A D.C. Federal appeals court of three judges unanimously today ruled that Donald Trump can face trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and that he is not immune to prosecution.  Yes, all women:  Judges J. Michelle Childs, Florence Pan and Karen Henderson.  Want to read what they said?   HERE .  This was largely expected, and now will go to the Supreme Court.  It will either accept the judgement of this appeals court, or themselves later decide on the matter. If the Supreme Court delays any ruling until after the 5November2024 presidential election, and Donald Trump wins re-election, he could pardon himself of everything, or arrange for his Department of Justice to ignore prosecution.  My sense is that our Supreme Court surely must be concerned about Trump destroying democracy for the nation if he again becomes president, so they will either accept the court ruling or in a timely manner, probably by this summer, itself make a judgement to deny imm

For some of us, life is getting better and better.  To begin, the  Hamas released two American hostages  from the Chicago area, Judith Raanan and her 17-year old daughter Natalie, said to be for humanitarian reasons.  One reason was because the mother was in poor health.  She looked well in the photo on the left. Three strikes, and Rep. Jim Jordan is out as House speaker.  He lost more votes again.  Of course, this means life is getting better for people like me, not Republicans, who have been clueless for 17 days, and continue so.  A next vote might occur next Tuesday.  There is now a smorgasbord of potential applicants, who need to announce so before Monday.  They are all floundering and angry at each other.  Oh, they also were told to blame the Democrats for this sorry condition of their body, for all of them, plus only 8 House Republicans, caused this stalemate. Yesterday, I reported that former legal advisor to Donald Trump, Sidney Powell, worked out a plea deal with Georgia offic

The first law of ecology is that title above, at least as written in Barry Commoner's 1971  The Closing Circle:  Nature, Man and Technology .   A  further searc h indicated that the adage is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, who died in 1519.  But there is very little to support this contention. From German  philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in 1769: In nature everything is connected, everything is interwoven, everything changes with everything, everything merges from one into another . Close, but what about U.S. jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who wrote: If the world is a subject for rational thought it is all of one piece; the same laws are found everywhere, and   everything is connected with everything else;   and if this is so, there is nothing mean, and nothing in which may not be seen the universal law. And there is an environmental inspiration from U.S. naturalist John Muir in 1869: When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the

On the  covid front , South Korea, with 161,355 new cases this week, and the USA, with 79,513, had 87% of all new cases in the world this week.  However, many countries have stopped reporting. The good news is that S.Korea's weekly death rated dropped 38% and the USA 58% this past week. The USA led in most new deaths this past week with 171, Brazil #2 and S. Korea #3.  These three countries accounted for 73% of all world deaths. Only 116 days to Christmas.  You can already buy a few gifts of topical moment.  One thing about Donald Trump is that you can purchase all kinds of stuff featuring him.  As for example:      2.  The big seller, however, is his  mug shot mug .  Soon after his booking, just on Saturday, August 26, sold more than $4 million worth.  Want one?  You have a choice from  Amazon.com .  Only $17. Joe Biden articles can also be bought.  Only $16 for his Cup O' Joe. It gets cheaper with Rudy Giuliani.  Only $15. This can go on and on, for even  Sidney Powell has a