You would have to live in shed somewhere in the Carpathian mountains not to know the current President of the United States makes everything--absolutely everything--about himself. That's right, if it exists on the planet earth and is beneficial to anyone it is thanks to Donald John Trump. On the other hand if it is detrimental in any way, shape, or form, it is part of a plot to sully his reputation and ultimately remove him from office.
It is also a well known fact The Big Orange Guy isn't much on scientific research, or facts, especially if any of it screws with what he is trying do, or claims to have done. When you combine that with his propensity to nurture and spread grand conspiracy scenarios you have a recipe for a disaster worthy of some cable TV story line.
Indeed, Donald Trump is America's first true, "Info Wars," president. Which pretty much explains why one of his ardent supporters in the Senate, Tom Cotton, R-AR, went on national TV to say the coronavirus, or COVID-19, exists due to a Chinese biological warfare lab located outside of the city of Wuhan, China.
Cotton failed to explain if the virus, which quickly swamped Wuhan and its province Hubei, escaped by accident, or its presence is some nefarious Fu Manchu style plot to destroy the world. Although there is no evidence which points to the mad scientist option, some online wankers are already posting not only is the epidemic man made, but there is a secret cure available only to the uber rich ruling class. To put it crudely the Illuminati have paid off someone to help the cull the herd.
Trump has publicly ignored Cotton's rants, at least for now, because disease and fatality rates really don't concern him. No, the President has another conspiracy he is dealing with when it comes to the coronavirus.
This past week stocks took a nose dive mainly because U.S. manufacturing and tech businesses are overly dependent on Chinese goods and labor. Both are hard to come by when the Chinese government is shuttering entire plants and factories in an effort to curb the spread of the disease. Reality, though, has never been big Don's strong point.
That's why, according to Mr. Trump and his toadies, the Chinese aren't the problem. Indeed, the suddenly shrinking market is because of that ever evil duad of democrats and the main stream media. They are, the theory goes, intentionally spreading panic among traders on Wall Street, hoping to crash the market in order to--you guessed it--cause Donald Trump to lose the November election.
Yesterday, at that giant right wing pep rally/orgy known as CPAC White House Acting Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney said as much. There was no doubt, he told the crowd, the democrats and media were overhyping the spread of the virus in order to hurt Donald Trump. He went so far as to advise conference goers to turn off their TVs for a couple of days in order to calm down and catch their collective breaths.
Meanwhile other Trump supporters are shrugging off the surge of cases outside of China and the danger they present. It's like the flu, they say, and has the same death rate. Well, not really. The death rate of the flu is 0.1% while it is currently 2.0% for the coronavirus. In other words you are 20 times more likely to die of COVID-19. The older you are the higher the deadly figure goes. If you have pre existing respiratory conditions, or other health problems, such as diabetes, or heart disease, you are in serious trouble if the wrong person coughs your way.
The good news is, despite what 38% of those recently polled think, you can't catch the coronavirus from drinking Corona beer. You also can't contract it from eating Chinese food, or from your pets.
The bad news is earlier today the first person in the United States died from the virus. World wide there are confirmed cases in 62 different countries. 86,019 have been infected, 2,942 have died, and 39,766 have completely recovered.
Don't worry though, Don Trump put his VP, Mike Pence in charge of the U.S. effort to stem the tide of COVID-19 cases. Let's face it, Pence is just sitting around anyway, so he might as well have something to do. His first act was to order CDC officials and anyone else in the government to clear all public statements about the virus through his office before saying anything.
The President on the other hand isn't worrying himself with the actual contagion. He has other things to do during this election year, particularly since the democrats and press have now pounced on a new issue designed to undermine his personal path to glory and even more gold.
Hey, like I told you, it really is all about him.
2-29-20
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Monday, February 24, 2020
Roger, Bernie, and Harvey on a Raw Day
Here is what we've learned over the last few days. First, Roger Stone is probably going to get a presidential pardon before he ever serves a day in jail. Second, the Bernie Sanders' campaign is carving its way through democratic primaries rather like that mythical hot knife in butter. Third, Harvey Weinstein has gone from being just a dirty old man to a genuine, certified, rapist.
Admittedly this is an eclectic, if not odd, group to focus on this raw and wet day on the Southern Plains. On the surface the only thing Stone, Sanders, and Weinstein have in common is they are three old whiite guys. Beyond that, Stone and Weinstein are now convicted felons, although we aren't sure for how long and Sanders currently has parts of the democratic party more terrified than Donald J. Trump does.
Stone was looking at seven to nine years before the Attorney General of the United States stepped in and ordered his prosecutors to lower the government's sentencing request. William Barr claims he never consulted Stone's old pal and employer, Don Trump before doing so even though Trump had been raising hell about the trial through Twitter for days on end. The move prompted four members of the prosecution to walk away from the case, one of them straight out of the Department of Justice.
Trump and the defense team have been howling bias through social media and court filings since day one of Stone's trial. Despite all the faux outrage, Trump's boy was sentenced to 40 months in jail on seven counts. Those charges included everything from lying to Robert Mueller and practically everyone else on the planet to obstructing congress and intimidating a witness.
Within 24 hours of the sentencing, Stone's lawyers filed a motion to seek a new trial. In addition they demanded Judge Amy Berman-Jackson recuse herself from ruling on the new trial because, well, Obama had appointed her. That and the jury foreperson, Tomeka Hart had once run as a democrat for congress and also, in the past, said some anti Trump things on Facebook.
Trump's Twitter assessment of the situation showed up on February 13th. "Now it looks like the fore person in the jury, in the Roger Stone case," it read, "had significant bias. Add that to everything else, and this is not looking good for the "Justice" Department."
Trump has, so far, refused to pardon Roger Stone. We all know a pardon is on the table though because, Trump has said publicly he is confident his former dirty tricks master will be, "exonerated." That despite the judge telling the defense team, in effect, they can go fuck themselves when it comes to their motion to recuse herself from the upcoming decision on a new trial. Given the circumstances only a man with a pardon in his pocket can be so confident.
Meanwhile Senator Bernie Sanders is quickly dredging up the ghost of George McGovern, at least in the minds of democrats old enough to remember that nightmare. His political base is chock full of young people who possess the fiery, yet naïve, passion McGovern's did. More disturbingly, they are also inflicted with the same poisonous conspiracy dementia Donald Trump's MAGA hordes suffer from.
