Thursday, December 31, 2020
Disturbing Photos From S.D. in 1890s—From Wounded Knee to Pine Ridge
Monday, December 28, 2020
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
A Poem by Chelan Harkin from her book "Susceptible to Light"
"The worst thing we ever did
was put God in the sky
out of reach
pulling the divinity
from the leaf,
sifting out the holy from our bones,
insisting God isn’t bursting dazzlement
through everything we’ve made
a hard commitment to see as ordinary,
stripping the sacred from everywhere
to put in a cloud man elsewhere,
prying closeness from your heart.
The worst thing we ever did
was take the dance and the song
out of prayer
made it sit up straight
and cross its legs
removed it of rejoicing
wiped clean its hip sway,
its questions,
its ecstatic yowl,
its tears.
The worst thing we ever did is pretend
God isn’t the easiest thing
in this Universe
available to every soul
in every breath"
Chelan Harkin
From her poetry book 'Susceptible to Light'
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Was a Sunny Day
Sometimes you just need to sing a happy song to lift your spirits. Yes, enjoy Paul Simon doing his Paul Simon thing. Nothing like it.
What's Going on in Florida ... by Jim Wright
Jim Wright is a writer/blogger who lives in Florida. You can read his Facebook post from today HERE.
Monday, December 7, 2020
Friday, December 4, 2020
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Where is Education Going?
Michael North posts on Facebook. Here is some insight about the future of education. Find his post HERE.
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Monday, November 23, 2020
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Saturday, November 21, 2020
Friday, November 20, 2020
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Saturday, November 7, 2020
The 277 Policies for Which Biden Need Not Ask Permission
The 277 Policies for Which Biden Need Not Ask Permission: As president, Joe Biden could take action on hundreds of policies without having to go through Congress. The Biden-Sanders unity task force provides a road map.
Friday, November 6, 2020
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Monday, November 2, 2020
Let's talk about Stanford's study about Trump's rallies....
How many people have been infected with the Corona Virus by attending one of the president's rallies? How many have died as a result of mingling with the unmasked? Stanford did some research and published the results. Beau has a few words to say about that.
Read the STANFORD ARTICLE HERE.
Read the STUDY HERE
Sunday, November 1, 2020
Behind the Scenes of When President Trump Walked Out Of 60 Minutes Inter...
Susan Zirinsky, President of CBS News and veteran reporter, offers the backstory behind Trump's walk-off during the Leslie Stahl interview on 60 minutes.
Donald Trump's Guide to American History | NowThis
He's thinks he's a comedian. He thinks he is funny. He makes things up on the fly and repeats them over and over while making those goofy faces. He drones on and on while his supporters and paid attendees breathe each other's air and spread the Corona Virus. The rallies are what have sustained him. He thrives in front of an adoring audience. He is not Presidential. He doesn't want that job ... the actual job of governing and doing the work for the people. He is even talking about continuing his rallies after he loses the election.
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Monday, October 19, 2020
Beau of The Fifth Column: Let's talk about the questions from Twitter....
Beau of the Fifth Column is a southern journalist with a growing fan base. He recently asked on twitter for questions ... and so these are the questions and the answers he offers. Please drop a comment if you are inclined.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Sunday, October 11, 2020
Janayathefuture: A Black Lives Matter Voice I Listen To
Black Lives Matter International Ambassador Janayathefuture is an important voice for today and the issues that we face as a nation.
Janay Future Khan On Fire!
Janaya taking the stage and telling it like it is out on the street.
Taking it to the streets Here
Who Is Janaya Future Khan?
Vogue Daily speaks with Janaya about their past, present and future!
Here in Vogue Daily Magazine
Find Janaya on Instagram, too.
Be sure to check out the inspiring SUNDAY SERMONS.
Here on Instagram
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Heather Cox Richardson's Post Today
October 6, 2020 (Tuesday)
In the past three years, it has so often felt like things were reaching the breaking point. But the image of Trump on the balcony of the White House last night, defiantly taking off his mask as he gasped for breath, truly looked to me like the beginning of the final chapter.
