, though such hopes seem to me wholly unrealistic given no plan for installing a government ignoring congress and the courts and no plan for control of the military.

Trump lacks the maturity to let let go of percieved slights and wrongs. he lacks the maturity to evaluate facts if the facts are a rejection or repudiation of him. I doubt he has the emotional maturity for the Office, yet there he is.

Initial Market reactions are good. Of course what is good now may change by this afternoon or tomorrow.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Waht happened to the portrait? Was it archived, laminated to the floor, moved to the mensroom, tossed in the dumpster out back?

I know. Tom Holman promised a spectacular Chicago roundup to kick off the effort. I was wondering whether it had started and whether there might be early coverage. Basically we were promised a media event to kick off the policy. Have we seen it yet was my question.

I am bemused. You always find me a liberal. Timschochet accuses me of being a conservative. Both of you search for agendas and meanings in my posts which are not there. I was not taking a position on the deportations, though I do believe they are long overdue. I was merely wondering if the process had begun as promised, and wondering as to the process itself which we will not know until it is actually instituted.

Treasonous - I don't know that I would refer to civil disobedience as treason. Unlawful, yes, treasonous, I don't go so far though i do much prefer civil disobedience to be non-violent . Stop the peaceful transfer of power - Power was not going to be transfered that day. Election results were to be certified so power could be transfered two weeks later. They sought, ignorantly in my mind, to delay certification of election results so that cahllenges to the tallying of ballots could go on. Whether those challenges would ahve stayed in the 'courts, as is proper, or spilled over to defiance of the courts and the States, which is not proper, is a matter of specualtion. It was an interesting combination of well-intentionerd dupes, stooges, and troublemakers. As for me, my pops warned me about Mob mentality when I was in grade school. That Trump played with a force which cannot be controlled was irresponsibile to say tgeh least. That Pelosi and others did not put out the spark which lead to a conflagration was also inexcusable as it was done for political purposes.

So last night I was clicking back and forth between the CFP game, Fox news coverage of the inaugural balls which was a bunch of sycophants and acolytes having public orgasms,adn Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC who was casting around for anything he could find to criticize Trump and his supporters. The contrasts between the different Americas was startling. Two polar opposites who seem unlkely to ever see anything the same way,and then a bunch of folks who don't give a damn about the partisan divide when there is football to watch.

Commuted their sentences, so not let out, just returned to the general population of the prisons from Death row, where they had been staying. Basically he tried to retroactively abolish the federal death penalty.

Timschochet as the Van Pels or Harriet Tubbman. Now I have heard everything. Instead of the underground railroad they could call it the PCH pipeline.

I understand why it was done. Me, I don't think it is wise to extend the partisan tit-for-tat to the pardon power. Dueling banjos I like. Dueling pardons, not so much. I never understood the title Dueling Banjos when one of the instunments was a guitar.

My sole exposure to Carrie Underwood is her opening for Sunday Night football. That said, saw her go acapela without having planned to do so yesterday at the inauguration. That was a bit of a tough situation. She handled it with aplomb. Did a nice job.

In law school the girl with the best rack in my class was unfortunately merely a casual acquaintance. We had a similar study schedule and she being a smoker we both used the smoking room in which to study so we had ample opportunity to talk and occassionally did so. Turned out she had a casual friend overstaying a student visa. He asked her to marry him to help him stay in the country. She was contemplating agreeing to do so and wanted my thoughts on the matter. My thought was one, lucky guy! My second thought was that if their marriage was investigated and found to be fraudulent, an attempt only to circumvent the immigration process, that she would never become a lawyer. In the end she did not do it. I never got my hands on those titties and never learned the end of her story as she dropped out after first year.

The sun is up in the east. Have the round ups begun? Seventeen minutes to 08:00 hours in Chicago, have the roundups we were promised begun? Will there be improvised processing centers? What due process will be provided? Will they be held until determinations are made? If determined to deport will they be returned to the border or to their country of origin? How, by bus, rail, slow boat or plane?

For me I would want a case by case factual analysis. Pulling away from a cop or trying to remove a cops hands from ones arm with ones own hand is resistence, it is unlawful force ,and it may be defined by some as violence, but it does not overly disturb me. That amount of force merits conviction, it may even merit a few days or weeks in jail to make a point and to provide a learning opportunity, but more than that, I do not see the necessity. Now for those who were pushing and ramming bike racks and barricades into the police, who were bludgeoning them with flag poles, who were charging into them or beating them with fists or other objects, I want them to spend more time in jail, monthsand maybe more if the outcome of the force or violence lead to injuries, and in the case of serious bodily injuries, a matter defined in the law, years in jail but less years than the typical manslaughter or negligent homicide sentence.

I seem top remember way back to last week when commuted the sentences of what 37 Death Row inmates. I do not know the facts of all those commutations, but I am going to guess that since they were on Dath row they were violent offenders, and not violent in pushing or whacking cops with stanchions and flag poles, but you know, killing violent. As for pardon Fauci, if he needed the pardon it may be due to unleashing a pandemic which killed millions. I don't know one way or the other myself, but biden may,and he determined Faucineeded the pardon. As for pardoning his own famiy members,who knows but that the access sold may have endangered american lives. I don't have any inside insight on the Biden pardons. As for the Trump ones most of those pardoned have more or less paid thier debt.I don't like either set of pardons, but i do know this, only a dolt would categorically claimmone set is worse than the other set of pardons, unquestionably.

Can't collaborate with Pete Townsend for one more minute?

That should inure to Biden's benefit and might ease their paranoia, not that it matters now with all of the pardons Biden handed out.

I am not to be trusted with such matters. Fair warning.

Clearly you were correct. It did provide her with some protection. I stand corrected.

Paula?