Indeed, if Bernie doesn't win a primary it was rigged. "Corporate," media--as opposed to, "main stream media," you know, places like MSNBC and CNN, are doing everything it can to defeat their man. Anti Sanders news commentators should be fired. As one account on Twitter repeatedly puts it, "Bern it up, or bern it down."
They seem to have no clue that if Sanders is the nominee all Trump will have to do is buy up a bunch of billboards from North Carolina to Phoenix which simply say, "It's either me, or that socialist son of a bitch." Yes, none of them even begin to fathom how deeply ingrained the distrust of socialism, democratic, or not, is ingrained in tens of millions of Americans. Those people might not like Donald John Trump, but they aren't ready for Bernie Sanders' brave new world either and come November they will vote for the devil they know.
Finally we get to Harvey Weinstein. It seems like forever since the first time we saw him struggling toward the courthouse steps using a walker rather like some kindly grandfather. Today he was convicted on two of five charges of sexual misconduct and he now faces five to 25 years.
The media is calling it a, "watershed," moment for the #me too movement, despite the fact he was acquitted on three, more serious, charges. In addition Mr. Weinstein faces another four counts on the left bank, in LA. His lawyers are already filing an appeal in the New York conviction and as we've seen in America, money buys you a lot of, "justice."
The only thing we are sure of when it comes to Harvey Weinstein is he had to have and use some serious pull. Let's face it, none of the women who have accused him of his lacivious misbehavior would have ever given him the time of day if he hadn't.
Yeah, it might be sexist in some way, but look at the guy and tell me it isn't true.
So there we have it on this cruddy day in OKC. Roger Stone is smiling in every photo we see because he knows the fix is in. Bernie Sanders is leading a charge which has about as much chance as Lee's on the third day of Gettysburg. And, Harvey Weinstein is as done and over with as last Thanksgiving's turkey, even if he does eventually get away with it all.
As for me, hey, the bar is open. It is time for a libation. Cheers, America.
2-24-20
Admittedly this is an eclectic, if not odd, group to focus on this raw and wet day on the Southern Plains. On the surface the only thing Stone, Sanders, and Weinstein have in common is they are three old whiite guys. Beyond that, Stone and Weinstein are now convicted felons, although we aren't sure for how long and Sanders currently has parts of the democratic party more terrified than Donald J. Trump does.
Stone was looking at seven to nine years before the Attorney General of the United States stepped in and ordered his prosecutors to lower the government's sentencing request. William Barr claims he never consulted Stone's old pal and employer, Don Trump before doing so even though Trump had been raising hell about the trial through Twitter for days on end. The move prompted four members of the prosecution to walk away from the case, one of them straight out of the Department of Justice.
Trump and the defense team have been howling bias through social media and court filings since day one of Stone's trial. Despite all the faux outrage, Trump's boy was sentenced to 40 months in jail on seven counts. Those charges included everything from lying to Robert Mueller and practically everyone else on the planet to obstructing congress and intimidating a witness.
Within 24 hours of the sentencing, Stone's lawyers filed a motion to seek a new trial. In addition they demanded Judge Amy Berman-Jackson recuse herself from ruling on the new trial because, well, Obama had appointed her. That and the jury foreperson, Tomeka Hart had once run as a democrat for congress and also, in the past, said some anti Trump things on Facebook.
Trump's Twitter assessment of the situation showed up on February 13th. "Now it looks like the fore person in the jury, in the Roger Stone case," it read, "had significant bias. Add that to everything else, and this is not looking good for the "Justice" Department."
Trump has, so far, refused to pardon Roger Stone. We all know a pardon is on the table though because, Trump has said publicly he is confident his former dirty tricks master will be, "exonerated." That despite the judge telling the defense team, in effect, they can go fuck themselves when it comes to their motion to recuse herself from the upcoming decision on a new trial. Given the circumstances only a man with a pardon in his pocket can be so confident.
Meanwhile Senator Bernie Sanders is quickly dredging up the ghost of George McGovern, at least in the minds of democrats old enough to remember that nightmare. His political base is chock full of young people who possess the fiery, yet naïve, passion McGovern's did. More disturbingly, they are also inflicted with the same poisonous conspiracy dementia Donald Trump's MAGA hordes suffer from.
Indeed, if Bernie doesn't win a primary it was rigged. "Corporate," media--as opposed to, "main stream media," you know, places like MSNBC and CNN, are doing everything it can to defeat their man. Anti Sanders news commentators should be fired. As one account on Twitter repeatedly puts it, "Bern it up, or bern it down."
They seem to have no clue that if Sanders is the nominee all Trump will have to do is buy up a bunch of billboards from North Carolina to Phoenix which simply say, "It's either me, or that socialist son of a bitch." Yes, none of them even begin to fathom how deeply ingrained the distrust of socialism, democratic, or not, is ingrained in tens of millions of Americans. Those people might not like Donald John Trump, but they aren't ready for Bernie Sanders' brave new world either and come November they will vote for the devil they know.
Finally we get to Harvey Weinstein. It seems like forever since the first time we saw him struggling toward the courthouse steps using a walker rather like some kindly grandfather. Today he was convicted on two of five charges of sexual misconduct and he now faces five to 25 years.
The media is calling it a, "watershed," moment for the #me too movement, despite the fact he was acquitted on three, more serious, charges. In addition Mr. Weinstein faces another four counts on the left bank, in LA. His lawyers are already filing an appeal in the New York conviction and as we've seen in America, money buys you a lot of, "justice."
The only thing we are sure of when it comes to Harvey Weinstein is he had to have and use some serious pull. Let's face it, none of the women who have accused him of his lacivious misbehavior would have ever given him the time of day if he hadn't.
Yeah, it might be sexist in some way, but look at the guy and tell me it isn't true.
So there we have it on this cruddy day in OKC. Roger Stone is smiling in every photo we see because he knows the fix is in. Bernie Sanders is leading a charge which has about as much chance as Lee's on the third day of Gettysburg. And, Harvey Weinstein is as done and over with as last Thanksgiving's turkey, even if he does eventually get away with it all.
As for me, hey, the bar is open. It is time for a libation. Cheers, America.
