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House Hearings: Rep. Stefanik calls for resignation of Campus presidents over policy of open speech about Jewish Genocide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x026NuyIigAccording to the BBC, The leaders, who included Harvard president Claudine Gay, testified before the House of Representatives. The st
https://newsviews.online/2023/12/06/house-hearings-rep-stefanik-calls-for-resignation-of-campus-presidents-over-policy-of-open-speech-about-jewish-genocide/
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#BaselOne23 offers an outstanding speakers list. Join the #community on Oct 19, 2023 and listen to talks by e.g. Andres Almiray, Falk Sippach, Simon Martinelli, Patrick Baumgartner, Claudine Zillmann, Stefani Gerber, and many more. 😍
But did you also know that #BaselOne is offering a day full of workshops on Oct 18 with topics like #Java in the #cloud, #AWS Amplify, #teammanagement and much more? ❗️❗️
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https://archive.org/details/cahiers-upecistes-20
Cahiers Upécistes N° 20: Novembre 1982 - Novembre 1983 : BIYA arrive au pouvoir. Douze mois de luttes, d'espoirs et de désillusions populaires ; Douze mois d'intense désinformation par la grande presse. by Union des Populations du Cameroun; Haman Bako; Mengue Zeze; James Ndick; Claudine Yandele; Elenga Mbuyinga; Henri Bandolo
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#journalismerévolutionnaire, #UPC, #UniondesPopulationsduCameroun, #Cameroun, #Cameroon, #Kamerun, #PaulBiya, #UNC, #Unionnationalecamerounaise, #élections, #pressecamerounaise, #médiasduCameroun, #néocolonialismeSPECIAL: Janvier - Mars 1984
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Sie gucken nicht. Die seichten Wiederholungen von irgendwas tagsüber sind doof. Stream würde doch reichen.
Aber auf keinen Fall darf #Monarchie gesendet werden, auch nicht dann wenn es um mehr geht als die üblichen Adelsgeschichten. #Beerdigung #Queue #Queen #Geschichte #Empire
♲ @[email protected]:Interessant diese künstliche Aufregung über die TV-Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen TV der #Beerdigung von #QueenElisabeth.
Worin liegt euer Problem? Ich dachte, ihr guckt eh alle nicht mehr die öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender? Und – müsst ihr nicht arbeiten heute? 😉 -
Sie gucken nicht. Die seichten Wiederholungen von irgendwas tagsüber sind doof. Stream würde doch reichen.
Aber auf keinen Fall darf #Monarchie gesendet werden, auch nicht dann wenn es um mehr geht als die üblichen Adelsgeschichten. #Beerdigung #Queue #Queen #Geschichte #Empire
♲ @[email protected]:Interessant diese künstliche Aufregung über die TV-Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen TV der #Beerdigung von #QueenElisabeth.
Worin liegt euer Problem? Ich dachte, ihr guckt eh alle nicht mehr die öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender? Und – müsst ihr nicht arbeiten heute? 😉 -
Clairement, je dis oui et pas que pour les commerces de proximité...
Faut-il interdire les #écrans #publicitaires dans les #commerces de proximité ?
DISSENSUS. Conçus pour appâter le chaland, les panneaux numériques d’annonceurs, énergivores et polluants, prolifèrent jusque dans les boutiques des centres-villes. Est-ce bien raisonnable en pleine urgence écologique ? L’avis de Claudine Bichet, de la Mairie de Bordeaux, et de Guillaume Simonin, de l’Alliance du Commerce.
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Quote of the day, 21 March: St. Teresa of the Andes
Pray, Rev. Mother, for this poor exile that she may become a holy Carmelite soon.
Saint Teresa of the AndesTeresa of the Andes—Teresa of Jesus, a Discalced Carmelite and the first flowering of holiness from the Teresian Carmel in Latin America—is a light of Christ for the whole Church in Chile. Today she is inscribed among the saints of the universal Church.
As in the first reading we have heard from the book of Samuel, Teresa’s greatness does not lie in “her appearance or her stature.” “The Lord’s gaze,” Sacred Scripture tells us, “is not like that of man: man looks at appearances, but the Lord looks at the heart.” Thus, in her young life of just over nineteen years, and in her eleven months as a Carmelite, God caused the light of His Son Jesus Christ to shine forth in her in a remarkable way, so that she might serve as a beacon and guide for a world that seems to be blinded by what only appears to be divine.
To a secularized society that lives turned away from God, this Chilean Carmelite—whom I present with great joy as a model of the perennial youth of the Gospel—offers the clear witness of a life that proclaims to the men and women of today that in loving, adoring, and serving God are found the greatness and joy, the freedom and the full realization of the human person. From within the cloister, the life of the blessed Teresa cries out in silence: “God alone suffices!”
And she proclaims this especially to the young, who hunger for truth and seek a light that gives meaning to their lives. To a youth surrounded by the constant messages and stimuli of an eroticized culture, and to a society that confuses genuine love—which is self-gift—with the hedonistic use of others, this young virgin of the Andes proclaims today the beauty and blessedness that radiate from pure hearts.
In her tender love for Christ, Teresa discovers the very essence of the Christian message: to love, to suffer, to pray, to serve. Within her family she learned to love God above all things. And in recognizing herself as the exclusive possession of her Creator, her love for neighbor became all the more intense and definitive. As she writes in one of her letters: “When I love, it’s forever. Especially, a Carmelite never forgets. From her cell, she accompanies souls she loved in the world.”
Saint John Paul II
Homily, Canonization of Claudine Thévenet and Teresa of Jesus of the Andes
Sunday, 21 March 1993Note: On 21 March 1993, St. John Paul II presided at the canonization of Teresa of the Andes in St. Peter’s Basilica
Canonization of Claudine Thévenet and Teresa de Jesús “de los Andes”
21 March 1993, St. Peter’s Basilica
The Discalced Carmelite delegation can be seen at top left
Copyright © L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO (All rights reserved)Griffin, M D & Teresa of the Andes, S 2023, The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, ICS Publications, Washington DC.
John Paul II, 1993. Canonizzazione di Claudine Thévenet e di Teresa de Jesús de los Andes. Omelia di Giovanni Paolo II, Domenica, 21 marzo 1993. Vatican.va. Available at: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/it/homilies/1993/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19930321_thevenet.html (Accessed: 19 March 2026).
Translation from the Spanish text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.
Featured image: Detail from a photo of Saint Teresa that was taken a few months before she entered the Carmel of Los Andes. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites (by permission).
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Quote of the day, 22 September: Saint Teresa of St. Augustine
You will never be able to take from our hearts our devotion to Louis XVI and to his august family. Your laws can never impinge upon that feeling: they cannot dominate the affections of our souls. God and God alone has the right to judge such things.
