ROMAN GODDESS OF FIRE & HEART (VESTA). HORRIBLE MESS. SWADDLES. CRIMINAL MINDS. A CURE FOR WELLNESS--THE PUZZLE OF POVERTY. RUSTY BLACK WOOD. THE NUCLEAR OPTION. SCOTUS. A STUNNING VIOLATION OF OUR DEEPEST VALUES. MIT, NORTHWESTERN, HARVARD, PRINCETON, IVY LEAGUE, DO EVERYTHING FROM REFUSING TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO FEDERAL AUTHORITIES, REGARDING THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY" TO ENCOURAGING, CONGRESS TO CONSIDER, THE IMPACT OF THE BAN, ON COLLEGES, TOP STUDENT, SCHOLARLY FACULTY, INTERRUPTED STUDIES, PROFESSORSHIPS, BY TELLING THEM NOT TO LEAVE THE UNITED STATES! HIGHEST COMPLIMENT: YOU ARE SUPER GIRL, CATWOMAN AND JESUS CHRIST ALL AT THE SAME TIME! --BEAR. ME = YOU. HOLDOVER, U.S.A.G., SALLY Q. YATES, JUST ENTERED, THE UNITED STATES HALL OF FAME, FOR FALLING ON THE SWORD, FOR THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, SHE TOOK AN OATH TO UPHOLD, BY DENYING, TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER TO BAN MUSLIMS, FROM 7 COUNTRIES, AND STATING THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WOULD NOT SUPPORT OR DEFEND THE BAN! SURE AS HELL, MY HERO! WHICH MAY LEAD TO U.S. CITIZENS, BEING BANNED FROM THOSE SAME COUNTRIES AND OTHERS IN PROTEST OF THE BRASH, UNREASONABLE, IRRESPONSIBLE, AND BASICLY, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, BAN ON RELGIOUS FREEDOM, TO AN ENTIRE GROUP OF PEOPLE, DESTROYING AMERICAN VALUES, THE VALUES OF A NATION BUILT BY IMMIGRANTS: FAIRNESS, EQUALITY, OPENNESS, GENEROSITY, AND COURAGE. MASSECHUSETT'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PRESIDENT, L. RAFAEL REIF, SAID MIT IS PROFOUNDLY AMERICAN, HAS STUDENTS FROM 134 COUNTRIES, WHO NOT ONLY HELP DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY TO ENSURE SAFETY IN AMERICA, BUT THEY TRAIN, EXPOSE, AND EXPAND, FORIEGN STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING OF AMERICAN VALUES, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND CONSTITUTONAL PROVISIONS, THAT THEY CAN TAKE BACK TO THEIR OWN COUNTRIES! 40% OF THE STUDENT BODY, I BELIEVE I REMEMBER, 40% OF THE FACULTY, 10% OF POST GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT! I HAVE TAUGHT AT THREE UNIVERSITIES, I HAVE ALSO HAD STUDENTS, COLLEAGUES, AND ASSOCIATES, IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS, AS WELL AS WONDERFUL PROFESSORS, FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES! SO, WE ARE GOING TO FIRE, YATES, FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING, PROTECTING, PRESERVING AND DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION, NOT BEING AN "I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP GAL, ACTUALLY, LEADING, OUT, WITH HONOR AND DIGINITY, THROUGH EXAMPLE, IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, AS MANY U.S. ATTORNEY GENERALS AND THEIR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERALS, UNDER GONZALES, OVER THE PATRIOT ACT, THE RUSH, SIGNING OF THAT, UNDER A VERY SICK, A.G. ASHCROFT, AND THEN, WE KEEP COMEY FOR BREAKING THE LAW, VIOLATING THE HATCH ACT OF 1939, WELL ESTABLISHED LAW, IN ADDITION TO DOJ, POLICY, AND LENGTHY DISCUSSION, URGING, COMEY TO AVOID MAKING THE F.B.I., APPEAR TO BE PARTISAN, INVOLVING, PLACATING, AND SERVING RED MEAT TO CHAFFETZ, ISSA, GOWDY, AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE "OVERSIGHT" COMMITTEE! NOW, REPLACING OUR INTERIM, FORMER DEPUTY AND STANDING ATTORNEY GENERAL, YATES, WE ARE GOING TO GIVE CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL, OF SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS, WHO IS