Happy Labor Day. There's no better time to talk about why workers’ rights would suffer if Brett Kavanaugh, whose hearings for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court start tomorrow, is confirmed.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
The Court's ruling in Janus v. AFSCME earlier this summer overturned a 40-year-old precedent to hold that public-sector workers with union contracts don't have to pay fees for collective bargaining expenses if they're not members.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
The Court has also recently granted corporations the right to deny workers reproductive health care and made it harder for workers to sue businesses by allowing companies to force employees to sign mandatory arbitration clauses with their contracts.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
In other words, the Court has already been widening the disparity in power between corporations and workers. Kavanaugh's record from his time as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia shows he'd help further that trend for a generation.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
In 2014, he dissented in a case where the Occupational Safety and Health Administration held SeaWorld accountable for the death of a trainer.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
Unions and labor movements are why we have workplace safety precautions, collective bargaining, weekends, minimum wages, and, yes, Labor Day.
We can't afford more damage to workers' rights. Make sure your senators hear from you: Let's #StopKavanaugh.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 3, 2018
Supplementary, from the ever-excellent Mr. Charles P. Pierce:
… Labor Day is a good time to think about the courts because it was in the courts that organized labor was most effectively crushed in this country, and it was in the courts that the way was cleared for it to flourish, and, it appears that the courts are being set up to crush it again.
From 1897 until approximately 1937—the end date is a matter of some dispute—the court’s relation to labor was defined by the horrendous decision in Lochner v. New York. Citing “freedom of contract” as a constitutional right, the decision was used through the decade to strike down all manner of regulations touching on business large and small. (Lochner itself was about working conditions in bakeries.) Unions, of course, came along with the deal. In Adair v. United States, the Court struck down a law that would have made it illegal for a company to fire employees for trying to organize.
Make no mistake. There is a strong strain of modern conservatism that is openly nostalgic for the Lochner Era; Rand Paul made the case a part of his campaign for president in 2016…
In the history of this country, there has not been an expansion of the middle-class without a strong, vibrant union presence. That doesn’t change just because factories move to Mexico, or because of robots. There simply is no other way for wages to rise generally other than having the people receiving those wages bargain collectively for them. That Labor Day is still a holiday at all, I guess, is something for which we can give thanks. The attack on labor itself begins again on Tuesday.
germy
I’m with her.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
What if entire states and localities refused to recognize the legitimacy of this Supreme Court and ignored it’s decisions, assuming Kavanaugh is confirmed? Could this be “brazened out” so to speak? I don’t see how Kavanaugh can be stopped from being confirmed at this point.
Major Major Major Major
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: I imagine any judge who saw the inevitable lawsuits would rule that you can’t just ignore the Supreme Court.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: That and your comment about the military in the previous thread…did you pick the wrong week to stop sniffing glue?
NotMax
Like the saying about the camel and the horse, Kavanaugh is a Justice designed by a committee.
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Now am worried about your having suffered serious cranial injury leading to positing such gross inanity.
Baud
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: The first precedent to fall would be Brown.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? “Sniffing glue”. Christ.
No, I don’t think the military is launch a right-wing coup. I just meant that it wasn’t so unimaginably outlandish as efgoldman was suggesting considering the political demographics of the armed forces.
Baud
Actually, that was election day 2016.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Major Major Major Major:
By the way, I answered your question a few threads down about the novel. What did you think?
zhena gogolia
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
The glue thing is a quote from the movie Airplane! When the disasters start happening, the airport manager Lloyd Bridges says, “I picked the wrong week to stop smoking,” then it’s “drinking,” then it’s “sniffing glue.” Internet traditions.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@NotMax:
I’m positing such gross inanity because I don’t really know how to prevent this freakshow without resorting to the above. The GOP is a minority-party whose government is running on the fumes of inertia and observance of the rule of law, both of which they rely on to keep us in line. Our own sense of good governance is being used agianst us.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Wrong Week…
Platonailedit
Serena Williams. Sloane Stephens. Madison Keys. Naomi Osaka. Suarez Navarro. All in QF.
