Trump will be acquitted
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Posted:Feb 11, 2021 4:17 am
Last Updated:Aug 27, 2021 1:00 pm
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Despite the clear evidence presented of Trump's behavior in violating his oath of office and inciting insurrection, the GOP Senators are unlikely to convict. Still the Dems and independents will see Trump for the evildoer he is. Trump lost fair and square, and refused to go quietly. We hate a sore loser and a big liar.
Meanwhile the vaccines are getting into arms, and the infection rates are falling.
The economy appears to be poised to bounce back. The stock market is showing there is life in the economy.
Trump's legal team is ineffective and rambling. The House managers are skilled, clear and effective. A key point is that Trump did not condemn violence for hours, and he did not call out the National Guard, VP Pence did. Trump incited a riot of insurrection to stop the count of electoral college votes for Biden.
The court of public opinion will convict Trump and that is good enough. The stain of Trump will tar the GOP for a few years at least. Meanwhile the criminal cases are just starting...
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Trump will be acquitted
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Posted:Feb 11, 2021 4:17 am
Last Updated:Apr 18, 2024 6:22 pm
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Despite the clear evidence presented of Trump's behavior in violating his oath of office and inciting insurrection, the GOP Senators are unlikely to convict. Still the Dems and independents will see Trump for the evildoer he is. Trump lost fair and square, and refused to go quietly. We hate a sore loser and a big liar.
Meanwhile the vaccines are getting into arms, and the infection rates are falling.
The economy appears to be poised to bounce back. The stock market is showing there is life in the economy.
Trump's legal team is ineffective and rambling. The House managers are skilled, clear and effective. A key point is that Trump did not condemn violence for hours, and he did not call out the National Guard, VP Pence did. Trump incited a riot of insurrection to stop the count of electoral college votes for Biden.
The court of public opinion will convict Trump and that is good enough. The stain of Trump will tar the GOP for a few years at least. Meanwhile the criminal cases are just starting...
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Super Bowl
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Posted:Feb 8, 2021 2:59 pm
Last Updated:Apr 18, 2024 6:22 pm
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Tom Brady proves again how special he is as an athlete.
I hoped and thought he would win. The Bucs were highly motivated.
Not the best game, but still glad to see the result.
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Play the odds
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Posted:Jan 29, 2021 5:53 am
Last Updated:Feb 4, 2021 1:31 pm
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Every action taken has some risk. Rarely someone dies from the allergic response to a vaccine. About one or two in a million. Covid 19 kills about 2% of those infected.
If you can be rational for a while, get the vaccine. You have to play the odds.
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Trying to get shot
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Posted:Jan 29, 2021 5:48 am
Last Updated:Jan 29, 2021 5:50 am
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Who would have thought that the sexiest thing you can say is I have been vaccinated from Covid 19? Now that is some foreplay...
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Even if
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Posted:Jan 29, 2021 5:43 am
Last Updated:Feb 4, 2021 1:32 pm
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Even if the GOP Senators refuse to convict Trump for inciting insurrection they will be stuck with enabling Trump to attack the truth and democracy. Five died in the riot. Some were out to kill legislators and VP Pence. Letting Trump run for POTUS in 2024 will split the voters.
Trump acts like a mafia boss. He must be beaten like one. They could never get Al Capone on the murders he ordered or the gangs he led. But the Feds nailed Capone for not reporting his income and paying the taxes due.
Both the IRS and New York State can nail Trump for tax evasion. Trump deducted hush money bribes to Stormy and the Playboy bunny as legal fees. Bribes to keep quiet are not legal expenses and not business deductions. Put Trump in prison for a couple of years and his power will be gone. Insurrection is tough to prove when you use vague language as Trump does. But not paying taxes and lying about bribes is fairly clear and easy to prove. Lock him up.
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Wild times in the stock market
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Posted:Jan 26, 2021 5:10 am
Last Updated:Apr 18, 2024 6:22 pm
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The stocks have been volatile lately. While strongly higher usually there have been days of major downdrafts. The frothy nature may be bad news for high flyers. But the future is hard to predict. Irrational exuberance can go on for a long time, until it does not.
Some new investors are playing the stocks like sports betting. This can be fun as long as you are ready to lose as fast as winning. Some low priced stocks have soared by 70% in a day and then lost much back just as fast. Don't bet the lunch money on wild rides.