BEING OPPOSED, FOR, ONCE AGAIN, VIOLATING HIS CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES, NOT ONLY AS AN ATTORNEY, BUT AS A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE, WHO HAS A HIDEOUS RECORD ON CIVIL RIGHTS, SUPPORTING THE KKK, UNTIL HE FOUND OUT THEY SMOKED POT; (2) HIS FAILURE TO ADDRESS RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, AND (3) REFUSING TO SEE THE ETHICAL COMPLICATIONS, IN TRUMP'S MASSIVE, "CONFLICTS OF INTEREST." WTF? NOW WE ARE ENTERTAINING, THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENCY ON SERVICE OF GRUDGES, OBSESIONS, AND SCORE SETTLING, AS WE JUST WITNESSED IN THE SITUATION WITH SALLY Q. YATES! GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY! WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THIS SHIT SHOW? THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL, HAS ALWAYS, HAD TO KEEP AT ARMS LENGTH TO AVOID BEING USED AS A PAWN OF THE PRESIDENT, ALSO IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, AND BOTH OVER LAW ENFORCEMENT, BUT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, AND THE AG, MORE CLOSELY INVOLVED . . . WHAT WE ARE SEEING, IT SETTING TRUMP US AS A MONARCH, A DESPOT, A TYRANNICAL LEADER, WHO WILL ONLY SURROUNDING HIMSELF WITH "YES" MEN AND WOMEN, HIS ADORING, FANS, KIDS, AND FOX OPINION! THAT IS NOT AMERICA! NO WAY, NO HOW! JUST THIS MORNING ON, KING5 NEWS, THERE WERE VIDEOS OF THE PROTESTERS AT SEATAC AIRPORT, PEACEFULLY PROTESTING, AS THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO "PEACEFULLY ASSEMBLY" AND "REDRESS GRIEVANCES WITH THE GOVERNMENT!" WE DON'T NEED GESTOPO TACTICS, ROGUE AGENTS, PEPPER SPRAYING MARCHERS, THAT IS NOT AMERICA! I LOVED ONE OF THE SEATAC, AIRPORT MANAGEMENT, WHO'S NAME, WAS ACTUALLY, JESS ROGOFF, OR ROGUE OFF, WHO SAID, WE WILL BE WATCHING THE POLICE TO SEE THAT PROTESTERS ARE PROTECTED, IN THEIR ABILITIES, TO PROTEST AGAINST THE BAN! KISSES, HUGS, LOVES! BACK, EARLY ON WHEN, THE STANDOFF WITH CLIVEN BUNDY, THE MILITIA, AGAINST THE BLM, AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS, THE GOVERNMENT, SHUT THIS BLOG DOWN, THAT WAS REALLY, HOLDING BOTH SIDES BACK FROM GETTING INTO A VIOLENT CONFLICT, BOTH SIDES WERE CONSTITUTIONALLY RIGHT AND WRONG, MY DAUGHTER, WHO WORKED FOR THE BLM, AND MY LANDLORD, WHO HAD FRONT LINE COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE MILITIA, MORE LIKELY WITH HIS HARVARD, ENGINEERING DEGREE, AN INFILTRATOR, TRYING TO USE, MY BLOG AS PROPOGANDA, ACTUALLY WANTING ME TO REPORT THAT RUSSIAN TROOPS WERE TRAVELING THROUGH MONTANA, TRYING TO DISCREDIT MY CREDIBILITY, AND BLOG, NEUTRALIZING MY POWER WITH BOTH SIDES, UNDERMINGING ME, BUT, AFTER THE GOVERNMENT TOOK MY BLOG, I STARTED AN NEW ONE, CALLED, "INTERNET SHERIFF" AND I STARTED, FOCUSING DIRECTLY, ON LAW ENFORCMENT, ISSUES, CHALLENGES, AND REMINDING THEM OF THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, AND THEIR OATHS OF OFFICE, AND ALMOST LIKE MAGIC, LAW ENFORCMENT, MANY, ELECTED AND CHANGED BY THE PATRIOT ACT REMEMBERED, THEIR OATH TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND EVERYTHING STARTED TO CHANGE, GROUPS OF CALIFORNIA SHERIFFS, STARTED, WORKING TOGETHER, ACTUALLY, ON REFUSING, TO BE ARMS OF I.C.E., IMMIGRATION, CUSTOMS AND ENFORCEMENT, WORKING IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, TO UPHOLD CITIZENS' RIGHTS, RESPECT, THE NATURALIZATION PROCESS, AND AMAZING THINGS STARTED TO HAPPEN . . . COPS WHO TOOK THE OATH TO DEFEND, PROTECT, AND PRESERVED THE CONSTITUTION, STARTED TO REMEMBER, THAT THEY ACTUALLY DID TAKE AN OATH, MANY, YOUNG, INEXPERIENCED, NOT