Peter Kurze

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Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Jun 27

I have concerns based on how weasel-y he was with Warren, but I also wonder how much false information he gets fed during the mission planning process. He seems highly disciplined but also comfortable with compartmentalization. Then there’s this from That Hideous Strength:

“This was the first thing Mark had been asked to do which he himself, before he did it, clearly knew to be criminal. But the moment of his consent almost escaped his notice; certainly, there was no struggle, no sense of turning a corner. There may have been a time in the world’s history when such moments fully revealed their gravity, with witches prophesying on a blasted heath or visible Rubicons to be crossed. But, for him, it all slipped past in a chatter of laughter, of that intimate laughter between fellow professionals, which of all earthly powers is strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men.”

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Jun 25

I think a higher priority is seriously putting the highlighted section of Article III in play. Packing SCOTUS is fine, but there is no reason we cannot have the lesser courts that we want with powers defined by Congress.

From Article III Sec 2 US Constitution:

In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Jun 19

Iranian World Cup player holds up pink backpack

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Jun 10

Ivanka Trump holds up a can of Goya beans

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· May 3

Coyote running off a cliff and looking back with consternation

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· May 3

Philadelphia Story is great, but gotta go with

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Apr 28

Bullwinkle pulling a lion out of his hat

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Apr 26

According to UPI:

Most of the other guests remained in the ballroom after organizers made an announcement that the show would continue shortly.

C-SPAN reported that waiters started to clear the salad portion of dinner as guests started to open wine while waiting for more information about the situation.

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Feb 25

So let’s talk about the fulfilling nature of the lives of the horses that don’t exist:

Graph from researchgate.net showing the decline in horse populations in the U. S.

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Feb 17

Album cover of “Wee Tam” by the Incredible String Band. Two men (Robin and Mike) sitting in a field of flowers dressed in hippie attire.

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Feb 11

Not everything is about political maneuvering. I see ICE as nascent secret political police threat. I truly do. I’m all for anything that can be used to defang and restrain them, but in the final analysis, secret police have to go.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Feb 1

Two questions: What’s for dinner? How is this crazier than Zuck sporting an afro?

Line drawing of snake eating its own tail.

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Jan 25

jfc

Headline from the Atlantic:

International Law Is Holding Democracies Back

The United States should use this moment to argue fiar a different approach to the rules of war.

By John Yoo

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Dec 27

Max: A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma and wearing a cat suit.

A grey and white tuxedo cat staring out of a felt box

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Dec 18

Really USPS?

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Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Nov 22

I did, but apparently not hard enough. “Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely”

If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know how much truth is stronger than errors, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Nov 19

lol. Per CNN:

Though she was an active steward of White House preservation during her husband’s first term, she has left many of those decision to the president this time around, culminating dramatically last month with the demolition of the East Wing, which has served as headquarters for presidential spouses since the Carter administration.

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Sep 27

MAGA-like hat with caption:

224 LBS
6 FT UNDER

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Sep 25

If you frame the top of his head just right it could just as easily be an H-bomb test at the Bikini atoll.

The top of Schumer’s head cropped to imitate the detonation of a hydrogen bomb.

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Aug 19

I remember distinctly seeing Blazing Saddles for the first time, after all of the American Love it or Leave it stuff, the Nixon years, etc, and seeing the easy natural camaraderie between Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little in that scene and thinking, if we can just wait out the olds we’ll be alright.

Quote from Blazing Saddles: “You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know … morons.

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Aug 18

“When people show you who they are, believe them” doesn’t just apply to evil nazi shit.

Bert Lahr as the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz.

Peter Kurze@peterkurze· Aug 15

The mission was to instill fear. The arrest of Sandwich Man was just pretext. I call upon the ghost of Ceaușescu to haunt their dreams every night. Pretty good likeness of RFK Jr. wouldn’t you say.