No pointing fingers, the USA is the biggest polluter on the planet.

The USA's Climate Crisis is real and must have clear and measureable goals to end and reverse the climate crisis.

President Biden won in 2020 it was to get rid of Trump. The voters got rid of Trump. They don't know or understand anything other than the fact they need to vote and choose the candidate they believe loves their country and matches there lifestyle with improvements in the way of taxes ended. 

Trump's shadow across the USA is fading. He claims victory with Youngkin, but, he never was present in word or appearance during the campaign. Trump is gone.

Now, the Republicans are returning to old rhetoric and it worked for them. Machin is running his next campaign against Biden. There is no cooperation and why? Because he is screaming deficit. Yet, Youngkin wants to cut taxes. Does the American voter actually have time to think about their vote or are they running on pure emotion? Thinking belongs to Democrats, emotion belongs to Republicans and they are using ever trick in the book.

Lower taxes regardless of deficits due to the pandemic.

Better eduction regardless of the USA being first in the world.

Where is health care? Women's rights? Children and the child credit? All these really great issues are part of the Democratic platform and they were nowhere in the campaigns. If Republicans continue to win, the average American will lose everything from health care to child care to their child tax credit. The Democrats are not touting their own accomplishments. 

The service industry that Clinton built out of thin air no longer is the focus of most Lower Middle Class or Poor. The unemployment served to elevate their education and/or training. They are not service economy people anymore and that is what the Democrats wanted for them. The Democrats have accomplished incredible feats for the Poor and Middle Class. The country is wealthier and stronger. The Clinton service economy is diminished. Americans are where they should be again and it is the Democrats that accomplished that. Why aren't they running on it, TO PROTECT IT?

By the way, the wealth of the USA Economy is the reason the USA is still number one in greenhouse gas pollution, both, currently and historicially. The USA MUST carry the climate crisis forward to end it and reverse it. Manchin is talking old climate rhertic, the USA has decreased it's pollution of greenhouse gases. The greatest economy in the world is the reason there is a climate crisis. President Biden is leading to change that, make it happen at the ballot box. Machin's rhetoric is the problem not the solution. He is on defense over nearly everything and that is where he and Sinema (some kindof athlete) is staying because the Republican rhetoric that wins helps them. 

Trump is dead, get on with it.

"My campaign started with a walk..."

"...and now millions of Virginians are walking together." (unity) Physical fitness while looking physically fit is an "attractive," some would call it sexy, characteristic of the Virginia voter. Physical fitness is a quality and not a luxury of a candidate.

To here Youngkin talk this morning, the Democrats never showed up. They allowed the Republicans to run on age old rhetoric, education as if there is something to fear from Democrats, money give away to the average voters in tax reduction and not a word about women's rights or climate. The Democrats did not show up to run in their own campaigns.

Youngkin ran without a Trump endorsement and/or appearance.

While he and Trump spoke during the campaign, Youngkin declined to identify with Trump. Trump has a shadow that is cast across the country when it comes to those that don't know the truth. That shadow is shade for those that are willing to bask in it. The voters that have alternative beliefs satisfied by alternative media, will never know the truth about anything. It is why door to door is important. The voters on the right are sequestered from truth-telling media. The right wing candidates are actors on a stage. The Democrats have to be the party of truth tellers. They need to say, education in the USA is not an issue. The USA competes globally. 

See that basketball. The one he is CARRYING. That is the white man vote.

November 1, 2021
By Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey

Democrats (click here) went all-in on Donald Trump in Virginia this year — but the far more nuanced game played by the former president and his Republican allies appeared to be on track to carry the day late Tuesday in the commonwealth’s race for governor.

Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin and Trump repeatedly spoke by phone over the course of the campaign, according to people familiar with the conversations who were not authorized to speak publicly, allowing the two men to go the length of the contest without saying negative things about each other or clashing on strategy.

Trump, who is known for his public demands of fealty, allowed Youngkin to cast himself as his own man, declining to invite Trump to campaign with him and deflecting questions about his support for Trump’s more polarizing views in an effort to make inroads in the well-heeled Northern Virginia suburbs....

See that coach? That is the white man vote. Tuberville is no more a qualified US Senator than the "Man in the Moon."

Popularity matters to attaining the white man vote. Sports are the MOST popular aspect of white men. Tuberville won as a populus candidate. In the 2016 election, before Trump was a failed president, it was the WWF. The white man's vote is shallow without a lot of depth. Why? Because they are working two jobs along with a wife working at least one. Recreation for the populous voter, is the fire pit in the backyard or at the park, local or camping. And sports. Sports is what they know because "the game" is picked up while working, either on television or the radio. Sports is the language of friendship.