Collective wingnuts’ heads explosions.Their fav doped up russian gal hasn’t gone past QF despite the lenient WTA.
Major Major Major Major
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: yeah I just saw that, thanks. Sounds like it’s coming along. Tossing in a universe hopping Merlin may be a bit much but I’ve definitely seen stuff like that pulled off.
One thing to consider when you’re picking a time period is that the less instant communication, the easier it is to tell a story. I forget who (Stephen King?) but I once saw an author saying that the first thing they do in stories nowadays is render the hero’s smartphone useless.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
VOTE!
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Might one politely suggest putting the shovel down and stopping digging.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Major Major Major Major:
So setting it in an earlier time period before instant communications (say the 80s) would be easier. Of course I could just claim that the “magic” interferes with electronics.
Platonailedit
chris
LOL. Wish I could take my dog grocery shopping.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
Yup. If she can’t be President, I want her on the Supremes at the earliest possible opportunity.
B.B.A.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Three million more of us voted two years ago and it didn’t mean a fucking thing.
Another Scott
@Platonailedit: J was been yelling at the TV during the Sharapova v. CSN match tonight. It’s clear that the commentators absolutely love Maria “She’s a Fighter!!” Sharapova and they think that it’s obvious the audience does as well. J has been ready to throw things at the TV because Maria has been given all the advantages (always gets a night match, her cheating is rarely mentioned, getting wild-card slots on her return, etc., etc.).
I just shrug my shoulders and say it’s clear that all the TV networks care about are the players with the big sponsors, so that’s what we see (not the up-and-coming players who are doing well, etc.). They’ll rerun some Federer match 4 times before they show a women’s match in full. :-/ She’s slowly coming around, but it still burns her up because she loves the sport so much…
Cheers,
Scott.
gene108
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
A lot depends on the continued good health of Ginsberg and Brier, but assuming they hang on until January 2021, we have shot at flipping the SCOTUS. Thomas is 70 now. Maybe his health won’t hold out? Maybe he gets into an RV accident, when he drives around the country?
Get control of the Senate in 2019 and stop all Trump judicial appointments. Keep control of the Senate in 2021, win the Presidency and load the courts with liberal justices.
This is a dark patch, but not hopeless, if Democrats can win and keep winning.
Another Scott
@chris: Excellent. Thanks!
Cheers,
Scott.
Major Major Major Major
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: setting it in a time period you weren’t alive for causes more problems than eliminating smartphones solves. Early 00’s works. Can even have an enterprising magician commoditizing magic for long-distance instant communication, and use that arc as commentary on/winking at smartphones.
Brachiator
A series of great posts from Hillary Clinton. I saw her at McCain’s funeral. But it’s like she was holding back, waiting for the right moment to lay the heavy smack down.
Platonailedit
@Another Scott: I often watch matches on mute. Golf commentators. Tennis commentators. They are the lamest bores.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@B.B.A.: Then, I guess we should just give up.
gene108
@Platonailedit:
Osaka and Suarez Navarro aren’t American. Glad for Keys and Sloan. There was a dirth of talent of Americans behind behind the Williams sisters, for a number of years.
At some point Serena has to breakdown because of age. She’s the oldest woman to win several tournaments.
Same goes for Federer. They are both playing at a high level, when past generations of tennis players, like Agassi and Sampras, would have retired.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@gene108: …and remember the number of justices on the Court is set by statute.
tobie
I’m dreading tomorrow. The hearings will be awful. Republicans will posture, and Grassley will be a prick and probably won’t let Democrats ask questions without cutting them off or demanding that they remain civil. My dream is that the Democratic caucus will spring some damning information on Kavanaugh about his work in the Bush White House or his finances, but this is just fantasy. No one in Washington can keep secrets except Mueller and his team.
khead
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
It means you should at least get familiar with some 80’s references if you are gonna be the guy at Balloon Juice who keeps wandering across the lawns of the older posters.
