I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Faith is not something that is passive. Our faith requires a commitment from us. If thoughts of lack come to mind, we counteract such negativity by counting our blessings and giving thanks for the abundance of good things we have. The ability of our bodies to heal is enhanced by our affirmations of life, which stimulate a positive response from the life within our very cells.
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What really gets me about Chauvin is they assigning him to train new officers. The look on his face while kneeling on the man's neck makes me want to tear it off him.
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I feel the same way gals.... Just makes me sick! Just because he was a Police Officer, does not give him or anyone else to uselessly take another man's life! Not unless they fear for their own life, I watched that un-fold, and couldn't believe that he just kept it up! No regard for another human suffering! He was already DOWN, and it was just plain murder!
I never would have passed jury selection.... I was chosen to serve years ago... Even after I said "I would like to serve on a jury sometime, but not on one with this much importance! It was a 1st degree murder trial. Both of the attorneys, AND the judge said "Doesn't matter! If you are chosen, it is your duty to serve".....
So even after I cried...., the trial was on... After a few days, they declared a mis-trial, or something, and she pled guilty, and it was over! Mary E. Blair... Her excuse was the gun was under her mattress, and it wasn't hers! And I never did find out what happened to her.
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I served jury duty on a drug trial. I was so mad at how it turned out, I decided never to serve again. The marijuana belonged to the husband and the meth belonged to his friend. The wife's involvement was living in the house. The wife was convicted because her name was on the house papers. She went to prison and the husband got her young children. The friend with the meth walked away. I'll say whatever I need to not to have to do that again.
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Mine was medical malpractice with wrongful death. A woman was very ill (systemic infection, failing liver, and several other major complications), and she died.
One of the lawyers for the claimant was a total idiot who wouldn't even listen to his own witnesses for hire. He kept harping on how the fact her hematocrit was dropping meant that she was bleeding out, and no one noticed. Every medical person on the stand said that's not how blood percentages work, but this guy was absolutely convinced she bled to death and no one cared. Then, after all that nonsense was heard, I was trapped in a room with 11 of the most selfish individuals I've ever met. "That family deserves $850,000 and not a penny less! If it were my family, I'd want that much money!" Even after we decided that it was just her time to go, they still wanted to make the hospital pay pay pay. No wonder health insurance is so expensive. They have to deal with these jackasses.
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I agree about Chauvin with you Wren. It was painful to watch that 'smirk' on his face as he kept his knee on Floyd's neck. I truly had the sensation that the training exercise was geared to -- let me show you the proper way to exterminate someone. That look was just sickening because it was so full of un-said words. Chauvin had a lousy record, but his biggest issue was doing this with a cell phone running. Didn't need body cameras on anyone. The world saw this murder and despite the horror that caused it, I was so 'happy' at last that there was such a united front from all different kinds of people. I still see at times Facebook posts from people I considered the best of friends with memes that seem to criticize if you want the police to be as accountable as everyone else.
Heard all sorts of excuses as well -- that the police are expected to do too much or whatever. That may be true in some cases, but I don't see where that allows you to take a person's life. I respect police officers as much as anyone but I hate seeing memes from people that seem to attempt to make me feel bad for demanding that the police be as accountable as anyone else would have to be.
I know my attitude would never fly on a jury. I am somewhat rigid in my sense of right and wrong and could end up a 'hold-out'. The only time I filled out a questionnaire as a juror I told them I didn't mind, but please sit me close to the door as the water pills I took kept me busy using the lady's room. I was excused and never called bad. Didn't hurt my feelings.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there
was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Love the quotes, especially the Camus one.
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Hot damn
I am almost in tears that Major League Baseball has taken a stand:
Commissioner of Baseball Robert D. Manfred, Jr. issued the following statement today regarding the 2021 All-Star Game:
"Over the last week, we have engaged in thoughtful conversations with Clubs, former and current players, the Players Association, and The Players Alliance, among others, to listen to their views. I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year's All-Star Game and MLB Draft.
"Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box. In 2020, MLB became the first professional sports league to join the non-partisan Civic Alliance to help build a future in which everyone participates in shaping the United States. We proudly used our platform to encourage baseball fans and communities throughout our country to perform their civic duty and actively participate in the voting process. Fair access to voting continues to have our game's unwavering support.
"We will continue with our plans to celebrate the memory of Hank Aaron during this season's All-Star festivities. In addition, MLB's planned investments to support local communities in Atlanta as part of our All-Star Legacy Projects will move forward. We are finalizing a new host city and details about these events will be announced shortly."
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Me too Devine. I also read by moving MLB this yr. the Reps. just removed 60 to possibly as much as ?? $83 million for the state of Georgia. I guess if the Reps. want to play, they will have to be willing to undergo the slings and arrows that may come from having made states possibly a lot poorer. Likely, until Kemp did this -- it seemed he might pull it off, but everything has a price. Now he and his Reps. cohorts are going to have some ill wind blowing about.
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You know, in this Floyd/Chauvin case, I couldn't agree more.
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Talk about ignorance and bliss. Or how to humiliate yourself in two small sentences.
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So I came across this meme today and would like to know if what it says it true. This would have been back in the 80s when I was not tuned in to the political scene. I know Reagan was very popular with many, but also have heard how horrible Reaganomics ended up being for middle class Americans.