Today coronavirus infections continued to mount in the vicinity of the White House. At least 34 people near Trump have contracted the virus in the past few days. The press corps near the White House is down to a skeleton crew as the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, and four press aides have tested positive. So have top aide Stephen Miller and Admiral Charles Ray, the vice commandant of the Coast Guard Admiral.
Along with other military leaders, Ray attended an event celebrating Gold Star families last Sunday at the White House. That event included some of the same people who had been at the event the previous day in honor of Amy Coney Barrett, whom Trump nominated to take the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Those who attended both events included Trump and the First Lady.
Senior military leaders attended meetings with Ray last week in a secure room at the Pentagon, and now are self-quarantining. They include the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley; the Vice Chairman; the Army chief of staff; the Naval Operations Chief, the Air Force chief of staff, the CyberCom Commander; the SpaceForce operations chief; the director of the U.S. National Security Agency, Gen. Paul Nakasone; the Chief of the National Guard, General Daniel Hokanson; and the deputy commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Gary Thomas.
The White House has apparently not done any contact tracing, and it declined the help of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to do it.
The administration appears to be committed to a strategy of community spread, rejecting the use of masks and of distancing. Deputy press secretary Brian Morganstern told NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly that the White House still does not require masks because “everyone needs to take personal responsibility.”
That the White House appears to be the center of a coronavirus hotspot has hurt Trump’s reelection campaign. The infections in the face of the fact that the administration refused to take the virus seriously, the ride around the hospital to wave at supporters while endangering Secret Service agents, the struggle to the balcony in a strongman scene, all appear to have demonstrated not Trump’s strength, but his weakness.
His behavior today has reinforced that sense. Trump left the hospital last night and returned to a locked-down White House. The few aides who met with him were dressed in PPE, while the West Wing is virtually abandoned as people have decamped to work from home. Trump has been on a Twitter spree today, tweeting and retweeting his old material, “the Russia Hoax” and Hillary Clinton’s emails, which now feel like ancient history, disconnected from today’s pressing crisis. Tonight, he tweeted: “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!” He hit the same points again in another tweet: “All Russia Hoax Scandal information was Declassified by me long ago. Unfortunately for our Country, people have acted very slowly, especially since it is perhaps the biggest political crime in the history of our Country. Act!!!”
He sounds desperate. And on the heels of his tweets, Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) tweeted to the Justice Department “Per the President’s orders, can you please provide the [House Judiciary] Committee the full unredacted Mueller Report immediately? Thank you.”
Other dropping stories make it look like the tide is running against Trump.
Patricia and Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis, Missouri, couple who held guns on protesters in June, were indicted today by a grand jury on charges of exhibiting guns and tampering with evidence. Trump invited the McCloskeys to speak at the Republican National Convention. “What you are witnessing here is just an opportunity for the government, the leftist, democrat government of the City of St. Louis to persecute us for doing no more than exercising our Second Amendment rights,” McCloskey said.
Two weeks ago, the administration blocked strict guidelines for a coronavirus vaccine, but today the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released those guidelines over White House objections. This will make a vaccine before the election unlikely. Trump tweeted “New F.D.A. Rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before Election Day. Just another political hit job!”
Today, the New York Times revealed the findings of an internal investigation by the Justice Department’s inspector general Michael Horowitz into the policy of separating children from their parents at our southern border. The policy was engineered by Stephen Miller, but the Justice Department has tended to blame then-Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen for the policy. Horowitz’s investigation has established that then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein were far keener on the policy than she was. In a sign of changing times, a 32-page response to the Horowitz’s investigation, written by Miller’s ally Gene Hamilton, said that Justice Department officials had simply followed orders from the president.
Facebook, too, sees the writing on the wall, and has announced that it will ban all QAnon conspiracy theory accounts. These accounts spread disinformation, including the idea that a heroic Trump is secretly leading an effort to round up a ring of pedophiles and cannibals based in the nation’s entertainment and political elites. The ban is one of the broadest Facebook has ever enacted.
