The Law, is the Law, is the Law--Know Your Rights: GRANDMAS ROCK! LET'S END THIS! LOSS OF CONTROL IS A SCARY THING, BUT IT IS ALSO THE THING THAT LEADS TO CHANGE. --CRIMINAL MINDS, "COLLISION COURSE." SHAMROCK CHOCOLATE MADNESS. WELL, I LOVE THE RAINY NIGHTS! YOU KNOW I DO! SHOWER THE PEOPLE IN LOVE WITH LOVE, TELL THEM THE WAY THAT YOU FEEL . . . SUNDAYLOVE. LOVE IS THE ANSWER, BUT YOU LET ME DOWN . . . HOW CAN I LOVE YOU WHEN YOUR NOT AROUND! IT'S DREAMS THAT I FOLLOWED. LOVE EVERLASTING. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE A HEARTBREAKER? LOVE IS FOR YOU. WHEN I WAS BEING WHAT YOU WANTED ME TO BE . . . LOVE HAS PASSED ME BY. WORDS FROM SONGS, AS I SIT DRINKING MY DIET COKE, ALONE! LOL! OH, WELL, THERE ARE MANY FORMS OF LOVE . . . SOME IN THE NEWS YESTERDAY. COPS IN CALIFORNIA, STOP YOUNG BLACK MAN, TO FIND OUT THAT HE WALKS 5 HOURS TO WORK, 5 DAYS A WEEK, AND 5 HOURS, BACK FROM WORK, EACH DAY . . . THEY WERE AMAZED AT THE STAMINA AND WORK ETHICS OF THE YOUNG MAN, SO THEY PITCHED IN A BOUGHT HIM A BIKE, WHICH CUT DOWN ON SOME OF THE TIME, BUT, EVENTUALLY, THEY TOOK UP DONATIONS, AND PURCHASED HIM A CAR, WHEN THE COMMUNITY HEARD ABOUT IT, THE COPS RAISED, $42,000 IN NO TIME, SO THEY BOUGHT THE YOUNG MAN A CAR TO GET TO AND FROM WORK, AND DONATED THE REMAINING AMOUNT, TO, SOME OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION, THAT, I THINK WORKED WITH YOUTH! THAT IS LOVE, NOT ONLY FOR A YOUNG MAN, BUT THAT SHINES TO THE COMMUNITY, IN WHICH HE LIVES, INSPIRING OTHER YOUTH, TO VALUE WORK ETHICS, LOVE FROM A COMMUNITY, WHO DID MORE THAN GIVE LIP SERVICE--NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK, THE IMPACT MIGHT BE ON CRIME? ON CREATING GOOD COMMUNITY POLICING, ON TRUSTING COPS, AGAIN? POSITIVE IMPACT, I WOULD SUSPECT, AND HEARTWARMING AT ITS BEST! ME, MY FRIENDS, AND OUR GUY FRIENDS, USED TO SNEAK OUT, ALMOST EVERY NIGHT IN THE SUMMER, BETWEEN 7TH & 8TH GRADE, AND SEEING THE CITY COPS, WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF OUR NIGHT--WE USED TO CROWD AROUND THE WINDOW, AS THE COP ON DUTY, SHOT THE BREEZE WITH US--MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN--THERE WAS TRUST, LOVE, CARING, MUTUAL RESPECT, AND FUN! GOOD MEMORIES! LOL! YOUNG 13 YEAR OLD GIRL, RAISES, ENOUGH MONEY, TO TAKE 1,000 YOUNG GIRLS, TO THE GREAT MOVIE, INSPIRING FOR ALL GIRLS, BLACK & WHITE, CALLED "HIDDEN FIGURES" OF THREE BLACK WOMEN, WHO WORKED AT NASA, CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, DURING THE SPACE RACE WITH RUSSIA . . . I LOVED THE PART WHEN, THE BOSS, PLAYED BY KEVIN COSTNER, FINDING OUT THAT ONE OF HIS TOP ENGINEERS, OR MATHMATICIANS, HAD TO GO, ACROSS CAMPUS,, TO GO TO THE BATHROOM, TAKING HER OUT OF WORK FOR THE 45 MINUTE ROUND TRIP! HE TOOK ALL THE PEOPLE HE WAS OVER, AND TORE DOWN THE SIGNS OR THE BATHROOMS THAT SAID, "WHITES ONLY" AND SAID FROM NOW ON, THERE ARE NO COLORS IN THIS OFFICE! HOW FUCKING REFRESHING! I AM SURE, THAT THIS LITTLE BLACK GIRL, WILL BE FOREVER CHANGED BY THE MOVIE, THE ROLE MODELS, HIDDEN FROM HER, FOR SO LONG, AND BY THE FACT THAT SHE SHARED THAT INSPIRING FILM WITH, SO MANY FRIENDS AND STRANGERS ALIKE, SO THEY ALSO COULD BE SO LIFTED, BY WHAT, AMERICA, THE WORKPLACE, OUR OFFICES, AND