After not getting Tuesday Tuesday's wordle - Bummer! A miss only the 2nd time I've haven't nailed it
I guess standard practice - when you are searching an ex President's residence and are in a banana republic. Quotes from the on site Trump lawyer below.
Former President Trump’s son Eric Trump reveals key details on the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago.
Trump told the Daily Mail that the FBI refused to to hand over the search warrant for their raid on the Florida residence.
He also recalled about 30 FBI agents kicking his attorney off the property.
“So they showed it to her from about 10 feet away. They would not give her a copy of the search warrant,” Trump said.
“There’s 30 agents there… They told our lawyer … you have to leave the property right now. Turn off all security cameras,” Trump said.
He said that the former president’s attorney Christina Bobb was forced to stand at the end of the Mar-a-Lago’s driveway during the raid.
Calling the event another “coordinated attack” on his father, Trump said Bobb was confused why a lawyer for the person's home being raided by the FBI was not able to see or obtain a copy of the search warrant.
He questioned whether a real warrant even existed, saying that he would be “thrilled” to know.
"When I arrived and kind of announced myself as the legal representation for President Trump. I asked to see a copy of the warrant,” Bobb recalled.
She said that once she was able to see the warrant, it was partly sealed which made it impossible for her to read why the judge granted a raid on the property.
“Initially they refused and said, 'You know, we don't have to show it to you.' And there was a little bit of an exchange about whether it was appropriate to withhold the warrant when you're searching the residence of the former president, who's likely to be the Republican nominee in the next election, though they conceded and let me see it, they did not give me a copy of it right away, but they did let me see it,” Bobb said.
Like many - not happy. And hit the link for more comments. Even ex governor Andrew Cuomo trashed the raid.
Yang:
My second miss in over 150 puzzles. The first was FORAY about four months ago. And then this one ... PATTY
Today is the feast of St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein), the Catholic convert and intellectual who was murdered in Auschwitz 80 years ago today.
interesting article in the Jesuit publication America. hit the link for the whole article.
The cardinal went to Auschwitz at the invitation of Marek Jędraszewski, the archbishop of Krakow. The Polish archbishop told him in a letter that the sisters have celebrated the feast of Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross’ death at the convent for many years, and since she is the co-patroness of Europe, they invite participants from different countries to the celebration each year.
Since it was Cardinal Czerny’s first visit to Auschwitz, he was given a guided tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum yesterday afternoon, Aug. 8. This morning he participated in a prayer walk at Birkenau, together with the archbishop of Krakow and with other Polish and international participants. Bishop Bertram Maier of Augsburg, Germany, who represented the German Bishops’ Conference, concelebrated the memorial Mass in the afternoon.
At the Mass this evening, Cardinal Czerny delivered a very personal homily in which he surprised many in the congregation by telling them, “With Edith Stein, I share Jewish origins, the Catholic faith, a vocation to religious life, and several coincidences with my maternal grandmother, Anna Hayek née Löw (1893-1945).” Edith Stein and his grandmother “were about the same age and came to a similar end,” he said.
In an email exchange on Aug. 8, Cardinal Czerny told me that his grandmother arrived in Auschwitz on Oct. 22, 1944, but, unlike Edith Stein, she did not die there because, as the Russians advanced, the Nazis evacuated many prisoners from Auschwitz, including his grandmother, and transferred them to the Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp in Germany, which operated from Sept. 1944 to May 2, 1945. The cardinal’s grandmother, he said, was evacuated in January 1945. She was very ill with typhus and could not make the trip back to Brno. She died on May 21, 1945, and he does not know where she is buried.
Trump may have violated the "Presidential Records Act?" Who's ever been charged under that? Oh and they feds already looked through those 15 boxes of documents two months ago?
J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI and from 1935to 1972. The original corrupt deep state actor.
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI's predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972....
Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses of power began to surface. He was found to have routinely violated the very laws the FBI was charged with enforcing, to have used the FBI to harass political dissidents, to amass secret files for blackmailing high level politicians, and to collect evidence using vigilantism and many other illegal methods. Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten others, including multiple sitting presidents of the United States.
Yes he's proud, wherever he is...