Today, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that a new coronavirus relief bill is imperative, but just hours later, Trump announced on Twitter that he was cancelling further talks between the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Stocks dropped 600 points, and vulnerable Republican senators panicked. Biden released a statement including a pithy condemnation: “Make no mistake: if you are out of work, if your business is closed, if your child’s school is shut down, if you are seeing layoffs in your community, Donald Trump decided today that none of that — none of it — matters to him. There will be no help from Washington for the foreseeable future. Instead, he wants the Senate to use its time to confirm his Supreme Court Justice nominee before the election, in a mad dash to make sure that the Court takes away your health care coverage as quickly as possible.” A few hours later, Trump changed his tune.
Today both the New York Times and the Boston Globe endorsed Biden, and General Michael Hayden, the retired four-star general who served as the Director of the CIA under President George W. Bush, released a video not just endorsing Biden, but also warning that "If there is another term for Trump, I don't know what happens to America." “Biden is a good man,” Hayden says. “Trump is not.”
Financial services company Goldman Sachs today forecast that the Democrats will take both the White House and the Senate, and said a Democratic sweep would mean a faster recovery and thus would be good for the economy. Moody’s Analytics, a subsidiary of another financial services company, recently found that Biden’s plans would add 7.4 million more jobs to the economy than Trump’s would.
Today in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a town hallowed by history, Biden gave a blockbuster speech calling for the nation to put aside division and come together. He talked about race: “Think about what it takes for a Black person to love America. That is a deep love for this country that for far too long we have never fully recognized.” He talked about disparities of wealth: “Working people and their kids deserve an opportunity.”
And he talked about Lincoln, and how, at Gettysburg, he called for Americans to dedicate themselves to a “new birth of freedom” so that the men who had died for that cause “shall not have died in vain.”
“Today we are engaged once again in a battle for the soul of the nation,” Biden said. “After all that America has accomplished, after all the years we have stood as a beacon of light to the world, it cannot be that here and now, in 2020, we will allow government of the people, by the people, and for the people to perish from this earth.
“You and I are part of a great covenant, a common story of divisions overcome and of hope renewed," he said. "If we do our part, if we stand together, if we keep faith with the past and with each other, then the divisions of our time can give way to the dreams of a brighter, better, future.”
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
My Body My Choice
I've been alert since the 1960s.
Still fighting for the same things.
RBG was my hero.
I have more freedoms because of her work in the courts.
We rise on her shoulders.
I shared this image on my page because that it how it feels when those freedoms come up for debate once again.
My body. My choice.
Monday, September 21, 2020
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Mariposa Climbing Museum
Here is a place I'd like to visit.
Located in Mariposa, it's the Mariposa Climbing Museum.
It is not open to the public right now, but private tours can be arranged.
Here is a video that explains a little about what we could find there.
Are you interested?
How Many Have Died of Corona 19?
Here's a post from one of my favorite blogs Margaret and Helen.
Helen explains quite nicely why Corona Virus 19 has not killed 200,000 people.
Monday, September 14, 2020
Sunday, September 13, 2020
Why Do People Continue To Support Trump?
This was posted on Facebook and supposed to be from a lady name Bev. She had this to say ...
Consider this:
The question was posed, "Why do people continue supporting Trump no matter what he does?"
“You all don't get it. I live in Trump country, in the Ozarks in southern Missouri, one of the last places where the KKK still has a relatively strong established presence. They don't give a shit what he does. He's just something to rally around and hate liberals, that's it, period. He absolutely realizes that and plays it up. They love it. He knows they love it. The fact that people act like it's anything other than that proves to them that liberals are idiots, all the more reason for high fives all around.
If you keep getting caught up in "why do they not realize this problem" and "how can they still back Trump after this scandal," then you do not understand what the underlying motivating factor of his support is. It's fuck liberals, that's pretty much it.
Have you noticed he can do pretty much anything imaginable, and they'll explain some way that rationalizes it that makes zero logical sense? Because they're not even keeping track of any coherent narrative, it's irrelevant. Fuck liberals is the only relevant thing. Trust me; I know firsthand what I'm talking about.