2-24-20
Friday, February 21, 2020
Loyalty in the Age of Trump
It doesn't take much to get Don Trump mad at you. All you have to do is say something he doesn't like. And, honestly, these days there is a lot of that going around. Just ask the former, acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire.
Last week one of Maguire's staff, Shelby Pierson told the House Intelligence Committee that combined American Intel reports had determined Vlad Putin and his boys, "had developed a preference," for El Don in this year's election. For many such news is hardly shocking. In fact in certain locales it has been assumed Putin's trolls were already as busy as beavers on meth helping out Trump's re-election campaign.
The news, however, did not go down well at the White House. Hey, what do you expect from a guy who, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, still claims it wasn't Russia who interfered in the 2016 presidential race, but rather Ukraine--and it did so on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
That's the problem with conspiracy theories. Once you've created one you can't just let it die on the vine. You have to keep feeding it, nurturing it, and denying anything which might threaten it. Besides a man with Donald Trump's ego is loathe to admit he needs help of any kind in an election. At least that is what he would have us all believe, even if he has openly asked for it on numerous occasions beginning four years ago.
Of course Donald Trump blows by profound contradictions that, in the past, would have ended presidencies. His never ending tsunami of lies and hypocrisy comes at such a rate the media can never focus on one. In the end, analyzing his bullshit is rather like trying to focus on a single snow flake in the middle of a blizzard.
Now, thanks to the GOP toadies in the United States Senate, Trump feels unleashed, completely free to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. The lies continue unabated, but what we are now seeing is the great Trump purge and redemption tour. Gone is all pretense he is doing things in the national interest. During each improvised presser, much to the delight of his trailer park fascist fans, he tells us his interests are the national interests. Indeed, loyalty to Donald J. Trump is now the prime directive. Loyalty to the nation is not only out of fashion in Trump's vision of America, it is many times treasonous.
Which is why Mr. Maguire is currently unemployed. He and his staff weren't deemed wrong in their assessment per se, but disloyal to Trump because they made the report to congress. Joe Maguire isn't the only one, just the latest. The ever expanding list of seditionists includes, Madeleine Westerhout, LTC Alexander Vindman and his brother, Yevgeny, Gordon Sondland, Marie Yovanovitch, and even John, by God, Bolton.
Trump received word of Maguire's alleged treachery via republican congressman, Devin Nunes. The California lawmaker apparently ran straight from the briefing to the White House to let The Big Orange Guy in on what had been said. In elementary schools every where this is known as tattling. Nunes, among other things, is currently suing any number of people and organizations. One of the legal actions names Twitter as a defendant because it allows an account named, "Devin Nunes' Cow," to be active on the site.
Meanwhile Trump's is increasingly involving himself in the day to day operations of the Department of Justice--at least when his pals are up against it. He has railed against Roger Stone's judge, Amy Berman Jackson, and even the jury foreperson in the case. They are anti Trump he says and his boy Roger deserves a new trial and judge. In other words there is no impartiality in his world, therefore there is none in any other.
Yes, pardons are starting to fly, which might explain Stone's sly smile after he was hit with a 40 month sentence. Mike Flynn's trial is now, "under review," by outside prosecutors assigned by AG, Bill Barr. To imagine Barr doing anything without Trump's intervention ranks right up there with believing ancient aliens built every pyramid from Belize to Giza.
Someday history will note that in the year, 2020 the United States of America came close to becoming a banana republic style autocracy. Unless, the president wins re-election in November. If he does, then history won't record a single thing Donald John Trump and his ancestors don't want it to.
That's the way it works in a dictatorship you see. Just like George Orwell told us it would.
2-21-20
Last week one of Maguire's staff, Shelby Pierson told the House Intelligence Committee that combined American Intel reports had determined Vlad Putin and his boys, "had developed a preference," for El Don in this year's election. For many such news is hardly shocking. In fact in certain locales it has been assumed Putin's trolls were already as busy as beavers on meth helping out Trump's re-election campaign.
The news, however, did not go down well at the White House. Hey, what do you expect from a guy who, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, still claims it wasn't Russia who interfered in the 2016 presidential race, but rather Ukraine--and it did so on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
That's the problem with conspiracy theories. Once you've created one you can't just let it die on the vine. You have to keep feeding it, nurturing it, and denying anything which might threaten it. Besides a man with Donald Trump's ego is loathe to admit he needs help of any kind in an election. At least that is what he would have us all believe, even if he has openly asked for it on numerous occasions beginning four years ago.
Of course Donald Trump blows by profound contradictions that, in the past, would have ended presidencies. His never ending tsunami of lies and hypocrisy comes at such a rate the media can never focus on one. In the end, analyzing his bullshit is rather like trying to focus on a single snow flake in the middle of a blizzard.
Now, thanks to the GOP toadies in the United States Senate, Trump feels unleashed, completely free to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. The lies continue unabated, but what we are now seeing is the great Trump purge and redemption tour. Gone is all pretense he is doing things in the national interest. During each improvised presser, much to the delight of his trailer park fascist fans, he tells us his interests are the national interests. Indeed, loyalty to Donald J. Trump is now the prime directive. Loyalty to the nation is not only out of fashion in Trump's vision of America, it is many times treasonous.
Which is why Mr. Maguire is currently unemployed. He and his staff weren't deemed wrong in their assessment per se, but disloyal to Trump because they made the report to congress. Joe Maguire isn't the only one, just the latest. The ever expanding list of seditionists includes, Madeleine Westerhout, LTC Alexander Vindman and his brother, Yevgeny, Gordon Sondland, Marie Yovanovitch, and even John, by God, Bolton.
Trump received word of Maguire's alleged treachery via republican congressman, Devin Nunes. The California lawmaker apparently ran straight from the briefing to the White House to let The Big Orange Guy in on what had been said. In elementary schools every where this is known as tattling. Nunes, among other things, is currently suing any number of people and organizations. One of the legal actions names Twitter as a defendant because it allows an account named, "Devin Nunes' Cow," to be active on the site.
Meanwhile Trump's is increasingly involving himself in the day to day operations of the Department of Justice--at least when his pals are up against it. He has railed against Roger Stone's judge, Amy Berman Jackson, and even the jury foreperson in the case. They are anti Trump he says and his boy Roger deserves a new trial and judge. In other words there is no impartiality in his world, therefore there is none in any other.