Saint Teresa of St. Augustine
The last one to climb the scaffold steps was in fact the prioress, Madame Lidoine herself who, presiding over the sacrifice to the very end, blessed each of her fifteen daughters as they fulfilled the community oblation she herself had proposed.
What Madame Lidoine had proposed, however, was never a “vow of martyrdom” as one reads in the fictional versions, but rather an “act of consecration” whereby each member of the community would join with the others in offering herself daily to God, soul, and body, in holocaust to restore peace to France and to her church.
This proposal, we now know, was made sometime between the expulsion from their monastery on September 14, 1792, and the November 27 following, on which date we have confirmation that the consecration was already an established part of the community’s daily life.
The community sacrifice was moreover presided over by Madame Lidoine, its one true mother and Compiègne’s great prioress, inspiring, animating, and transfiguring all by her mystical insights.
William Bush
Chapter 1, Martyrdom and France, literature and revolution
Note: Saint Teresa of St. Augustine, the prioress of the martyred Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, France, was born Marie-Madeleine-Claudine Lidoine in Paris, 22 September 1752.
Bush, W 1999, To quell the terror: the mystery of the vocation of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne guillotined July 17, 1794, ICS Publications, Washington, D.C.
Featured image: Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka appears in the role of Madame Lidoine in the Canadian Opera production of Dialogues of the Carmelites (2013). Image credit Michael Cooper / Canadian Opera Company via Flickr (Some rights reserved)
#ActOfConsecration #history #MadameLidoine #MartyrsOfCompiègne #StTeresaOfStAugustine
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The links for Parts I and II of this series can be found here and here.
Day 3:
We start this day in a hotel parking lot in Edmundston, New Brunswick. The morning air is crisp and cool. Surrounding us are dozens of cars all bearing Ontario license plates. For us, today will be an odd sort of day. Our daughter’s university sits approximately one hour past the city of Halifax. From Edmunston, we could make it to Halifax in about six hours. To do so would pretty much end the driving on this part of our journey. However, before we ever left our home in Ontario, we knew that this trip was going to be about more than simply being on time for university move-in day. It was also going to be the culmination of a farewell tour that our daughter had been enjoying this whole entire summer. Prior to leaving home, Leah got to say goodbye to one group of friends at a day-long pool party in the country. Then she worked her final shift at the Library where she had been employed all throughout high school. As a family we had a final restaurant meal out together. Then Leah finished her last shift at the bookstore where she also worked. The family of her BFF took her out for a final dinner as well. At last it came time for a teary farewell to Gramma and Poppa and down the highway to the east coast we all went. But before arriving at her university town, it had been decided that we would include stops to see my mother, my cousin, as well as my sister and her husband along the way. This entailed driving past the Halifax turnoff, adding another four hours of driving…each way… to get to Cape Breton and back again. For this reason, as we stood in that hotel parking lot in Edmunston about to begin our day, instead of a six hour culmination to our trip, we were faced with the daunting prospect of a ten hour run to the ocean. Crammed as we were into our small spaces that we had carved out for ourselves in our car, with nine hours of driving already under our belts, the decision was made to limit our road exposure on this day and stop for the day in Moncton. Thus, we began today’s stage of this journey with the mindset that we were putting in time. By day’s end, we would still not be where we needed to be to see the people or the places we were really interested in seeing. But, at least, we would be a little closer. That was our reward today…to be a little closer to where we needed to be. So, into our car we climbed. We bid adieu to our Ontario compatriots in the parking lot and set off to travel through New Brunswick.
Driving through New Brunswick is a very different experience compared to driving on the 401 highway in Ontario or driving past Montreal and Quebec City. New Brunswick is all trees and forests, whereas Ontario and western Quebec are all people, cars and shopping malls. The driving can be slow and frustrating while on the 401 but in New Brunswick, the roads are wide open. For hours on end, there are barely any other vehicles on the highway with us. It is just us, the highway and a seemingly endless panorama of trees in all directions. As we drove along, my wife and I actually joked about whether the Trans Canada highway was, in fact, closed and we shouldn’t really be there. But truth be told, New Brunswick is simply this vast province that has, for the most part, retained its naturalized state and has escaped the land baron’s plows for now. It is pristine. The highways are newly constructed, making driving there rather easy. The biggest obstacle to traversing New Brunswick is actually boredom. There are trees everywhere! There is no end to them. Eventually one tires of seeing wooded mountain sides and the scenery starts blending together. It is easy to lapse into a video game mentality and lose sight of the fact that you are driving a real car filled with precious cargo over one hill and down the next, around this curve and then the one after that, eventually straightening out for a while as you are surrounded by nothing but trees, trees and more trees.
A decade or so ago, the CBC held a music contest called The Great Canadian Song Quest. The challenge was for songwriters to create original songs specifically relating to the province in which they resided. The winner of the New Brunswick portion of this contest was a man named David Myles with a song aptly titled “Don’t Drive Through”. Prior to 2010 or so, driving through New Brunswick meant driving on an old two-lane highway. If you happened to wind up stuck behind a truck carrying logs, for instance, it was easy to lose lots of time trying to get across the province. After many complaints, the Government of New Brunswick embarked on an ambitious project to build a new series of modern highways that stretched from one end of the province to the other. It is on these new highways that we find ourselves as we drive on this day. The thing about these new highways is, as David Myles duly noted in his song, that you actually bypass all of the towns and cities in the province where people live and work and go about their daily lives. With the old highway, it may have been a slower trek but at least you ended up driving through every little village and town along the way and could stop at a Mom and Pop diner or roadside vegetable stand if so inclined. Nowadays, if you don’t deliberately take an off ramp somewhere along the highway, you can drive completely across New Brunswick and see nothing at all but trees. So, in order to break up the monotony of driving endlessly through wooded hillsides, we opted to make two stops before arriving in Moncton. The first stop was the world’s longest covered bridge in Hartland, New Brunswick.
A romantic stroll across the Heartland Covered Bridge.The Hartland Covered Bridge spans the St. John River. It is a one-lane bridge that you can drive or walk across. It isn’t really all that long of a span, less than a minute’s drive and maybe three-four minutes to walk across it one way. But it is a sturdily constructed bridge. We enjoyed our little stroll across the bridge, examining all the lover’s hearts and initials that have been carved into the beams over the years. Then, like so many other tourists, when our visit to the bridge was over, we availed ourselves of their public washrooms and piled back into our car and continued on our way. Thanks for the pit stop Hartland!