The great historian and writer. I read his first famous book "The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal” in 1977 when I had moved to Jamaica on my teaching job. A year later over my Easter break I traveled to the canal on my way to see my brother Jim in Guatemala. And years later - 2007 - I read his "1776" - the crucial Revolutionary War year. He wrote quite a number of other very well received history books and biographies. See the link below.
He was 89 and we should all have that kind of long and productive life.
Well good luck to the preetty women (a sexist would say!). I don't use my instagram account (can't even remember my password) and I'm not a woman so won't be looking. On the other hand I do read some articles on Vogue. Here is The Conservateur website. link below to the NY Post article my friend Maria sent me.
"Meet the conservative duo challenging Vogue with The Conservateur mag"
Flip through a typical fashion magazine today, and you’ll find headlines like “Why I’m Cheating on My Husband” or “I Planned an Orgy with My Best Friend. It was the Most Liberating Experience of My Life” and even “Is Having a Baby in 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?” But a huge swathe of young women in this country, many of whom consider themselves conservative, find this woke, hyper-sexualized approach to the world a big turn off.
Isabelle Redfield, 23, and Jayme Chandler Franklin, 24, decided to do something about it.
Two years ago, the fashionable San Francisco natives launched The Conservateur, an alternative platform for women who feel left out by mainstream glossy style bibles. Their site, which offers stories under verticals like “Style,” “Beauty,” “Politics” and “Faith,” has so far amassed more than 30,000 followers on Instagram. With its glamorous photos and sleek design, The Conservateur is a stark contrast to most conservative websites, which are usually tricked out in camouflage and aimed at men.
Could have been SNEAR which I'd have used on the last line.... DUH! sneer is spelled with two EE's!
This took me quite awhile. Maybe it shouldn't have but it did. Most often I get the answer in 5 - 10 minutes.
This is an important feast in the Catholic calendar. In the Roman calendar it only became a universal feast in 1456.
This painting is by Rubens .
The article below it is short and interesting (to me anyway). Excerpt below the link.
5 Theological truths to see in the Transfigured Christ
But what did they see? St. Thomas Aquinas suggests that in the Transfiguration, Christ allows his disciples to glimpse his glorified body; this is a glimpse of the radiant appearance of Christ after our Lord suffered his passion.
But why? Here’s where Aquinas offers something really rich. He says,
Our Lord, after foretelling His Passion to His disciples, had exhorted them to follow the path of His sufferings (Matthew 16:21-24). Now in order that anyone go straight along a road, he must have some knowledge of the end: thus an archer will not shoot the arrow straight unless he first see the target.
Christ was transfigured, meaning, the brilliance of his soul shone forth from inside of him, allowing his disciples to see the radiance of his charity. Such is the state of the heavenly host: brilliant and splendid. For the disciples it was a revelation, a vision of the good things to come.
Another close call - took about 12 minutes.
This is the fifth time I've gotten the word on the first line - not counting the first line which is always the same word for me. ou always startwith a akind of "seed" line and Mine is ORATE. Another good one is IRATE, which Tim frequently uses. But for me - if it ain't broke ...
There are 12 Federal Reserve Banks as well as seven governors (Jay Powell currently the chairman) who set monetary policy (things like the fed funds rate); and so are crucial to controlling inflation and unemployment.
Anyway, Mary Daly is the president of the San Francisco Reserve Bank and made a rather unfortunate comment; see below. Especially unfortunate since she comes from a working class family in Missouri whom you wouldn't expect such a comment from. In an interview ...
If you think she may have been taken out of context - I don't know - here's the statement. Daly then expressed empathy for the Americans who have been struggling under inflation
The Hiroshima bombing anniversary is August 6th - 77 years ago.
The world is running out of time.
This is a great column. Small excerpts below.
The Anniversary of Hiroshima: John Paul II and Fulton Sheen on the Bomb and Conversion
St. John Paul II made the following remarks during his visit to Hiroshima on February 25, 1981:
Two cities will forever have their names linked together, two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as the only cities in the world that have had the ill fortune to be a reminder that man is capable of destruction beyond belief. Their names will forever stand out as the names of the only cities in our time that have been singled out as a warning to future generations that war can destroy human efforts to build a world of peace.