OR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES SHOULD BE. THERE WAS A GREAT ARTICLE ALONG THIS LINE, IN THE WASHINGTON POST, INTERVIEWING A YOUNG HIJAB, WEARING MUSLIM, WHO WORKED THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S TENURE AS PRESIDENT, FEELING ACCEPTED, HIRED RIGHT OUT OF COLLEGE, A 22 YEAR OLD MUSLIM, DRESSED IN HER TRADITIONAL AND RELIGIOUS CLOTHES, ACCEPTED, TO THE POINT SHE WAS SHOCKED THAT, AFTER GRADUTATION, FROM, I BELIEVE, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, WAS HIRED, LOVED HER WORK, DECIDED, SINCE HER JOB, WAS NOT A POLITICAL APPOINTMENT, THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO STAY ON WITH THE TRUMP ADMINSTRATION, SHE LASTED, 8 DAYS! I JUST TYPED, 8 YEARS, SO MAYBE SHE WAS WITH OBAMA ADMIN, FOR 8 YEARS? BUT, TO HEAR, THE CHANGES, THE DIFFERENCES, THE SHOCK, THE FEAR, THE FIRST FEELINGS OF NOT BEING WANTED IN AMERICA, HOME OF HER BIRTH, AS I RECALL, WITH HER PARENTS COMING TO AMERICA FOR THE "AMERICAN DREAM" OF GIVING THEIR CHILDREN A BETTER LIFE, TO BE SHATTERED BY THE MUSLIM BAN, TO BE LOOKED AT, WEARING HER HIJAB, TO THE POINT, THAT THIS HIGHLY VALUED, EMPLOYEE, FELT, SHE HAD TO QUIT? THAT IS NOT THE AMERICAN DREAM, THAT IS THE "AMERICAN NIGHTMARE!" YOU KNOW, AS OF LATE, IT IS INTERESTING, TO SEE THE CHANGES ON THE STREETS OF MISSOULA, MONTANA, IN THE MUSLIM POPULATION, AFTER THE 9TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, SHOT DOWN THE MUSLIM BAN, ON CONSTITUTIONAL GROUNDS, FINDING, THE BAN, MASKING, RACIAL PROFILING AND A BAN ON A RELIGIOUS SECT, IN VIOLATION OF THE 1ST AMENDMENT, IN ADDITION TO, VIOLATIONS OF "DUE PROCESS" AND "EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW" . . . SUDDENLY, I AM SEEING, MUSLIMS, PARTAKE OF LIKE IN AMERICA, MORE FREE, MORE OPENLY, NOT JUST IN THEIR PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT OR AT THE UNIVERSITY, MECCA'S OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND OPENNESS, OR THEY OUGHT TO BE, BUT, AT MCDONALD'S WITH THEIR KIDS, OR JOKING WITH BUS DRIVERS, WHO PLAY IN A BAND, AND SOUNDED LIKE THE MUSLIM MAN, WAS WANTING TO BOOK A GIG? BUT IT IS REFRESHING, IN SEATTLE, RIGHT AFTER THE TWO COURT WINS, TRUMP--0 AND WASHINGTON ATTORNEY GENERAL--2, A WIN BOTH AT THE DISTRICT COURT LEVEL AND AGAINST AT THE CIRCUIT COURT LEVEL, MEN WERE SEEN BY ME, ALL OVER SEATTLE WEARING, THEIR HEAD DRESS, SORRY, DON'T KNOW IF THEY ARE CALLED THE SAME AS THE WOMEN'S SCARVES? BUT, THEY SEEMED HAPPY, VINDICATED, ACCEPTED, FREE, LIKE AMERICA IS SUPPOSE TO BE! CALIFORNIA, AND I DON'T RECALL THE CITY, IS STARTING THE MOVEMENT TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP . . . NOW ONE COULD LOOK AT THAT AS ANARCHY, OR VIOLATING THE LAW, OR THEY COULD LOOK AT IT AS, THE LIGHT IT IS INTENDED, LOVE FOR THIS AMAZING COUNTRY, FOR THE DIVERSITY, THE CELEBRATION OF DIFFERENCES THAT MAKE US ALL BETTER! THERE WAS AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE PARENTS, IN INDIA, OF THE YOUNG ENGINEER, WHO WAS SHOT AT THE AUSTIN BAR & GRILL, WHEN, SOME 51 YEAR OLD, SHOT, HIM, AS HE YELLED, "GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY!" TWO OTHER MEN WERE SHOT, AND THANK GOD, THEY DIDN'T DIE. BUT THIS YOUNG MAN LOVED THE UNITED STATES! THE PARENTS SAT IN AMAZEMENT