Our day was divided into three ninety-minute segments. The first ninety minutes took us from Edmundston to Hartland and that epic covered bridge. From Hartland, it was another hour and a half to Fredericton, which is the provincial capital of New Brunswick. We decided to stop there for an early lunch at a diner-style restaurant called Claudine’s. After having seen next to no cars at all on the Trans Canada highway, it seemed extremely busy once we entered Fredericton proper. One thing we noticed was the preponderance of young twenty-somethings wandering around the city. Then we realized that it must have been move-in time at the University of New Brunswick, too. Dodging all of the cars and young adults and roundabouts that seemed to be everywhere, we managed to safely arrive at Claudine’s. This restaurant is located in a nondescript strip mall and doesn’t look like much from the outside. But once inside, we could tell it had been recently renovated and was the new chic hangout for those artsy university types we had been noticing. The food and service there were terrific. We would recommend Claudine’s to anyone else who happened to find themselves in search of a good meal while in “Freddy Beach”, as the locals call it. Bellies full and bladders emptied, it was time to end our drive for the day and head to Moncton.
Until we actually arrived in downtown Moncton, I had no idea the extent to which music would play a part in this day. Prior to arriving at our hotel, the radio stations we were able to tune into came either from nearby Maine, in the U.S. or else, from Fredericton and then, Moncton as we drew nearer to there. Naturally, we heard “Espresso” and “Miles On It” and the other four songs that made up our summer playlist multiple times along the way. But this isn’t the music that I am talking about. As we entered Moncton and neared our hotel, we passed Casino New Brunswick. In front was a huge neon sign promoting an upcoming two-concert visit by punk rock legends NOFX!!!! Wait, what?! Sometime earlier in the summer I had read that these legends were embarking on their final tour ever. *(You can read about NOFX from a previously written post here). Contrary to what you may think, I don’t own that many band t-shirts but I do own one by NOFX. I have respected them ever since I first learned of their existence and now, here they were in Moncton of all places as one of their final live concerts ever!!! Unfortunately for me, the concert dates didn’t jibe with our travel schedule but knowing that I was thiiiiis close to a surprise NOFX concert was enough to start the Moncton phase of this journey off on the right note for me.
When I booked our hotels for this trip, I did so with Leah’s ultimate arrival at university in mind. I did not book anywhere thinking that it might coincide with anything special that might be happening along the way. So, imagine our collective surprise when we finally arrived at our hotel and went inside. We stayed at the Hotel Beausejour, which is a reasonably swishy place for a city like Moncton. As we walked toward the door, I was semi-worried that we wouldn’t be dressed well enough (in shorts and t-shirts as we were). However, once the doors were opened, we were met with a sonic blast that knocked us all off kilter. Hotel chains are known for playing elevator-style music in their lobby areas but at this hotel, we entered to the sound of Country music playing at high, headphone-esque levels. As we approached the front desk to check in, we noticed that the staff were all wearing plaid shirts, blue jeans and straw hats! What the heck was going on here? After a bit of digging we came to learn that Moncton was set to host a three-day Country music festival called YQM Country Fest. Rising star Bailey Zimmerman was headlining on the Friday evening that we had arrived. Jason Aldean was set to headline on Saturday and Luke Combs, of “Fast Car” fame, was closing the festival as headliner on Sunday. There was a palpable sense of excitement in the air among the guests of the hotel, almost all of whom we were guessing were in town for the festival. Even in the swanky surroundings, we blended right in with everyone else when it came to our wardrobe. I needn’t have ever worried.
Eric’s Trip.Moncton may seem like a strange place to suddenly be a hotbed of musical activity but the city has a homegrown source of pride that helps it stand on its own merits as a city worthy of musical respect. In the early 1990s, a band called Eric’s Trip was formed in Moncton by singer Rick White, guitarist Chris Thompson, singer/guitarist Julie Dorion and drummer Ed Vaughn (who was later replaced by Mark Gaudet). Eric’s Trip became one of the most influential Canadian bands of their time. You may ask yourself how influential could they have been if this is the first time you are hearing about them? Well, let me tell you their story. The members of Eric’s Trip played a form of indie-alternative music that no other major band was playing in Canada at the time. Because they were living in Moncton, they were allowed the opportunity to develop their sound in a rather insulated musical environment. Eventually, in time, a cassette tape that the band had recorded themselves wound up in the hands of a record executive in Halifax. At that time in music history, the musical phenomenon known as Grunge music was exploding out of Seattle, Washington. Bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Alice in Chains and many more were all signing major label recording deals, many with a record label called Sub Pop. The folks in charge of Sub Pop had studied the world of music promotion and had modeled Sub Pop after Berry Gordy’s Motown Records in Detroit. In their mind, they understood that Gordy had marketed a “sound” or a type of music that became synonymous with the Motown label. Sub Pop wanted to do the same with Grunge music. They wanted Sub Pop to become synonymous with the Seattle musical sound of bands such as Nirvana. Being business-oriented, the founders of Sub Pop harvested all of the available talent in the Seattle area. Then they turned their eyes to the rest of the world, in search of that next great Grunge-ready Seattle clone. Eventually, this brought Sub Pop executives to Halifax in the early 1990s. At the time, the Halifax music scene was exploding with talent such as Sloan, a very young Sarah McLachlan, Joel Plaskett and his band Thrush Hermit and many more. When local music types started organizing showcases for the visiting Sub Pop executives, one of the bands that caught their ears was Eric’s Trip. Because Eric’s Trip had developed outside of the Halifax bubble, they were perceived by Sub Pop as being fresher, with greater future potential and, as such, they were the very first Canadian band ever signed to the increasingly famous Sub Pop label. Eric Trip’s brand of indie-alternative lo-fi pop rock came just as the Grunge wave was cresting in the U.S. In Canada, that placed them at the leading edge of this movement here. While Eric’s Trip didn’t end up selling that many albums nor lasting a very long time as a band, their influence on other bands is what really makes them important. No less a band than The Tragically Hip name dropped them in their song “Put It Off” from Trouble at the Henhouse with the line that reads “I played Love Tara by Eric’s Trip on the day that you were born” Love Tara was the title of Eric’s Trip’s first album. Because of the role that this band and album played in influencing the development of alternative music in Canada, Love Tara is viewed as one of the most respected and important Canadian albums of all time. The song “Viewmaster”, which I am showcasing in this post, will seem like something you have probably heard before which, in turn, may cause you to wonder what all the fuss was about. The fuss comes in knowing that what you are watching is musical history unfolding before your eyes. Someone always has to go first when starting something new. For me and many others as well, Eric’s Trip went first in Canada when it came to indie/alternative music.
