What happened in Central Park yesterday was disgusting, in the most generous way to describe it.
But there are some other parts to this story that I’m not a fan about either.
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Defense 1: Trump did nothing wrong.
Response: Trump hit the trifecta of impeachable conduct by subverting an election, seeking foreign influence, and putting personal interest ahead of national interest. And he obstructed Congress by refusing to produce any witnesses or documents
One of the people who likes to pop in on one of my political comments from time to time, to just engage in name calling and baiting, did so again recently and so I decided to go to his Facebook timeline and start fact checking all of his meme posts. His timeline was almost nothing but meme posts from conservative propaganda content websites.
The new Star Wars movie; The Rise of Skywalker is about to come out and I feel the need to once again point out that The last Jedi was a good Star Wars movie and meant to subvert your expectations on purpose. If you didn’t like that, then that’s more on you than it is on the movie.
“The human spirit is more powerful than any drug, and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. This is what we’d forgotten, the simplest things.”
The impeachment of the president started day one of open hearings today. Already, the impeachment testimony is giving us a good look at how corrupt and incompetent this administration has been.
Four chapters in so far on Rachel Maddow’s new book; Blowout.
A little too early for all the rich colors, but still a pretty drive.
Pumpkin Carving tonight. The temperatures have dropped considerably and tomorrow the kids will be freezing in their costumes.
“The term swiftboating is a pejorative American neologism used to describe an unfair or untrue political attack. The term is derived from the name of the organization “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” (SBVT, later the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth) because of their widely publicized—and later discredited—campaign against 2004 U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry”
– Wikipedia
Long time fan of Mumford and Sons. I saw them when they came though in Guthrie a few years ago during the Gentleman of the Road tour but this concert was far better. Great performers, all of them.
I recently purchased the suction mount for GoPro cameras and did a test run on the front of the windshield on the way to the hardware store. Took a mile or two to get some trust in it, but it did well.
A beautiful secluded mountain lake in the heart of the Colorado Rockies located in the Gunnison National Forrest. I’ve been visiting this lake since I was a small kid and my father would take us to visit. Happy to be able to show my son how beautiful Colorado is.
After debating for years on getting a jeep, I finally pulled the trigger and got a two door Wrangler JL.
This is probably of interest to no one besides myself, but I finally took the GoPro out for a ride around lake Hefner last week and made this video with over dramatisation of music for the effect of making me look cool.
Conference in Seattle, An Event Apart with several great speakers in the User Experience design field. I have most of the books these guys publish and looking forward to hearing all of them speak.
I used to be better at taking a break at what I was doing, enjoying my surroundings and sometimes capturing it on audio to give me an audio recall of that moment in time. Here are a few examples that I recently came across.
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The definitive Star Wars good to bad list, as defined by me.
The elections last night were complicated. Both sides are feeling victory and loss today. The hardest losses for me to absorb seem like in hindsight, were an obvious outcome – Republicans won in the very red states and promise more of the same. Clearly no one is happy with “the same”, but people don’t like change of values even more, and these races were made about (perceived) values and nothing to do with leadership, so we will keep on keepin on.
Nathan performed at the UCO Jazz lab again tonight. He’s a better Trombonist than I was back in the day, and I wasn’t bad at all.
A well written book by Sam Anderson about the historical beginnings of Oklahoma City to the NBA franchise of the OKC Thunder basketball team, each chapter going back and forth from then to now.
Some people come into your life and they change you.
One of those people who had that impact on me, passed away this morning.
Another Independence Day in America spent in my favorite state.
I love podcasts. It’s not as much of a commitment as a book, it can be serialized, and they aren’t as depressing as the news. I like having something playing in the background while I work so I’ve vetted many to see what appeals to me. I didn’t mean to make the list in order of preference. But after making it, yea, this is pretty much the order I would rank my top 10.
I really love Chicago, not in the winter, with nothing to do but sightsee.
A trip with friends to Taos, New Mexico. Jess and Chris rented the Earthship house on the side of the mountain and it was a spectacular view.
While visiting my sis on the island, I took the drone and wanted to capture some footage of the beach, of Beth, and us on her birthday.
Every year, Oklahoma City has a Starlight Supper downtown. This was my first time to go and it was a great experience to meet others in Oklahoma City as well as Drinks and Dinner outside in the beautiful weather.
A spontaneous road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The New Year brought a trip to the Canadian mountains in Banff. Beautiful landscapes of snow and mountains, despite the -16F temperatures. One of the highlights was probably standing in the middle of the lake or enjoying the hot springs.
Celebrating the new year in Banff, Canada this year. It’s insanely cold here though, so cold we filled the flask up with Canadian Rye before heading out in the -18F weather for the photo hike. The hotel is amazing but walking even just down the street and you are a human meat-sicle. by the time you get there.
Movie historians baffled that critics of the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi were expecting more serious toned literary greatness from the predecessor of a samurai space opera knock-off of Flash Gordon (Seriously, look it up, Lucas wanted to originally do a Flash Gordon movie but couldn’t secure the rights).
No spoilers, you’re welcome.
Drone footage edit of the Wichita Mountains in SouthWestern Oklahoma.