Also, looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
gene108
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Jim Butcher has done this with Dresden Files, I am not sure, who else had done this. But like faster than light-speed travel in sci-fi, it just maybe so common place an idea it is just assumed as a given in urban fantasy.
Momus
Lock her up, she proofreads her tweets before she sends them!
SiubhanDuinne
@Brachiator:
That’s very infesting that you would say that. It was my own reaction too — that on the surface, HRC looks relaxed but alert; however, there is a sense that beneath that polished exterior there is a finely-coiled spring just poised to go “POP!!”
Platonailedit
@gene108: Their hatred is across all the borders.
rikyrah
What upsets those against the KAP deal?
What makes them.nuts?
1. Kap was getting PAID all along. That he was getting a check to protest America.
2. He is about to GET PAID. There are people, like me, who would never go out of their way to get anything Nike, but I will, for Peanut or my other niece and nephew. People who support Kap, and are willing to vote with our $$$$.
And, they can’t do shyt about what WE do with OUR money. That OUR money counts as much as theirs.
gene108
@tobie:
The electoral backlash against Republicans regarding Kavanaugh will be most fierce from conservatives for failing to nominate him.
I doubt enough possible Democratic voters in Maine will care to hold Collins accountable for the vote.
And unlike the AHCA, the impacts of Kavanaugh’s appointnent will not be evident until next summer, when the SCOTUS starts handing down decisions.
And by then people will have moved onto the 2020 Presidential election.
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
infesting = interesting. FFS, I simply cannot even with this no edit function.
Bill Arnold
What, you don’t think magicians use mobile phones? :-)
Bill Arnold
@SiubhanDuinne:
I simply cannot even with this no edit function.
I’ve been writing raw markup in a text editor and copy/pasting. Been good proofreading practice; getting it mostly right.
Fix please!!!!
Doug R
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit…
Platonailedit
Some wingnut burning his nike tweet response.
Major Major Major Major
@Bill Arnold: these would be magic-powered smartphones available in 2002.
Suzanne
@rikyrah:
Our money counts more than theirs. At least we are seen as more valuable consumers, likely because we have more cultural influence.
rikyrah
THREAD
April (@ReignOfApril) Tweeted:
First, @NewYorker didn’t have to give white supremacist Steve Bannon a platform to begin with. The conversation really should have started and ended there. They really tried it.
And then Remnick with that whole “I thought about it and…” BS. So you were NOT thinking before? https://t.co/uZb8oUiOIj https://twitter.com/ReignOfApril/status/1036752263455416320?s=17
gene108
@Suzanne:
We also represent the majority of this country on social and cultural issues
MagdaInBlack
@rikyrah:
Any bets on how long before Trump latches on to the chatter that M-13 favors Nike?
(right after Fox informs him?)
Gin & Tonic
@Major Major Major Major:
Like the telegraph? Or more like radio?
MagdaInBlack
@Bill Arnold:
Having no edit takes me back to the (sordid) days of Yahoo Chat.
“Ooooops I sure did’t mean to post THAT ?”
?
NotMax
@MagdaInBlack
They’re already unChristian (hence un’Murkin), what with being named for a pagan goddess and all.
;)
Adam L Silverman
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: We’ve had that for well over a decade. Specifically Republican led states, largely the states that emerged from the Confederacy plus the old border states and places like Wisconsin, claiming they didn’t have to respect Federal laws, Federal regs, and even Federal court rulings under the misreading of the 10th Amendment that states have rights. They don’t; individuals have rights, states have powers. To a certain extent the legalization of marijuana at the state level, whether for recreational, medicinal, or both uses, is a variant of this. Nullification theory is an old strain within American politics.