Love Tara by Eric’s Trip.Always an anti-Halifax/proudly Monctonian band, Eric’s Trip and the song “Viewmaster” is what was rolling through my head as we took a family stroll along the Petitcodiac River after supper. This river holds a special place in our hearts because, on an earlier visit when the girls were much younger, we dubbed this river as being “The Chocolate River”. You see, the waters of the Petitcodiac River are crystal clear but the sediment of its banks and riverbed are decidedly a red-brown colour. This, in turn, causes the flowing water to resemble chocolate. Even though Moncton was never our intended final destination, we are all happy to be here. The city has done a good job of developing walking trails along the river. There are also plenty of restaurants, gas stations and grocery stores near the hotel district. On this visit, the excitement of music royalty coming to their city can be felt everywhere we went. It is nice to be in a place where the vibe is so upbeat and party-like. But while we are happy to stroll along the banks of the Chocolate River while eating ice cream, we have other places to be and people to see. Our real journey begins tomorrow. Cape Breton Island awaits and with it, so do important members of my family. Tonight I will wrap myself and my family in the joyous musical atmosphere that Moncton exudes. Tomorrow, it is time to go home.
The link to the video for the song “Viewmaster” by Eric’s Trip can be found here. ***The lyrics version is here.
The link to the official website for Eric’s Trip can be found here.
The link to the video for the song “Don’t Drive Through” by David Myles can be found here. ***The lyrics version is here.
The link to the official website for David Myles can be found here.
The link to the official website for the province of New Brunswick can be found here.
The link to the official website for the city of Hartland, New Brunswick can be found here.
The link to the official website for the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick can be found here.
The link to the official website for the city of Moncton, New Brunswick can be found here.
***As always, all original content contained within this post remains the sole property of the author. No portion of this post shall be reblogged, copied or shared in any manner without the express written consent of the author. ©2024 http://www.tommacinneswriter.com
#EricsTrip #GreatBigSea #HartlandCoveredBridge #LoveTara #NewBrunswick #NOFX #TheGreatCanadianRoadTrip #Viewmaster #Moncton
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The Great Canadian Road Trip….Song #74/250: Viewmaster by Eric’s Trip…Road Trip Edition: Part III
The links for Parts I and II of this series can be found here and here.
Day 3:
We start this day in a hotel parking lot in Edmundston, New Brunswick. The morning air is crisp and cool. Surrounding us are dozens of cars all bearing Ontario license plates. For us, today will be an odd sort of day. Our daughter’s university sits approximately one hour past the city of Halifax. From Edmunston, we could make it to Halifax in about six hours. To do so would pretty much end the driving on this part of our journey. However, before we ever left our home in Ontario, we knew that this trip was going to be about more than simply being on time for university move-in day. It was also going to be the culmination of a farewell tour that our daughter had been enjoying this whole entire summer. Prior to leaving home, Leah got to say goodbye to one group of friends at a day-long pool party in the country. Then she worked her final shift at the Library where she had been employed all throughout high school. As a family we had a final restaurant meal out together. Then Leah finished her last shift at the bookstore where she also worked. The family of her BFF took her out for a final dinner as well. At last it came time for a teary farewell to Gramma and Poppa and down the highway to the east coast we all went. But before arriving at her university town, it had been decided that we would include stops to see my mother, my cousin, as well as my sister and her husband along the way. This entailed driving past the Halifax turnoff, adding another four hours of driving…each way… to get to Cape Breton and back again. For this reason, as we stood in that hotel parking lot in Edmunston about to begin our day, instead of a six hour culmination to our trip, we were faced with the daunting prospect of a ten hour run to the ocean. Crammed as we were into our small spaces that we had carved out for ourselves in our car, with nine hours of driving already under our belts, the decision was made to limit our road exposure on this day and stop for the day in Moncton. Thus, we began today’s stage of this journey with the mindset that we were putting in time. By day’s end, we would still not be where we needed to be to see the people or the places we were really interested in seeing. But, at least, we would be a little closer. That was our reward today…to be a little closer to where we needed to be. So, into our car we climbed. We bid adieu to our Ontario compatriots in the parking lot and set off to travel through New Brunswick.
Driving through New Brunswick is a very different experience compared to driving on the 401 highway in Ontario or driving past Montreal and Quebec City. New Brunswick is all trees and forests, whereas Ontario and western Quebec are all people, cars and shopping malls. The driving can be slow and frustrating while on the 401 but in New Brunswick, the roads are wide open. For hours on end, there are barely any other vehicles on the highway with us. It is just us, the highway and a seemingly endless panorama of trees in all directions. As we drove along, my wife and I actually joked about whether the Trans Canada highway was, in fact, closed and we shouldn’t really be there. But truth be told, New Brunswick is simply this vast province that has, for the most part, retained its naturalized state and has escaped the land baron’s plows for now. It is pristine. The highways are newly constructed, making driving there rather easy. The biggest obstacle to traversing New Brunswick is actually boredom. There are trees everywhere! There is no end to them. Eventually one tires of seeing wooded mountain sides and the scenery starts blending together. It is easy to lapse into a video game mentality and lose sight of the fact that you are driving a real car filled with precious cargo over one hill and down the next, around this curve and then the one after that, eventually straightening out for a while as you are surrounded by nothing but trees, trees and more trees.
A decade or so ago, the CBC held a music contest called The Great Canadian Song Quest. The challenge was for songwriters to create original songs specifically relating to the province in which they resided. The winner of the New Brunswick portion of this contest was a man named David Myles with a song aptly titled “Don’t Drive Through”. Prior to 2010 or so, driving through New Brunswick meant driving on an old two-lane highway. If you happened to wind up stuck behind a truck carrying logs, for instance, it was easy to lose lots of time trying to get across the province. After many complaints, the Government of New Brunswick embarked on an ambitious project to build a new series of modern highways that stretched from one end of the province to the other. It is on these new highways that we find ourselves as we drive on this day. The thing about these new highways is, as David Myles duly noted in his song, that you actually bypass all of the towns and cities in the province where people live and work and go about their daily lives. With the old highway, it may have been a slower trek but at least you ended up driving through every little village and town along the way and could stop at a Mom and Pop diner or roadside vegetable stand if so inclined. Nowadays, if you don’t deliberately take an off ramp somewhere along the highway, you can drive completely across New Brunswick and see nothing at all but trees. So, in order to break up the monotony of driving endlessly through wooded hillsides, we opted to make two stops before arriving in Moncton. The first stop was the world’s longest covered bridge in Hartland, New Brunswick.
A romantic stroll across the Heartland Covered Bridge.The Hartland Covered Bridge spans the St. John River. It is a one-lane bridge that you can drive or walk across. It isn’t really all that long of a span, less than a minute’s drive and maybe three-four minutes to walk across it one way. But it is a sturdily constructed bridge. We enjoyed our little stroll across the bridge, examining all the lover’s hearts and initials that have been carved into the beams over the years. Then, like so many other tourists, when our visit to the bridge was over, we availed ourselves of their public washrooms and piled back into our car and continued on our way. Thanks for the pit stop Hartland!
