Today I’m offloading some of the bits ‘n pieces, jumbled thoughts about anything or nothing, that are clogging up my mental lines. Take them with a grain of salt, or for whatever they’re worth, for they are just snippets I jot down when I need to get a thought out of my head so I can focus.
- What does it take to truly outrage Americans? Short answer: You can’t. If killing their children doesn’t earn any sustained outrage, then they are blind, deaf, dumb and numb to the gun culture and incapable of caring. If Uvalde, Parkland, Sandy Hook and other school shootings haven’t managed to capture their attention for more than a 3-day news cycle, then nothing will. They sit around and pray to whatever deity they find comfort in that their own children will be spared, rather than actually demanding action on the part of the lawmakers they elected and whose salaries they pay.
- Justices Thomas, Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito and to a lesser degree Roberts have ensured that we can no longer trust the U.S. Supreme Court to ‘do the right thing’ in handing down justice. The Republicans in Congress have guaranteed us that the law works in favour of only the wealthy and the uber-religious. Police forces around the nation have shown us that they ‘protect and serve’ the white portion of the population at the expense of all others. They tell us to ‘trust’, but just who are we to trust? Who has earned our trust?
- If you need a church, synagogue, mosque or temple, if you need a bible, quran, or talmud, if you need a rabbi, priest, or minister to tell you what the right thing is to do, then I would suggest you are not listening to your own conscience. I think we ALL know right from wrong, but some people will allow religion to silence or override the voice of reason from within.
- My granddaughter, Natasha, and I often have conversations about events happening near and far, and her voice is always refreshingly astute. I don’t remember the topic we were discussing when she uttered these words, but I found them spot-on!
- “If you don’t want to be insulted when you’re dead, don’t be a piece of garbage while you’re alive.”
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Ever wonder how people across the pond view our antics? This is a comment from a UK reader on one of Robert Reich’s recent posts:
- “I am just utterly staggered and confounded by how those in the House and in Congress are prepared to abandon all normal rules and, it would appear, your constitution, to support this liar, fraud and sexual predator. It is also, I fear, a very sad reflection on the educational and intelligence levels of so many in the USA that they are also prepared to vote for this man, to support people who at least purport to believe in QAnon and to see nothing wrong with all the attempts to deny large numbers of people their basic human rights. However, anybody who finds a small group of cells to be vastly more important than the child that it might grow into or the woman whose body is required to support it, has to be verging on insane in my book. It’s just a shame that so many of your population appear to fall into that category.”
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The people of the United States have become so ideologically divided that we’ve made it easy for politicians at all levels to prey on us, to use us as pawns in their games where the prize is wealth and power. Quite honestly, I do not see how we can become any more divided, but then I’ve said that before. Some predict a civil war in this country, but … there are only ideological boundaries, not physical or geographical ones. It is We the People who are the problem, not the politicians who are opportunists and not missing a chance to use our divisions to their own advantage.
- What’s in your checking account right now … no, just go check, don’t project or extrapolate … the dollar or pound amount right this minute? Now … I want you to just think about this … what if you donated half of that amount right now, right this minute. Would you have to default on the rent/mortgage? Would you and your family have to go without food tomorrow or next week?
- Does this statement make any sense to you?
- “To save free speech on college campuses, Republican lawmakers and governors say it’s time to stop talking about diversity, equity and inclusion.”
- WHOSE free speech??? Confusing, to say the very least. Seems to me they are saying that to save free speech, we need to kill it.
- “To save free speech on college campuses, Republican lawmakers and governors say it’s time to stop talking about diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Well, I feel much better now! The cobwebs are clearing and I think I might be able to find a focus soon! Thanks for putting up with my jumbled collection of thoughts, for helping me sweep a few of the cobwebs from the corners of my mind!
He went on to say …
That in itself is enough to make one want to head for the nearest bathroom, but that is far from the worst of it. Edwards is a supporter of the 2nd Amendment, the likes of which we have never seen, not even in the most ardent gun supporters such as the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre. Hold on to your hats for this one, folks. Eddie fully supports a total repeal of the background check system. A TOTAL repeal … no background checks … ever … for anyone. But wait … there’s even more.
Why? Why would BART allow a blatantly, unapologetic anti-Semitic organization to advertise on its trains? Because …
So who IS Anthony Senecal? He is Donald Trump’s 84-year-old former butler. Trump needs a butler? He wants to be president of the U.S. and he cannot even dress himself? Sheesh. But back to good ol’ Tony … he looks like just a harmless, kindly ol’ grandpa, doesn’t he? But beware, he is not, in any sense of the word, kindly. His is the face of evil, just as surely as was Ted Bundy’s. He is the epitome of why one should not judge a book by its cover, nor a person by his looks.
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