Yes, pardons are starting to fly, which might explain Stone's sly smile after he was hit with a 40 month sentence. Mike Flynn's trial is now, "under review," by outside prosecutors assigned by AG, Bill Barr. To imagine Barr doing anything without Trump's intervention ranks right up there with believing ancient aliens built every pyramid from Belize to Giza.
Someday history will note that in the year, 2020 the United States of America came close to becoming a banana republic style autocracy. Unless, the president wins re-election in November. If he does, then history won't record a single thing Donald John Trump and his ancestors don't want it to.
That's the way it works in a dictatorship you see. Just like George Orwell told us it would.
2-21-20
Monday, February 17, 2020
Cody's Townsend's Dear Old Dad, Max
Cody Townsend died on Sunday, February 2nd in Moore, OK. The fatal car accident was initially reported as a hit and run in the media, but now there are questions about who actually caused it. Depending on who you read, or listen to the wreck was either caused by the 29 year old Townsend, or he suffered from a tragic and terminal case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Whatever the cause young Mr. Townsend died and the word of his demise quickly traveled to his father, Max. The elder Townsend was reportedly working a night shift job in Muskogee over in the northeastern part of the state. According to the same report he walked away from his position at 2am on the 3rd of February in order to drive over to the OKC metro area.
It would be the last time anyone would admit to seeing him for 12 plus hours.
Google tells us the trip between Muskogee and Moore is 141 miles, or about two hours and 15 minutes driving time in light traffic. At this point no one knows for sure where Max Townsend was during those missing 10 hours, but given what happened that Monday afternoon we can hazard a guess.
Beginning in 1991 Townsend the elder had racked up a fairly impressive list of felonies across the state. There were multiple convictions for DUI, possession of controlled dangerous substances, and at least one for possessing and concealing stolen property. Most disturbing however were the three times he went in for child abuse.
Yes, it would seem Big Max is a mean drunk and he likes to take it out on kids. No one knows, at this moment anyway, whether Cody was one of them, or not, but the record is there and it is public.
A little after three pm on Monday the final bell at Moore High School rang. In addition to students leaving for the day six members of the track and cross country teams took off for a group run. They were using a sidewalk next to the street as their route.
If the media is correct Brother Max came hot footing down the road next to the school doing over 70 miles per hour. He ran into a parked car which sent him careening across the street and plowing into the six Moore athletes.
Witness say as he drove away from the carnage two Moore football players who saw what had happened gave chase in their vehicle. A couple of blocks away, as Townsend made a turn onto another street, he ran his pursuers off the road, then almost immediately flew into a yard, slamming into an auto parked in the driveway which was pushed violently into yet another parked car.
In short it was mayhem.
Rachel Freeman was dead at the scene. On the following Wednesday she was to accept a scholarship to run for Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. Yuridia Martinez died later in the day after she arrived at an Oklahoma City hospital. This past Saturday, nearly two weeks after the nightmare, Kolby Crum also succumbed to his injuries.
Shiloh Hutchinson and Ashton Raza have been discharged from the hospital, both having suffered multiple broken bones. Joseph White is still there and will also survive.
After the disaster Max Townsend exited his red pick up truck and sat on a curb nearby. One witness described him as disoriented and not making much sense. The man, who owned the home where the truck came to rest, told the media Townsend kept saying over and over again, "My son, my son, my son."
Moore police say a field sobriety test performed at the site, "indicated," Mr. Townsend was impaired. They took him to a local hospital for a blood test then chucked him into the Cleveland County Detention Center, where he currently resides. The DA says there is no indication the tragedy was a planned assault--some sort of warped revenge for Cody's death the previous day.
Later, on the same evening of the wreck, a NRA type cretin posted on Twitter, "So I guess liberals are going to try to ban pick up trucks now." Well, with some people there is no accounting for taste, not to mention intelligence.
Max Townsend was facing two charges of first degree manslaughter before Kolby Crum died. Presumably he will now be looking at three. That's along with ten other counts including four of DUI while causing great bodily injury and two, now possibly three, of leaving the scene of a fatality accident.
No one truly knows what was going through his head that day. Perhaps he really was wracked with insurmountable grief and his response was to dive into the nearest bottle of alcohol and, or outlaw meds. At least you can try to sell that to a jury.
What is tragically evident is three sets of parents have now lost their kids while another three are nursing their critically injured children. None of them deserved it, but Max Townsend, at least at the moment of impact and its immediate aftermath, didn't give a shit about any of that, or them.
Indeed, on that terrible Monday, it wasn't even about Cody Townsend's awful passing the day before. No, during those missing 10 hours his death had become all about dear old Dad. Dear old, chronically dunk, Dad.
2-17-20
Whatever the cause young Mr. Townsend died and the word of his demise quickly traveled to his father, Max. The elder Townsend was reportedly working a night shift job in Muskogee over in the northeastern part of the state. According to the same report he walked away from his position at 2am on the 3rd of February in order to drive over to the OKC metro area.
It would be the last time anyone would admit to seeing him for 12 plus hours.
Google tells us the trip between Muskogee and Moore is 141 miles, or about two hours and 15 minutes driving time in light traffic. At this point no one knows for sure where Max Townsend was during those missing 10 hours, but given what happened that Monday afternoon we can hazard a guess.
Beginning in 1991 Townsend the elder had racked up a fairly impressive list of felonies across the state. There were multiple convictions for DUI, possession of controlled dangerous substances, and at least one for possessing and concealing stolen property. Most disturbing however were the three times he went in for child abuse.
Yes, it would seem Big Max is a mean drunk and he likes to take it out on kids. No one knows, at this moment anyway, whether Cody was one of them, or not, but the record is there and it is public.
A little after three pm on Monday the final bell at Moore High School rang. In addition to students leaving for the day six members of the track and cross country teams took off for a group run. They were using a sidewalk next to the street as their route.
If the media is correct Brother Max came hot footing down the road next to the school doing over 70 miles per hour. He ran into a parked car which sent him careening across the street and plowing into the six Moore athletes.
Witness say as he drove away from the carnage two Moore football players who saw what had happened gave chase in their vehicle. A couple of blocks away, as Townsend made a turn onto another street, he ran his pursuers off the road, then almost immediately flew into a yard, slamming into an auto parked in the driveway which was pushed violently into yet another parked car.
