How come so many people of color are in prison over drugs, yet millionaires get by with paying for their crimes with a fine? And why are federal prisons so much nicer than state prisons? Does that mean that federal crimes are less major? what’s going on at Rikers Island anyway?

I’ve been impressed recently how misuse of emotional language interferes with clear thinking. My New Year’s resolution is to steer clear of it.

And I’d love to hear your thoughts about how anyone with an ounce of compassion could be against Social Security and Medicare. I’ll have to learn how to join one of those back and forth conversations that I stumble across every now and then.

Real love is a blessing for those who have known it and can share it.

GRIM. SHAME. ALMOST UNFORGIVEABLE…The United States has set the bar for the world to follow? It’s things like this that almost makes me hate:

Per the New York Times, Bolsonara’s followers in Brzail are rioting, claiming that their election was rigged. Sound familiar? Bad continuing bad, and spreading. Many Americans are still not contrite that we’re responsible for having crafted a lethal pandemic of lying.

Go to San Diego Newsbreak

Read all of it… Humans need more than food, water and shelter. Autonomy and a sense of belonging are equally important to survival — and are actually the keys to recovery for people who have had a hard time in life. The impersonal facilities that we’re asked to move into are not designed with this in mind.

But autonomy and belonging are the essence of what camps are about. We camp together because it is essential to our physical and mental survival.

The above was quoted from a much more detailed explanation from a homeless man in California…

It may be old news to you, but it just sank in: Full List of Republicans Who Sat During Zelensky’s Speech:https://www.newsweek.com › …
Dec 22, 2022 — Seven House Republicans “repeatedly remained seated” during standing ovations for President Volodymyr Zelensky. They were:

Representatives Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Andrew Clyde, Diana Harshbarger, Warren Davidson, Michael Cloud and Jim Jordan “repeatedly remaining seated in standing ovations” whilst Zelensky gave his speech, according to Axios Congress reporter Andrew Solender. THEY’RE FOR THE RUSSIANS?! Help me out here. What’s going on? I knew about Roebert, Gaetz and Jordan. Now I know aboout the others.

As a matter of fact, Far-Right Republicans Shunned Ukrainian President Zelensky when he addressed the joint session of Congress on Dec 22, 2022 — Fewer than half of House Republicans bothered to show up, and some of them spent much of the speech on their phones. https://www.vice.com › Home › News

Our elected Representatives are for the Russians?! I guess Biden was right about the local invasion of fascists. I’m open to back talk. Tell me where I’m wrong…This doesn’t seem at all funny or capricious any more.

WORDS
 Spit it up. Gross.
Cough it up. Viruses.
Sing it out. A dirge?
Write it. I’ll try…

Another day older and
deeper in debt…made it
to the new year! A new
chance to remedy old
wrongs? Climate change
and the Supreme Court?
Book banning and Desantis?

Hey hey, Ho ho….Lethal
greed has got to go! Nan 1-1-23

I found the following in an old journal. Hope I never shared it. Trash it if I did and you remember it:

FOR THE HUMORISTS

Is a sense of humor catching

or does it come with the genes?

When did you start laughing,

and did you ever stop?

Do you ever laugh out loud reading

or made a blooming mess?

In secret do you find dark humor funny

or had to leave a meeting due to

giggles ill repressed? Or maybe felt

the laughter healing in the belly,

reassured that you’re onto

a good thing: you!

Do blacks laugh more than whites?

Seems they maybe do–black women, solid

underneath. I remember Georgia, black sitter

for us kids, who laughed and laughed

at Arthur Godfrey and all the little Godfreys.

Warm and cheery, she laughed until

 her husband died, then left, unable to repay

my father’s small loan.

I hope she’s out there somewhere, a laughing

up a storm with humor ever deeper than the tears.

If humor’s a defense, Hail Mary

All my bases are covered.

Nan – reworked a little 1-1-23

Do you now have to be white and “regular” to be treated like a free American?

Readings from today’s news tells us that Across the country, Republican state lawmakers have focused attention on transgender people and other L.G.B.T.Q. issues by introducing bills that aim to limit what doctors call gender-affirming care, restrict what students are taught in the classroom about gender and sexuality, bar some transgender students from participating in school sports and require students to use restrooms for the gender listed on their original birth certificates.

The Human Rights Campaign said that 344 such bills were introduced across 23 states in 2022. More than 25 of those bills, a majority of which targeted transgender people, became law in 13 states. According to a national survey of nearly 34,000 L.G.B.T.Q. youth conducted in late 2021 by the Trevor Project, a crisis intervention organization, nearly one in five transgender and nonbinary people between the ages of 13 and 24 had attempted suicide in the previous year.”

MY COMPUTER DOES NOT SEEM TO LET ME BOLD-FACE WORDS ANY MORE. HAS CLASSIC EDITOR CHANGED? PLEASE TELL ME, SOMEONE! AND I CANNOT ADD MY MEDIA LIBRARY PICTURES! P>S> I CANNOT ADD MEDIA LIBRARY IMAGES ANY MORE.