Get with it. 

Our democracy is in the balance and the right wing is sequestered in it's belief system because of exclusive media coverage by SPECIALTY NETWORKS.

Door to door and while Democrats are handing out masks as they canvas, talk intelligent conversations to those that think about politics and what it means to their lives and their children's lives. But, work in populous concerns for those that are misinformed and admire populous image makers resulting in unqualified candidates like Tuberville. Don't keep conversations high minded if the people can't follow.

The Democrats are not elevating the voters to take on the issues of the day, they expect they know the issues. They don't. Talk to them and don't expect rallies to win elections. HEAR and LISTEN to the concerns and criticism. Make in roads by accepting the concerns and criticism and promise to act on them in the way the voters expect to have them handled. Don't wave to Wall Street while attempting to solve problems. Wall Street is just fine.

Tommy Tuberville (click here) led Auburn to an undefeated season in 2004. Now that he’s running for a Senate seat, will Alabama fans forgive him?

Education is not an issue and the Democrats need to enforce the real issues of climate, abortion and equity.

There is absolutely no mention of climate or abortion during any of the major campaigns. That is a mistake. The Democrats let the Republicans run on standard issues of their party and not the issues of the country or the Democrats. Education is irrelivant. The USA still has problems, but, is now ranked 1st globally according to many reports.

Politics is local. Trump is no more. And every person in the country if not already concerned about the climate crisis and abortion, should be.

Run on the issues that are most urgent like climate and abortion. Education is not an issue, unless, one wants to discuss the huge dispartiy in diversity between public and private schools. Diversity that is not only ethnic, but, also those that are disabled. Private schools do not admit disabled students and/or students of ethnic diversity, except on a rate occassion. The public schools have the most burden and the private schools are skating along without a care in the world. If private schools continue in this manner, segregation and racism will sustain for at least another generation.

Candidates have to get out from behind desks and in offices and make contact. Rallies have far less effect on voters and their issues than door to door. Wear masks and bring extra for those that want to talk and feel compromised to do so in the age of COVID.

The Supreme Court is dismantling precedent in plain sight.

November 2, 2021
By Josh Blackman

An Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court (click here) heard oral arguments in two challenges to S.B. 8, Texas' new abortion law. The "fetal heartbeat" statute allows private citizens to sue those who perform, aid or abet abortions. The government itself is expressly barred from enforcing the law. Texas cleverly made it difficult, if not impossible, for abortion providers to block the enforcement of S.B. 8.

Yet, two members of the Court seem prepared to creatively jettison long-standing precedent to stop the law nonetheless. Regrettably, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett have succumbed to judicial supremacy. A defeat here for Texas will be short-lived. But the long-term impact of this judicial descent will endure for a generation.

In our republic, the Constitution and other federal law are the "supreme law of the land." And Supreme Court justices take an oath to support and defend the Constitution and federal laws. But the decisions of the Supreme Court are not the "supreme law of the land." And Supreme Court justices do not take an oath to defend the decisions of the Supreme Court. For much of American history, these principles were self-evident. But in Cooper v. Aaron (1958), the Supreme Court purported to elevate its own decisions to the status of "supreme law of the land." In doing so, the justices arrogated to themselves the power to resolve any constitutional dispute, notwithstanding the traditional rules of adjudication....

The issue of maintaining precedent in the USA is on the ballot without it being written on the ballot. The Climate Crisis is on the ballot. Abortion is on the ballot. The Republicans are having an easy campaign season because the candidates are being branded as a threat and why? Because of "critical race theory." Did I hear the word "race," yet again? This is not an issue. AT ALL.

Throngs of young people are telling the world, greenhouse gas pollution is not acceptable anymore!

October 31, 2021
By Karla Adam

Glasgow, Scotland - Greta Thunberg (click here) may not have been officially invited to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, but on the first day of the conference, she was making her presence felt.

The Swedish teenager, who is something of a rock star for climate campaigners worldwide, is among thousands of activists descending on Glasgow for the 12-day U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, which kicked off Sunday. They are calling on world leaders to take bold action to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 Celsius above preindustrial levels....

Throngs of people have come to Glasgow to see and hear Greta Thurnberg. She was escorted by police so she wasn't crushed by the crowd.

She is the one true and innocent voice that spells out the purpose to this meeting called COP 26. She is the generation that will suffer the most from the ills of capitalism and political corruption.

