It considered one of the best FREE attractions in the USA.
As far as animal prisons go, this one looks very good. Spacious.
Annually, approximately 3 million visitors get the opportunity to experience 16,000+ animals in the Zoo’s care; many of them are rare and endangered. The Zoo is renowned for its innovative approaches to animal management, wildlife conservation, research and education. And as a free zoo, visitors are encouraged to come back again…and again!
“This is all very well, but I’d just like to know who is at home taking care of the babies?”
It might not have been Trump. But some other dinosaur trying to protect his white, male privilege.
In 1919, the Missouri Legislature approved letting women vote in presidential elections — an act made moot by ratification Aug. 18, 1920, of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting the denial of voting rights “on account of sex.”
I still have a dream, a dream deeply rooted in the American dream – one day this nation will rise up and live up to its creed, “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream…
I’m reading a book about those days. President Kennedy playing a balancing act between King and his supporters and the segregationists, mostly whites in the southern States.
Amazing days. King was far from perfect. Nor was Kennedy perfect. (Both were womanizers, for example.) But I admire both in different ways.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had been proposed by President John F. Kennedy in June 1963, but opposed by filibuster in the Senate.
Thereafter, President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed the bill forward, which in its final form was passed in the U.S. Congress by a Senate vote of 73-27 and House vote of 289-126 (70%-30%). The Act was signed into law by President Johnson …
I’d like to visit the new museum in Birmingham, Alabama.
4,000 lynchings
It’s inspired by the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.
Lest we forget.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening to the public on April 26, 2018, will become the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.
I saw this photo in a St. Louis museum. People protesting lynching.
We have some decades left using Petrotoxins. If you use them, you need to weigh all the alternatives for transport. Is this pipeline actually more dangerous than the alternatives?
I don’t think so.
Opponents, especially First Nations, were not sufficiently consulted. Perhaps not sufficiently compensated.
I’m hoping — in the end — some compromise can be decided. Otherwise we’ll be stuck with worse options.
The only other person on the scene when police called over a gentleman, I propped up my camera.
This gentleman did exactly what I would have done. Came directly to the first officer. Sat down immediately as requested.
Police were not aggressive in body language or any other way. Eventually they noticed my camera. Did not seem to care. I suspect most encounters go exactly like this. But are not reported
Mosley was imprisoned in May 1940 and the BUF was banned. He was released in 1943, and, politically disgraced by his association with fascism, he moved abroad in 1951, spending most of the remainder of his life in Paris …
The combined effect of the two laws was to transform Hitler’s government into a legal dictatorship. …
The Party of Catholics supported it.
Hitler negotiated with the Centre Party‘s chairman, Ludwig Kaas, a Catholic priest, finalising an agreement by 22 March. Kaas agreed to support the Act in exchange for assurances of the Centre Party’s continued existence, the protection of Catholics’ civil and religious liberties, religious schools and the retention of civil servants affiliated with the Centre Party.
As we know, the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XII did not do enough to challenge the Nazis or Mussolini.
Trump is not Hitler … but the Catholics supporting him reminded me of how Evangelical Christians support Trump.
Pastor John Pavlovitz calls out Christians who support Donald Trump:
“… It’s about my disbelief at your sudden tolerance for his infidelity, his cruelty, his intellectual ignorance, his disrespect for the rule of law—things you once claimed you could never abide. …
… my disappointment at your easily manipulated nationalistic fervor; how the God and Guns, America First, Love it or Leave it rhetoric … ”
Rick McCharles 