FOCUSED, OR DIDN'T KNOW THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT THEY ACTUALLY TOOK AN OATH TO DO! BUT, AS I WROTE FOUR ABOUT TWO WEEKS ON THIS "INTERNET SHERIFF" BLOG, MY RECOMMENDATIONS ON YOUTUBE, WERE FLOODED WITH OFFICERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, WHO ACTUALLY, STARTED, BEING TRUE TO THEIR OATH, AND AS, PROTESTERS, CAME TO THE AIRPORTS, ONE SUCH GROUP, AT LAGUARIA AIRPORT IN NEW YORK, TO INFORM PEOPLE OF SOME ASPECT OF THE IRA, OR DUE PROCESS, OR WHATEVER, THE MANAGER, UNLIKE THE SEATAC, MANAGER, CAME OUT AND DEMANDED AN OFFICER, EITHER ARREST THESE PEOPLE, OR KICK THEM OFF THE PREMISES, PRONTO . . . THE OFFICER, CALMLY, TOLD THE MAN, THEY HAD A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO "PEACEFULLY" ASSMEBLE, WHICH IS THE CLAUSE THAT ALLOWS, OR PROTESTS, AND HE WOULD ENFORCE THEIR RIGHT, TO DO SO! LOL! THE MANAGER, WAS SHOCKED, AND TAKEN BACK, HAD OBVIOUSLY, USED THAT TACTIC BEFORE, WALKED AWAY, WITH HIS TAIL, DRAGGING BEHIND HIM, AND HIS HEAD SLUMPED, AS ALL CITIZENS, ON THE INTERNET WHO SAW THE COP DO THAT, ME WRITING ABOUT IT, REJOICED--IF YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT OR SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IS SUFFERING A PUBLIC IMAGE CRISIS, LATELY, TRY, DEFENDING, PROTECTING AND PRESERVING YOUR COMMUNITY CITIZENS' RIGHT, AND SEE WAHT HAPPENS! BECAUSE, WE ALL, SORT OF KNOW THE CONSTITUTION, WE HAVE A LIMITED TO REASONABLE UNDERSTANDING, OF THE RIGHTS CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENT, AND 98% OF US, BELIEVE, IN THESE RIGHTS, FREEDOMS, PROTECTIONS, LIBERTIES, AND PRIVILEGES, EITHER THROUGH PRINCIPLE, CONCEPT, OR EVEN A DIRECT UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT, WE ARE AFFORDED, AS CITIZENS IN THIS COUNTRY! NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE GOVERNMENT, HOMELAND SECURITY, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, NSA, YANKED THAT, BLOG OFF THE WEB, IN LESS THAT TWO WEEKS, AND GAVE ME BACK, MY BAD ASS CON LAW CHICK BLOG, THE LAW IS THE LAW , IS THE LAW . . . KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS THE "MOTHER OF EXILES" . . . HOW CAN WE STAND THE BAN ON REFUGEES? RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IS A FOUNDING AMERICAN VALUE! OUR BEST COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, ARE ASKING: (1) ARE WE NO LONGER TO WELCOME NEW TALENT, THAT BUILT THIS NATION AND MADE IT GREAT? (2) ARE WE GOING TO DENY A LEGAL RIGHT OF STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF AND OTHERS, WHEN, THEY HAVE, A RIGHT TO BE HERE? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE, AS THEY STRUGGLE AS WE ALL ARE! THE ONLY CONCLUSION, I CAN COME TO, IT THAT, THERE HAS BEEN A "HOSTILE" TAKEOVER OF AMERICAN, AND THERE IS A PURPOSEFUL, ORCHESTRATED, AND DETERMINED EFFORT TO ELIMINATE THE VERY FABRIC AND SOUL OF OUR COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION! IN LEW OF WHAT, THE PATRIOT ACT? CHAOS? ANARCHY? FASCISM? THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA? DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, SAID, "TO BE SILENT IS TO BETRAY YOUR OWN SOUL!" I THINK, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEYS GENERALS, 30 I BELIEVE, WALKED OUT, PROTESTING, THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL EFFORTS OF BUSH, TORTURE, WATERBOARDING, AND OTHER PRESSURED TECHNICHS, AND THE PATRIOT ACT, WHICH, MANY PARTS OF IT, ALL OF IT WHEN APPLIED, TO CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ATTORNEYS LIKE ME, AND CITIZENS, ARE NOT APPLICABLE, NOT TO BE USED