That said, there is a potential problem when the Supreme Court is perceived to be a specifically partisan institution that becomes an adjunct and auxiliary to one party’s political efforts, especially given that that party’s political control is actually minoritarian. The GOP and the three major tribes – social/religious conservatives, business/corporate conservatives, national security conservatives – that make up the conservative movement that support and enable the party have created their own problem here. They’ve managed through both constitutional and unconstitutional means to gain majority control of both the executive and legislative branches of government despite not having majority support of the electorate. While this dynamic, and the concerns for legitimacy, will not in any way, shape, and/or form given any pause to Associate Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch, and presumably an Associate Justice Kavanaugh, Chief Justice Roberts is a bit different. He is, despite all of his attempts to simply rule in line with the partisan Republican and conservative views he holds, is very concerned about how the Supreme Court is perceived and how he is perceived and what his legacy will be. The pressure that confirming Kavanaugh will place on him is significant. Whether it will actually effect his judicial decision making is, however, another thing. And we won’t know that until Kavanaugh were to join the court.
Finally, should Kavanaugh be confirmed, this doesn’t mean the court will not be changed again in the future. Associate Justice Thomas has been teasing he would like to retire for a while now. In addition to the long rumored that he doesn’t actually like being on the court, there are also rumored health issues. If a Democrat is elected president in 2020, and the remainder of the court remains the same from here on out – whether Kavanaugh or some other appointee of this President fills the current vacancy – it doesn’t mean that the 5-4 conservative majority is for ever. Yes, it’ll be a rough two or three years. But Kennedy wasn’t a reliable swing vote and he was capricious as well. I’m not trying to make light of the damage that can be done in two or three years of a 5-4 doctrinaire, movement conservative majority on the court, but that majority isn’t a permanent one.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Semaphore towers and smoke signals don’t get no respect.
;)
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax:
Whelp, they just lost the Evangelicals.
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax:
Clacks. Lets not leave out Mr. Pratchett.
catclub
@Gin & Tonic: The Einstein description of radio… is like a very long cat. You pull its tail in New York and it meows in Los Angeles, except there is no cat.
Mandalay
@rikyrah: I think this tweet (before Bannon’s invitation was withdrawn) nails the central issue:
What the fuck was The New Yorker thinking? Completely and inexcusably clueless is the most benign explanation I can come up with.
Platonailedit
Fucking morons. And they fucking vote. Every fucking time.
Honus
@gene108: actually, we represent the majority in just about everything. Good article by Juan Williams (via Digby) of all people on how a caucus representing fewer than one-fifth of the country runs the SCOTUS.
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-fox-news-democrat-walks-toward-light.html?m=1
Adam L Silverman
@gene108: Osaka moved to the US with her family when she was 3. She grew up in Broward County, FL. It is unclear if she and her family have US citizenship, in addition to her, her mother’s, and her sister’s Japanese citizenship and her father’s Haitian citizenship. Not trying to Floridawash her out of her Japanese citizenship or her mixed Japanese-Haitian inheritance.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Nicely put.
Also, see: Justice Souter as a recent example of post-appointment temperament. Plus, the underlying assumption that Supreme Court decisions are a done deal before hearings and deliberation occur, that there is an underlying and inflexible agenda, is abhorrent and throws the entire concept of a system of jurisprudence into the ashbin.
That said, the court has been a primarily conservative institution over many and for longer periods than it has not. And decidedly right wing leaning in modern times since the restoration of the death penalty.
Platonailedit
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne:
Well she does have that lengthy list of people she’s either killed herself or had killed by her operatives that conservatives keep circulating on social media…//
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mandalay: This woman summed up my thoughts
even though I’m only vaguely aware of what this “festival” is, The New Yorker is an institution, and whatever filleting Remnick was promising himself he would deliver, he was elevating and giving The New Yorker‘s imprimatur to Bannon
I haven’t seen a final list of everyone who dropped out, but just going by twitter: Jon Mulvaney, Jim Carrey, Patton Oswalt, Judd Appatow and… Jimmy Fallon.