That's why they just laugh at it all because you all don't even realize they truly don't give a fuck about whatever the conversation is about. It's just a side mission story that doesn't matter anyway. That's all just trivial details - the economy, health care, whatever. Fuck liberals.
Look at the issue with not wearing the masks. I can tell you what that's about. It's about exposing fear. They're playing chicken with nature, and whoever flinches just moved down their internal pecking order, one step closer to being a liberal.
You've got to understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness because that's what they believe strength is, hatred of weakness. And I mean passionate, sadistic hatred. And I'm not exaggerating. Believe me. Sadistic, passionate hatred, and that's what proves they're strong, their passionate hatred for weakness. Sometimes they will lump vulnerability in with weakness. They do that because people tend to start humbling themselves when they're in some compromising or overwhelming circumstance, and to them, that's an obvious sign of weakness.
Kindness = weakness. Honesty = weakness. Compromise = weakness.
They consider their very existence to be superior in every way to anyone who doesn't hate weakness as much as they do. They consider liberals to be weak people that are inferior, almost a different species, and the fact that liberals are so weak is why they have to unite in large numbers, which they find disgusting, but it's that disgust that is a true expression of their natural superiority.
Go ahead and try to have a logical, rational conversation with them. Just keep in mind what I said here and be forewarned.”
Conclusion: go VOTE!
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Monday, September 7, 2020
Sunday, September 6, 2020
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Let's talk about back and forth, where we go, and how we got here....
Beau of the Fifth Column is someone I'd like to share with you. I ran across him awhile back and have been checking in with him on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. This video was posted today, August 30, 2020. Please join us as we all step back and breathe. We have way more in common than not. It's true.
If you like this video from Beau, look around and you will find a few more. You are always welcome to look around. I use this space like a file cabinet. I find something and don't know what to do with it? It goes here.
Please leave a comment if you stopped in to visit. Let's talk about how we can pull people together, instead of apart.
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Monday, August 17, 2020
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Friday, August 7, 2020
Thursday, August 6, 2020
PRIVILEGE
"Privilege is when you think
something is not a problem
because you aren't
affected
personally."
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Friday, July 24, 2020
Monday, July 20, 2020
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
What We Can Do When We Can't Join The Marches
I recently found this JOURNALIST named Beau who posts regular videos on Instagram and Facebook. You can find him as Beau Of The Fifth Column on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
He has captured my heart.
I love him.
I don't know why it took so long for me to find him. He is quite popular it seems.
I love how he shares his knowledge and common sense in an honest and friendly down-home southern style. He confirms for me that there really are good people out there.
I resonate with him. Maybe you will, too. "It's just a thought."
You can find his video HERE.
And don't forget to comment. Thanks!
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Friday, June 5, 2020
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Monday, June 1, 2020
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Stonekettle Station: Danse Macabre
"If civilization doesn't value people more than it values profit, if our nation cannot or will not protect the vulnerable from the selfish and predatory, then what goddamn good is it?
Stonekettle Station: Danse Macabre: “The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take...Friday, May 8, 2020
Friday, May 1, 2020
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Pandemic Preparedness in the Next Administration: Keynote Address by Ant...
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) spoke in January 2017 about Pandemic Preparedness in the Next Administration.
He is currently in charge of the government's response to the Covid-19 Pandemic that is challenging over 180 countries around the world.
Monday, April 6, 2020
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
When Will We Get Back To Normal?
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-social-distancing-over-back-to-normal/608752/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
The Sober Math Everyone Must Understand about the Pandemic
The Sober Math Everyone Must Understand about the Pandemic
Jason Scott Warner published this essay on March 23 at 3:42 pm PDT. I have researched Jason Scott Warner and found him to be a reliable source. Sit down with a cup of tea and read on ... It will put things in perspective better than anything I have read so far.
Continue to stay safe and stay home. We are no where near the time to loosen our resolve and let this virus take our most vulnerable citizens.
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Namaste ~
Sunday, March 15, 2020
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