Today started out sort of on the gloomy side. We were both a little tired. Yesterday I sat on top of the shed, in the gusting wind, caulking around the vent fan. It was very disconcerting being that close to the rotating blades of death. Then at one point I shifted my position and put my foot down in a pile of caulk. Good times! Hopefully this will stop rain from getting in to the shed. If not, I'll be up there with another tube of caulk.
We decided to hike. Biking does exactly nothing for a person's bone density, so hiking is required to keep us from moving in to full blown osteoporosis. The weather improved, the clouds lifted some, and was actually a nice day. This is what we saw.
This is a yucca in someone's front yard. This is smart landscaping, they're very hardy, they can live without being watered, and they take up a lot of space. Look at the flower spikes he's putting out.
Out in the Tucson Mountain Park.
Today, the orange menace and lawyers saw Judge Cannon to argue that the Espionage Act is too vague as to be enforceable. @CalltoActivism posted this:
MAJOR BREAKING: In shocking twist, Judge Aileen Cannon has just REJECTED Trump’s arguments that the central statute in the indictment, the Espionage Act, was impermissibly vague and should be struck down entirely. Trump is LOSING his mind. Here’s why.
The two page decision by Judge Cannon followed a nearly daylong hearing in Federal District Court in where she entertained arguments from Trump’s legal team. Jack Smith says the former president violated that law 32 times by removing a trove of highly sensitive classified material from the White House after he left office. Trump’s lawyers had claimed that certain phrases in the text of the law — for instance, its requirement that prosecutors prove defendants took “unauthorized possession” of documents “relating to the national defense” — were so ambiguous and open to debate as to be unenforceable.
Bottom line? Judge Aileen Cannon has shocked Trump world who thought they’d have an easy time getting the case dismissed.
Update to post 3/15/24: @JoyceWhiteVance has a rebuttal tweet up, which sounds terribly plausible.
In other news, Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, received 30,000 pages of documents from Merrick Garland 12 months after requesting them. For twelve months Garland sat on this material. Apparently there is more coming next week. The Stormy Daniels hush money case was supposed to start March 25, but in light of the massive document dump, Bragg would not mind a delay of up to 30 days. Of course, the orange menace wants 90 days. President Biden did not make a good choice when he picked his AG.
So, that's what's happening in Ye Olde Pueblo.
The yucca has such a contrast between the spiky leaves and the " Wahey!!!" Of the flower stalk.
ReplyDeleteThe legal shenanigans do drag on..but that is his intention. When you look back, he should not have been able to stand for anything the first time....
the dog makes me walk. which is good since I do have osteoporosis but it seems to be stable.
ReplyDeleteTrump took the documents out of the White House with no authority to do so, he refused to return them, he hid them, he lied about having them, the FBI had to have a search warrant to retrieve them, he has tried to claim they were his 'personal' documents which they were not. doesn't sound vague or ambiguous to me. and yes, Garland has been a huge disappointment. perhaps it's a good thing he wasn't appointed to the Supreme Court.
Love the yucca. Beautiful in that landscape! Trump, it seems, will manage to drag all this stuff out ad infinitum.
ReplyDeleteI love all the beautiful scenery from your walk. The rest of this week should be good for lots more outdoor activity.
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