Greta Thurnberg (click here)

Decades of facts and records in journals and government agencies spell out the one reason Greta Thurnberg sat down outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018 when she 15 years old. That is the age when most young people are looking to the future and their place in it. What she saw was dispair and hopelessness because the future had her trapped with greenhouse gases chaing Earth on a merciless path. 

For decades, the world's governments have spents billions if not a trillion by now on learning the secrets of Earth and how to protect from natural disasters. This is not a natural disaster. If one wants to look at it that way, then realize this natural disaster is aided by human activity that produces and pollutes greenhouse gases.

She is not alone. The throngs of people that have gathered with her are in Glasgow to tell the world this is the last best chance of protecting the generations today and to come from deadly physics of excess greenhouse gases in the atmospheres of Earth.

Malala (click here)

This is the generation that has more right to be the policy makers at Glasgow than any other. They are correct and need to be heeded. This is the end of the fossil fuel use for energy. We can do better and we will do better.

Ms. Thurnberg is 18 years old and will be 19 on January 3, 2022. She needs to be a policy maker and should run for office to the Swedish Parliament. She and many other young adults need to take the power of government away from those that allowed the corruption in the belief that fossil fuels are necessary. They are not. Fossil fuels creat cash flow for Wall Street. 

The world can do better. The world has to do better. The USA has a heavy lift as it has the largest amont of historical greenhouse gases in the world. It is time to sanction countries that fail to live up to the promises they made. The fossil fuels imported by the USA should be cut year after year to end the assault on Earth's climate.

Everyone should be proud of these young women. They are accomplished and correct. We need not know anything else.

Failure is not an option.

Love life, enjoy each deay. I hope everyone has the "Happiest of Halloweens"

"Facebook" has a new parent company called "META." They forgot one thing, adding the word DATA.

Right now the data Facebook has on anyone in the world probably drawfs the META DATA at the Utah Data Center of the NSA (click here).

I find the new name of the company more parody than appropriate. I suppose Zukerberg looked at "Alphabet" and decided since he monopolizes so much information there needed to be a parent company that could jetson "Facebook" for a new name. Right now, Facebook has too many marks against it's name and a new fresh image would be appropriate. Along with a new name, of course, are better algorithms safe for the very essence of democracy.

Much of the permissiveness that fuels these elements in the USA that would see our democracy curtailed and destroyed, began the same time as Facebook. It was post 911 and personal information was flowing like water to be sure an American could get on a jet. September 11, 2001 brought with it the Patriot Act and all the invasive measures that could exist to find those secret terrorist cells.

"Meta" is yet another means to unmask every human life in the world and put it on display for a variety of reasons. Meta is destined to be another Cambridge Analytica (click here) that can get away with every unthical practice in the business because they are desired by many more people than Cambridge Analytica. Whoever heard of Cambridge Analytica?

This is the problem. The shuffle of what is private and should not be part of a general circulation of information and what is social? There has been far too many issues with preserving American's privacy. Need I bring up the name Edward Snowden?

28 October 2021

Today at Connect 2021, (click here) CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta’s focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.

The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today’s online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. It will let you share immersive experiences with other people even when you can’t be together — and do things together you couldn’t do in the physical world. It’s the next evolution in a long line of social technologies, and it’s ushering in a new chapter for our company. Mark shared more about this vision in a founder’s letter.

Our annual Connect conference brings together augmented and virtual reality developers, content creators, marketers and others to celebrate the industry’s momentum and growth. This year’s virtual event explored what experiences in the metaverse could feel like over the next decade — from social connection, to entertainment, gaming, fitness, work, education and commerce. We also announced new tools to help people build for the metaverse, including Presence Platform, which will enable new mixed reality experiences on Quest 2, and a $150-million investment in immersive learning to train the next generation of creators.

You can watch the full Connect keynote and learn more about how the metaverse will unlock new opportunities at meta.com. You can also learn more about our work over the past several months to develop the Meta brand on our design blog. Read all our news in the posts below:...

This was Snyder's Michigan. Few in power to control every outcome and when control was not available, then scapegoat.

Ms. Liane Shekter Smith should be a witness in any trial. She is the face of corruption by Snyder and how he manipulated every outcome in the State of Michigan.

October 20, 2021

Liane Shekter Smith, the only Michigan official fired in the Flint water disaster, was likely a "public scapegoat" who lost her job because of politics, an arbitrator said.

