Monday, June 8, 2020

Re-Posting This... From Some Years Ago... With Renewed Currency, Now.


No additional comment. Just. . . press play -- and listen.











And. . . one more, from 2020:







नमस्ते

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope you, and your loved ones, are safe and well. Just wondering if you saw this:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/michael-flynn-judge-doj-rule-of-law.html and had a thought?

Please be safe

condor said...

Yes, thank you, Anon. . . we are whole, hale and hearty -- safe and well.

I trust you and yours are -- and will be too. . . do drink in all that Life offers you, during these truly. . . unprecedented times.


As to the Slate item, then: I think the author is well-intentioned, but mis-informed.

In an appeal on mandamus, using procedural arguments -- since this is a procedurally defective mandamus petition. . . is a wise choice, for at least two reasons.

First, appeals panels love to be able to dispose of knotty questions on procedural grounds -- and this is one where the trial judge hasn't ruled on anything. Highly irregular. So I think Wilkerson's arguments against mandamus at this early point. . . will be well-received.

Second, if the panel does grant mandamus, trial court Judge Emmet Sullivan may then appeal that ruling right back upstairs, to another panel.

Two bites at the apple, there. Rather than winner take all.

A little more darkly / prosaically -- and, I think honestly -- some of this is slyly to slow things down -- so Trump cannot pardon Flynn. . . hopefully, November comes, and Trump is out. . . before a final decision is handed down from the Supremes, on Flynn's case.

Perfect.

Do stay well. . . we all need to ride this storm out, sez me.

Namaste. . . .

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the response. I see Gleeson has weighed in....

As far as storm riding...I wish I knew what 'more' to do to help. Voting/petitioning and verbalizing is not enough.

condor said...


Listening. . . Without defenses.

Agreeing to actively use your voice — and your white privilege, for good. Standing up when micro aggressions occur — to support women, people of color and any marginalized person.

And. . . being seen.

Marching. Showing up. . . even amid the pandemic.

To witness, with cellphone cams, preferably — whatever the police (or falsie flag agitators) try.

Thank you. . . for caring.

Namaste. . . .

Anonymous said...

we are just one race~~~human.

Peace

condor said...

I hear you. . . and I do so wish that one day, everyone could see it that way.

Until then, though, we (collectively) will have to work at it. . . to struggle with it and to do more than just avoid conflicts.

And I am speaking only in the most general of terms here, no one (nor single situation) in mind. . . .

Thanks for. . . sharing. Honesty is the congruency we all must work toward, and clearly yours. . . is that.

Namaste. . . .