Donald Trump, toddler President, is the worst politician that ever happened to the USA. I’m embarrassed for the nation. 🤨
Fiscally conservative Economist Magazine put together stats on 11 key economic indicators. The numbers aren’t all bad. Yet.
I love freedom of speech. But also freedom from speech.
There’s no reason to listen to idiots or extremists. They can say what they want — within the law — somewhere I don’t have to see it.
From xkcd.
I don’t particularly like Bill Maher.
But when he nails it, he nails it. 😀
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Saint Louis Zoo, is in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri. …
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!
The polar bears were a highlight for me.
Donald Trump:
“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 Have a Dream” is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States …
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…
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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 …
Warm-up acts at the 1963 March on Washington:
Gospel legend Mahalia Jackson sang “How I Got Over“, and Marian Andersonsang “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands“. …
Joan Baez led the crowds in several verses of “We Shall Overcome” and “Oh Freedom“. Bob Dylan performed “When the Ship Comes In“, for which he was joined by Baez. Dylan also performed “Only a Pawn in Their Game“, a provocative and not completely popular choice because it asserted that Byron de la Beckwith, as a poor white man, was not personally or primarily to blame for the murder of Medgar Evers.Peter, Paul and Mary sang “If I Had a Hammer” and Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind“. Odetta sang “I’m On My Way“.
Charlton Heston, James Baldwin, Marlon Brando, and Harry Belafonte were there.
Charlton Heston supported civil rights?
Yep. He was a big booster of Democrats before switching to the dark side with Reagan and then the NRA.
I’d like to visit the new museum in Birmingham, Alabama.
It’s inspired by the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.
Lest we forget.
I saw this photo in a St. Louis museum. People protesting lynching.
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Actually, I’ve only recently looked at the issue. So this is a weak endorsement.
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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.
St. Louis MO April 19, 2018.
Rule of law is critical to society. I like the police. But I like them better when video is rolling.
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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
Have you heard of this guy?
Oswald Mosley was leader of the British Union of Fascists(BUF). …
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 BUF was protectionist, strongly anti-communist, strongly anti-zionist and nationalistic to the point of advocating authoritarianism. …
I couldn’t recall hearing of any Brits who supported Hitler and Mussolini.
But they did exist.
Rick McCharles 