In short it was mayhem.
Rachel Freeman was dead at the scene. On the following Wednesday she was to accept a scholarship to run for Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. Yuridia Martinez died later in the day after she arrived at an Oklahoma City hospital. This past Saturday, nearly two weeks after the nightmare, Kolby Crum also succumbed to his injuries.
Shiloh Hutchinson and Ashton Raza have been discharged from the hospital, both having suffered multiple broken bones. Joseph White is still there and will also survive.
After the disaster Max Townsend exited his red pick up truck and sat on a curb nearby. One witness described him as disoriented and not making much sense. The man, who owned the home where the truck came to rest, told the media Townsend kept saying over and over again, "My son, my son, my son."
Moore police say a field sobriety test performed at the site, "indicated," Mr. Townsend was impaired. They took him to a local hospital for a blood test then chucked him into the Cleveland County Detention Center, where he currently resides. The DA says there is no indication the tragedy was a planned assault--some sort of warped revenge for Cody's death the previous day.
Later, on the same evening of the wreck, a NRA type cretin posted on Twitter, "So I guess liberals are going to try to ban pick up trucks now." Well, with some people there is no accounting for taste, not to mention intelligence.
Max Townsend was facing two charges of first degree manslaughter before Kolby Crum died. Presumably he will now be looking at three. That's along with ten other counts including four of DUI while causing great bodily injury and two, now possibly three, of leaving the scene of a fatality accident.
No one truly knows what was going through his head that day. Perhaps he really was wracked with insurmountable grief and his response was to dive into the nearest bottle of alcohol and, or outlaw meds. At least you can try to sell that to a jury.
What is tragically evident is three sets of parents have now lost their kids while another three are nursing their critically injured children. None of them deserved it, but Max Townsend, at least at the moment of impact and its immediate aftermath, didn't give a shit about any of that, or them.
Indeed, on that terrible Monday, it wasn't even about Cody Townsend's awful passing the day before. No, during those missing 10 hours his death had become all about dear old Dad. Dear old, chronically dunk, Dad.
2-17-20
Friday, February 14, 2020
Then Along Came Mike Bloomberg
Then along came Mike Bloomberg and his money.
Yes, much to the horror of all those democratic candidates who worked their asses off in the wilds of Iowa and New Hampshire, the former New York City Mayor now appears to be a viable alternative in the race. That's right, who needs to press the flesh in places like Ames and Nashua when you've got billions and billions and you're willing to spend a large chunk of it on a job which, according to ThoughtCo, pays $400,000 a year plus another $169,000 in various expenses.
Depending on who you read, Mr. Bloomberg is worth anywhere from $55 to $61.8 billion. To put it another way his personal wealth is more than the GDP of 125 different countries. Forbes Magazine lists him as the 12th richest individual on the planet Earth.
He isn't afraid to spend it either, especially when he sees something he wants. He ran and won three terms as the NYC Mayor. The first run cost him $74 million, the second, $78 million, and the third $102 million. And that was back in the days when his net worth was around a paltry $40 billion, or so.
No wonder Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren and the rest are accusing him of trying to buy the nomination. He really is.
Mike Bloomberg is also a political chameleon. He spent his early life as a democrat, then before he ran for mayor the first time, as the successor to Rudy Giuliani, he became a republican. By the time he sought a third term he had switched to an independent. Now he is back to being a democrat. To many this seems crass political opportunism. It's a hard charge to deny, especially when your history includes spending $174 per vote out of your own pocket which he did during that third campaign.
Of course Bloomberg didn't exactly make a play for minority voters when he was Mayor. He justified his, "stop and frisk," policy by saying, "95% of murders--murderers and murder victims fit one MO. You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops. They are male minorities, 16-25. That's true in New York, that's true in virtually every city. And that's where the real crime is. You've got to get the guns out of the hands of people who are getting killed. So you want to spend the money on a lot of cops in the streets. Put those cops where the crime is, which means in minority neighborhoods."
Putting cops where the crime is might be one thing, but stopping and frisking someone just because of the color of their skin is quite another. The words, "probable cause," come to mind for one. as does the term, "profiling."
Everyone from Bernie Sanders to Donald John Trump have savaged the former Mayor for his crime stopper campaign. The last couple of weeks Bloomberg has apologized often and profusely for the, "stop and frisk," policy. He has also bombarded the airwaves with ads which prominently feature Barack Obama praising him for his extensive gun control advocacy. The spots imply the former President has endorsed his candidacy, which he hasn't.
In three national polls taken on February 11th, Mike Bloomberg is now in third place and rising. He's done it without appearing in a single debate, or running in either Iowa, or New Hampshire, not to mention ignoring the upcoming Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary. In short his campaign has gone all in on Super Tuesday when 14 different states will hold democratic primaries.
It is a massive bet, but as we know, he has the money to back it.
Bloomberg's ascendance is certainly a testimony to his cash flow. On the other hand it is also an indication the democrats are in disarray. The party is utterly conflicted about moving toward Sanders' Euro style socialism, or back to the center. Warren, a sort of Sanders lite, is fading. The Senator from Vermont has managed to disenchant what should be a major part of his base in Nevada, the Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas--a huge hint his mandatory medicare for all might not play well in November. In addition, like it not, there is an elephant standing in Pete Buttigieg's living room while Amy Klobuchar still seems to lack the needed traction. As for Joe Biden, his age seems to have caught up with him. His response to the Ukrainian mess has been weak as have his debate performances.
Into this maelstrom steps Michael Bloomberg and his cash. The good news is he knows how to answer DJT's Twitter abuse. When Trump tweeted an insult, Bloomberg answered in kind by calling the current resident of the White House a, "carnival barking clown." The bad news is Mr. Bloomberg is still a billionaire who gets whatever he wants no matter what it takes.
Remember that third term as mayor? At the time NYC law said he couldn't run more than twice. Mr. Bloomberg avoided the inconvenience with cash and political favors to the right people. After the checks were cashed the city council changed the law, which was then signed into effect by, you guessed it, the sitting Mayor, Michael Bloomberg.