MagdaInBlack
@Platonailedit:
Shes burning her Converse?
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
@NotMax:
Bill Arnold
@Gin & Tonic:
Mind to mind links, I presume. Maybe sometimes like party line telephones.
Broadcast might be kinda rude (depending on circumstances) especially at planetary scale. (One could perhaps opt out by being drunk, or subscribe/tune into particular channels or not, perhaps.)
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Thank you. Had to happen sooner or later.//
Roberts has gone to great pains to make his doctrinaire rulings look reasonable and/or incremental. This will increase the pressure on him. 5-4 decisions he would have been willing to join with Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, and Gorsuch may become a bridge too far for him. And while there is no way to know, it is possible that it isn’t even clear how he will straddle this line while he’s doing it.
Regardless, the key to everything now is to not get discouraged. To not allow the overwhelming to overwhelm you. To recognize that specific, individual political fights not only might be lost, but will be lost, but that that doesn’t mean the political war is lost. Right now the US is facing a significant, long planned political backlash from a minoritarian insurgency. This is not a good thing. And it is damaging and corrosive and dangerous and harmful. But minority based insurgents rarely win.
NotMax
Used to have a pair of cheap (cost all of $2) pair of knock-off tennis sneakers, which had an upside-down Nike swoosh. Lasted for well over 20 years. If people asked, told them they were Ekin brand.
Bill Arnold
@MagdaInBlack:
Related, I do not understand why most people do not turn off autocorrect.
(For those who don’t know, there is generally a setting for this, and highlighting misspelled words (with pulldown list of possible correct spellings) but not automatically correcting them is generally an option.)
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
I know, I can’t even keep up.
Adam L Silverman
This is amazing footage considering Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Kutzetsov, is in dry dock for a refit until 2024.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
And to not go full throttle Chicken Little.
rikyrah
Thread
Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) Tweeted:
1. Why do the @NewYorker, @MSNBC, and others persist in willingly giving extremist Steve Bannon a free platform? No good comes of this–only the legitimization and normalization of extremism. https://t.co/6GdFdhEX9I https://twitter.com/egavactip/status/1036665231513137152?s=17
Bill Arnold
@Adam L Silverman:
The bolded sentence deserves a lot more attention in the media. (Just musing about how to spread it more broadly. Perception of unfairness could be an effective wedge.)
MagdaInBlack
@Bill Arnold:
Same folks who can’t turn off “Reply All.”
Bill Arnold
@Mandalay:
The New Yorker editor’s excuse for inviting Steve Bannon to headline its festival works for every New Yorker cartoon
opiejeanne
@Platonailedit: What are QF and WTA?
James E Powell
@Adam L Silverman:
You left out the white supremacist tribe. Or are they included in the euphemistic social/religious conservatives?
James E Powell
@opiejeanne:
QuarterFinals & Women’s Tennis Association
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@opiejeanne: on this blog, I was gonna guess “quote fuckery” and “What The Ass?”
but from the context I’m gonna guess quarter-finals and World Tennis Association
Bill Arnold
Did other people find this Trump Tweet today exceptionally surreal? Using a SHS tweet as supporting evidence that the U.S. Is Respected Again?
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: This may help:
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: I only do big chickens. Even wings need to be proportionately large. Little chickens for me are like eating Cornish hens. If you’re going to serve me a bird that small, you’re going to have to make me at least ten of those suckers.
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: I know Mark. Smart guy, but strange dude.
opiejeanne
@rikyrah: They’re cutting the swooshes off of their sweat socks in protest! LOL!
Adam L Silverman
@Bill Arnold: I did a post about it a couple of months ago. Norm Ornstein (full disclosure a friend) tweeted it out. I can do no more.
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
Holy crap, they install a time portal for the 2024 refit? No wonder Trump is so obsequious to Vlad.
