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ancianita's Journal*** DU House Managers Appreciation Thread ***
From start to finish, today's 
House Managers showed America just how much
-- organization,
-- multi-media presentation skill,
-- argument clarity,
-- straight talk sincerity,
-- love of the Constitution,
-- energy,
-- high professionalism, and sheer drive they have.
Good looking! Unflagging! Sharp! Classy!
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The American people saw the sharp contrast between their House and the president's Senate!
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Formal Statement On Senate Leader McConnell's Cover-up Resolution
For the Congressional Record:
“Leader McConnell’s process is deliberately designed to hide the truth from the Senate and from the American people, because he knows that the President’s wrongdoing is indefensible and demands removal. No jury would be asked to operate on McConnell’s absurdly compressed schedule, and it is obvious that no Senator who votes for it is intending to truly weigh the damning evidence of the President’s attacks on our Constitution.
“The public now knows why Leader McConnell has been hiding his resolution: the Clinton comparison was a lie. Clearly and sadly, Leader McConnell has misled the American people. For weeks, he has insisted that he will adhere to the rules used during the Clinton impeachment trial and that ‘fair is fair’ – but his proposal rejects the need for witnesses and documents during the trial itself. In contrast, for the Clinton trial, witnesses were deposed and the President provided more than 90,000 documents.
“President Trump undermined our national security, jeopardized the integrity of our elections and violated the Constitution all for his own personal, political gain. He has repeatedly said that he would do so again. Duty, honor and country are at stake. Every Senator who supports this sham process must be held accountable to the American people.”
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/12120?fbclid=IwAR2s_eooTJS4pc3_34WYxH6yfI3pqovnpLzzGKFC7S_7RrMyjsq7Vz23hlQ
Davos Man 2020
Hackers don't even have to get through this walled compound to track global wealth.
Location: Switzerland -- Davos-Klosters, in Graubünden (austerity capitalists' nowhereland)
Cost: As of 2011, annual membership = $52,000 per person, $263,000 for "Industry Partner" and $527,000 for "Strategic Partner."
The Davos meetup fee = $19,000 per person.
When: 21-24 January 2020
Topic for 2020: “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World”
Security:
-- Soldiers patrol the streets,
-- security checks are carried out on personnel,
-- vehicle and bags on access roads to Davos.
-- Snipers can be seen stationed on the roofs of buildings;
-- security is wall-to-wall within the main Forum known as the Congress Center.
-- Swiss armed forces attend the event.
Stayin' alive, stayin' alive...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/20/security-in-davos-keeping-global-leaders-safe-costs-a-lot.html
General info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum#"Plutocratic_comity"
Participant hierarchy
https://qz.com/1787762/davos-delegates-are-categorized-from-1-to-7-by-the-wef/
Just lifted from Facebook, Slashdot's look at William Gibson's latest novel,
Agency. Gibson's tech sci-fi novels are among my favorites, this one promising to echo where we could be headed.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/01/19/2332233/71-year-old-william-gibson-explores-existing-level-of-weirdness-for-new-dystopian-scifi-novel?utm_source=feedburnerFaceBook&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=FaceBook&fbclid=IwAR0riLTUP7oWII0Ovqxz8sRLYc-xe8jUav9gVQKoaMFN6DaNt7gx3lbzuyA
Please let the ACLU know that Impeachment Trial Censorship Is What The ACLU is born to fight.
On the ACLU's Facebook page, I'm calling them out
-- for being "concern" trolls, AND NOT GOING TO COURT;
-- for only "asking" the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms (??) and Rules Committee (??) to change their "rules," AND NOT GOING TO COURT; and
-- for not scrambling to take the Senate's censoring of the press TO COURT.
The courts can't make the Senate's rules, but the courts can damn sure make sure that those rules do NOT stop the Constitution at the Senate door, or their whole trial obstructs justice.
If the ACLU doesn't stand up for the First Amendment rights of The People and a Free Press during the third impeachment trial in U.S. history -- and right now they're NOT -- then they've failed to do what they were born to do.
What good do they really do for The People, for whom the longest standing democracy in recorded human history was founded?!
Come ON, ACLU! Get moving to a federal court!
I loved the Lord Of The Rings And All Things Tolkien
I remember that in 1969, I'd turned the last page of the last volume the Lord of the Rings. I felt sad, more wistful than I'd ever felt from story experience. Which is experience.
I shook my head at this trilogy's brilliant, multi-level, multi-location panorama. After some silence, I looked at my daughter's father.
"This is so eye-popping amazing, so broad and deep in the creating of whole new beings, languages, songs, poetry, rituals, ideas of war and peace, that Hollywood will never, ever make a movie of this. Not even like this. It just can't." Having seen all kinds of film renderings of mythology and literature in varying inferior quality to their stories, I was sure that this trilogy was final proof, sadly, that epic storytelling can never be fully realized in film.
Lord of the Rings reminds us that we are epic -- as Samwise said to Frodo -- when we are glad that we can be together at the making and ending of all things.
May Christopher Tolkien rest in the peace of literary greats who give us more than story beauty, human beauty, suffering's beauty; but who instill in us readers the soul experience of Earthling peace and courage.
30 years later, in my 50's -- as my kids thought I openly wept over the movie, The Return of the King -- I couldn't explain the laughable wrongness of my old self, or how lucky I was to experience over again the epic courage, love and peace effort to carry on. That carrying on in film still makes me shake my head.
Christopher Tolkien, Mapper of Middle Earth, Keeper of the Legendarium, must always be as revered and loved as his father. Both spent their lives to show us that life's meaning is enough in the striving; and to be glad to be together at the end of all things.
That we can imagine a future together.
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... across Time ...
That living in peace with Nature is a Good.
That we hobbits can do it...
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That our force against hegemoic power's drama is a Good.
That our light drives out the fear of darkness and death.
With Media Focused On Rachel Maddow, Neal Katyal States That Evidence Compels A Real Senate Trial
Danger or No Danger, The Truth Will Be Known
Before the Jan 21 Start of the Senate Trial, Two Senators Must Be Forced To Recuse Themselves
Who could legally force them, I don't know. But some legal entities should make this known to either John Roberts, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and the House Managers.
Perhaps, after the trial gavel goes down, it would be in order under Senate Rules for a motion to be made by one of the Democratic senators to force the Senate to vote to have McConnell and Graham recuse themselves. Not sure that's possible, either.
Justification: Both have committed impeachable, even criminal, offenses.
THEY HAVE, BY THEIR OWN WORDS AND DEEDS, A PRIORI, CAUSE A MISTRIAL.
THUS, THEY POSE INHERENT THREAT TO PROTECTING AND DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION;
AS SUCH THEY POSE A THREAT TO THE NATION.
1. LINDSEY GRAHAM
2. MITCH MCCONNELL
Proof:
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