Historic Jackson Justice

When America was a child, we spoke as a child, but when we became a grown-up, we put away childish ways. For then, back in the day, we were seeing, in a mirror, darkly, our ancestors' reflections in the manner of kings, serving as subjects to a crown, vassals in search of a vessel wherein we could navigate our way to a new world, a world in which all men and women, at last, at long last we live and move and have our freedom as men of women with dignity, equal rights and equal privileges in the eyes of God, man, in the statutes of God's law and man's law. When I was a child, I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1950's. Jackson was also the home of Medgar Evers, who had joined our army during the great war. . . Medgar, who had faced nazi battalions in Europe, only to return to Jackson and be told to go to the back of the bus, and ultimately to be assassinated in his own front yard because he was instructing his community in voter registration in Mississippi and Alabama. When I was a child in Jackson, a southern city that had been named after Andrew Jackson, whose backwoods legacy reminds us of both prejudice and victory over prejudice because he was an advocate for working Americans, as compared to rich and privileged ones, but he was also a racist, especially toward Native Americans. And let us not forget US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1941–54, who also served as prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials after hitler's third reich was brought to its final end and brought to the bar of Justice and the judgements of human history. And let us remember, progressing forward into history. . . Ketanji Brown Jackson's recent challenge in our US Supreme Court, a few weeks ago.

Justice Jackson asked: "Counsel, under your theory of absolute immunity, would a president be immune from prosecution if he ordered the military to assassinate a political opponent?" Justice Ketanji Brown JacksonLet us hope that Justice Jackson's question will be answered with a gavel toward freedom and justice by the Court's impending decision on presidential immunity. Let us hope that the justice-demanding opposition represented by Davy Crockett, er, excuse me, Jasmine Crockett will prevail in the high Court's impending decision. Let us hope that Justice Jackson's profound question will be answered by the supreme court with a decisive NO! No to presidential immunity in his role as Commander in Chief, Chief Executive and occupant of the oval office. As a wise person has said somewhere: Let immunity end a the Oval door. May Justice Jackson's question be the key that locks the door behind trump's attempt to transform our Presidency into a Kingship.  King of Soul

Phonomenon

This has turned out to be quite a phonomenon. We've come a long way since 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell made the first call to Mr. Watson. Alexander said: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you." We've come a long way since phone calls were connected by operators.

We've come a long way since the old telephone booth days. 

We've come a long way since Martin Cooper invented the first cell phone. 

We've made great strides since then. 

It's really something to do when you're in between episodes of real life.

Quite the phonomenon, these days, these cell phones. . . everywhere we go, no matter what the crowd flow, or the show, we're always on the go. Even so, these are the good ole days, dont'cha'know. Turkey day's just around the corner. We're all turkeys on this bus. In a month, we'll have Santy Clause climbing down the chimney, with his cell phone, keeping in track with his routers at the North Pole. Happy holidays! Don't forget to give us a call! that's all, y'all. Glass Chimera

Not in Kansas Any More, Toto!

Wikipedia defines an epic film as one having large scale, sweeping scope and spectacle. Universal Pictures' new movie, Wicked qualifies as an epic because it has all three elements, especially large scale, and especially, in this writer's opinion, the scale of large Time, or, to put it a better way: That movie has been blowing around in my mind for most of my lifetime! A new kid on the block, you see, Wicked . . . a 2025 blockbuster movie completes the cycle that was set in motion when I first saw The Wizard of Oz, back in the day. . . in the early 1950's when I was a baby boomer, and . . . 

