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 DC's airports, which I have found pretty creepy since 9/11, are now less inviting than ever. Thoughts of the Old Post Office, and the traffic it's likely to see, chill my core. I keep wondering, can the Deep State save us? These are idle, unconstitutional thoughts; in the hope of avoiding the worst of the coming ugliness, I grasp at straws. I, for one, do not *want* to be saved by the Deep State; the rule of men is not on my shopping list. I prefer the rule of law. Mike is right: "... one has to make a stand." The sensation of having UK support withdrawn is unfamiliar to Americans. I hope the experience will be salutary for us, and that we will choose to react constructively, and not obnoxiously. I hope Balisage will survive the crisis in one way or another. It's far too constructive to risk losing it. If no other means are conscionable/affordable during the crisis, perhaps electronically, in multiple venues? Steve On 01/29/2017 02:12 PM, Michael Kay wrote: On 10 Jan 2017, at 23:42, B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@mulberrytech.com> wrote: Hi Mike — Balisage 2017 is coming, and I think it may be an especially interesting year for Saxonica. The pre-conference symposium will be about Up Translation or Up Transformation. I expect many of the talks to be about XSLT. Will you please consider sponsoring Balisage this year? And, as weird as the political situation is here, I would like to encourage you to think about coming this year;Thank you Tommie for the invitation. I would love to come to Balisage again. But I don't think this is the right time to be applying for a visa, and I don't think it's appropriate to sponsor a conference held in a country that will exclude people from attending on grounds of race or religion. Sorry, but I think one has to make a stand. Perhaps you can move back to Montreal in 2018? Michael Kay Saxonica _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php 
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