My computer just told m
e via the New York Times, that
The Republican Party declared the Jan. 6 attack “legitimate political discourse” and censured Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for investigating it.
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THANKS, EVERYBODY….
Published February 4, 2022 by Nan Mykel
….who is working to modify Climate Catastrophe. –To those making sacrifices today to assure a future for us all. So much magic has been wrought here. Please hurry.
And we all thank you.
No Surprise Here
Published February 2, 2022 by Nan MykelKen Paxton, the Republican attorney general of Texas has filed a lawsuit seeking to block an immigration program that legally brings Central American children to the U.S. to reunite with parents who are already here and have legal status. Not only does the policy help facilitate family reunification, but it also allows a child to avoid the often dangerous journey north. It’s a smart, and humane program that has allowed thousands of kids to embrace their parents again. So Texas and seven other Republican-led states want it shut down. Excerpted from Daily Kos
Two Big HELP ME’S
Published February 1, 2022 by Nan Mykel
First:
Van Gogh’s left ear was cut off. Why does his self portrait look like it’s his right ear that’s wounded? Because he was looking in a mirror?
Second:
Did I just read that posting in classic has just gotten much more complicated? I wish they could have a system that is simple and never changes, so once you learn it you have it for life!
Is this a democracy? Maybe we could take a vote on that suggestion…
From: The other blog work horses…
Researchers Find: That Trump Supporters…
Published January 31, 2022 by Nan MykelUseful info!
This issue has defied explanation for years……what exactly makes a Trump supporter tick? What about the man makes so many angry and so many devoted?
A couple of researchers have tried to answer those questions and a few others.
What makes a Trump voter tick? Is it policy, their leader’s charisma, or something else entirely?
Two researchers at the University of North Carolina and the University of Missouri set out to answer that by measuring candidate support, cognitive performance and political ideology among 831 US-based participants — and found that Trump voters are, simply put, more cognitively rigid and interpersonally cold.
“Conservatism is commonly defined along two dimensions: Resistance to change, and opposition to equality,” the two authors wrote in their study, published November last year in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. “Liberalism is defined by the opposite. People with enhanced sensitivity to threat and uncertainty in…
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Hunt and Kill The Gays Ugandan Minister Lokodo is Dead
Published January 30, 2022 by Nan MykelIf I say “Sigh” it may be misinerpreted, so I won’t say anything, except to reblog it.
The Ugandan Minister Who Hunted Gays is DEAD ! Uganda’s Former ethics and integrity minister Rev Fr Simon Lokodo is dead.
Ironically Fr Lokodo, one of the greatest human rights abusers who persecuted LGBTQI Ugandans was a member of the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) and in commission of this work died Saturday morning in Geneva, Switzerland, according to a statement from the rights body.
The LGBTQI world will not be mourning this man’s death, noting he is probably directly and indirectly responsible for much violence and resulting death to innocent Ugandans.
Melanie Nathan of African Human Rights Coalition notes: “Simon Lokodo, a former priest, promoted the horrific Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014, also known as THE KILL THE GAYS BILL, in Uganda. He hid his human rights abuses behind his title of MINISTER of ETHICS and INTEGRITY, between 2011 and June 2021 when he was dropped from cabinet. Two months…
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BAN THE BIBLE?!
Published January 30, 2022 by Nan Mykel
Keith Wilson (musingsofanoldfart) refers us thusly to : an interesting post by a minister named John Pavlovitz. He has one of the best blogs on religion and everyday life. Keith
“if Conservatives are going to declare a holy war on writings that are somehow dangerous to young minds or potentially harmful to society, they’re going to need to reckon with the true and full legacy of the Christian Scriptures: the inhumanity, violence, and sexual immorality that accompany the teachings of mercy, compassion, and justice.
“They’re going to need to be honest about its patriarchs with hundreds of wives and concubines, with unpunished sexual assault, with the slaughtering of entire cities in the name of God, with thousands of words used since its distribution to perpetuate bigotry and intolerance….”
and much more, on Rev. John’s site…Thanks for the referral, Keith…
Book Banning
Published January 29, 2022 by Nan MykelWill public libraries be targeted next for book banning? Even the thought is reprehensible.
Mississippi mayor withholds library funds over LGBTQ books
RIDGELAND, Miss. — The director of a Mississippi library system says a mayor is withholding $110,000 from his city’s library because LGBTQ books are on the shelves.
Tonja Johnson, executive director of the Madison County Library System, told news outlets that Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee received citizen complaints about a handful of books that depicted members of the LGBTQ community.
“Funding for this year was being withheld until we removed what he called ‘homosexual material’ from the library,” Johnson told WAPT-TV. “His reasoning that he gave was that, as a Christian, he could not support that, and that he would not release funding until we remove the material.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer”: "....those who seek to ban books are wrong no matter how dangerous books can be. Books are inseparable from ideas, and this is really what is at stake: the struggle over what a child, a reader and a society are allowed to think, to know and to question. A book can open doors and show the possibility of new experiences, even new identities and futures."
Caturday funnies — cat bowling edition
Published January 29, 2022 by Nan MykelMarvelous!
COVID REVERIE
Published January 29, 2022 by Nan Mykel
Photo by Nan
COVID REVERIE
Snow is on the ground
I am snug in bed
What will I feel
When I am dead?
The child’s stark cry
Of where did she go?
Still puzzles me
I just don’t know
Gone in a second
Quick as a blink
I won’t have words
With which to think
Go with the flow
I can’t tell me
What’s the good of
A college degree?
Ha! don’t I wish that…
Memory was gone
Bad things said and
bad things done.
Bad is a word and
I won’t have those
But tears are wet
As everyone knows
What am I made of
Not sugar and spice
Maybe crawdads and
Poo and not a thing nice
But bereft of a heart
I can still feel. Yes I can
And sense old friends
In La La Land
Lacking ears to hear
Or heart to pound
I can still make out the
Celestial sound
We lost a lot
When words came to stay
And nibble away knowing
The old fashioned way.
Dead, I am mycelium
A piece of the whole
No lungs but I breathe
An old old soul
Dead to the world
I live with old friends
Who welcome me back
Again and again.
Nan January 29, 2022
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