Our day was divided into three ninety-minute segments. The first ninety minutes took us from Edmundston to Hartland and that epic covered bridge. From Hartland, it was another hour and a half to Fredericton, which is the provincial capital of New Brunswick. We decided to stop there for an early lunch at a diner-style restaurant called Claudine’s. After having seen next to no cars at all on the Trans Canada highway, it seemed extremely busy once we entered Fredericton proper. One thing we noticed was the preponderance of young twenty-somethings wandering around the city. Then we realized that it must have been move-in time at the University of New Brunswick, too. Dodging all of the cars and young adults and roundabouts that seemed to be everywhere, we managed to safely arrive at Claudine’s. This restaurant is located in a nondescript strip mall and doesn’t look like much from the outside. But once inside, we could tell it had been recently renovated and was the new chic hangout for those artsy university types we had been noticing. The food and service there were terrific. We would recommend Claudine’s to anyone else who happened to find themselves in search of a good meal while in “Freddy Beach”, as the locals call it. Bellies full and bladders emptied, it was time to end our drive for the day and head to Moncton.
Until we actually arrived in downtown Moncton, I had no idea the extent to which music would play a part in this day. Prior to arriving at our hotel, the radio stations we were able to tune into came either from nearby Maine, in the U.S. or else, from Fredericton and then, Moncton as we drew nearer to there. Naturally, we heard “Espresso” and “Miles On It” and the other four songs that made up our summer playlist multiple times along the way. But this isn’t the music that I am talking about. As we entered Moncton and neared our hotel, we passed Casino New Brunswick. In front was a huge neon sign promoting an upcoming two-concert visit by punk rock legends NOFX!!!! Wait, what?! Sometime earlier in the summer I had read that these legends were embarking on their final tour ever. *(You can read about NOFX from a previously written post here). Contrary to what you may think, I don’t own that many band t-shirts but I do own one by NOFX. I have respected them ever since I first learned of their existence and now, here they were in Moncton of all places as one of their final live concerts ever!!! Unfortunately for me, the concert dates didn’t jibe with our travel schedule but knowing that I was thiiiiis close to a surprise NOFX concert was enough to start the Moncton phase of this journey off on the right note for me.
When I booked our hotels for this trip, I did so with Leah’s ultimate arrival at university in mind. I did not book anywhere thinking that it might coincide with anything special that might be happening along the way. So, imagine our collective surprise when we finally arrived at our hotel and went inside. We stayed at the Hotel Beausejour, which is a reasonably swishy place for a city like Moncton. As we walked toward the door, I was semi-worried that we wouldn’t be dressed well enough (in shorts and t-shirts as we were). However, once the doors were opened, we were met with a sonic blast that knocked us all off kilter. Hotel chains are known for playing elevator-style music in their lobby areas but at this hotel, we entered to the sound of Country music playing at high, headphone-esque levels. As we approached the front desk to check in, we noticed that the staff were all wearing plaid shirts, blue jeans and straw hats! What the heck was going on here? After a bit of digging we came to learn that Moncton was set to host a three-day Country music festival called YQM Country Fest. Rising star Bailey Zimmerman was headlining on the Friday evening that we had arrived. Jason Aldean was set to headline on Saturday and Luke Combs, of “Fast Car” fame, was closing the festival as headliner on Sunday. There was a palpable sense of excitement in the air among the guests of the hotel, almost all of whom we were guessing were in town for the festival. Even in the swanky surroundings, we blended right in with everyone else when it came to our wardrobe. I needn’t have ever worried.
Eric’s Trip.Moncton may seem like a strange place to suddenly be a hotbed of musical activity but the city has a homegrown source of pride that helps it stand on its own merits as a city worthy of musical respect. In the early 1990s, a band called Eric’s Trip was formed in Moncton by singer Rick White, guitarist Chris Thompson, singer/guitarist Julie Dorion and drummer Ed Vaughn (who was later replaced by Mark Gaudet). Eric’s Trip became one of the most influential Canadian bands of their time. You may ask yourself how influential could they have been if this is the first time you are hearing about them? Well, let me tell you their story. The members of Eric’s Trip played a form of indie-alternative music that no other major band was playing in Canada at the time. Because they were living in Moncton, they were allowed the opportunity to develop their sound in a rather insulated musical environment. Eventually, in time, a cassette tape that the band had recorded themselves wound up in the hands of a record executive in Halifax. At that time in music history, the musical phenomenon known as Grunge music was exploding out of Seattle, Washington. Bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Alice in Chains and many more were all signing major label recording deals, many with a record label called Sub Pop. The folks in charge of Sub Pop had studied the world of music promotion and had modeled Sub Pop after Berry Gordy’s Motown Records in Detroit. In their mind, they understood that Gordy had marketed a “sound” or a type of music that became synonymous with the Motown label. Sub Pop wanted to do the same with Grunge music. They wanted Sub Pop to become synonymous with the Seattle musical sound of bands such as Nirvana. Being business-oriented, the founders of Sub Pop harvested all of the available talent in the Seattle area. Then they turned their eyes to the rest of the world, in search of that next great Grunge-ready Seattle clone. Eventually, this brought Sub Pop executives to Halifax in the early 1990s. At the time, the Halifax music scene was exploding with talent such as Sloan, a very young Sarah McLachlan, Joel Plaskett and his band Thrush Hermit and many more. When local music types started organizing showcases for the visiting Sub Pop executives, one of the bands that caught their ears was Eric’s Trip. Because Eric’s Trip had developed outside of the Halifax bubble, they were perceived by Sub Pop as being fresher, with greater future potential and, as such, they were the very first Canadian band ever signed to the increasingly famous Sub Pop label. Eric Trip’s brand of indie-alternative lo-fi pop rock came just as the Grunge wave was cresting in the U.S. In Canada, that placed them at the leading edge of this movement here. While Eric’s Trip didn’t end up selling that many albums nor lasting a very long time as a band, their influence on other bands is what really makes them important. No less a band than The Tragically Hip name dropped them in their song “Put It Off” from Trouble at the Henhouse with the line that reads “I played Love Tara by Eric’s Trip on the day that you were born” Love Tara was the title of Eric’s Trip’s first album. Because of the role that this band and album played in influencing the development of alternative music in Canada, Love Tara is viewed as one of the most respected and important Canadian albums of all time. The song “Viewmaster”, which I am showcasing in this post, will seem like something you have probably heard before which, in turn, may cause you to wonder what all the fuss was about. The fuss comes in knowing that what you are watching is musical history unfolding before your eyes. Someone always has to go first when starting something new. For me and many others as well, Eric’s Trip went first in Canada when it came to indie/alternative music.