John Paul continued: “To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war.”
Going further, he stated to Japan’s ambassador to the Holy See on September 11, 1999: “The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a message to all our contemporaries, inviting all the earth’s peoples to learn the lessons of history and to work for peace with ever greater determination. Indeed, they remind our contemporaries of all the crimes committed during the Second World War against civilian populations, crimes and acts of true genocide.”
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Ven. Fulton Sheen cuts right to the heart of these effects... pinpoints the moral turning point of country to “8:15 in the morning, the 6th of August, 1945,” when, he says, the world changed. The dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima
blotted out boundaries. There was no longer a boundary between the military and the civilian, between the helper and the helped, between the wounded and the nurse and the doctor, and the living and the dead. For even the living who escaped the bomb were already half dead. So we broke down boundaries and limits and from that time on the world has said we want no one limiting me. … You want no restraint, no boundaries. I have to do what I want to do.
Sheen makes the connection between the bomb and the moral chaos, which would follow in America, especially in the sexual revolution, when we initiated a culture of death.
I believe this hospital system is in Illinois, not North Shore on Long Island.
There is no pause button on the federal employment law under Title VII. Employees do not lose their right to reasonable accommodation for their religious beliefs simply because an employer or even the federal government pushes a vaccine mandate under the guise of a pandemic. It is past time for employment law attorneys to stop sitting on the sidelines. They need to help people obtain justice.
Liberty Counsel has been working with thousands of employees who face these abusive and unlawful mandates.
Liberty Counsel settled the nation’s first classwide lawsuit for health care workers over a COVID shot mandate and NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 to compensate these employees who were victims of religious discrimination, and who were punished for their religious beliefs against taking an injection associated with aborted fetal cells.
As part of the settlement agreement, NorthShore will also change its unlawful “no religious accommodations” policy to make it consistent with the law, and to provide religious accommodations in every position across its numerous facilities. No position in any NorthShore facility will be considered off limits to unvaccinated employees with approved religious exemptions. In addition, employees who were terminated because of their religious refusal of the COVID shots will be eligible for rehire if they apply within 90 days of final settlement approval by the court, and they will retain their previous seniority level.
From the NY Times. Back in the day, the Farandas were fans.
Ms. Nichols had a long career as an entertainer, beginning as a teenage supper-club singer and dancer in Chicago, her hometown, and later appearing on television.
But she will forever be best remembered for her work on “Star Trek,” the cult-inspiring space adventure series that aired from 1966 to 1969 and starred William Shatner as Captain Kirk, the heroic leader of the starship crew; Leonard Nimoy (who died in 2015) as his science officer and adviser, Mr. Spock, an ultralogical humanoid from the planet Vulcan; and DeForest Kelley (who died in 1999) as Dr. McCoy, a.k.a. Bones, the ship’s physician.
A striking beauty, Ms. Nichols provided a frisson of sexiness on the bridge of the Enterprise. She was generally clad in a snug red doublet and black tights; Ebony magazine called her the “most heavenly body in ‘Star Trek’” on its 1967 cover. Her role, however, was both substantial and historically significant.
Uhura was an officer and a highly educated and well-trained technician who maintained a businesslike demeanor while performing her high-minded duties. Ms. Nichols was among the first Black women to have a leading role on a network television series, making her an anomaly on the small screen, which until that time had rarely depicted Black women in anything other than subservient roles.
In a November 1968 episode, during the show’s third and final season, Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura are forced to embrace by the inhabitants of a strange planet, resulting in what is widely thought to be the first interracial kiss in television history.
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In a story she often told, that Saturday night she was a guest at an event in Beverly Hills, Calif. — “I believe it was an N.A.A.C.P. fund-raiser,” she recalled in the Archive interview — where the organizer introduced her to someone he described as “your biggest fan.”
“He’s desperate to meet you,” she recalled the organizer saying.
The fan, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., introduced himself.
“He said, ‘We admire you greatly, you know,’ ” Ms. Nichols said, and she thanked him and told him that she was about to leave the show. “He said, ‘You cannot. You cannot.’”
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