the solstice

Yar that's the Sessions explanation isn't it?  The bible says obey the law, therefore you don't question whether it is a good law or a bad law, render unto Caesar, well everything.  In separating the parents from the kids it's a matter of policy, and Sessions makes the policy and suddenly that policy, made by one man, appointed by a guy who regularly flouts the law, who the majority of Americans voted against is like unto Caesar who is to be meekly obeyed because of some line in the bible, which includes many lines saying that slavery is God's will.

And speaking of slavery, how about  those underground railroad guys, nothing but a bunch of criminals huh?  And how about those slaves?  The law was clear as a bell and yet here they were trying to break the law to avoid their fate.  How dare they?


But anyway I was speaking of pivoting yesterday and how I thought Trump was incapable of it, and apparently I was wrong again.  He could have just phoned Sessions, but he's a man of action so he made an executive order which actually doesn't change that much, and may or may not be legal, even though just a day earlier he had claimed that he didn't have the power to do it.

But nevertheless it is a pivot.  CNN called it caving, and that term is more satisfying, but maybe too extreme.  I don't think he was enlightened by the experience, I caught him at the Minnesota rally during commercials on Natgeo, or the Smithsonian, or one of those channels on the edge of the spectrum, on the Yakuza, which turned out to be, like all the shows on those supposedly serious networks, geared to grade school dropouts, and he was his usual berserk self.  I think this pivot or cave is going to work on him, is going to be a festering sore that may drive him over the pale, the disturbing aspect of that being that his horde will follow him.

Let's see how they like the burgeoning trade war, which will cost us all a pretty penny.


Ah. but Dawgs, it is summer at last.  The sun will set at 8:29 here.  It will set at 9:31 in Beaglesonia, but they are in a different time zone.  Actually they are on the western edge of the eastern time zone and we are on the eastern edge of the central time zone, also they are two or three hundred miles east of us.  When I was in Texas it was really hot in the summer, and I guess I expected that the sun would set even later, it being all that hot and all, but of course that is not the way it works and the sun set considerably sooner there.  But Yahoo tells me that the sun will be setting at 8:36 there which is even later than here, but Texas is considerably west of us and I see where the sun will rise at 6:30 there, while here it will rise 5:15 here, so we clearly have an hours more daylight than they have, and in Beaglesonia it will rise at 5:48, which will give them, and I hope that this is right because it is really hard to do arithmetic with hours and minutes, half an hour more sunshine than we have.

A lot of people think Einstein's theory about time being relative is awfully complicated, but with time zones and locations and doing time using arithmetic using a base 60 because the Sumerians thought that was nifty and we haven't gotten around to changing it in 5,000 years, crazy man crazy.