Love Tara by Eric’s Trip.Always an anti-Halifax/proudly Monctonian band, Eric’s Trip and the song “Viewmaster” is what was rolling through my head as we took a family stroll along the Petitcodiac River after supper. This river holds a special place in our hearts because, on an earlier visit when the girls were much younger, we dubbed this river as being “The Chocolate River”. You see, the waters of the Petitcodiac River are crystal clear but the sediment of its banks and riverbed are decidedly a red-brown colour. This, in turn, causes the flowing water to resemble chocolate. Even though Moncton was never our intended final destination, we are all happy to be here. The city has done a good job of developing walking trails along the river. There are also plenty of restaurants, gas stations and grocery stores near the hotel district. On this visit, the excitement of music royalty coming to their city can be felt everywhere we went. It is nice to be in a place where the vibe is so upbeat and party-like. But while we are happy to stroll along the banks of the Chocolate River while eating ice cream, we have other places to be and people to see. Our real journey begins tomorrow. Cape Breton Island awaits and with it, so do important members of my family. Tonight I will wrap myself and my family in the joyous musical atmosphere that Moncton exudes. Tomorrow, it is time to go home.
The link to the video for the song “Viewmaster” by Eric’s Trip can be found here. ***The lyrics version is here.
The link to the official website for Eric’s Trip can be found here.
The link to the video for the song “Don’t Drive Through” by David Myles can be found here. ***The lyrics version is here.
The link to the official website for David Myles can be found here.
The link to the official website for the province of New Brunswick can be found here.
The link to the official website for the city of Hartland, New Brunswick can be found here.
The link to the official website for the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick can be found here.
The link to the official website for the city of Moncton, New Brunswick can be found here.
***As always, all original content contained within this post remains the sole property of the author. No portion of this post shall be reblogged, copied or shared in any manner without the express written consent of the author. ©2024 http://www.tommacinneswriter.com
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“Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man.”
“The only thing great about a trump rally is the end. I always laugh and laugh.” John Buss @repeat1968
Good Day, Sky Dancers!
The entire eastern half of the United States seems inundated with some kind of precipitation. New Orleans has pretty much shut down while awaiting an afternoon and evening of heavy rains and likely tornadoes. I’m sitting in the very dark, quiet before the storm. It’s a bit of a metaphor for what’s going to be a tumultuous year. I started with this quote today because mediocre white men are still ruining the country. Louisiana inaugurated one as its Governor yesterday, who’s a pallbearer for the Christian White Supremacists we already have terrorizing the country. LSU–supposedly our flagship university–is already cleansing itself of professors who are experts in climate change and white-washed its student recruitment outreach through its renamed Office of Diversity and Inclusion and its Mission.
Jeff Landry with the Sword of Mediocre White Men. The sword was his prop for his inaugural speech.
Former AGA Landry, now Governor, was elected by only 10% of the Louisiana electorate. A low voter turnout handed him the office. He gave his inaugural address from behind a sword. It’s going to get ugly here. There were literally a handful of people at the ceremony. Speaker of the House Ayatollah Mike Johnson was there. So was Sleazy Steve. All the short little bully guys were there. This is from the AP.
Louisiana Gov.-elect Jeff Landry, a Republican endorsed by former President Donald Trump and known for his conservative positions on issues like abortion, was inaugurated Sunday evening — marking a political shift of leadership in a state that has had a Democratic governor for the last eight years.
During his 30-minute speech, Landry called for unity and expressed his love for the Bayou State while also laying out some of his priorities, including an aggressive response to addressing “uncivilized and outrageous” violent crime and safeguarding schools from “the toxicity of unsuitable subject matter.”
Walt Handelsman, political cartoonist for The Advocate and Times Picayune, has some really great takes on the radicalism of Landry
We know him. He hates New Orleans and will likely throw the state’s power into eliminating the independence that our charter provides. He does not want unity. He wants compliance and complacency. The First Amendment means nothing to him. You already see LSU scramble to be compliant.
Landry has vowed to call a special legislative session in his first few months in office to address the issue. He has pushed a tough-on-crime rhetoric, calling for more “transparency” in the justice system and continuing to support capital punishment. Thank goddesses that my LSU alumni daughters have left the state.
“I pledge to do all I possibly can to make our state safer and to bring an end to the misguided and deadly tolerance for crime and criminals that plague us,” Landry said Sunday.
Landry, who has served as the state’s attorney general for eight years, won the gubernatorial election in October, beating a crowded field of candidates and avoiding a runoff. The win was a major victory for the GOP, reclaiming the governor’s mansion. Edwards was unable to seek reelection due to term limits.
Landry, 53, has raised the profile of attorney general since taking office in 2016, championing conservative policy positions. He has been in the spotlight over his involvement and staunch support of Louisiana laws that have drawn much debate, including banning gender-affirming medical care for young transgender people, the state’s near-total abortion ban and a law restricting children’ access to “sexually explicit material” in libraries, which opponents fear will target LGBTQ+ books.
“Our people seek government that reflects their values,” Landry said Sunday. “They demand that our children be afforded an education that reflects those wholesome principles, and not an indoctrination behind their mother’s back.”
Ever notice how these guys just ooze white male privilege while screaming they are the most persecuted people on the planet? WBUR interviewed author Ijeoma Oluo in 2020 to explain the Mediocre White Man Syndrome. She also explains how dangerous it is.
White male mediocrity protects the belief that white men are perceived as stronger and more successful than women and people of color regardless of skill or achievements, she says.
“It’s a system that protects mediocrity, that sets [mediocrity] as the goal,” she says. “And the idea that anything would ask for more of our systems — let alone the people within these systems — becomes a threat to the status quo and to our systems of power.”
This ideology serves as one of capitalism’s primary protections by convincing people to participate in the system, she says.
White men believe that greatness and prosperity are coming despite the realities of their financial situation or career, she says. But when the paycheck doesn’t come, white men often blame women and people of color for taking it away.
Every person deserves to feel safe and thrive, she says, but society’s leaders need to show they can make that happen.
“Who leads us and [who] we reward for their contributions should actually be making meaningful contributions that improve the lives of people in our society,” she says, “should be leaders that can effectively lead and bring prosperity to everyone, regardless of race and gender or skill or talent.”
In the book, Oluo highlights key moments to show how this system works from the way women were kicked out of the workforce after the Great Depression, to how women of color in politics are challenged for holding different views on equity than their white male colleagues.
While she says she could write 100 books on this topic, Oluo started by asking “fundamental questions about white male identity in America as a political and social construct” throughout history. She collected hundreds of stories and looked for common threads.
