BLINDERS OFF!

Published June 8, 2022 by Nan Mykel

JOKE:   They’re laughing–  Other countries don’t have to wait:  U.S. citizens are killing off each other themselves, without forcing other countries to waste lives  in a war

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?

  1. Florida’s governor forming his own military force who only report to him, not the nation.
  2. Supreme Court in 2010 ruling to allow the wealthy to buy elections.
  3. Koch brothers meetings with Republicans to help word congressional bills
  4. Former president’s  overt attachment to Russia, continuing to manifest in many conservatives.
  5. Elected representative blatantly calling for the dark MAGA to come out.
  6. Former president’s asking militant groups to stand by
  7. Overt attempt to overturn presidental election and the January 6 attempt
  8. Trying to limit peaceful protests, aggressive use of firepower
  9. Multiple attacking on public schools–book banning, attacking science, blatant lying, total lack of transparency, flooding guns into the population and feeding paranoia….
  10. Taking over media giants
  11. Urging another Civil War
  12. I won’t mess with no. 13….The foregoing are off the top of my head and I encourage the reader to both list more in the comments and search the hard news on the internet for sources of  the preceding and more.  Re-labeling conspiracy theories and overt attacks on democracy  as SABOTAGE might help clarify our current challenges.  Where does the war on women fit in?  Maybe by encouraging more strident Christians to sell out democracy.  Consider if calls for “freedom” may not be a call to sabotage further.   

SORRY….

Published June 7, 2022 by Nan Mykel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(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:

Again and again
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. 

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

Published June 6, 2022 by Nan Mykel

 

 

 

 

 

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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WHY IS SHE LYING?

Published June 6, 2022 by Nan Mykel

 

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.

 

 

ONLY SIX YESTERDAY….

Published June 5, 2022 by Nan Mykel

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.”

NO WORDS FOR IT

Published June 4, 2022 by Nan Mykel

This photo was posted on the Daniel Defense Twitter account May 16 with the caption “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”  Daniel Defense is in the gun selling business (via abc news)   NOTE that the shooter waited until he was 18 to purchase his weapon. He was following the law permitting him to.)

I can’t help it

Published June 4, 2022 by Nan Mykel

A fellow blogger wondered the other day if readers resent those who post every day.  I want to say that I feel the need to post one, two or three times a day so my brain doesn’t drown.  When I wake in the morning my mind starts sputtering and if I don’t get it out I could conk out or explode.  Now there–I’m being melodramatic\; sorry.  So I’m going to try and limit myself to one blog a day, but put the blogs together.  But then, I love my Media Library photos, all 1200 of them.  I’ve grown attached to them, and when I look at some of them I get inspired.  Like the one above apparently by Nick Brandt.

This is early morning and I’m still being flooded.  When I’m impetuous I often live to regret it, so I’ll change my mind now.

I’ll just tell you one good idea any of us could work on and maybe share with me, anyhow:

An everyday song needs to be written to an old catchy tune–one that keeps running through your mind, like You Are My Sunshine used to  in my youth.  To go with the catchy tune would be words about current events.  A little two or four-step blog (the dancing kind) would automatically accompany this in a good-natured, jokey way.  Goals this might accomplish:

  1. Prevent a heart attack
  2. Keep us in a good mood
  3. Since it doesn’t have to be sung out loud, it can bolster you inside
  4. Can numb you to what’s being thrown your way
  5. Hopefully prevent you from being gunned down
  6. May develop a talent you never knew you had
  7. Help us love one another or at least the innocent babe they once were?
  8. Fat chance, but at least it’s an idea.
  9. Something to do in the pandemic
  10. Include David McCormick’s being bullied out of his run for office by fellows

Share your thoughts in Comments?

P.S. DON’T TRY TO SING IT TO ‘PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION’….

REMEMBER WHEN

Published June 4, 2022 by Nan Mykel

Photo by Ruth Scribbles

I just listened to a vocal via Google that I only recalled the title of and listened to sounds of several vocalists singing “Remember When…”  Do you recall it?  You can take a look and listen via the internet….The visuals are embracing as well as the sound of the words.  I can remember when…folks were sane and tolerated one another….

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