AGAINST, ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN! TERRORISTS, ARE A DIFFERENT CATEGORY, BUT WE STILL HAVE THE GENEVA CONVENTION AND OTHER, AGREEMENTS, ON WAR CRIMES, THAT, WE HAVE FUCKING SIGNED! WHO THE FUCK IS THINKING, WE CAN, JUST ALLOW, THIS LUNATIC, WHO HAS NEVER READ THE CONSTITUTION, RUN THIS COUNTRY? OR AN ATTORNEY GENERAL, WITH SIMILAR PREJUDICES, BIGOTRIES, AND DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES, AND EXPECT, HIM, TO COUNTER, TRUMP'S INSANITY, VIOLATING THE VERY OATH OF OFFICE HE TOOK, DAYS AGO? I REMEMBER ONE OF THE CRITICAL QUESTIONS, WHEN, LORETTA LYNCH WAS, GOING THROUGH HER CONFIRMATION HEARINGS, WAS CAN SHE, SUFFICIENTLY, SEPARATE HERSELF, FROM, PRESIDENT OBAMA, THAT SHOULD THE CASE ARISE, WHERE, THERE IS CONFLICT, OR CHALLENGE TO CERTAIN, ASPECTS OF THE LAW, SHE WOULD EXERCISE THE INDEPENDENCE FROM HER BOSS, TO DO THE RIGHT THING FOR THE COUNTRY? THAT WAS ONE OF THE MAIN ISSUES, WITH FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL, ERIC HOLDER, WHO BY THE WAY, HAS BEEN PUT ON PERMANENT RETAINER, BY GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN, OF CALIFORNIA, WITH THE 5TH LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD, TO DEFEND, CALIFORNIA, AGAINST TRUMP! TRUMP VIOLATES, EVERY MANDATE OF THE PREAMBLE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, THE VERY VALUES THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON, AND IS HELL BENT ON TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA WE ALL LOVE AND ALL THE PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS, THAT MADE THIS THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH, AND FOR THE MOST PART, BUILT BY THE INGENUITY, GENIUS, BRILLIANCE, OF THE COLLECTIVE THOUGHTS AND IDEAS OF IMMIGRANTS! FOR GOD SAKES! MY ANCESTORS INCLUDED! BANISH TRUMP BACK TO SCOTLAND, NO THANKS! WHAT, SALLY Q. YATES, DID, WAS MONUMENTAL, IN AND OF THE FACT THAT SHE DID, WHAT, EVERY ATTORNEY GENERAL, EVERY JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS, SERVING AS EITHER THE BALANCE OF POWER, TO THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, THE "CHECKS AND BALANCES" THAT SOMEHOW SEEM TO BE MISSING, WITH TRUMP, WITH COMEY AND THE F.B.I., TRUMPLAND, THANK GOD THE C.I.A., SHOCKINGLY, IS AT ODDS WITH TRUMP, AND OTHERS, SEE THE NEED, FOR INDEPENDED, NONPARTISAN, CONDUCT, THAT IS BECOMING OF THE STATUS, MEASURE, AND DIGNITY OF RUNNING THIS COUNTRY, THAT IS FAST BECOMING THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD, AS TRUMP, DOES HIS GAME DAY, PUNT, TO WHOMEVER, CAN CATCH HIM, IS FOLLOWING, THE ROGER AILES, SCHOOL OF HIKED UP SKIRTS, STAGED, ATTRACTIVE FEMALES, IN THE BACKGROUND, AND ON EACH SIDE, WITH THIGH SHOTS, LIKE THE CHICK, WEARING KNEE-HIGHS, THAT SCHOOL GIRL LOOK, ALL DIRTY OLD MEN, CAN'T RESIST, TURNING, THE WHITE HOUSE INTO A FUCKING CIRCUS, WITH TRUMP, ASKING HIS AUDIENCE, OR THE STAGED ACTORS, IF HE SHOULD SIGN, IT? AN PREPREPARED, EXECUTIVE ORDER! WE HAVE ONLY BEEN THROUGH, WHAT, 11 DAYS OF A FOUR YEAR TERM? YOU CAN FIX ANYTHING YOU WANT TO, IF YOU HAVE THE GUTS, AND I BELIEVE, ALL THE ISSUES, THE ALLEGED, PRESIDENT HAS, FAR EXCEED, CLINTON'S INDISCRETIONS, THAT WAS LIMITED IN DAMAGE, AT LEAST TO THE COUNTRY, AND NIXON'S BREAK IN, AT WATERGATE, AKIN, TO BREAKING INTO COMPUTERS, EMAILS, AND ENCOURAGING, PUTIN AND RUSSIAN, WHO WE ARE NOW AT ODDS WITH, WITH A NEW U.S. PRESENCE IN POLAND, ASKING HIM, AND HIS INTELLIGENCE AGENTS, TO HACK, THE DNC, WITH THE BEST SECURITY, AN ORGANIZATION COULD HAVE, BUT STILL NO MATCH AGAINST, A FUCKING WORLD POWER, COME ON, FOLKS? IMPEACH!