Ladies and gentlemen we have a devil we know. The question is, are we willing to challenge him with one who, deep down, has the same sort of ego?
sic vita est
2-14-20
Yes, much to the horror of all those democratic candidates who worked their asses off in the wilds of Iowa and New Hampshire, the former New York City Mayor now appears to be a viable alternative in the race. That's right, who needs to press the flesh in places like Ames and Nashua when you've got billions and billions and you're willing to spend a large chunk of it on a job which, according to ThoughtCo, pays $400,000 a year plus another $169,000 in various expenses.
Depending on who you read, Mr. Bloomberg is worth anywhere from $55 to $61.8 billion. To put it another way his personal wealth is more than the GDP of 125 different countries. Forbes Magazine lists him as the 12th richest individual on the planet Earth.
He isn't afraid to spend it either, especially when he sees something he wants. He ran and won three terms as the NYC Mayor. The first run cost him $74 million, the second, $78 million, and the third $102 million. And that was back in the days when his net worth was around a paltry $40 billion, or so.
No wonder Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren and the rest are accusing him of trying to buy the nomination. He really is.
Mike Bloomberg is also a political chameleon. He spent his early life as a democrat, then before he ran for mayor the first time, as the successor to Rudy Giuliani, he became a republican. By the time he sought a third term he had switched to an independent. Now he is back to being a democrat. To many this seems crass political opportunism. It's a hard charge to deny, especially when your history includes spending $174 per vote out of your own pocket which he did during that third campaign.
Of course Bloomberg didn't exactly make a play for minority voters when he was Mayor. He justified his, "stop and frisk," policy by saying, "95% of murders--murderers and murder victims fit one MO. You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops. They are male minorities, 16-25. That's true in New York, that's true in virtually every city. And that's where the real crime is. You've got to get the guns out of the hands of people who are getting killed. So you want to spend the money on a lot of cops in the streets. Put those cops where the crime is, which means in minority neighborhoods."
Putting cops where the crime is might be one thing, but stopping and frisking someone just because of the color of their skin is quite another. The words, "probable cause," come to mind for one. as does the term, "profiling."
Everyone from Bernie Sanders to Donald John Trump have savaged the former Mayor for his crime stopper campaign. The last couple of weeks Bloomberg has apologized often and profusely for the, "stop and frisk," policy. He has also bombarded the airwaves with ads which prominently feature Barack Obama praising him for his extensive gun control advocacy. The spots imply the former President has endorsed his candidacy, which he hasn't.
In three national polls taken on February 11th, Mike Bloomberg is now in third place and rising. He's done it without appearing in a single debate, or running in either Iowa, or New Hampshire, not to mention ignoring the upcoming Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary. In short his campaign has gone all in on Super Tuesday when 14 different states will hold democratic primaries.
It is a massive bet, but as we know, he has the money to back it.
Bloomberg's ascendance is certainly a testimony to his cash flow. On the other hand it is also an indication the democrats are in disarray. The party is utterly conflicted about moving toward Sanders' Euro style socialism, or back to the center. Warren, a sort of Sanders lite, is fading. The Senator from Vermont has managed to disenchant what should be a major part of his base in Nevada, the Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas--a huge hint his mandatory medicare for all might not play well in November. In addition, like it not, there is an elephant standing in Pete Buttigieg's living room while Amy Klobuchar still seems to lack the needed traction. As for Joe Biden, his age seems to have caught up with him. His response to the Ukrainian mess has been weak as have his debate performances.
Into this maelstrom steps Michael Bloomberg and his cash. The good news is he knows how to answer DJT's Twitter abuse. When Trump tweeted an insult, Bloomberg answered in kind by calling the current resident of the White House a, "carnival barking clown." The bad news is Mr. Bloomberg is still a billionaire who gets whatever he wants no matter what it takes.
Remember that third term as mayor? At the time NYC law said he couldn't run more than twice. Mr. Bloomberg avoided the inconvenience with cash and political favors to the right people. After the checks were cashed the city council changed the law, which was then signed into effect by, you guessed it, the sitting Mayor, Michael Bloomberg.
Ladies and gentlemen we have a devil we know. The question is, are we willing to challenge him with one who, deep down, has the same sort of ego?
sic vita est
2-14-20
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Romney and Jones Take a Small Step in the Right Direction
These are strange days. How else can you describe it when democrats come out en masse to praise the courage of a guy like Mitt Romney. That would be the same Mitt Romney who proved himself to be an obnoxious elitist asshole when he ran against Barack Obama in 2012. So much so it could be argued that it was his condescending snobbery, not his politics, which was the prime reason Obama enjoyed a second term in the Oval Office.
Of course way back in 2012 presidential candidates at least attempted to act presidential. Four years later that all went out the window as the nation succumbed to the school yard obscenities and crazed lies of Donald Trump. Indeed, Trump's concept of politics channeled not those of Abraham Lincoln--who Trump assumed was a democrat until informed otherwise--but rather Filipino strongman, Rodrigo Duterte and other autocratic thugs.
In August of 2019 El Donald proved it to any doubters by trying to extort Ukraine with an arms for political dirt deal. All manner of shit hit the fan after what amounted to a mob protection scam became public. By the time the House was done with its investigation Trump was impeached on two counts. One for abuse of power and the other for obstructing congress.
To make a long story short every Senate republican voted to let him off the hook except one, the gentleman from Utah. Yeah, kinda sort of. While voting to remove the President from office on the abuse of power charge Mr. Romney voted to acquit when it came to obstructing congress.
That was enough though. The other day, Don Trump Jr. raged Mitt Romney was now a part of The Resistance and should be expelled from of the GOP. Conspiracy theories flew. Mitt was attempting to subvert the Trump administration because he was planning another run at the White House. The Big Orange Guy went on Twitter to hint Romney had financial links to Burisma the Ukrainian energy company at the center of the Biden controversy. He had no proof, but when has he ever needed two bit trivia like proof. Then the chairman of the Conservative Political Action Committee Conference not only refused to invite Romney to the annual right wing orgy, but told the media the Senator's life could be in danger if he attended. "People are so mad at him," said, Matt Schlapp.
Democrats all over the place nodded and pumped their fists. Ah yes, at last a republican who votes his conscience rather than his party, or more realistically his fealty to Lord Trump. However Mitt Romney's vote, despite all the whoop dee doo, wasn't the bravest in the chamber that day. No that honor goes to Doug Jones, the Jr. Senator from Alabama.
