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When will they take off their Halloween masks and admit it was all a joke, and dark humor at that? We already have the world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households [Pew Research], and they pretend to suggest pubescent children be forced to deliver incestuously and other rapist-conceived babies on the chance the foetus might cure cancer one day? More likely he/she would become a gun-toting saboteur of democracy. Can you imagine growing up with a mother who was forced to have you?
In my state they’re even pretending to require that teachers receive less training than formerly to carry guns in the classroom. (Who could chew gum then?) Haw haw…
In the heart of our nation there’s a club that pretends to have an iron fist over our populis, chanting civil rights pride while encouraging adults–and some before their 21st birthday–to arm themselves without a permit against possible attackers.
I used to like the Lets Pretend program Saturday morning on the radio. I don’t like it played out in the United States of America. What happened to the “spiritual awakening” of the new century? Come on guys, please take off your masks of greed and cruelty and have a cuppa. Listen to your human heart…
And educate yourself. I found the following fantastically blaringly false statement in a recent National Review article: “Other than in cases of rape, which are quite rare, women don’t become pregnant absent a free choice to engage in sex, which often naturally results in the conception of new life.” O please admit you’re pretending…
Come on! What out-of-sync American thought that idea up? Apologizing for what Americans did more than a century ago? Who’s kidding who? If I were black I’m afraid I might spend my share on guns–you know, to protect my civil rights like the NRA.
Not only racist, but preaching and teachig intolerance and wanting us to look like fools and stooge denyers?
The photo is of an Al;abama minister arrested for watering his traveling friend’s flowers. Fortunately he wasn’t shot, and the charges were dropped several weeks later. He observed that he felt the situation could have been handled better. Source: all over the internet.
It’s frustrating to be losing it, and I can’t refer you correctly, but I still know a jewel when I read it. If you haven’t visited the following site, it’s a continuous hoot, til the distant end. I’m talking about trying to usher you either to Fandango’s site today or Marilyn Armstrong’s site or Charley Hurley’s. Priceless. Here:
Have a good day!
As long as U.S. liberals spend energy calling Republican accusations conspiracies, the less likely will it be to look at them as possible evidence of SABOTAGE of democracy. Evidence of actual increasing purposeful sabotage of America’s democracy?
(I admit I’m younger in the photo)
I have trouble ignoring what’s happening out there in my world. Personally, I’m starting to “lose it” at almost 87, but I cannot ignore it.
From the NY Times June 3, 2022:
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| Shootings that kill multiple people are so common in this country that they often do not even make national news. They are a regular feature of American life. Tulsa has become the latest example — yet another gun crime that seems almost ordinary here and yet would be extremely rare in any other country as wealthy as the U.S. |
| To give you a sense of how common these shootings are, we’re devoting the rest of the lead item of today’s newsletter to a list of every documented mass shooting in which a gunman has killed at least three people in the U.S. so far this year. …Every identified suspect has been a man, many under 25. |
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2022, so far |
| Jan. 19, Baltimore: A man who worked for a gun violence reduction program was killed in an East Baltimore neighborhood, along with two others. A fourth person was injured. |
| Jan. 23, Milwaukee: Five men and a woman were found shot to death at a Park West neighborhood home. The police believe the attack targeted specific people. |
| Jan. 23, Inglewood, Calif.: The same day, a shooting at a birthday party killed four people, including two sisters, and wounded a fifth. The shooting was gang-related, the mayor said. |
| Jan. 29, St. Louis: A shooting near an intersection killed three young men and wounded a fourth. Police said they had no suspects. |
| Feb. 5, Corsicana and Frost, Texas: A 41-year-old man murdered his mother, his stepfather, his sons and the son of his ex-girlfriend in an overnight shooting. The man later fatally shot himself. |
| Feb. 28, Sacramento: A man shot dead his three daughters and their chaperone at a church during a court-approved visit. The children’s mother had a restraining order against the shooter, who killed himself. |
| March 12, Baltimore: A shooting in Northwest Baltimore killed three men in a car and wounded a fourth. |
| March 19, Fayetteville, N.C.: A Saturday night shootout in a hotel parking lot killed three people and wounded another three. The shooting may have been linked to a fight between motorcycle gangs. |
| March 19, Norfolk, Va.: Hours later, an argument outside a bar escalated into a shooting that killed three young bystanders. One of the victims was a 25-year-old newspaper reporter whose editor called her to cover the shooting, not realizing she had been killed. |
| April 3, Sacramento: At least five shooters fired more than 100 rounds a block from the State Capitol, killing six people — three men and three women — and wounding 12. The police described the shooting as gang-related. |
