Some places impress you with scale, others with quiet details, and both can leave the same lasting impression. It is hard to ask for much more when the place already feels this good. #Wanderlust#Nature
I like the kind of scenery that makes you want to take the longer route just to see what is around the next turn. That is exactly the kind of experience that makes a trip worthwhile. #ExploreMore#TravelMoments
The world feels bigger in a good way when you are standing somewhere completely different from your usual surroundings. Sometimes a quiet moment ends up becoming the best memory of the whole trip. #Travel#TravelLife
I enjoy discovering places at a slower pace because it makes the whole experience feel less like a checklist and more like real life. This is the kind of pace I always hope to find when I travel. #TravelLife#ScenicViews
Traveling across different parts of the world makes it easier to appreciate how much variety can exist in everyday life. I would happily take more days that feel this simple and this easy. #ScenicViews#Adventure
“All gas, no brakes.”
Most of the worst gerrymandering is not even in Democratic states—but this is getting out of hand.
Texas districts stretch 300 miles. Democrats are at least putting it to voters in California and Virginia.
When Trump calls, Republicans follow. If Florida pushes this forward, it is going to get messy, and Republicans will not win
Here are the key takeaways after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced scrutiny during seven congressional hearings in the space of one week. https://t.co/Zj5PIUZWs3
🚨 WHERE ARE THE INDICTMENTS? 🚨
Laura presses on the status of investigations into Brennan, Comey, Clapper—and accountability for Crossfire Hurricane and the Russia investigation.
@DAGToddBlanche responds:
“These investigations have to be done in secret… or it destroys the integrity.”
There’s been some dissension recently about the three-to-nine-year prison sentence handed down by a New York judge to former police sergeant, Erik Duran, for throwing a plastic beverage cooler at a fleeing suspect in the Bronx. The cooler hit the perp in the arm, causing him to lose control of his motorcycle, crash and die. The harsh sentence was uncharacteristic for Supreme Court Justice Guy Mitchell, who a few years earlier gave only nine months to a guy who beat a homeless man to death.
But what the complainers don’t realize is that there is an epidemic of violent, cisgendered white male cops killing entirely innocent model citizens, out for a day’s drive on their moped, by attacking them with flung coolers -- fast becoming the lethal weapon of choice for these diabolical killers. Finally, one judge said: “ENOUGH!”
That was the tone of The New York Times’ article on the officer’s sentence. In the Times’ telling, the case wasn’t about causation, intent or reasonableness, but a test of “how the legal system would respond when officers harmed or killed people.” To the Times’ satisfaction, this was “the first conviction of a New York Police Department officer for killing a civilian in a decade.”
Sergeant Duran has to be sent to the hoosegow to fill some imaginary quota in the Times’ head for how many cops should be sent to prison. If not actual justice, it was cosmic justice.
Times readers would be shocked to learn this, but cops kill civilians only about a thousand times a year. That’s out of 50 million interactions with the public, or 0.00002 percent of the time.
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@RiceWhiskeys@joekent16jan19 I understand the importance of the petrodollar. But the key question is whether the cost of maintaining it has outweighed its benefits. If it's propped up through market monopolies or large-scale military action, a protracted war could generate massive debt and geopolitical backl
@Stratonicus@joekent16jan19 Driven by national will, he couldn't allow soaring oil prices to negatively impact American interests. His proposal for the US government to provide guarantees essentially bypassed London's financial elites, using "national credit" to forcefully inject a boost into global trade