Friday, July 6, 2018
Thursday, July 5, 2018
A Revised Pledge
I pledge allegiance to the PEOPLE of the United States of America, and to the democracy for which we demand, one diverse nation, part of one incredible world, with liberty and justice for all!— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) July 5, 2018
Goodnight, America. A happier birthday next year! https://t.co/OYnakPU5rw
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Again and Again and Again
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
Black State Rep. Says Someone Called Cops On Her While Canvassing
The constituent alerted police as Rep. Janelle Bynum was knocking on doors and spending lots of time on her phone.
By Willa Frej
An Oregon state representative called on her community to be better to one another after a constituent mistook her behavior as suspicious and called the police while she was canvassing.
“Big shout out to Officer Campbell who responded professionally to someone who said that I was going door to door and spending a lot of time typing on my cell phone after each house—- aka canvassing and keeping account of what my community cares about!” Rep. Janelle Bynum (D) wrote Tuesday on Facebook.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-state-rep-cops-canvassing_us_5b3cadb1e4b09e4a8b28faaf
Black State Rep. Says Someone Called Cops On Her While Canvassing
The constituent alerted police as Rep. Janelle Bynum was knocking on doors and spending lots of time on her phone.
By Willa Frej
An Oregon state representative called on her community to be better to one another after a constituent mistook her behavior as suspicious and called the police while she was canvassing.
“Big shout out to Officer Campbell who responded professionally to someone who said that I was going door to door and spending a lot of time typing on my cell phone after each house—- aka canvassing and keeping account of what my community cares about!” Rep. Janelle Bynum (D) wrote Tuesday on Facebook.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-state-rep-cops-canvassing_us_5b3cadb1e4b09e4a8b28faaf
History Repeating Itself
I was reminded of an incident involving my oldest son, that happened twenty-three years ago.
Sometimes progress is hard to measure.
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First the current article:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rochester-school-wont-allow-its-first-black-valedictorian-to-speak-so-mayor-does_us_5b3d2326e4b05127cceebf06
Now the article from 1995:
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/24/opinion/in-america-the-valedictorian-s-un-graduation.html
Sometimes progress is hard to measure.
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First the current article:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rochester-school-wont-allow-its-first-black-valedictorian-to-speak-so-mayor-does_us_5b3d2326e4b05127cceebf06
Now the article from 1995:
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/24/opinion/in-america-the-valedictorian-s-un-graduation.html
That's Hot!
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week
By Jason Samenow
From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.
Large areas of heat pressure or heat domes scattered around the hemisphere led to the sweltering temperatures.
No single record, in isolation, can be attributed to global warming. But collectively, these heat records are consistent with the kind of extremes we expect to see increase in a warming world.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/03/hot-planet-all-time-heat-records-have-been-set-all-over-the-world-in-last-week/?utm_term=.47a9e0763dde&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week
By Jason Samenow
From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.
Large areas of heat pressure or heat domes scattered around the hemisphere led to the sweltering temperatures.
No single record, in isolation, can be attributed to global warming. But collectively, these heat records are consistent with the kind of extremes we expect to see increase in a warming world.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/03/hot-planet-all-time-heat-records-have-been-set-all-over-the-world-in-last-week/?utm_term=.47a9e0763dde&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
Quote
An excerpt from Salon -
Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump: Faint hope endures this Fourth of July
The former slave imagined a better America than this. Too many white people want to go backward: But there’s hope
By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. - Frederick Douglass
https://www.salon.com/2018/07/04/frederick-douglass-and-donald-trump-faint-hope-endures-this-fourth-of-july/
Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump: Faint hope endures this Fourth of July
The former slave imagined a better America than this. Too many white people want to go backward: But there’s hope
By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. - Frederick Douglass
https://www.salon.com/2018/07/04/frederick-douglass-and-donald-trump-faint-hope-endures-this-fourth-of-july/
Sound Advice
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
Barack Obama Said This Is How You Know You’ve Found ‘The One’
He has some great experience from his relationship with Michelle Obama to pull from.
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By Brittany Wong
“Is she someone you find interesting?” Obama said, according to Pfeiffer. “You will spend more time with this person than anyone else for the rest of your life, and there is nothing more important than always wanting to hear what she has to say about things.”
Questions one and two were just as weighty, though they required less explanation.
“Does she make you laugh?” Obama reportedly asked Pfeiffer.
Then, the conversation turned to kids.
“I don’t know if you want kids, but if you do, do you think she will be a good mom?” Pfeiffer recalled the president asking. “Life is long. These are the things that really matter over the long term.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-found-the-one_us_5b3bb3aae4b05127cced0eb0
Barack Obama Said This Is How You Know You’ve Found ‘The One’
He has some great experience from his relationship with Michelle Obama to pull from.
headshot
By Brittany Wong
“Is she someone you find interesting?” Obama said, according to Pfeiffer. “You will spend more time with this person than anyone else for the rest of your life, and there is nothing more important than always wanting to hear what she has to say about things.”
Questions one and two were just as weighty, though they required less explanation.
“Does she make you laugh?” Obama reportedly asked Pfeiffer.
Then, the conversation turned to kids.
“I don’t know if you want kids, but if you do, do you think she will be a good mom?” Pfeiffer recalled the president asking. “Life is long. These are the things that really matter over the long term.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-found-the-one_us_5b3bb3aae4b05127cced0eb0
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