 wings behind
From his still heart he still feels pain
Who can say what is in his mind
Since his days all feel the same
And from his darkened tower
He envisages his prey
Though hes the one with the power
Hed give it all up today
Because while he lies all alone
The pain begins to overwhelm
He has nothing; hes on his own
Stood alone in his blackened realm
Because he sees all those human things
In which he cannot partake
And in his room he softly sings
Of all the friends he could not makeOmg Such a great story So many feels And the descriptive writing put me in the story I felt as if I was walking side by side the main characters the whole time And it really helps to have read Fire Born first, so you won t miss any major points I highly recommend this book.
Today, I gave myself a challenge, a “we’ll see how it works,” one that I quickly and promptly bombed (though with some personally telling and interesting results). Still, it’s a worthy and truthful goal that I’d like to make into a reality, so we’ll have to see what buoyancy the future can bring. I think it’s inside there somewhere, as yet largely undiscovered.
In the meantime, I submit the first failed effort.
I’d like to write something positive today but don’t know those steps well enough to dance in public, don’t see how the words can fit together to build a kite and not a shovel, a cloud and not a puddle, leaving me muddling through levity, stammering past and over the inevitable moment with my shaky airplane gets recast as a broken backhoe, digging shallow holes in which to bury aborted airy thoughts for good and better because if I’d sent my mind high above the hills and lakes that I’ve always tried so hard to love and embrace, I may one day have come crashing down, splashing down, flattening and flooding the ground until every earthbound being was drowned in only inches of water, unable or unwilling to lift their sleeping heads up off the dirt, every tree dying, found now with unsound roots, leaving eagles screaming with bleeding wings, desperately seeking a place of purchase, and I still stand unseeing singing silly verses about flying, foolishly trying to buy hope with pointless pretty paper, to pry love out of the lonely, stingy fingers of my stagnant imagination servicing simple rhymes, fully magnetized against the positive, the buoyant, the joyful all along…at least that’s the truth I’m most afraid to find if I try to shed this easy cynic’s cloak and simply free myself to float.
Hey, how you gonna pick up the pieces?
The passage of Luciano Vietto for Sporting may be arriving in the last days. According to the Argentine television station Tyc Sports, Al-Hilal, from Saudi Arabia, is in negotiations with SAD Leonina with a view to hiring the 26-year-old Argentine striker.
In the last few hours, the Saudi emblem, where Peruvian Andre Carrillo is active, ‘got ahead’ with seven million euros, a figure considered insufficient by Frederico Varandas, who wants 11 million to free Vietto. At this point, the transfer market has already closed in Portugal but in Saudi Arabia clubs can still sign players.
Luciano Vietto arrived in Alvalade in June 2019, hired for 7.5 million euros for 50 percent of the pass, in a deal integrated in the sale of Gelson Martins to Atlético Madrid.
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Judge Randall Bethancourt just can’t seem to help popping up in news reports on the 32nd Judicial District Court in Terrebonne Parish. And that’s not necessarily good.
First, there was that embarrassing STORY three years ago when Bethancourt signed an illegal search warrant over a blog post critical of then-Sheriff Jerry Larpenter in which the blogger’s home was raided by the sheriff’s department and all the computers in the household – including those of the blogger’s children – were confiscated.
It took a federal judge about a nanosecond to dress Bethancourt and Larpenter down and to give them a verbal lesson on the First Amendment that guarantees freedom of speech. The blogger’s resulting lawsuit cost Larpenter’s office about a quarter of a million dollars to settle.
Now, a Terrebonne Parish attorney who is challenging Bethancourt’s reelection bid in next Tuesday’s election is claiming that Parish President Gordon Dove and others are paying voters up to $150 to vote for Bethancourt, up substantially from the $5 fee paid voters back in the days of Earl Long.
Dove, of course, denies the allegations and defies the alligators but the one-time chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment has had his own problems with the law in the past. His Dual Trucking Co. was CITED by the Montana Department of Environmental Equality for dumping oilfield radioactive waste from the nearby Bakken Oilfield back in 2014. (You may have seen the irony of the chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment being cited for dumping radioactive waste.)
That wasn’t the only incident, though. Vacco Marine, Inc., a company owned by Dove, was the subject of several investigations, negative reports, citations, and compliance orders by and from the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) over a period of several years, records show.
Also in 2014, while presiding over a meeting of the Natural Resources Committee, he joined 12 other members in passing an amendment to SB 469 that made the prohibition against suing oil companies for damages to the state’s wetlands and marshes retroactive.
So much for looking out for the environment.
But back to Bethancourt.
His honor has found himself embroiled in a couple of volatile controversies – besides the vote-buying claim – heading into next Tuesday’s election. Neither has any direct link to the election but either or both could figure in the outcome.
One is a bitter dispute between grandparents and son over the grandparents’ visitation rights to their grandson, a dispute that has gone into litigation in which resulting legal fees and fines have reportedly bankrupted the child’s parents. Caught in the middle is a seven-year-old child who has been the victim of this tug of war for four years now with no end in sight.
The other involves accusations that Bethancourt falsified court records in a separate case to show that a defendant was brought before a magistrate after his arrest when he was not.
Without more intimate familiarization with the details of the cases and charges of vote-buying, it’s impossible to provide a full-blown, detailed account of events in the 32nd JDC. But knowing what we do know about Larpenter, Gordon Dove, and Bethancourt’s willingness to sign that illegal search warrant back in 2017 (and the resultant settlement by Larpenter with the subject of that raid), suffice it to say Terrebonne Parish is a unique parish, politically speaking, where elected officials have long operated as a law unto themselves and where just about anything goes.
Like storms out on the Gulf, corrupt politicians were accepted as a fact of life in Louisiana 75 years ago and little has changed in Terrebonne in the ensuing decades.
And people generally deserve the kind of government they elect.
To know him is to loathe him.
This is a judge who is racist, Arrogant and stupid. This judge known as The Sheriff’s Department whore, in the streets of Houma, he will do whatever the sheriff’s department asks him to do. He intentionally put minority defendants Full Social Security numbers to ruin their credit and financial stability giving thieves opportunity to completely Steal their identity. This corrupt arrogant judge ignores the rules of law and creates his own rules. This judge should be investigated by the Louisiana Governor’s office and by the Louisiana judicial system. He had been unchallenged by any higher authority. He Brought so many harm to so many innocence and great people. It’s time to examine this stupid KKK-mentality sick person as this low trash and low life person they call a judge.The best chance for CCS in power plants would be EPA rulemaking for new coal-based power plants to install “clean coal” technologies, but that’s a non-starter currently, because even the proposed stricter rules on nitrogen and sulfur oxide emissions are meeting with stiff resistance from the coal industry. But let’s peek into the future, for the U.S. probably a distant one, but also for China, which is becoming a lot “greener” in its attitude and approach to coal-based electricity generation, given the horrible pollution in Beijing and other parts of the country and the fact that China does not have a glut of natural gas (like we do) to use instead of coal.
But it is not only pollution that is driving China to move towards “clean coal” technologies and alternative energy generation. Scientists there have concluded that global warming is already showing serious effects, for example in sea water levels rising quite remarkably in Shanghai and Tianjin and in rapid melting of snow and glaciers in different parts of China. President Hu said that China would set targets to cut carbon emissions per unit of GDP by a double margin by 2020. A 1000 megawatt “clean coal” plant using gasified coal is being built