And. Some of them opt not to be traded. Stay private. Off book. Live off government contracts.
It’s disheartening for sure.

Look @tuesdayadams111.bsky.social ! My first roses are ready for them.

Yes, the system is rigged. So what do we, the rigged, do about it?
Because it’s pretty obvious that the current crop of lawmakers won’t make any laws to address it.

Tech companies do it because it’s the cheapest solution for them. They aren’t locating in Manhattan but in places where they think government is eager for the meager jobs they bring and the residents can’t fight back.

The military has always been one arm of diplomacy. Since WW II, the US military has supplied support, training, relief, assistance whenever needed.
Current leaders see that as weak. It’s not. It’s strategic and smart.

That would be the goal. But from here to 👆is a very long legal journey. How about flip an assistant and go up the chain with increasing criminal responsibility?
A campaign to divest of publicly traded stocks hits where it hurts - stockholders. Publicity. Names. No slander, libel. Public info.

I’ve done check and a carry on and I’ve done all checked.
First was inconvenient because of bag dragging.
Second was inconvenient because stuck overnight at O’Hare and had checked bag with charger and sweater.
Freezing, deviceless, sleepless at O’Hare not a happy memory

Question: How do you lock up a criminal corporation?
Answer: Not easily so not often.
When it’s everybody’s fault, it’s nobody’s fault.
The age of corporate action brought in corporate misconduct and a class of people who are lawless.
Rich and untouchable.

🥰

Happy Monday! My crew get treats before coffee done.
A beggar represents them.

Lawyer Menu for libel defense:
Request for Admissions under oath. Yum.
Interrogatories. Whee.
Depositions. Whoo hoo!

Politics heavy and evidence light. Elections are run by the states says no less than the Constitution which lawyers take an oath to uphold.

I have trouble keeping who is generation whatever. I am blessed to be able to interact with an alphabet soup of gens.
So ok is okay by me.

Not all of any generation are of one mindset. Typecasting of age groups has gone on for millennia -since the pharaohs bitched on pyramid walls.
See each of us as individuals.
Harder but more honest.

Premature headline-Dewey Defeats Truman unless they have a direct line to WH.

I wore that frilly dress, veil and white patent leather shoes and remind vividly my first communion. Gone these many years since a priest showed me
how much the Church cared for young women.
Sunday School teacher for forty years, I won’t go back but I’ll cheer from the sidelines.
Team Leo here.

Empathy helps us see through another’s eyes. To recognize that our differences pale before our similarities.
It is an undervalued character trait that the world can never have enough of.
It’s why the pope put a prayer room for Muslims in the Vatican.

It’s not maga(though I wish it were). Good smart not yet decidedly folks on the blue side are left to wonder. And the
“story” will get picked up by MSM which amplifies it. Damage thus increased.

Piece in The Hill on Andy Beshear that asks “is he too nice?”
Pick off competition early with seeds of doubt.

Stolen to share with friends who need it and will appreciate it.

Happy Friday M.T.

The tax break on tips is a bait and switch meanie trick on those who pay their rent in tips.

This is an opinion piece (and yes I read it thinking it was film-at-eleven news). The Hill is The National Enquirer for politicians. Read it but with a block of salt.

My grandparents came through
Ellis Island. My grandfather opened a saloon in NY. One wag opined that he would think his granddaughter becoming a lawyer as a step back.

Interesting program on @npr.org yesterday on taxes. South after Civil War low taxes crippled reformers, poll taxes, poll tests kept poor whites and Blacks from voting their best interest.
The energy that still goes into depriving others could be so
better spent.

Playing both ends against the middle sometimes blows up in your face.

The total obliviousness of American politicians is gobsmacking.
Want some Bible? Before you take out splinters from eyes of other countries, remove the log from our own.

The architect of that abomination should be sentenced to go back to history classes. The Thousand Year Reich should not be celebrated with a new golden arch.
The American public is done with these monuments to one man’s ego.

This pope won’t fit into world leaders’ pockets.