Adam L Silverman
@James E Powell: Yep.
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
So similar to Gomert’s “Hillary is evil and here’s a chart proving it” display.
Adam L Silverman
@trollhattan: They decided this was a documentary!
Adam L Silverman
@trollhattan: But with more color and wavy lines.
Timurid
@Adam L Silverman:
I see that the creator of the legendary Afghan PowerPoint is still riding the range…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
hare-brained thought: what kind of “documents”? are they classified or otherwise restricted? could they be posted on the internet and reviewed by crowd source?
Platonailedit
@Adam L Silverman:
Is qanon bannon being qute?
Adam L Silverman
@Timurid: And has gone full tinfoil MAGA. Never go full tinfoil MAGA.
Adam L Silverman
@Platonailedit: I do not know.
Bill Arnold
@trollhattan:
Gomert is a little baby by comparison. And he doesn’t have a legion (pretty close, technically) of followers.
Suzanne
@opiejeanne:
Now THAT’S how to own those fashionable coastal urban elitists: look like you can’t afford socks.
Bill Arnold
@Adam L Silverman:
When your writing is tight, it slides very smoothly into minds. (Being serious here.)
Aleta
Also, by documents do they mean computer files. If so, there may be duplicates, fragments, old versions, etc. included in the count.
NotMax
No, no, a thousand times no.
NASA may explore endorsements, naming rights deals
Bill Arnold
Regardless, that’s a lot of reading. 86400 seconds per day.
Adam L Silverman
@Bill Arnold: I actually forwarded it to him after seeing a tweet of his on the topic. He said he’d like it and blast out the link. He’s good people.
And thanks for the kind words.
Adam L Silverman
New sort of Floriduh! Man post up. As in it is something you’d have expected to have been done by a Floriduh! Man, but it happened somewhere else.
Doug R
@Major Major Major Major: You easterners with your omnipresent cellphone coverage. Just have the story set out west with spotty cell phone coverage, or the hero is out of town with his cheap plan and always roaming.
Aleta
@rikyrah: Talk about normafucinlization. He had no trouble sleeping until headliners started quitting.
Aleta
@Aleta: I misspelled normafuckinlization. Where’s autocorrect when you really need it.
Doug R
@Adam L Silverman: Is it the frame rate, or the fact the carrier has been digitally added that looks so wrong?
opiejeanne
@James E Powell: @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Thanks, both of you. I was thinking it was in the jargon of this here blog. D’oh!
Adam L Silverman
@Doug R: I have no idea. All I know is that after its deployment in the Med off of Syria early last year it limped back to Russia, placed in dry dock, and it’ll be there until 2024 if everything goes according to schedule.
Aleta
@NotMax:
Vox, D. Beast
I figure “may explore” = in the works since the first day he showed up and asked for some moon rocks to put on top of the TVs in his office.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: Obviously, Trump gave Vlad one of our carriers.
Bill Arnold
@NotMax:
The Trump Organization could make a deal. Trump Moon-Golf Club, Tycho Crater.
(A par 5 would be maybe 4000 meters? Or would that be like a par 8? Any golfers have an informed opinion on moon-golf? )
Mnemosyne
@Adam L Silverman:
Schroedinger’s Cat keeps telling you that India has way better stuff, and apparently Russia agrees! ???
Mnemosyne
@Doug R:
According to the replies, it’s actually a carrier that belongs to India. Whoops!
frosty
@SiubhanDuinne: Nice. Ham WA3JPN from 40 odd years ago, renewed for Y2K just in case.
frosty
@SiubhanDuinne: PS I was OK at semaphore in BoyScouts but I don’t recognize it now. :-(
frosty
@Doug R: Out West! How about any state park in PA!
opiejeanne
@frosty: My dad was a HAM. WA6GRX. I helped him learn Morse Code when he was getting his permit, a requirement back in the 50s/60s. Aside from the SOS that almost everyone knows, I can only remember this:
…. ..