1/8/2026

 Thursday, January 8, 2026

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

1877 Crazy Horse and his Sioux warriors fought their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).

1904 Pope Pius X banned low-cut dresses in the presence of churchmen

1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson declared "War on Poverty"

1973 Judge Sirica began the trial of the Watergate burglars in Washington, D.C.

1978 Harvey Milk became the 1st openly gay person elected to public office in California

1992 George H. W. Bush vomited on the Japanese prime minister's lap

2011 Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at a Safeway grocery store killed 6 and wounded 13, including Giffords

2021 Twitter banned President Donald Trump permanently "due to the risk of further incitement of violence

2021 Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded President Donald Trump's resignation and called for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him in the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol

2023 Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attacked Brazilian government buildings including the High Court and Presidential Palace, with over 1500 later arrested 

2024 Pope Francis says surrogate motherhood should be banned calling it "despicable" for commercializing pregnancy

In bed at 9:45, up at 5.  36/51/32.

Meds, etc.  Morning meds at 7 a.m.  

Facebook post this morning, posted with the photo of the bloody airbag:

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?  I learned that quotation from Juvenal's Satires in my freshman year Latin class at Leo High School.  It means, who will guard the guards themselves?  Who will protect us from the people who are supposed to protect us?  Who will police the police?  Who will secure us from violence from those who are entrusted to secure us from violence?  Who will protect us from Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, from Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, and their agents?

 I need to remind myself that the world is full of saints and heroes, too.

Some thoughts today: (1) Why would anyone choose to be an ICE agent in the Trump administration, or in any administration?  What kind of man wants to do that kind of work?  Do you have to be a thug at heart?  Isn't it radically different from being a police officer, a sheriff, or a military man?  (2)  Tom Homan is said to be almost a daily communicant, a fervent, practicing Roman Catholic.  What goes on in his head, heart, and soul?  (3)  How many government cover-ups have I lived through?  (a) The JFK assassination files; (b) The Pentagon Papers [1971]; (c) The Watergate cover-ups; (d) The Iraq invasion intelligence; (e) The Iran-Contra Affair [1985-1987]; (f) CIA "Black Sites" and enhanced interrogation [2001-2009]; (g) The FBI COINTELPRO surveillance program [1956-1971]; (h) NSA mass dinestuc surveillance program; (i) The Afghanistan Papers (2019); (j) hundreds, thousands, countless, unknown but successful others?

Why would anyone believe anything our government tells us?  Why would anyone believe anything that any other government tells us, not only our enemies, but also our friends, including the government of Israel?