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April filled with Rallies in Seattle
I’ve been busy lately attending a number of rallies in the Seattle area. I’ve been joined by many others. We’re all saying Shell No! I learned the day before Easter there would be an "Encouragement...
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Shell Polar "Destroyer" Arrives (Photo Diary)
Before all the attention/I took this from the Jack Block side Thursday afternoon, 05/14/15, I heard you could see the Polar Pioneer coming into view from Alki Beach. I went to Jack Block Park adjacent...
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Paddle in Seattle Saturday (photo diary)
One of four staging areas as I arrivedThere was a festival feeling all aroundColors were everywhere
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Women's March In Seattle
My sister and I went to participate Saturday, in Seattle, along with her 2 daughters and a couple of girls still in grade school. It was awesome! The staging area at Judkins Park was crowded and filled...
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Show Your Taxes Rally in Seattle.
Here are some pics of my time in Seattle yesterday, at the Henry M. Jackson Federal Bldg. for the tax rally. There were nowhere near the number of people as had come to march on January 21, and the...
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In Honor of President Carters 93rd Birthday! Some Photos Taken in August at...
This will be mostly photos, and few words. After NN17 this year, on Monday Aug 14, I visited the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta. It was so very good to be reminded what a true humanitarian in a...
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Another Great Web Site I Found Today, Earth Day 2019
A very short diary with video and links.Watching the music video is a great first step. The profits generated from Earth streams and views will be donated to select groups of nonprofits that tackle...
View ArticleIntroducing “The Report”: A Podcast Series from Lawfare
Introducing “The Report”: A Podcast Series from LawfareI’ve only started to listen to this. It seems to be extremely well done. Easy to listen to, I even recognize the voices of so many members of...
View ArticleRutger Hauer, rugged Dutch actor known for an inhuman role, dies at 75
This is sad news today, from Washington Post:Rutger Hauer has died.Rutger Hauer, a rugged Dutch actor who played action heroes, Nazi villains and bloodsucking vampires, but who was best known as the...
View ArticleOh Look! Our Own Charles Gaba Has a Great Write-Up at WaPo!
Harris’s rollout Monday was met with swift criticism from both the Biden camp, which called it“A Bernie Sanders-lite Medicare for All,” and the Sanders camp, which insists Harris “can’t call [her] plan...
View ArticleSen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) toured the Voting Village on Friday at Def Con, in...
This article in WaPo is both inspiring and downright frightening. These folks are expert and the Voting Village part of the convention is only 3 years old. And this year is being attended by lawmakers...
View ArticleJudges surprise attorneys for Trump’s bankers by asking about his tax returns
washingtonpost.com/...The Washington Post has a not too long article dated this afternoon about the 3 judge panel asking the 2 big banks’ attorneys if Trumps tax returns are included in the paperwork...
View ArticleCheers! Barr books Trump’s hotel for $30,000 holiday party
Experts say private, 200-person party adds to questions about attorney general’s independence from president.Ya think?Last month, Barr booked President Trump’s D.C. hotel for a 200-person holiday party...
View ArticleJustice Sotomayor warns the Supreme Court is doing “extraordinary” favors for...
The Trump administration thinks the court is its personal fixer. The court isn’t doing much to disabuse it of this idea.I remembered reading something about this story yesterday. Seems Sotomayor and...
View ArticleA Heartfelt Thank You to the Women Making it Easier for Us Going Forward.
Very short diary here. Saw this picture yesterday and it seems perfectly framed to thank Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren.My 1st and only choice in...
View ArticleGates-funded program will soon offer home-testing kits for new coronavirus
Testing for the novel coronavirus in the Seattle area will get a huge boost in the coming weeks as a project funded by Bill Gates and his foundation begins offering home-testing kits that will allow...
View ArticleDonald McNeil shows process (in China) that stands in stark contrast with...
Donald McNeil, science and health reporter for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about how China handles a person who may have contracted the novel coronavirus, with an eye on breaking the...
View ArticleUntil now, nobody could compete with President Trump when it came to...
The Cuomo Brothers Versus The President: What A Show!This is a good article dated April 2, from Jon Katz, a former journalist and media critic, who says “he’ll bust a gut if he doesn’t write about the...
View ArticleThe threat to U.S. elections is real, and frightening. The public has a right...
I searched DKos for a story done from what Sen Blumenthal wrote in the Washington Post on Friday and could not find one. One of his 1st paragraphs says:This week, I reviewed classified materials in the...
View ArticleSen. Patty Murray, revealed Friday that she came “inches away” from an...
I only saw this video today. She is one of my senators, and I have admired her for so long and for so many reasons. She shares in this 12 min interview, how the Jan 6, 2021 Capitol invasion came so...
View ArticleThe Kamala Harris I saw in Africa, by Errin Haines, The 19th’s editor-at-large
A very good, easy to read, and might I say joyful article from someone who traveled with MVP Harris to Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia last week.In the first edition of The Amendment, Errin Haines takes a...
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