Where's Scarecrow?for whatever reason, my memory of Dorothy, Lion, and Scarecrow was blown like a Kansas tornado into my young brain, year after year, as Warner Brothers' 1939 motion picture was subsequently broadcast by CBS, year after year, for as long as this 74-year-old time-traveler can remember. . . watching TV back in the day, before the '60's rolled in, when assassinations, Vietnam and Kent State tragedies blew in like a Kansas tornado and whirled our boomer dreams away. But now, now, we discover, as Paul Harvey used to say. . . the rest of the story. Now we pull back the curtain to see what was going on behind that behind-the-scenes rivalry between the wicked witch and and good witch. Now we see! Now we understand! And this widening of our vision, this telescopic sighting on a multiplex scale as wide as a Kansas cornfield expands our awareness into the epic realm. The windswept adventure of Dorothy, Tin man, Lion and Scarecrow launches our baby-booming American imagination into the epic realm of ancient past epics, Gilgamesh, Beowulf and George Washington chopping down the cherry tree. . . . here to tell y'bout: We ain't in Kansas any more, Toto! Now we're caught up in that new , blockbustin' Wicked Hollywood Universal twister! Now we know the rest of the story! Glass Chimera

Insurrection/Emissions Rant

Stephen Miller, the donald's white house henchman, says Demmie "lawmakers are now calling for insurrection", as if that were some kind of problem. . . when all the dems are trying to do is get the donald to govern according to the Constitution, maybe even call off the Guards that he's been sending illegally, lately. . . In California and Oregon and Chicago. Now I say illegally, because our Rule of Law, established over 369 years and carefully nourished by our Supreme Courts, our other courts, state courts, courts of Law, criminal courts, small claim courts. . . all of 'em . . . yeah, those laws, in the grand tradition of which a district Judge has already ruled trump acted illegally when he called the National Guard to attack demonstrators. trump should have known better; he tried to pull the same trick, back in the day, in that same state, Oregon, when Oregonians were lamenting the Illegal murder of George Floyd. I mean, Stephen is talking trash: calling the thousands of anti-trump protestors across the nation. . . calling it "insurrection". What it is is: American citizens making use of the their Constitutional rights, most obviously that very 1st Amendment: freedom of speech, of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances. I mean, I'm like . . . What do you think the proud toys and the 2-percenters and oath-knockers were doing when they stormed our Capitol at trump's trump's dog-whistling instigation?!

whistlin' dixie? well, come to think of it, maybe some of them were, but hey, I'm a southerner myself and I'm damn glad that President Lincoln sent the US Army to get those southern enslavers in line, and not only that, Honest Abe promulgated the Emancipation Proclamation, a document that far out weighs, in American history, trump's blubbery magamush. And whilw I'm at it . . .Where't the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan when you need it?! One more thing: Now donald's gonna knock all our emissions regulations to high hell, sky high, up into the atmosphere. . . when all that carbon particulates and emissions get pumped out of a thousand holes: drill, baby, drill! in that sandy bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, Drill, baby, drill! and after he gets done with it, like, while he's at it, maybe he'll be dumping all the classified docs in around those oil rigs so Jack Smith can't use them as evidence.  I mean, this rant started what I learned from Shawn while perusing the Times, times and half a time. Meanwhile, don't forget the writing on the wall: many, many turkeys falling, when Sheriff Jack comes to town. And I told 'em that! (as Amos had said to Andy back in the day.) Glass half-Full

The Wizard of What Was

The wizard behind the insurrection, the operator who was calling the shots from his oval perch, the "go to the capitol. . . be strong" instigator has had the curtain pulled back now.

as another curtain is now pulled back and is confronted by a tin man congress and as scarecrow house speaker, unexpectedly. . . when you least expect it. . . candid camera of history focuses on epstein tea pot now known, blowing steam on a carribbean island where the ghislene queen was conducting dances with wolves in sheep's clothing, or rather elephants who were stomping the grand ole party to death with their antics but now the sh** story has hit the fans as survivors of ghislene's dream and jeffrey's scheme and donald's debauchery squirm as they now see the writing on the wall: many, many, turkeys caught in the tangled web they wove when first they purposed to unload on young girls. Meanwhile back at the ranch, the oval occupant was hobnobbing with Saudi Salman, living the dream, while it still lasts, but the projector stopping now, and "The End" is near, as fear and loathing in Congress amps up and the oval occupant goes down the elevator, only to go the way of the buffalo, as "dirty tricks" white house memories flow and the prosecutors go and go, remembering classy documents stuffed in boxes at MarLago. Glass half-Full