So, I buried the lede. Yes! I did. That quote up top is from the former guy for whom even mediocre is a struggle. This is from USA Today. “‘I was entitled’: Donald Trump previews his Tuesday courtroom appeal on presidential immunity. Trump is juggling court hearings in criminal and civil cases while also campaigning for the White House.”
Donald Trump is opening 2024 in what is likely to be a familiar place for him this election year: the courtroom.The former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner previewed on social media Monday his reasons why he should be shielded from charges of election interference. The crux of his argument, which his lawyers will make in a D.C. appeals court hearing Tuesday: he was president when the events occurred, so he is immune.
“Of course I was entitled, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief, to Immunity,” Trump said in a post Monday on Truth Social.
The case just one of the matter’s on Trump’s courtroom docket for the week. On Thursday, lawyers will make their closing arguments in the New York real estate fraud case in which $370 million in damages are at stake.
Don’t expect Trump himself to take the stand in either case this week. That’s for the lawyers, with lots of questions from the judges. But Trump may weigh in outside the courtroom, and most certainly will make his case on social media.
Given that, expect a fiery rebuttal Tuesday from one of Trump’s chief legal adversaries. Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has argued that Trump’s logic would allow a president to commit crimes like bribery, murder and treason without consequence.
This argument is basically the mantra of the mediocre white man. This is from CNN. “Trump wants Georgia election subversion case dismissed, arguing he has presidential immunity.” If anyone would’ve thought this was a rational, legal argument, it would’ve been Richard Nixon. He just up and quit in the face of charges. Trump seems to be confused between the DOJ policy of avoiding election cycles and the U.S. Constitution. He seems to think he has a “Get out of Jail Free” card. It does appear that way with all of the things he’s done the normal person out awaiting trial would not.
Former President Donald Trump is seeking to have the sweeping criminal conspiracy case against him in Georgia thrown out by arguing he is protected from prosecution under presidential immunity.
Trump’s immunity claims in the Georgia case, filed on Monday as part of a motion to dismiss state-level criminal charges against the former president, are similar to those argued by his defense team in the federal election subversion case.
“The indictment in this case charges President Trump for acts that lie at the heart of his official responsibilities as President. The indictment is barred by presidential immunity and should be dismissed with prejudice,” the motion filed by Trump’s lawyer in the Georgia case reads.
Monday’s filing in the Georgia case reiterates what the former president’s lawyers have repeatedly asserted – that Trump was working in his official capacity as president when he allegedly undermined the 2020 election results and therefore has immunity.
Entitlement just oozes from these guys. This is from the Washington Post. “Business Insider story on Harvard antagonist’s wife draws owner’s scrutiny. The news site’s German owner, Axel Springer, plans to review a story about alleged plagiarism by former MIT professor Neri Oxman, whose billionaire husband, Bill Ackman, sought to oust Harvard’s president for similar academic transgressions. Its editor defends the story.” The hypocrisy is evident when the spotlight is turned on them.
Business Insider and its German parent company appear to be at odds over its reporting on plagiarism allegations against the wife of a high-profile hedge fund manager.
The financial news site published two stories last week alleging that Neri Oxman, a prominent former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, had plagiarized repeatedly in her academic work, including lifting from Wikipedia more than a dozen times in her dissertation.
Those stories came after her husband, billionaire investor Bill Ackman, spent weeks pressuring his alma mater, Harvard University, to oust its president — initially over his contention that she had mishandled incidents of antisemitism on campus but later over reports that she had committed plagiarism earlier in her career. At one point, Ackman wrote that a Harvard student who committed “much less” plagiarism than Claudine Gay would be forced out of the university. Gay resigned from the presidency last week.
But when Business Insider raised plagiarism concerns about his wife’s work, Ackman excoriated the publication, accusing it of unethical journalism, promising to review its writers’ work and predicting that it would “go bankrupt and be liquidated.” In one social media post, he implied that Business Insider’s investigations editor (whom he called “a known anti-Zionist”) may have been “willing to lead this attack” because Oxman is Israeli.
Neither Ackman nor Oxman, whose companies didn’t respond to requests for comment, have pointed to any factual errors in the articles.
Remember this? It’s like the patented hand shake of thee Mediocre White Man Club. This is from Newsweek. “Donald Trump Moves To Cash In on Brett Kavanaugh.”
Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba has said that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would be among the judges to throw out the decision disqualifying the former president from the ballot in Colorado as Trump “went through hell” to get him to the bench.Speaking to Fox News‘ Sean Hannity, Habba singled out Kavanaugh as one of those on the SCOTUS bench who will “step up” for Trump after the Colorado Supreme Court made a historic ruling in December to ban Trump from running for president in the state over violating the Constitution’s insurrection clause around the January 6 attack.
Trump has appealed the decision to the Supreme Court and has denied that his actions related to the Capitol riots violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The section, brought in after the Civil War, states that a person who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” after taking an oath of office to support the Constitution cannot run for office again.
The conservative majority Supreme Court bench, which includes three justices nominated to the bench by Trump—Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch—is expected to take on the case, and rule on whether to allow or throw out the Colorado decision.
Habba predicted that the Supreme Court would make a “slam dunk” ruling in Trump’s favor while suggesting Kavanaugh is one of the nine justices who will want to overturn the decision to ban Trump from running for office in Colorado.
“People like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place, he’ll step up,” Habba said.
“Those people will step up, not because they’re pro-Trump, but because they’re pro-law, because they’re pro-fairness and the law on this is very clear.”
Here are legal sources with annotations on Article 2, Section 3 of the U.S Constitution on the idea of Presidential Immunity from Judicial Direction. This has been a topic considered the Court for some time. Some of the Presidents who have taken the concept to court include Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson. These are annotations from Justia. on the Johnson case and the Nixon case. It’s elucidation in the court on Article Two, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution about Presidential responsibilities which includes the State of the Union Address from Court Cases.
In Mississippi v. Johnson,807 in 1867, the Court placed the President beyond the reach of judicial direction, either affirmative or restraining, in the exercise of his powers, whether constitutional or statutory, political or otherwise, save perhaps for what must be a small class of powers that are purely ministerial.808 An application for an injunction to forbid President Johnson to enforce the Reconstruction Acts, on the ground of their unconstitutionality, was answered by Attorney General Stanberg, who argued, inter alia, the absolute immunity of the President from judicial process.809 The Court refused to permit the filing, using language construable as meaning that the President was not reachable by judicial process but which more fully paraded the horrible consequences were the Court to act. First noting the limited meaning of the term “ministerial,” the Court observed that “[v]ery different is the duty of the President in the exercise of the power to see that the laws are faithfully executed, and among these laws the acts named in the bill. . . . The duty thus imposed on the President is in no just sense ministerial. It is purely executive and political.”