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Impeaching Trump
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Posted:Jan 23, 2021 3:49 am
Last Updated:Jan 26, 2021 5:02 am
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I have mixed feelings about the second Trump impeachment. No doubt he greatly deserves it for inciting a riot and insurrection to prevent the Congress certifying his electoral college loss. Five people died in the fracas including a Capitol policeman. The mob was seeking to kill Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence among others.
The legal precedent is clear that an impeachment can continue even after the accused is out of office. Several cases have done so in our history. Impeachment is not just for removal from office. If the Senate convicts they can then vote to bar Trump from any future Federal office or job. Such a bar will protect us from the malign impact of Trump running for Prez in 2024, or the horror of another four years of egomaniac Trump as Prez, God forbid.
Impeachment is a political process. Not a criminal trial. The test for conviction is whether Trump has so pissed off 67 Senators that they hate his guts. Trump has clearly merited conviction alone for the deaths of more than 400,000 Americans for his foolish mismanagement of the Covid 19 pandemic. Modeling bad behavior and making the wearing of masks a political statement has led to many more deaths and hospitalizations.
Still the more important work now is to fix the distribution and get the vaccines into the arms of the populace. Trump is just an old foolish con man who harmed so many, but has lost his job. He was the worst human being and worst prez in U.S. history. Those who still worship him will wake up some day. I am done trying to open their eyes. I won't waste my breath on fools. None so blind as those who will not see.
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Margot St. James
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Posted:Jan 23, 2021 3:23 am
Last Updated:Jan 24, 2021 5:13 am
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Margo St. James was an artist working as a waitress and living the Beat life in San Francisco in the 1960s when her home became a counterculture hangout. As she told The Windy City Times of Chicago in 2011, “there was a lot of pot-smoking and sex and, you know, whatever.”
It wasn’t the kind of sex that anyone paid for. But the police saw a lot of people going in and out of her house and concluded that it could be for only one reason, and so they arrested her in 1962 on charges.
“Your honor,” she told the judge, “I’ve never turned a trick in my life.”
As far as the judge was concerned, that response sealed her fate. “Anyone who knows the language,” he told her, “is obviously a professional.”
Her conviction (she was jailed briefly) infuriated her and prompted her to take the college equivalency exam and enroll in law school. She didn’t get her law degree, but acting as her own lawyer she successfully appealed her conviction.
Still, with such a stain on her record, she couldn’t find work. And that, she said, drove her into sex work, which she kept up for four years.
Ms. St. James went on to become one of the nation’s most prominent rights advocates for sex workers, devoting her life to the cause of decriminalizing and destigmatizing its practitioners.
She died at 83 on Jan. 11 in a memory care facility in Bellingham, Wash., near the Canadian border. Her sister, Claudette Sterk, said the cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
Ms. St. James, who called herself a sex-positive feminist, founded a group called COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) in 1973 to press for health care, legal rights and financial security for sex workers. The group successfully fought to overturn San Francisco policies that required arrested sex workers to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases and to be quarantined if they tested positive.
In the process, Ms. St. James sought to reframe as a profession with legitimate workplace and human rights issues rather than as something sinful. (An ally, Carol Leigh, coined the term “sex worker” in the early 1980s, and Ms. St. James helped popularize it.)
“There is no immorality in ,” she would often say. “The immorality is the arrest of women as a class for a service that’s demanded of them by society.”
A media-savvy activist, Ms. St. James invested her crusade with showmanship. She organized an annual ’s Ball, a fund-raising event that celebrated sex workers and drew politicians, police officers and movie stars. The balls reached their zenith in 1978 with 20,000 attendees filling the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Ms. St. James loved to make an entrance; that year she rode in on an elephant.
When she campaigned for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, she promised to keep a red light on outside her office when she was there. Though she was endorsed by Mayor Willie Brown and the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a fixture of San Francisco bohemian life, she lost.
She also established a free health clinic, the St. James Infirmary, which was run by and for sex workers in the Bay Area — one of the first of its kind in the world.
A charismatic speaker, Ms. St. James was popular on the lecture circuit and often began her speeches by saying, “It’s so nice to see so many familiar faces.”
To critics who complained that sex workers were splitting up families, she insisted otherwise. The vast majority of customers are married, she told a television interviewer in 1974, adding, “If we weren’t taking care of them and listening to their troubles, they might be beating up their wives more than they do.”
Although she was based in San Francisco, Ms. St. James helped the sex-worker rights movement grow nationally. Sister groups to COYOTE sprang up, including PONY (prostitutes of New York), HIRE (Hooking is Real Employment) in Atlanta and PUMA (prostitutes Union of Massachusetts).