From Fort Sumter to tort trumpster

In our United States of America, we have a long-standing principle that keeps US together as a nation: the Rule of Law. What Rule of Law of Means is: we are held together as a nation, as a democratic republic by laws that have been set into place by our founders, beginning in 1776, when our founders signed the Declaration of Independence. That document severed our ties with an English King, and replaced his authority with Rule of Law. In America, we have Rule of Law, not rule by kings. After George Washington had served his term as President, he stepped aside, clearing the way for the next president, John Adams, who was duly elected, according to the Rule of Law, our Constitution, that the founders had established. In 1861, the rebels attacked Fort Sumter, a fort for the protection of our United States of America. In 2021, the rebels attacked our US Capitol, a dome for the governance of, and peace and safety, of our United States of America.

In the lawful development of our history, laws have been generally separated into four categories: Constitutional Law, Federal Law, State Law and Civil Law, which we depend on to resolve the disputes that happen between citizens, as when some folks perform actions that cause other folks to suffer loss or harm. In Civil Law, there is a thing called "tort", which means a person(s) suffers loss or harm. When the trumpsters attacked our capitol, it was tort against US, the people of the United States. We suffered the loss of our peace and safety because trump chose to send a mob to attack our Congress. So we see that, in the course of American history, our nation's peace and safety has been attacked from within, twice: the first time was at Fort Sumter. . . The second time was tort trumpster. During our first civil war, President Lincoln issued an Executive Order, the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves. He was a man who had emerged from the backwoods of IIlinois, to emancipate our nation from the tyranny of war and slavery. In this present civil war, the one that was started when the rebels attacked our Congress and our Capitol, we have a federal prosecutor who has called for our citizens to be emancipated from the law-breaking, tort-taunting occupant of the white house, a hallowed home for past presidents, which he wants to destroy, just as he wants to destroy our rule of law. Now is the time for good men and women to come to the aid of our country. Help Jack Smith restore our Rule of Law, which was attacked when trump sent his legions to attack Fort Congress! This citizen, a hapless blogger, appeals to the wisdom of US the people, who may remember the counsel of King Solomon, long ago: "Catch the foxes, the little foxes that are ruining the vineyards." The update is: prosecute (not pardon) the insurrectionists who replayed a Fort Sumter with a tort trumpster insurrection. Glass half-Full

Knave New World

It's the slow news coming, coming 'round the Net. How do we know who to believe, what to believe? Where's Cronkite when you need him? Where's Huntley/Brinkley when the nation's on the brink of a president being haunted by the ghost of Epstein, while social media presents players unlimited by journalistic integrity and mainstreaming media whistles dixie while yankee newspapers are smeared with obsolete paper and ink? Are we on the brink of a nation being driven to drink? How can a commander in chief of insurrectionists be still occupying the oval hovel as east wing heritage goes the way of the buffalo? 1984 done came and went and 2024 brought a rerun event, when the chief insurrectionist pulled out his trump card and took the hand, the hand of Uncle Sam, whose stars and stripes now disappear in the fog of confusion blown out when contusions slice and dice the news and magamaniac ICE pursues and abuses po' folk who have po' ways because they're not to allowed to stay in the land of the free and the home of the brave? Yes, Virginia, we've fallen far, descended from brave to slave. History reverses itself as wise men rave and strong men misbehave. it's a knave new world, I'm tellin' ya. Believe me when I say, what the Founders have given, the maga-men have taken away. And I told him that! We're not in Kansas any more. Where's Bob Dole when you need him? Where's Mitt? The party of Lincoln is stinkin' with the rot of rebel secession; it's an entropy digression, worse than the Great depression.  It's the insurrection raised from the dead,

a zombie elephant, blowing news that irrelevant. I know this is a rant; I've tried to reconcile, but I just can't! Goodbye cruel nation. ""Maybe, if I just change the station?" Once upon nation, bleak and bleary, while I pondered weak and weary, o'er some sad, forgotten Constitution from bygone days of yore. But quoth the raven: "Nevermore." Smoke