“An attempt on the part of the judicial department of the government to enforce the performance of such duties by the President might be justly characterized, in the language of Chief Justice Marshall, as ‘an absurd and excessive extravagance.’”
“It is true that in the instance before us the interposition of the court is not sought to enforce action by the Executive under constitutional legislation, but to restrain such action under legislation alleged to be unconstitutional. But we are unable to perceive that this circumstance takes the case out of the general principles which forbid judicial interference with the exercise of Executive discretion.” . . .
“The Congress is the legislative department of the government; the President is the executive department. Neither can be restrained in its action by the judicial department; though the acts of both, when performed, are, in proper cases, subject to its cognizance.”
“The impropriety of such interference will be clearly seen upon consideration of its possible consequences.”
“Suppose the bill filed and the injunction prayed for allowed. If the President refuse obedience, it is needless to observe that the court is without power to enforce its process. If, on the other hand, the President complies with the order of the court and refuses to execute the acts of Congress, is it not clear that a collision may occur between the executive and legislative departments of the government? May not the House of Representatives impeach the President for such refusal? And in that case could this court interfere, in behalf of the President, thus endangered by compliance with its mandate, and restrain by injunction the Senate of the United States from sitting as a court of impeachment? Would the strange spectacle be offered to the public world of an attempt by this court to arrest proceedings in that court?”810
Rare has been the opportunity for the Court to elucidate its opinion in Mississippi v. Johnson, and, in the Watergate tapes case,811 it held the President amenable to subpoena to produce evidence for use in a criminal case without dealing, except obliquely, with its prior opinion. The President’s counsel had argued the President was immune to judicial process, claiming “that the independence of the Executive Branch within its own sphere . . . insulates a President from a judicial subpoena in an ongoing criminal prosecution, and thereby protects confidential Presidential communications.”812 However, the Court held, “neither the doctrine of separation of powers, nor the need for confidentiality of high-level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances.”813 The primary constitutional duty of the courts “to do justice in criminal prosecutions” was a critical counterbalance to the claim of presidential immunity, and to accept the President’s argument would disturb the separation-of-powers function of achieving “a workable government” as well as “gravely impair the role of the courts under Art. III.”814
Present throughout the Watergate crisis, and unresolved by it, was the question of the amenability of the President to criminal prosecution prior to conviction upon impeachment.815 It was argued that the Impeachment Clause necessarily required indictment and trial in a criminal proceeding to follow a successful impeachment and that a President in any event was uniquely immune from indictment, and these arguments were advanced as one ground to deny enforcement of the subpoenas running to the President.816 Assertion of the same argument by Vice President Agnew was controverted by the government, through the Solicitor General, but, as to the President, it was argued that for a number of constitutional and practical reasons he was not subject to ordinary criminal process.817
Oops, I’m down a history rabbit hole now. I guess it’s time to close. I love the song “Call me Rose” by Bruce Cockburn because of it’s implied karmic rebirth of Richard Nixon as a single woman on welfare with a child.
Anyway, this week should be another show stopper. Take care! I see the rain has started here. I wonder if BB is still getting that snowstorm. Bet thing to ponder is when exactly is this Former Guy shitstorm ending?
What’s on your reading and blogging list today?
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Jussara Caçapava, do Avante, ganha a eleição suplementar de Cachoeirinha
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Jussara Caçapava, do Avante, ganha a eleição suplementar de Cachoeirinha
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#dresde #allemagne #dresden Histoire vue de gauche (en allemand) https://www.bommi2000.de/geschichte/sachsen1933.php
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La centralité de la sécession dans l’idéologie des élites #separatisme
Le politiste canadien Quinn Slobodian, dans son ouvrage "Le Capitalisme de l’apocalypse" (Le Seuil, 2025), définit ce rêve de fragmentation comme une structure fondamentale de l’idéologie contemporaine du capital. Celui-ci, et la classe qui en assure le fonctionnement, cherche en permanence à construire des lieux d’exception où, dans la mesure du possible, il échappe aux règles qui prévalent en dehors (Mediapart)
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#allemagne #schinkel qui était aussi peintre Article en français https://histoire-image.org/etudes/renouveau-medieval
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#nantes #dissidents des territoires d'outre-mer 1940-1945
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Féminicides : elles s’appelaient Gilberte, Salma, Christelle… Au moins neuf femmes tuées en mars #Féminicide #Faits divers #Meurtres @OuestFrance
https://www.ouest-france.fr/faits-divers/feminicide/feminicides-elles-sappelaient-gilberte-salma-christelle-au-moins-neuf-femmes-tuees-en-mars-48025fd2-0988-11f0-8a07-c6476d4a0ef7 -
A recent study in Science shows that gender stereotypes are prevalent among kids as young as 6 years old.
Girls at this age often doubt their intelligence compared to boys, leading them to avoid activities associated with high intelligence.
Early intervention is crucial to combat these harmful biases. #BreakTheBias #GenderStereotypesStartYoung
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A recent study in Science shows that gender stereotypes are prevalent among kids as young as 6 years old.
Girls at this age often doubt their intelligence compared to boys, leading them to avoid activities associated with high intelligence.
Early intervention is crucial to combat these harmful biases. #BreakTheBias #GenderStereotypesStartYoung
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A recent study in Science shows that gender stereotypes are prevalent among kids as young as 6 years old.
Girls at this age often doubt their intelligence compared to boys, leading them to avoid activities associated with high intelligence.
Early intervention is crucial to combat these harmful biases. #BreakTheBias #GenderStereotypesStartYoung
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A recent study in Science shows that gender stereotypes are prevalent among kids as young as 6 years old.
Girls at this age often doubt their intelligence compared to boys, leading them to avoid activities associated with high intelligence.
Early intervention is crucial to combat these harmful biases. #BreakTheBias #GenderStereotypesStartYoung
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A recent study in Science shows that gender stereotypes are prevalent among kids as young as 6 years old.
Girls at this age often doubt their intelligence compared to boys, leading them to avoid activities associated with high intelligence.
Early intervention is crucial to combat these harmful biases. #BreakTheBias #GenderStereotypesStartYoung
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"I always ensured the manager I was with didn’t know I was a dad. I can’t say three times a week, 'Guys, I have to leave at 4 p.m.,' and then say, 'I have too much work. ' Unfortunately, that is complicated, I couldn’t afford to say that.
My research unpacks how workplace culture shapes the experiences of fatherhood, highlighting the need for more supportive and inclusive environments for working dads. #Fatherhood #WorkLifeBalance #ParentingChallenges
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