AND CONFUSION, SAYING, EVERY OTHER HOUSE IN INDIA, HAS SOMEONE LIVING IN AMERICA? THEIR HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS ARE PLANNING AND APPLYING TO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES? SO WHAT IS UP? NOW WE HAVE THE TRUMP HATE, SPREADING TO SOUTH AFRICA, WHERE THE LACK OF JOBS, AND OPPORTUNITIES, IS BEING BLAMED ON IMMIGRANTS? WHEN, IN REALITY, THERE ELECTED OFFICIALS AND GOVERNMENT, HAVE NOT, DONE THEIR JOB! EASY SCAPEGOAT! MANY OF THESE MIGRANTS, OR IMMIGRANTS, ARE CREATING JOBS, PROVIDING AMERICANS WITH OPPORTUNIES, IN MANY AREAS FROM TECHNOLOGY, TO MEDICAL, TO ENGINEERING, TO HOTEL AND MOTEL STAFF! I MEAN, COME ON? ONE OF MY FAVORITE MEMORIES AND IMAGES FROM THE MARCHES AT AIRPORTS, WERE THREE YOUNG MUSLIM, HIJAB, WOMEN, ROCKIN' AND DANCING, WITH THE CROWDS OF MARCHERS AND PROTESTERS! LOVELY! I DIDN'T KNOW THEY COULD DO THAT? LOL! THERE WAS AN ARTICLE IN THE "MISSOULIAN" RELIGION SECTION, THAT SAID, "ISLAM IS FOR EVERYONE." NO DOUBT, IT TEACHES, ALMOST, IF NOT, ALL THE SAME PRINCIPLES, OF LOVE, CHARITY, PEACE, FORGIVENESS, UNDERSTANDING, TOLERANCE, THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT DOES! MY MUSLIM, LOVER, FRIEND, COLLEAGUE, SPARING PARTNER, IN SEATTLE, WAS THE FIRST, TO COME, ASK FORGIVENESS AND UNDERSTANDING, AFTER WE GOT IN A HUGE ASS DEBATE AND FIGHT, VOER HIM VOTING FOR TRUMP! LOL! I WOULD NEVER DREAM, AND HE APOLOGIZED, A FEW DAYS, LATER, SAYING HE REGRETTED VOTING FOR HIM! LOL! ONE OF TWO OF HIS ROLL-OUTS, AND BULLSHIT, ESPECIALLY AGAINST, MUSLIMS, AND HE WAS CONVINCED, THIS MAN WAS NOT WHO WE NEED AS PRESIDENT. BUT, WHAT WE REALLY NEED, IS EXPOSURE, OPEN-MINDEDNESS, DISCOVERY, ADVENTURE WITH OTHER RACES, RELIGIONS, CREEDS, AND LIKE I HAVE SAID, BEFORE, TO CELEBRATE, LIFE, LOVE, FAMILIES, TRADITIONS, AND PARTY TOGETHER, THAT ALWAYS SEEMS TO WORK! WE HAVE ST. PATRICK'S DAY, COMING UP, VALENTINE'S DAY WASN'T EVEN OVER, ROMANTIC LOVE IS OVER-RATED, WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE IT, LOL, BUT, I LOOK FORWARD, TO THE GREEN, THE KILTS, DANCING THE JIG, THE SHAMROCKS, THE LEPRECHAUNS, THE LUCK OF THE IRISH, THE CELTIC BLESSINGS, THE PARTYING AND THE PARADES, SO FUN, SAME WITH CINCO DE MAYO, THE GREEK FESTIVALS, THE CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS, IN THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY, WHEN THINGS ARE STARTING TO GET BORING, THIS IS ALL FUN, FUN, FUN! WHY THE FUCK NOT? I LOVE THIS STUFF! THAT IS LIFE, HAPPINESS, LOVE! THERE WAS ANOTHER GREAT ARTICLE, FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, "FAKE" NEWS, LOL, I THINK, NOT THAT IT IS "FAKE", BUT, THAT IS THE SOURCE, IT THINK, CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IT DUE, SINCE I AM ALWAYS DENIED, CREDIT, BUT, THERE IS THIS NEW, NATIONALISM, ARISING IN MEXICO, SINCE TRUMP'S WALL BUILDING, STUNT, AND HIS, DESIRE TO GET RID OF NAFTA, THAT IS STARTING PROTESTS, IN MEXICO CITY, WITH STREETS LINED WITH AMERICAN CHAIN STORES, STARBUCKS, AND CORN TORTILLA'S, MADE WITH U.S.A. CORN AND COMMODITIES, LEAVING MEXICANS, WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK AND WHO THE FUCK, HAS BENEFITED FROM THIS TRADE AGREEMENT? I SEE A FEW, MEXICAN, CARNITA STORES, AND MARKETS, BUT, LARGE