Stein: We need a foreign policy that’s based on human rights…

We need a foreign policy across the board that’s based on international law, human rights, and diplomacy, not on total economic and military domination.

Stein: We Need a Weapons Embargo to End Mideast Crisis

We’ve been applying a flamethrower to a conflict that represents a conflict over fossil fuels, and who gets to build their pipeline through Syria.

Stein: We Are In A State of Emergency

We are in a state of emergency and it requires a new way of thinking and political independence to stand upnot jut for what we can get but what must have if we are to survive as a human species

– Jill Stein, February 3, 2016
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/12/when-plan-a-meets-plan-b-talking-politics-and-revolution-with-the-green-partys-jill-stein/

Having the alien ripped out

I’m having The Alien (my gallbladder) ripped out of my insides! It’s six in the morning, I haven’t had any coffee and I’m bitter.

Ward and Rocky, Wedding Sept 2015

Yeah, I know. I’ve posted a ton about it all over social media. I don’t care. I won’t ever get sick of wedding pictures. hehe.

Rocky and Me, Hoover Dam, Oct 2013

Digging through my old photo backup and I ran across this set from our trip to Hoover Dam, during one of Rocky’s Las Vegas visits. (And look at that grin. He uses it like a weapon, you guys. Hehe.) More on Google Photos.

Ladies Who Lunch, Las Vegas 2013

I was digging through some photos from a couple of years ago, and ran across these from our lunch at the Paris. I miss you guys!

Apple and the FBI vs. Privacy: Score one for Apple

Glenn Greenwald & Jenna McLaughlin, writing for The Intercept:

Apple scored a major legal victory in its ongoing battle against the FBI on Monday when a federal magistrate judge in New York rejected the U.S. government’s request as part of a drug case to force the company to help it extract data from a locked iPhone. The ruling from U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein was issued as part of the criminal case against Jun Feng, who pleaded guilty in October to drug charges. It is a significant boost to Apple’s well-publicized campaign to resist the FBI’s similar efforts in the case of the San Bernardino killers.