OPUS DAY . . . CORPORAL MORTIFICATION FOR SPIRITUAL GRATIFICATION AND GROWTH?

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can come together! --Marilyn Monroe

PRAYER

Happy are we when our treasures cannot be quantified.

Happy are we when our knowledge is tempered by mystery.

Happy are we when our pain is held in the balm of love.

Happy are we when our delight comes from beyond ourselves.

Bible Study Today, Mary's Place, Seattle, Washington

BEATITUDES--THE WORD 'BEATITIDES' IS NOT FOUND IN THE ENGLISH BIBLE.  IT COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD 'BEATUS', WHICH MEANS HAPPY OR BLESSED.  IT IS USUALLY REFRRED TO THE 8 STATES OF BLESSEDNESS, JESUS PREACHED ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT, RECORDED IN MATTHEW 5: 3-12.  SOME WHAT SIMILAR LIST IS ALSO MENTIONED IN LUKE 6:20-23.

THIS ONE BEATITUDE, PARTICULARLY, TOUCHED ME THIS MORNING, IN LIGHT OF, WHAT IS GOING ON . . .

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ARE PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE--WILL OF GOD IS HARMONY, PEACE, JOY AND THOSE THINGS THAT ARE ATTAINED BY RIGHT THINKING . . . I HAVE COME TO THIS PLACE WHERE I KNOW WHAT I AM LIVING FOR, AND FOR THIS CAUSE I AM NOT AFRAID TO SUFFER AND, IF NEED BE, DIE.  I AM WILLING TO "TAKE THE HEAT" AND STAND ALONE FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.  I CAN TAKE CRITICISM WITHOUT FEELING SELF-PITY OR SELF-RIGHTEOUS.

THE VERY FABRIC OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, THE PREAMBLE, TO ME, IS NOTHING MORE THAN GOD'S GOSPEL, IN LAW!  TO HAVE A MORE PERFECT UNION, BASED ON, HARMONY, PEACE, JOY AND LOVE, WE MUST HAVE, A WELL ORDERED SOCIETY OF LAWS, THAT WE ALL CAN COUNT ON, AND FOLLOW, FROM THE GOVERNED, TO THE GOVERNMENT, WHO IS THERE TO SERVE US!

REMEMBER, JESUS SAID, HE WHO IS GREATEST AMONG YOU, IS YOUR SERVANT . . . THANK YOU PERSONALLY, TO SALLY, THE MIRADE OF ATTORNEYS, AND OTHERS WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, IN AMERICA'S HOLY WAR, JIHAD, TO REMAIN, FREE, GOOD, GENEROUS, OPEN, WELCOMING, COMPASSONATE, AND FULL OF LOVE, EVEN RISKING, WHAT IS MOST DEAR TO YOU!

GOD BLESS!

P.S., Seattle City Council Finance Committee Meeting and #DefundDAPL Rally, Wed. Feb 1, 8:30 -11 AM, All Ages . . . We need to keep the collective momentum going and attend this City Council Finance Committee meeting regarding the Seattle city budget, and a vote on possible divesting from the city's $3 billion account with Wells Fargo in an effort to aid in defunding the Dakota Access Pipeline.  Before the meeting, be sure to show up early for the rally outside in City Hall Plaza at 8:30 AM.  Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA  98104--courtesy of THE STRANGER--FREE!