Romney doesn't face re-election in Utah until 2024, an eternity when it comes to American politics. Senator Jones, a democrat, is representing a state as red as the Chinese flag and his neck is on the line this November. So far he has seven GOP opponents, including, Jeff Sessions, the guy who quit the very seat Jones now holds wanting to replace him.
The tale of how Jones arrived in the Senate is a tad convoluted, if not surreal. Sessions resigned in order to be abused by Trump on a daily basis while serving as his first Attorney General. The Alabama Governor appointed a guy named Luther Strange to fill out part of Sessions' term. Later, Strange, despite tepid support from Trump, lost the GOP nomination to former Judge, Roy Moore in a special election.
Between then and November it was discovered Moore had a history of severe creepiness when it came to young girls who worked in local malls. Jones edged him out by 22,000 votes in the fall of 2017. It was, despite Moore's dubious past behavior, considered an upset.
Besides Sessions, the most prominent republican hopefuls in 2020 are former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville and the aforementioned mall rat, Roy Moore. Sessions, despite the vile treatement doled out by Trump, is promising the President his full support. Tuberville ran an ad the other day during which he claimed Trump was a gift from God. Moore says he is fighting the, "fake news." To prove it he filed a $40 million law suit against the Washington Examiner.
Don Trump carried Alabama in 2016 with 62.1% of the vote. That is landslide territory, so in truth this November is going to be a tough nut to crack for Doug Jones despite anything he does. Perhaps that was part of his thinking. Hey, I'm fucked anyway so why not?
Well, no matter what the motives of Doug Jones and Mitt Romney at least we can say the vote to remove the President was bipartisan while the vote to acquit wasn't.
It isn't much, but at least it's a step in the right direction. And these days, given who is in charge, that's about as much as we can hope for.
2-11-20
Of course way back in 2012 presidential candidates at least attempted to act presidential. Four years later that all went out the window as the nation succumbed to the school yard obscenities and crazed lies of Donald Trump. Indeed, Trump's concept of politics channeled not those of Abraham Lincoln--who Trump assumed was a democrat until informed otherwise--but rather Filipino strongman, Rodrigo Duterte and other autocratic thugs.
In August of 2019 El Donald proved it to any doubters by trying to extort Ukraine with an arms for political dirt deal. All manner of shit hit the fan after what amounted to a mob protection scam became public. By the time the House was done with its investigation Trump was impeached on two counts. One for abuse of power and the other for obstructing congress.
To make a long story short every Senate republican voted to let him off the hook except one, the gentleman from Utah. Yeah, kinda sort of. While voting to remove the President from office on the abuse of power charge Mr. Romney voted to acquit when it came to obstructing congress.
That was enough though. The other day, Don Trump Jr. raged Mitt Romney was now a part of The Resistance and should be expelled from of the GOP. Conspiracy theories flew. Mitt was attempting to subvert the Trump administration because he was planning another run at the White House. The Big Orange Guy went on Twitter to hint Romney had financial links to Burisma the Ukrainian energy company at the center of the Biden controversy. He had no proof, but when has he ever needed two bit trivia like proof. Then the chairman of the Conservative Political Action Committee Conference not only refused to invite Romney to the annual right wing orgy, but told the media the Senator's life could be in danger if he attended. "People are so mad at him," said, Matt Schlapp.
Democrats all over the place nodded and pumped their fists. Ah yes, at last a republican who votes his conscience rather than his party, or more realistically his fealty to Lord Trump. However Mitt Romney's vote, despite all the whoop dee doo, wasn't the bravest in the chamber that day. No that honor goes to Doug Jones, the Jr. Senator from Alabama.
Romney doesn't face re-election in Utah until 2024, an eternity when it comes to American politics. Senator Jones, a democrat, is representing a state as red as the Chinese flag and his neck is on the line this November. So far he has seven GOP opponents, including, Jeff Sessions, the guy who quit the very seat Jones now holds wanting to replace him.
The tale of how Jones arrived in the Senate is a tad convoluted, if not surreal. Sessions resigned in order to be abused by Trump on a daily basis while serving as his first Attorney General. The Alabama Governor appointed a guy named Luther Strange to fill out part of Sessions' term. Later, Strange, despite tepid support from Trump, lost the GOP nomination to former Judge, Roy Moore in a special election.
Between then and November it was discovered Moore had a history of severe creepiness when it came to young girls who worked in local malls. Jones edged him out by 22,000 votes in the fall of 2017. It was, despite Moore's dubious past behavior, considered an upset.
Besides Sessions, the most prominent republican hopefuls in 2020 are former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville and the aforementioned mall rat, Roy Moore. Sessions, despite the vile treatement doled out by Trump, is promising the President his full support. Tuberville ran an ad the other day during which he claimed Trump was a gift from God. Moore says he is fighting the, "fake news." To prove it he filed a $40 million law suit against the Washington Examiner.
Don Trump carried Alabama in 2016 with 62.1% of the vote. That is landslide territory, so in truth this November is going to be a tough nut to crack for Doug Jones despite anything he does. Perhaps that was part of his thinking. Hey, I'm fucked anyway so why not?
Well, no matter what the motives of Doug Jones and Mitt Romney at least we can say the vote to remove the President was bipartisan while the vote to acquit wasn't.
It isn't much, but at least it's a step in the right direction. And these days, given who is in charge, that's about as much as we can hope for.
2-11-20
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Chaos and Audacity in Iowa, Steve Kornacki Reduced to Ron Burgundy, and Acrimony at the State of the Union Speech
Sometime on Tuesday afternoon I decided I wasn't going to watch the State of the Union speech. There were a couple of things which caused me to come to that conclusion. Foremost in my mind was the cluster fuck which was the Iowa caucuses. My thinking was the entire process there--breathlessly over hyped by the media to begin with--had turned into a giant Saturday Night Live skit written and produced by Roger Stone.
During the midst of the chaos, as a phone app meant to transmit data from precinct heads to the state democratic HQ failed spectacularly, Mayor Pete Buttigieg stood up and with only circumstantial evidence to support him, declared he'd won. Not to be out done, within a short time, so did everybody else.
