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“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
– Mary Shelley
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Tweeter in Chief
Donald Trump Attacks Alec Baldwin In Early Morning Twitter Rant Amid Week Of Chaos
“Trump misspelled Baldwin’s name twice in the unhinged rant.”
Happy (sad face emoji) President’s Day…
President’s Day Reminder: Donald Trump Is a Fluke, an Historical Mistake in our Democracy
By Dustin Rowles | Politics | February 19, 2018
(Photo by L.K. Thayer – Women’s March 2017 – Los Angeles)
“The Trump Presidency is a fluke.”
“It’s good to remind ourselves of that sometimes, especially when it feels like our country is going into the toilet: Donald Trump won the election only by virtue of nearly everything breaking his way. He was running against a historically unpopular candidate (God bless Hillary), who had been thrown under the bus by James Comey. Trump won by virtue of $6 billion in free advertising. By virtue of the media’s false equivalencies. By an enthusiastic far right inflamed by their own bigotry after a black man ran our country successfully for eight years. He won because Facebook didn’t yet know what it was doing. He won because of a highly effective Russian influence campaign, and because our sitting President made a miscalculation when he decided that Hillary would win and forcefully calling out the Russians would blow back on her. He won because of voter suppression. He won because the Russians convinced a small segment of the population that Jill Stein was a viable alternative. He won because the Russians hacked the DNC and use that intel to vilify Hillary in the minds of a large number of Bernie supporters in places like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio. He won because part of the American public was morbidly curious; they wanted to see what our country would look like if it was run by a reality-show celebrity.”
AR-15 Rifles: The instruments of slaughter & murder in America
By “Congress explicitly banned AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles that fit its definition of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004.
Since that law expired 14 years ago, in most states it has been just as easy to buy an AR-15-style gun as it is in Florida. (Buyers can also purchase the weapon in person or online from private sellers who are not required to perform a background check — an exemption known as the “gun show loophole.”)
Only New York, California, Washington, D.C., and five other states have their own assault-weapon bans, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Washington, D.C., and eight states also limit the large capacity magazines that have made many mass shootings so deadly. Even so, there have been efforts to circumvent the bans, legally and illegally, by making minor changes to the weapons.”
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Snap by L.K. Thayer – “escape artist” – DTLA
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Rich Ferguson
(Photo “Orange Crush” by Rich Ferguson)
What the What
What we argue about.
What we know to the depths of our souls.
What causes the soles of our feet to burn.
What our pain is, and what we do with it.
What we do for love.
What animals mate for life.
What weapons will look like in 100 years.
What our history of violence tells us.
What the silence tells us on nights we can’t sleep.
What time whispers in our ears when another year slips by.
What slips between our fingers, between the cracks.
What cracks us up.
What gets us up out of bed every morning.
What we see when we look in the mirror.
What to do for a broken heart.
What to do when your what-if machine breaks.
What your tongue can tell you about your health.
What your health can tell you about your wealth.
What we can learn from our mistakes.
What we can learn from the color of a star.
What we wish for when we wish upon a star.
What truths are self-evident.
What our parents aren’t telling us.
What our politicians aren’t telling us.
What it means to be kind, what it means to be cruel.
What it means to be rich, what it means to be poor.
What to do to cleanse your colon.
What to do to cleanse your soul.
What to take for a yeast infection, or erectile dysfunction.
What a dangling or misplaced modifier looks like in a sentence.
What a prison inmate’s life sentence costs the average taxpayer.
What it costs to build a house.
What it costs to buy a house.
What Lincoln said about a house divided.
What Shakespeare said about destiny and the stars.
What scars we wear proudly.
What wounds we keep hidden deep.
What we’ve lied about, rioted about.
What we’ve remained absolutely quiet about.
What the coroner’s report will say about us when we’re gone.
What our families, friends, and coworkers will say about us when we’re gone.
What to do to get turned on.
What to do when you’re turned off.
What made Van Gogh cut off his ear.
What paint colors go together, or make people look more beautiful.
What it really means when people say beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
What eye color is most sensitive to light.
What it takes to power Times Square.
What 9/11 looked like from outer space.
What you can and can’t take on airplanes.
What you can and can’t buy with food stamps, or eat while pregnant.
What role folic acid plays in pregnancy.
What acid taught Timothy Leary.
What we should and shouldn’t be leery of.
What agitates us, brings us peace.
What meditation does to the brain.
What cancer does to the brain.
What we know about wisdom vs. intelligence.
What we know about ignorance vs. stupidity.
What stupid things people do with their smart phones.
What women do that drive guys crazy.
What guys do that drive women crazy.
What it really means when a guy says he’s scared.
What it really means when a woman says, “Fine.”
What degree of separation you are from Tom Waits vs. Tom Cruise.
What your musical taste, or taste in movies says about you.
What the chicken says when crossing the road.
What the road has told us when we’ve journeyed off alone.
What we’ve done for kicks on Route 66.
What 666 means to a mathematician vs. a devil worshiper, or biblical scholar.
What prayers to say for abundance, what prayers to say for healing.
What we’ve held in our hands.
What we’ll be handing over to the next generation.
What we’ve handed over as a bribe, peace offering, or evidence.
What the witness saw.
What the victim saw.
What the shooter saw when staring down the barrel of his rifle.
What we see when looking up at the clouds.
What we see when looking down deep into ourselves.
c. 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
“the fruit of war”
(CNN) – Pope Francis is having cards printed and distributed showing a 1945 photo of victims of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki along with the words “the fruit of war.”
The photo captures a boy carrying his dead brother on his shoulders while he waits for his turn at the crematory. It was taken by US Marine photographer Joe O’Donnell shortly after the bombs were dropped at the end of World War II.
The leader of the world’s Roman Catholics asked that “the fruit of war” be written in the back of the card along with his signature “Franciscus.”
A short caption explains the content and origin of the photo, it reads in part: “The young boy’s sadness is expressed only in his gesture of biting his lips which are oozing blood.”
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times,’” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter. “Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” – The New York Times
