“ Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ”
Carl Jung
2 ETI Skoda Buses chat about the weather, while awaiting their next trip from Cabrillo St & La Playa St, Terminal for Muni 5 31 & 31AX Buses (Trolley Bus for us Europeans)
But to grant private citizens — untrained, unsupervised, beholden only to their individual thoughts, biases and capabilities — the very same standards as we give sworn, trained law officers? To allow them to walk the streets and apply deadly force as they see fit, with only their own sense of their own reasonableness to guide them? Really?
The state of Florida and others like it have lost all sense.
That these laws sailed through legislatures and were signed by governors is indicative of a craven national culture, a panicked bunker mentality that now approaches the pathological. Despite becoming the most incarcerative society in the history of the planet, despite spending more and more of our national treasure on prisons and probation officers, drug courts and sentencing judges, despite the elimination of parole and the proliferation of mandatory sentencing, we are still ever more angry, ever more lethal, ever more afraid. Based on the scope and reach of our criminal justice system, Americans are now either the most evil people in modern history, or our view of ourselves, our neighbors and our national collective has been utterly corrupted by our own cowardice and rage.
My country lost its mind in 2001, and I don’t know if it will ever find it again.
“ Bisexuality is a blessing and a curse, but viewing it as a schizophrenia will make you insane…. I am not a whole person with split desires: I am a whole person with desire. As everyone is, regardless. ”
Agavé Powers
Stunning Time-Lapse of Milky Way & Aurora Above the American West
All together now…. wow.
Pictures of Fleetwood from 2004 and again in 2011 where the tramway was closed until Easter 2012 to allow a refurbishment to take place.
