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Saturday, February 11, 2017

Here's a thing...

This is copy/pasted from something I found on Facebook that invited readers to copy and paste. A Trump supporting Facebook friend told Scott Mednick, "We suffered for eight years. Now it’s your turn.” Scott wrote a brilliant response asking how exactly his friend had suffered under Obama: There will never be a President who does everything to everyone’s liking. There are things President Obama (and President Clinton) did that I do not like and conversely there are things I can point to that the... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Life in these United States

...just came under further threat. With the confirmation of a confirmed racist as Attorney General, the White Supremacist creeps who have been coming out from under their rocks since the Trump regime came into power, now have someone to back them up with the power of law. It is a comforting thought that when Trump goes, his cabinet will go with him. I only worry about how much irreparable damage they can do in the meantime. Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 6, 2017

Here's a link...

https://grabyourwallet.org/ I am looking through this list, seeing plenty of places I don't shop anyway, brands I've never bought. I see a couple that I will continue to use, but can contact to tell them I would use them more if they divested from their Trump interests. In a world that's all about money, nothing grabs their attention faster than reducing their profits. Here's another, if you want to be responsible, or not, for who brings you chocolates:... Sign in to see full entry.

The White House Circus

Why is anyone still paying attention to the spokespersons for today's White House? They rant, they whine, they lie... There is no point to responding to nonsense, there is no useful information coming from any of them. In fact, they are a distraction from actually significant things going on. We know they're doing it, we hardly need to stockpile more evidence. If anyone still doesn't see it, it's because they don't want to see it, and no additional information will change their opinions. I... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Verbalizing Snow

It snows. It is snowing It snew. It has snown. Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Made in America

When I was a kid in the 1960s, it was the early years of the race to space, and there was such a push on for American students to excel, especially in the sciences! Education was considered vital to American interests, to the supremacy of America socially and politically, back when we really were leaders in the world and had the desire to live up to that label, rather than just take it as given because our parents wore it well from World War 2 onwards. It wasn't as if we ha d no fools, no... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

I dreamed a dream... that I made my way through a dark and dismal surrounding and found a place lit by dark fires and filled with discordant sounds and rhythms and the metallic buzz and whine of flies... In the center, savages in suits hung about with emblems of power and mystery, of devices of magics dependent on death and suffering, pranced madly around a great porcine head on a tall stake. The current Congress and President and his advisors can invent programs and make laws with all the power... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Need

Aleppo has become a word of horror, it will be a curse against the perpetrators and their kind for generations to come, right alongside the names of Hitler and Auschwitz, My Lai, the Field of Jars, Tienamen Square, Standing Rock... where the authorities went far beyond the bounds of humanity and decency to uphold a power that was reprehensible and unjustified. The Western World has been accused of not caring, of not paying attention, of ignoring, of doing little to mitigate the suffering of... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Unthinkable...!

I went to a show last night: ONE SIXTEENTH OF AN INCH. It is an opening of hearts and voices, the shining of light on the darkness of depression and suicide, about how very narrow can be the margin between living and ending a life. The audience was large and interested, and I suspect no one there has had no experience with suicide, either personally or knowing someone who chose to 'leave sideways' as an old friend of mine once referred to it. There was a Talk Back session following the... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, November 11, 2016

Permission

Social media hatred, real-world taunts and assaults, mayhem on all sides from the gloating and the despairing... The level of mean-spiritedness and reactionary acting-out is appalling, now it has permission and encouragement, and the fury of disappointed, terrified response to this insane election season--everyone's fault, not just one Party or the other, not just politicians--the mayhem is on! There will be no stuffing this genie back into its bottle any time soon. It is fairly quiet in this... Sign in to see full entry.

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