bobgosane99 @bobgosane99@librem.one
- https://cabbagesandkings524.wordpress.com/
- Blog - eccelectic
- https://indieblu.net/
- Publisher - poetry, prose, feminist,
- https://suddendenouement.com/
- Poetry, short fiction
- https://hereticsloversmadmen.com/
- Poetry, shrot fiction, etc.
Bob Wertzler is retired from almost twenty years in the mental health field in California and Arizona. and many things before and since.
Joined Jul 2019
800 YEARS THROWN AWAY - 3
Our Founding Fathers were all brought up and educated in the British tradition of law and rights. They inherited the principle that no one is above the law as an obvious and settled truth, as essentially sacred. And so it has remained, a bed rock feature of our democracy and jurisprudence.
800 YEARS THROWN AWAY - 2
That rule was put to the test 434 years later, in 1649. Charles I inherited the crown from his father, James I (also the VI of Scotland) whose reign created the United Kingdom. He proclaimed that he was an absolute monarch, not subject to, or obliged to enforce, the laws of Parliament. He was arrested, tried and found guilty on the charge of treason, and beheaded.
Yes, they took it seriously.
800 YEARS THROWN AWAY - 1
809 years ago in the year 1215, John, King of England, signed a document that set in English law and governance the principle and custom that no one, not even the King, is above the law. That was the Magna Carta, the Great Charter.
You might wonder whether, in an age of absolute monarchs anointed by God who literally owned the countries they ruled, the people and lesser authorities took this radical notion seriously.
IT SERVED ENGLAND AND AMERICA WELL FOR 800 YEARS, AND THEY THREW IT AWAY
Hi, Teri.
I expect we will be learning some of that thinking. 😁
SONG OF THE DAY - 09/12/23
https://youtu.be/yYakJpfIyMs
I WROTE A BOOK. IT IS COMING SOON
Yes, I’m about to be a published author, a fate I managed somehow to avoid until now. It is a collection of poems that I wrote as comments on other people’s poems on blogs.
A firm release date is not yet set, but July is the target. I don’t know yet about price or a plan for pre-orders. Both print and e-book are planned.
bobgosane99
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Simon Rosenberg was one of the few people who saw through the red mirage and accurately predicted that the Democrats would make a strong showing in the midterms.
He said we don't have a data problem. We have an analysis problem.
I think this sums up the entire problem with our current social media and cable news and information disruption.
The data is there, but we're too easily distracted and manipulated.
Droplets of facts get lost in the information downpour.
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It should be bigger news that the Trump Org is currently on trial for serious financial crimes, including fraud.
Remember when "her emails" mattered?
"Her emails" was repeated so incessantly that even people who knew there was no crime had doubts.
This, on the other hand, matters.
The Trump CFO, who still works for the Org, pleaded guilty.
This is what I mean when I saw we are in a dangerous informational disruption.
The truth gets lost.
bobgosane99
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This week's blog post is in two parts.
First I offer some reflections on the midterms (I wrote it last night right after we knew that Catherine Cortez Masto won in Nevada🎉)
Part II: I dunk on entitled rich white MAGA men.
Sometimes I just wanna have fun🤷 .
https://terikanefield.com/reflections-on-the-midterms-arrogant-and-entitled-white-maga-men-and-more/
Next up: I'll figure out how do to a Mastodon thread the right way.
- https://cabbagesandkings524.wordpress.com/
- Blog - eccelectic
- https://indieblu.net/
- Publisher - poetry, prose, feminist,
- https://suddendenouement.com/
- Poetry, short fiction
- https://hereticsloversmadmen.com/
- Poetry, shrot fiction, etc.
Bob Wertzler is retired from almost twenty years in the mental health field in California and Arizona. and many things before and since.
Joined Jul 2019
