WILL YOU BE ALLOWED TO VOTE?

Published October 11, 2024 by Nan Mykel

The Poetry Store

Published October 9, 2024 by Nan Mykel

A Little of This, a Little of That…

Published October 5, 2024 by Nan Mykel

EEW! Telegram has become a global sewer of criminal activity, disinformation, child sexual abuse material, terrorism and racist incitement, according to a four-month investigation by The New York Times that analyzed more than 3.2 million Telegram messages from over 16,000 channels. The company, which offers features that enable criminals, terrorists and grifters to organize and to sidestep scrutiny from the authorities, has looked the other way as illegal and extremist activities have flourished openly on the app. …Apparently its founder Pavel Durov is going through some tough times just now.

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WHY DO I keep reading about non-human consciousness? Probably because it is “off topic,” and not unduly offensive: Elephants: In northern Bengal, India, scientists studied five instances where an entire elephant herd participated in burying a deceased young elephant. The scientists reported that the elephants carried the dead calf’s body a distance to a suitable spot near a tea plantation, covered it with vegetation, and then the herd observed the body. Later, the elephants visited the site several times as the body decayed.

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SORRY, but maybe I can blame it on turning eighty-nine:

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Song by Fred Rogers

It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood

A beautiful day for a neighborWould you be mine? Could you be mine?

It’s a neighborly day in this beautywoodA neighborly day for a beautyWould you be mine? Could you be mine?

I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like youI’ve always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you

So, let’s make the most of this beautiful daySince we’re together, we might as well sayWould you be mine? Could you be mine?Won’t you be my neighbor?

Won’t you please, won’t you please?Please, won’t you be my neighbor?

Neighbors are people who are close to usAnd friends are people who are close to our heartsI like to think of you as my neighbor and my friend

I MISSED THIS AT THE TIME

Published October 2, 2024 by Nan Mykel

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I missed this at the time:

CNN — In some political careers, there comes a moment when you must stand up and say something you never wanted to say.

For Ohio state representative Teresa Fedor, that moment came in 2015, as she listened to her fellow lawmakers debate a bill that would forbid abortions once a heartbeat is detected, which can sometimes be as early as six weeks. A former schoolteacher who served in the legislature since 2002, she says she knew it was time to tell her own story.

“I knew when I decided to stand up, there was no looking back,” she says. Fedor, 59 at the time, began indirectly, noting that she had not heard any discussion of exceptions for rape. She said she respected her opponents’ reasoning. And then, a minute into her speech, she stunned her colleagues. On 25 March 2015, Fedor got so frustrated during the debate on abortion in the lower chamber of the state’s legislature that she stood up and revealed that she had been raped and terminated the resulting pregnancy. “You don’t respect my reason, my rape, my abortion, and I guarantee you there are other women who should stand up with me and be courageous enough to speak,” she said. “What you’re doing is so fundamentally inhuman, unconstitutional, and I’ve sat here too long.” Fedor was raped many years ago, while she was in the military. (^[16]

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CNN —

Former President Donald Trump cast himself as a “protector” of women at a Pennsylvania rally Monday evening and claimed that American women won’t be “thinking about abortion” if he’s elected.

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I wish I had saved the clipping, but not too long ago I read that one spokeswoman bemoaned abortions, because they might prevent one child from growing up to find a cure for cancer. [Statistics show that he would much more likely be a psychopath.]

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PUNISHMENT FOR SEX?

Is it my imagination or beneath the fire and brimstone’s energy against abortions does there lurk a brutal whiplash for females who make love, screw, get raped or are incested? Or for family size to increase in order to maintain the “white” civilization? Or to keep women out of competition with men at the workplace?

The question of how soon it’s possible to detect and confirm a pregnancy has come into focus as new abortion restrictions have been enacted across the country, including in Iowa, where a ban on most abortions after six weeks took effect in July. A similar ban took effect in Georgia, on May 1, although temporarily halted by a lower court judge.

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