Posting one of Big Bear's girl, hope I don't get in trouble...
COSO Love theme, Taylor style
L O V E R
LOVE'S POWER GONNA WIN
Morning LOVE POWER Nauts,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Shanene, what you got there?
Shanene: A Box of Chocolates, It’s Valentine’s Day you know…
KD: Oh snap, could I borrow them?
S: What will I give Jorge?
KD: Just give him all the love you got, it’s brought you this far.
S: Probably fitting that trial ended yesterday.
KD: How so?
S: We just witnessed POWER loving POWER, today is for LOVE POWER.
KD: And you know what, LOVE POWER’S GONNA WIN.
I FELL INTO YOU
It only takes a little to LOVE...
And when you do,
you fall into the nicest things.
Morning Peeps,
THINGS TO GIVE AWAY... L O V E
Historybook: RIP Saint Valentine (269); Abolitionist Frederick Douglass born (1818); Pale Blue Dot photo taken by Voyager 1 (1990); Dolly the sheep dies; was first cloned mammal (2003); Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting; 17 killed and 17 injured (2018).
"Love isn't love till you give it away."
- From Oscar Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music"
PSA
RAGE...
We're going to see a lot of it in the USA in the next 9 months.
Encouraging all of us to keep the level of discourse high and not personal.
You can now return to your regularly scheduled viewing.
A pictorial journey through some of the USA National Parks...
Take a peek
Feel very fortunate to live near the Mighty Five.
https://petapixel.com/2024/02/08/this-photographer-has-visited-27-of-the-63-us-national-parks/
In the meantime, the second-best option is to go after these deals for violations of law, to make an example of the offenders and claw back some of the illicit gains. Warren plans a full investigation.
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https://prospect.org/health/2024-02-13-reversing-private-equitys-looting-hospitals/
Robert Kuttner on Cerberus Capital skullduggery
The broader problem is that the entire business model of private equity is one grand abuse. The right remedy to that problem is to shut it down. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed legislation that would do just that, the Stop Wall Street Looting Act. Since private equity owns so many Democratic legislators, the Warren bill stands a snowball’s chance.
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Those appear to be the two dominant schools of thought in Trumpland, though it’s possible, of course, to adhere to both.
~ HAROLD MEYERSON
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From the American Prospect
That leaves only the possibility that the Trumpified Republican Party, like Trump himself, actually supports Putin and Putin’s war, either because Putin is a hard-right homophobe (the source of his appeal to Pat Buchanan more than 20 years ago, and to Christian nationalists today) or simply the kind of thug whom Trump wants to emulate (and thus appealing to the GOP’s legions of thug-o-crats).
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Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277