Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Prompt – Contains IGH I had just finished my coffee and was looking at an enormous weed that had grown overnight on the lawn. All of a sudden, a little shadow was starting to spread around the weed. Looking up, I could see a still small square getting larger by […]
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Saturday Covid News Oh joy! Since I live just north of a hurricane I am always watching the weather come 01 June….and now we have our first storm in the Caribbean, Elsa….. Florida may soon feel the wrath of Elsa—and it’s going to be windy, not icy. Hurricane Elsa, which was preceded by Tropical Storms […]
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Is the GOP Inherently Corrupt? Our friend Jeff over at On the Fence Voters has written a thoughtful, brief analysis of how the GOP went from being “The Party of Lincoln” to being the party of obstruction and conspiracy theories. While we can see how the GOP came to be frequently referred to as the […]
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esterday, the Supreme Court dealt a crippling blow to voting rights across the nation. The case involved a voter suppression law in Arizona, and the court ruled in favour of the state, allowing the voter suppression and disenfranchisement to remain law. Unfortunately, this does not bode well for We the People, for it may well […]
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Screw Civics! I have personally thought that all this division in our government comes from the lack of civics education….our students have no idea how the government works and why. I begin this post with a quote from Fran Herbert, author of the Dune series…….“Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities […]
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Filosofa’s Mind Is Bouncy There was much in yesterday’s news that I could, perhaps should, be writing about. There was the Supreme Court decision to uphold Arizona’s voter suppression laws, Bill Cosby’s sentence being overturned, even though he has admitted his guilt, Trump organization along with CFO Weisselberg being charged with running a 15-year tax scam, […]
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Closing Thought–01Jul21 Did you know that suicide since 2001 are 6 times higher than those killed in action? Yes about 6 times higher to the tune of 30,000+ as opposed to about 7,000 killed in action. New research released Monday shows the post-9/11 wars launched by the U.S. military since 2001 have resulted in over […]
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#ReleaseBlitz “Lost on a Page” by David E. Sharp About the Book Title: Lost on a Page Author: David E. Sharp Genre: Fantasy / Science Fiction Some genres were never meant to cross. Joe Slade is a detective with a hot lead and a warm gun. He no longer believes in happy-ever-afters, but his faith […]
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CIA And Drugs I do not know if Americans know of the CIA involvement in the drug trade….if they truly cared then why is this still going on. This post was inspired by an article I read about the CIA involvement in the drug trade in Afghanistan (you remember than country right?)…….. This is a […]
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“Defund The Police” Oh boy the GOP has a new slogan for the next election cycle….a slogan but NO policy to address the term…..or the problem (which is typical these days….lots of slogans and NO policies) This is nothing new….as a matter of fact I have addressed the idea on several occasions…… https://lobotero.com/2020/07/21/is-it-police-reform-or-defund-or-abolition/ https://lobotero.com/2021/04/22/police-reform/ […]
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