Buttigieg's audacity and surprisingly strong showing threw Bernie Sanders' camp into a paranoid frenzy. Charges quickly flew the South Bend, IN mayor is connected to the tech company which designed the fouled application. Even if he isn't the company is owned by known supporters of Hillary Clinton who still seethe with anger at the Senator from Vermont. And--even if they don't it is a well known fact the Democratic National Committee is doing everything it can to prevent Sanders from getting the nomination, just like they did in 2016.
By the time midnight rolled around it seemed some of Sanders' supporters were on the verge of accusing anyone not supporting their man of visiting the basements of pizza parlors for unspeakable reasons.
Even by late yesterday afternoon the situation was still utterly confused. So much so MSNBC's normally reliable Steve Kornacki was babbling incomprehensibly in front of a county map of Iowa, sounding uncomfortably like Ron Burgundy trying to explain 15th century European history.
That's when I shut it down. No more, I thought. They can screw with Kornacki's brain all they want, but not mine.
Besides, knowing Trump, his State of the Union address would be nothing more than a litany of lies and xenophobic hoo hah you can catch at any of his campaign rallies. So, while I watched, "The Curse of Oak Island," on the History Channel Don Trump apparently did just that.
Of course I could have watched over a third of what Trump said after the Oak Island episode ended, because the man does love to blather on, but I didn't. What I missed from start to finish was a display of acrimony and division not seen in the republic since the years just prior to the Civil War. While we didn't witness a remake of Congressman Preston Brooks beating the living daylights out of Senator Charles Sumner with a cane, we did see the President of the United States refuse to shake the offered hand of the Speaker of the House. Then, at the end, saw the Speaker tear a copy of the just delivered speech in half.
In between highlights showed there were boos, groans, cheers applause, the ejection of a murdered high school student's father, and Rush Limbaugh awarded the same medal worn by Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Colin Powell, and Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf.
Massachusetts Congressman, Seth Moulton, a former Marine walked out of the hall when Trump bragged about his unprecedented support of the armed forces. Moulton tweeted, "I left the #SOTU after Trump--a draft dodger who has mocked Sen. John McCain, Gold Star families, and soldiers with traumatic brain injury--started talking about the good he has done the military."
Moulton, who was among the first troops to enter Baghdad in 2003, displayed far more diplomacy than I would have. In fact I went on social media earlier in the day saying if it was up to me, every democrat in both houses would walk out as soon as the narcissistic bastard entered the chamber.
After it was over social media outlets lit up as Trump's fascist front howled that Nancy Pelosi was, "classless," for tearing Trump's speech in half--ignoring, of course his cold refusal to shake her hand an hour and a half earlier. However, as always, Ms. Pelosi got in the last word.
When asked why she ripped the documents in two the Speaker of the House said, "It was the most courteous thing I could do."
And that's where we're at now as a nation. Thanks to the divisiveness of Donald J. Trump the most courteous things we can do while he speaks is watch a Canadian cable TV show, walk out, or afterward, rip transcripts of his speech to shreds.
Hey, it's better than Brooks taking a cane to Sumner, although, at this point, one has to think that day is coming soon.
sic vita est
2-5-20
During the midst of the chaos, as a phone app meant to transmit data from precinct heads to the state democratic HQ failed spectacularly, Mayor Pete Buttigieg stood up and with only circumstantial evidence to support him, declared he'd won. Not to be out done, within a short time, so did everybody else.
Buttigieg's audacity and surprisingly strong showing threw Bernie Sanders' camp into a paranoid frenzy. Charges quickly flew the South Bend, IN mayor is connected to the tech company which designed the fouled application. Even if he isn't the company is owned by known supporters of Hillary Clinton who still seethe with anger at the Senator from Vermont. And--even if they don't it is a well known fact the Democratic National Committee is doing everything it can to prevent Sanders from getting the nomination, just like they did in 2016.
By the time midnight rolled around it seemed some of Sanders' supporters were on the verge of accusing anyone not supporting their man of visiting the basements of pizza parlors for unspeakable reasons.
Even by late yesterday afternoon the situation was still utterly confused. So much so MSNBC's normally reliable Steve Kornacki was babbling incomprehensibly in front of a county map of Iowa, sounding uncomfortably like Ron Burgundy trying to explain 15th century European history.
That's when I shut it down. No more, I thought. They can screw with Kornacki's brain all they want, but not mine.
Besides, knowing Trump, his State of the Union address would be nothing more than a litany of lies and xenophobic hoo hah you can catch at any of his campaign rallies. So, while I watched, "The Curse of Oak Island," on the History Channel Don Trump apparently did just that.
Of course I could have watched over a third of what Trump said after the Oak Island episode ended, because the man does love to blather on, but I didn't. What I missed from start to finish was a display of acrimony and division not seen in the republic since the years just prior to the Civil War. While we didn't witness a remake of Congressman Preston Brooks beating the living daylights out of Senator Charles Sumner with a cane, we did see the President of the United States refuse to shake the offered hand of the Speaker of the House. Then, at the end, saw the Speaker tear a copy of the just delivered speech in half.
In between highlights showed there were boos, groans, cheers applause, the ejection of a murdered high school student's father, and Rush Limbaugh awarded the same medal worn by Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Colin Powell, and Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf.
Massachusetts Congressman, Seth Moulton, a former Marine walked out of the hall when Trump bragged about his unprecedented support of the armed forces. Moulton tweeted, "I left the #SOTU after Trump--a draft dodger who has mocked Sen. John McCain, Gold Star families, and soldiers with traumatic brain injury--started talking about the good he has done the military."
Moulton, who was among the first troops to enter Baghdad in 2003, displayed far more diplomacy than I would have. In fact I went on social media earlier in the day saying if it was up to me, every democrat in both houses would walk out as soon as the narcissistic bastard entered the chamber.
After it was over social media outlets lit up as Trump's fascist front howled that Nancy Pelosi was, "classless," for tearing Trump's speech in half--ignoring, of course his cold refusal to shake her hand an hour and a half earlier. However, as always, Ms. Pelosi got in the last word.
When asked why she ripped the documents in two the Speaker of the House said, "It was the most courteous thing I could do."
And that's where we're at now as a nation. Thanks to the divisiveness of Donald J. Trump the most courteous things we can do while he speaks is watch a Canadian cable TV show, walk out, or afterward, rip transcripts of his speech to shreds.
Hey, it's better than Brooks taking a cane to Sumner, although, at this point, one has to think that day is coming soon.
sic vita est
2-5-20
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