But the so-called feminist sex wars of the late 1970s and ’80s, driven by a powerful anti-pornography movement, were pitting women against one another, making it a challenging time to win sympathy for sex workers. Debates swirled over whether they could be considered feminists and whether was legitimate work, as Ms. St. James contended, or whether it was a form of coercion and violence against women.
Facing a conservative backlash in the 1980s during the Reagan years, Ms. St. James set her sights on Europe, partnering with other groups to mobilize an international rights movement. With Gail Pheterson, a feminist activist and scholar, she organized the First World Whores’ Congress, in 1985 in Amsterdam, and a second one the next year in Brussels.
The gatherings were held at the height of the AIDS epidemic, and a major topic of conversation was how sex workers could protect themselves and their livelihoods from a disease that was typically transmitted sexually.
While working on the international movement, Ms. St. James and Ms. Pheterson renovated a 16th-century house in the south of France, where they lived for several years.
In the early 1990s, Paul Avery, a friend and longtime Bay Area journalist who had emphysema, proposed that he and Ms. St. James get married so that she could share his health care benefits and also take care of him. They were married on Valentine’s Day in 1992, and she moved back to the United States the next year.
In time, she moved Mr. Avery to Orcas Island, north of Seattle, where her family had a cabin. He died in 2000. Ms. St. James stayed on the island until her symptoms of Alzheimer’s appeared, and her sister moved her to the mainland.
In addition to her sister, Ms. St. James is survived by her , Don Sobjack Jr.; a brother, George Robert St. James; a half brother, John Wachter; three grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
By the end of her life, her goal of decriminalizing was unmet. It remains a crime everywhere in the United States except for certain counties in Nevada. But she had empowered sex workers. She had given them voice and agency and may even have helped diminish the stigma against them.
“Over the years I went to every event Margo did that I could, because they were about the liberation and empowerment of people like me,” Annie Sprinkle, a former porn star and sex worker for two decades, wrote recently on Facebook.
“She was our fearless leader,” she added, “and she birthed so much of today’s sex positive culture.”
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New life!
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Posted:Jan 20, 2021 5:43 am
Last Updated:Jan 21, 2021 5:12 am
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I have been hoping for this day for four years. My faith in America has been restored. We can be great again without the inept Trump. The two Dem Senators from GA helped. I gave them $500 for the win. There is so much damage to repair.
I am glad Trump is boorishly missing the inauguration. He is welcome to slink out of town with his sore loser ass.
Now Biden gets to play FDR and Lincoln rolled into one long time politician. He is the man for the moment.
My thanks to Covid 19! Sad that 400,000 Americans had to die to rid us of Trump.
Hope to be vaccinated in the next month or so... Hard to understand those who refuse vaccination. The odds are the virus can kill you. The vaccine won't. I'll take the vaccine as soon as I can.
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Treason
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Posted:Jan 18, 2021 5:33 am
Last Updated:Jan 21, 2021 5:10 am
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Trump showed his true colors by encouraging his followers to riot and block the Congress from counting the Electoral College voters. Insurrection and treason.
Lucky that only five or six died in the debacle on Jan. 6. Trump is morally responsible for murder and attempted murder. Our petite Hitler strikes again at democracy.
There is a chance that the GOP will find 17 Senators to join the Dems to prevent Trump from running in 2024 for POTUS. We were lucky that Trump was so inept in his attempts to destroy American government. The wanna be coup was adverted.
His helpers were as clueless as Trump.
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vaccinating
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Posted:Jan 18, 2021 5:27 am
Last Updated:Apr 18, 2024 6:22 pm
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Trying to get vaccinated is frustrating. Odd that many healthcare workers and first responders deny the offered vaccines while those who want it are denied.
By early February the situation may improve. Trump will be gone and life will get better eventually.
Trying to stay alive despite the difficulties.
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Stock market soaring
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Posted:Jan 13, 2021 4:36 am
Last Updated:Jan 18, 2021 5:23 am
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Solar and wind energy stocks are soaring as the new year gets going. This area of the stock market is red hot and getting hotter. Also steel and other metals are rising as investors realize there is a shortage of materials for the increasing efforts to improve the infrastructure.
Another hot area is marijuana stocks and ETFs. In the November election three more states approved medical and recreational pot. A pot legalization bill passed the House and could become law under Biden. Public attitudes about pot have changed over the years.
Some people who like to bet on sports are now betting more on stocks, with free trading without commission costs. They play with money and that has changed investing in the stock market.
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