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If I want to feel younger and look younger, then it's only natural that part of my daily routine is to laugh more. Laughing gives the muscles of my face, chest, and abdomen a workout. A hearty laugh stimulates my heart rate, causes me to breathe deeply, and releases happiness hormones, my endorphins. Laughter is one of the ways I express my gratitude to God. As I laugh, I release the gladness of my soul into the environment--creating something that's good for me and good for all those around me. -unattributed
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I'm sure some of that meme is true Divine. That was the first time Dh and I had to pay into our taxes rather than get any refund. We were considered at the time to be middle class. Like many, we counted on that little bit of refund to take care of any un-expected but needful purchases during the yr. and we struggled from then on. We finally began much later to get refunds again, but never like it was before.
Dh and I disliked Reagan immensely for that one thing and never, ever warmed up to him. I did though think Nancy was all right as a first lady. I admired her devotion to him, but overall, I think that is when I/ we began to feel highly ambivalent about the Reps. party. It has never been the same since and has now become un-recognizably horrid beyong words.
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Well, I WAS very tuned into politics back in the '70s-'80s (I volunteered, was a precinct committeewoman and state convention delegate in Seattle in 1976, and precinct captain & area chair for various progressive Chicago municipal candidates & our Congresswoman), and I can tell you the meme is, if anything, an understatement!
Ronald Reagan--who started as a pro-union Dem. when he was SAG president--saw his movie career wane in the early '60s, when he first began shilling for "Death Valley Days" and then became host & spokesman for "GE Theater." He got brainwashed by his corporate employers--who took him under their wing, wined & dined him and encouraged him to step up his political activity--into believing that the root of all evil in America is taxation of wealth and regulation of business. (He was fine with regulating individuals' personal behavior, including reproduction and recreational substances). They bankrolled his successful CA gubernatorial campaign (which rankled even Nixon) and then gave him his famous catchphrase that the scariest words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." He also revived Nixon's co-option of patriotism and conflating it with conservatism (especially GOP partisanship), not to mention creating the phenomenon of the social-conservative "values voter" and planting the seeds of the culture wars.
Thus were born not only Reaganomics but also libertarianism (the banner of which was first taken up by wealthy landowners such as ranchers who resented being told what they could and couldn't do with their property). "A rising tide floats all boats," but only those owned by the rich. It also floods all basements. It, more than anything else, spawned anti-union "right-to-work" laws that stripped the manufacturing jobs that had been the backbone of what lifted the blue-collar into the middle class after WWII of their ability to not just enable upward mobility but allow people without college degrees to buy homes and support their families without having to moonlight. Reaganomics & culture wars poisoned the public's minds against taxation & regulation (and spawned the phenomenon of the lower-middle-class voting against their economic interests for candidates they believe actually give a shit about their social/cultural/moral "values"). And libertarianism birthed Second Amendment-mania and the toxic militia movement.
If I could turn back time, I'd have been an enthusiastic booster of the "Bonzo" the chimp movies--that might have kept Reagan in showbiz instead of politics.
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My biggest memories of Reagan were "I'm a Contra too!", his conscious disregard for the growing AIDS crisis, and the General Dynamics scandal.
Now that I look at it, it reminds me of "Very fine people", conscious disregard for COVID, and the election campaign finance frauds. And they both descended into dementia during their tenures. Hmmm, maybe they weren't so different after all.
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Nail on the head, Ruth.
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The Reps. seem to be rowing backward as hard as they can:
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Jackie and Sandy, thank you for the insights into the Reagan presidency. It's so interesting, Jackie, that you noticed the change in the Republican party at that time, and how it affected you on a personal level. As I'm sure it did a lot of people and yet many of them seem to have forgotten.
Also interesting, Sandy, is that it was the Reagan years which, as you say, “spawned the phenomenon of the lower-middle-class voting against their economic interests for candidates they believe actually give a shit about their social/cultural/moral "values").“ I am aware of that phenom, but hadn't known when it originated. But I live among that “crowd" in my community/state. Your explanation of the rise of libertarianism gives me a better understanding of it.
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Divine, for a better understanding of the paradoxical aftermath of the Reagan presidency, I recommend Thomas Frank's What's the Matter With Kansas?, which came out in 2003 and signaled to me that Dubya would get a second term.
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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. Dorothy Day.
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This person has not learned that it is over for him. You are a loser and a first class whiner and you obviously have a super lack of understanding it is extremely hard for people to like, understand or work with a super whiny Me, Me, and Me person. You are so over with Chubbs and that is only going to get worse rather better. I guess though since you have lived your whole life being all about yourself it is far too late to learn now. So, just keep it up til the day you exit your heavily orange ambiance.
Sorry -- I couldn't get my bitly to work again, sigh !!! Trump smacked down for Easter morning statement showing 'resentment and rage' at losing election. He did wish Happy Easter first before he whined about the election that was stolen from him. He says nothing about the millions of dollars he has stolen from all of us and the us is so many of the poorer people who voted for him based on his highly empty promises.
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And oh does he have lots of other company in the Rep. party:
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In a word, yes !!
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How much I agree -- let me count the ways.
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