ASS BOX STORES, LIKE DOT THEIR SKYLINES AND CITYSCAPES? AS FOR TARIFFS ON EXPORTS? SHIT? STATISTICS OUT OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, SHOW, GROWTH, GOING FROM $390 MILLION TO $2.4 BILLION, ANNUALLY, SINCE THE ADVENT OF NAFTA, SIGNED IN 1994, REALLY, PUT IN PLACE TO, TRANSCEND THE BITTERNESS OVER AMERICAN IMPERIALISM, THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR, TAKING OF TEXAS, REMEMBER THE ALAMO? WELL, THEY DO! TEXAS ALONE, EXPORTS, $92.4 BILLION, AS TRADE BARRIERS FALL, AND SO DID NATIONALISM, AND EMNITY, BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES, WITH THE "GOOD NEIGHBORH POLICY" BETWEEN NATIONS, TEARING DOWN, WALLS, RATHER THAN BUILDING THEM! TARIFF WARS? $80 BILLION TO $550 BILLION? I DON'T DO STUPID, AND THIS WAR, IS SIMPLY STUPID! A "RETURN OF THE ANIMAL SPORT THAT, WOULD BUILD A WALL BETWEEN THE TWO FRIENDS? MANY, MEXICANS, SAID FOR THE FIRST TIME, THAT, THEY FELT USED, ABUSED, AND DISLIKED BY THEIR, NEIGHBORS TO THE NORTH. THOUGHTS OF REVOLUTION, NOT JUST IN AMERICA . . . BUT, OLD WOUNDS OPENED, WITH THE MENTION OF "BAD HOMFRES" COME VISIONS OF OUTLAW LEGEND, PONCHO VILLAS! THIS IS A FIGHT WE DO NOT WANT! THE ADVENT OF NAFTA, WAS A BLESSING TO BOTH COUNTRIES, BUT TRUMP? MEXICANS ARE SAYING, "AMERICANS STILL DON'T TRUST, VALUE AND RESPECT US." SAD. I LOVE THE MEXICAN CULTURE, THEIR FAMILY ORIENTATION, THEIR COLORFUL DRESS, THEIR, SPENDING HABITS, THEIR FOOD! GOOD GOD, PLEASE, DON'T TAKE ALL YOUR RESTAURANTS WITH YOU BACK TO MEXICO! LOL! SALSA! LATINO SHUFFLE, DANCING, MUSIC! COME ONE, MAN? THEIR IS A THREAT OF RISING FASCIM! TRUMP SEEMS TO SPREAD, LIKE A CANCER, WITH SICKNESS, DEATH, PERMISSION, HATE, VIOLENCE, AND ALL THE THINGS WE ARE TRYING TO RISE ABOVE, BOTH IN AMERICA AND AROUND THE WORLD! NOW WE ARE STARTING TO GET PROTESTING IN THE STREETS OF THE PHILIPPINES, AGAINST, DUTERTE'S DRUG POLICIES, WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN, 6,500 DRUG SUSPECTED, ASSASSINATIONS AND KILLINGS! "DUE PROCESS" FUCK NO! "EQUAL PROTECTION?" OH, HELL NO! NOW WE HAVE TRUMP, PLAYING THE GOOD COP, U.S.A.G. SESSIONS, BAD COP, GOING AFTER "RECREATIONAL AND LEGALIZED" MARIJUANA? WHEN THE MAJORITY OF CITIZENS, BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE LEGALIZED? WHAT THE FUCK? SOME CIVIL RIGHT, ADVOCATE, FEMALE, WAS JUST ARRESTED, BEING FRAMED WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGES TO SHUT HER THE HELL UP . . . MY PHILIPPINO, DOUBLE? YOU GO GIRL! ISN'T, THE PHILIPPINES A TERRITORY, OF THE UNITED STATES? I NEVER LISTED IN 5TH GRADE AND FOR MOST OF HIGH SCHOOL . . . I GREW INTO MY BRILLIANCE! LOL! BUT, WHAT IS GOING ON? IF THEY ARE A TERRITORY, ARE THEY NOT UNDER THE SAME CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS, AS AMERICAN CITIZENS, OR HAVE THEY ESCAPED, THE WRATH OF ME, RAGING AGAINST, THE PATRIOT ACT, THE POLICE STATE, AND HAVEN'T THEY LEARNED THAT INTERDICTION EFFORTS HAVE FAILED, MISERABLY, IN AMERICA? WHAT WORKED, WAS, NANCY REAGAN'S, "JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS" CAMPAIGN! SHIT, DON'T CONFUSE THE COPS WITH THE FACTS, THEY ARE STEALING TOO, MUCH PROPERTY, UNDER THE INTERDICTION PROGRAMS, THROUGH ASSET FORFEITURE! FUCK? GOOD GOD, WHAT A FUCKING MESS IN A MONTH?