| April 20, Duluth, Minn.: A 29-year-old man who said he suffered from mental illness killed his aunt, uncle, two young cousins and their dog in their sleep. He later killed himself. |
| April 21, Mountain View, Ark.: A man killed his parents, another woman and her son at two homes half a mile apart in a rural community, the police say. |
| April 27, Biloxi, Miss.: A 32-year-old man killed the owner of the Broadway Inn Express motel and two employees in an argument over money. He fled to a neighboring town and fatally shot a fourth person. Police later found the gunman dead, barricaded inside a convenience store. |
| May 8, Clarkston, Ga.: Three people were shot to death and three others were wounded at a suburban Atlanta condo complex on a Sunday night. |
| May 14, Buffalo: An 18-year-old avowed white supremacist killed 10 people and wounded three more with an assault-style weapon in a live-streamed attack at a supermarket. |
| May 24, Uvalde, Texas: An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. |
| May 27, Stanwood, Mich.: A 51-year-old man allegedly killed his wife and her three young children at a home in Mecosta County before shooting himself, police said. The man remains in critical condition. |
| June 1, Tulsa, Okla.: A gunman killed his back surgeon, another doctor, a receptionist and a visitor at a medical building. He then killed himself. |
| As long as this list is, it’s also a very incomplete accounting of American gun violence. It doesn’t include the at least 60 shootings that left three people dead but don’t technically count as mass shootings (because fewer than four people were shot). It doesn’t count shootings that wounded people without killing anybody, like one in Milwaukee that injured 17 people. And it leaves out the individual gun homicides and suicides that make up a majority of the gun violence that kills more than 100 Americans on an average day. |
I’ve never had an abortion and I can’t say I am personally involved in this fight. I AM PRO-CHOICE, however. It’s aggravating that the dispute continues to be called pro-abortion. There’s a lot of corporate buying for our current predicament. I trace it to the 2010 Supreme Courrt decision. I hope to be able to provide our regretful history of selling out democracy to the ruling class in 2010 when I get caught up..
I found the following NY times article today June 6 by David Leonhardt useful, quoted in part only.:
| Stopping the pill-based form isn’t so easy. “The pills are pretty easily accessible online, and the laws are very hard to enforce because they are sent privately via mail,” Claire said. |
| One large provider is Aid Access, an international organization run by a Dutch doctor, Rebecca Gomperts, that is committed to keeping abortion accessible even in places where it is illegal. Aid Access often connects Americans with European doctors, and people can order pills even if they are not pregnant, to have them on hand if they want them later. (In 2014, Emily Bazelon profiled Gomperts in The Times Magazine.) |
| Carole Joffe, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied the history of abortion, said that the fall of Roe would lead some women to seek out physically dangerous methods of ending their pregnancies — “like having the boyfriend hit them in the belly or throwing themselves down stairs or taking dangerous herbs.” But, Joffe added, “There is now a very safe extralegal option.” |
| This is one part of the debate in which the two sides agree on at least some of the facts, if not their significance.: bortion opponents sometimes emphasize that Roe has reduced the population of nonwhite Americans. “A highly disproportionate percentage of aborted fetuses are Black,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the leaked draft opinion that calls for overturning Roe. |
| Across much of the South — including Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas — more than half of the women who got an abortion in 2019 were Black or Hispanic, according to the C.D.C. A large share were also younger women, with nearly 40 percent nationwide younger than 25. |
| “These are people who may be working in jobs that aren’t paying well or they may be in school,” Kari White of the University of Texas at Austin, told The Times. “They may feel they don’t have the resources to raise a child.” |
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Please go to https://youtu.be/vIBAMDfMDMc
When I see her as an aggressive Republican lying, I wonder what’s behind it. Why does she so stubbornly insist on lying? Surely she’s desperate but it doesn’t show. It’s difficult to imagine she’s really afraid of punishment. Any suggestions? Have they started making even newborns damaged in that way? You’ll get a laugh out of this although it has a dark side if you think.
Six humans slaughtered.
When will the killings come to your town? They came to Philadelphia and Chattanooga yesterday…
At least three people were killed and 11 injured Saturday when multiple people opened fire on Philadelphia’s busy South Street. At least three more died in a shooting later Saturday at a club in Chattanooga, Tennessee. For the moment, none of those six victims count as victims of “mass shootings”—a FBI designation that requires four deaths in a single incident. (Mother Jones, today’s date).
I live in Ohio, and on June 13, 2022 (a week from tomorrow) a permitless carry law goes into effect in my state. Unfortunate timing, eh? Any time humans are slaughtered is unfortunate.
Moreover, the NRA (National Rifle Association) touts itself as “America’s oldest civil rights organization.”
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