The only Michigan official fired (click here) in the Flint water catastrophe likely was a "public scapegoat" who lost her job because of politics, an arbitrator said in ordering $191,880 in back pay and other compensation.

It's a remarkable victory for Liane Shekter Smith, who served as head of the state's drinking water office when Flint's water system was contaminated with lead. She was removed and then fired in 2016 and subsequently faced criminal charges in one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

Shekter Smith was dismissed while engineers in her department — the "boots on the ground" in Flint — were suspended with pay before ultimately returning to work, the arbitrator said in a 22-page report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

Sheldon Stark said the state had failed to show by a preponderance of evidence that there was "just cause" to fire Shekter Smith, who had an "exemplary" record in government.

The arbitrator noted that Keith Creagh, director of the Department of Environmental Quality, fired Shekter Smith without even speaking to her about Flint or waiting for a state police investigation that exonerated her.

"No one ever asked (Shekter Smith) for her story," Stark said....

SAVE THE SETTLEMENT IS ON!!!!

The lawyers love it!!!!  

What could be wrong?? But, Ms. Edwards, there is plenty to be said about ethical behavior, especailly where there are fiducary relationships like with lawyers. BUT. There is often nothing illegal about unethical behavior. Yes, greed is a very unethical behavior.

October 27, 2021

Connie Edwards, who has lived in Flint for 68 years, stands with a protest sign as she listens on during a news conference protesting the attorney fees of the Flint water settlement outside of the Genesee County Circuit Court on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 in downtown Flint.

Flint - Dozens of Flint residents (click here) mistakenly opted out of a $626-million partial settlement related to the Flint water crisis, and a federal court official is recommending they be allowed to withdraw their initial filings and make claims for damages.

Special master Deborah E. Greenspan filed the report in U.S. District Court this week and gave a status update on her work to Judge Judith E. Levy during a virtual hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 27....

Defining the lines of the new civil war.

The Rittenhouse judge is seeking to divide the country along race lines. He is stating minorities don’t have the same standing as Caucasian people. He is trying to create tension and not justice. 

He is setting precedent to sway the jury and legitimize the use of weapons of war on the streets of the USA against unarmed minorities.

If the deaths and injuries of the Rittenhouse vigilantism were conducted during a crime, the lives and maiming have rights. Rittenhouse has no legal standing except vigilante. There were police at the scene and were not engaged in armed assault.

Self-defense is non-sense. He doesn’t live there and was not performing a vital task to save lives and property. There were police legally hired and employed by the people.

When someone openly carries a weapon of war into a crowd of unarmed people there is only one motive, mass murder. What makes him any different from the mass murder in Las Vegas? A hotel instead of a street? A concert instead of a protest? Killing for the sake of killing is a crime. There was no self-defense.

How can a vigilante claim self-defense? He didn’t even belong there.

Rittenhouse was approached by a person with a handgun because he was killing people. The people were trying to disarm him. In doing so, the people were using self-defense to end his assault. Rittenhouse was the perpetrator and the others were attempting to disarm him and end his ability to kill.

It gets interesting with a warming planet when snow is rain instead. How many inches of snow does New Jersey get every year since the warming?

October 26, 2021
By Jeff Goodman

While there’s a lull in the nor’easter early Tuesday afternoon in New Jersey, (click here) we’re not quite finished with a storm that will end up dumping as much as 6 inches of rain on parts of the state by the time it wraps up Wednesday morning.

The good news is that the heavy, flooding rains are over and that the precipitation expected to resume later in the day will be mainly light to moderate, forecasters say....

Wow. Talk about racism in the judiciary.

October 25, 2021

By Stacy St. Clair

Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyers can refer to the men he shot as “rioters” and “looters,” but prosecutors still may not call them “victims” at any time during the teen’s upcoming murder trial, a judge ruled Monday.

Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder cautioned the defense team against using pejorative terms during opening statements, but he said they could use them in their closing arguments if the evidence suggested the men engaged in criminal acts....

There is every reason to believe there will not be a fair trial for The People, Rittenhouse is doing just fine. Below is a look at the jury pool.

October 27, 2021
By John Keilman

Scott Seip, 76, and Dee Seip, 63, stand together in their yard after sharing their thoughts on the mood in town on Oct. 19, 2021, in Kenosha, Wisc. 

Kenosha - If you want to know (click here) how this city feels about the impending Kyle Rittenhouse trial, a conversation with Scott and Dee Seip is a good place to start.

One mile northwest of their house is the still-vacant commercial strip that burned during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. One mile northeast is the street where Rittenhouse, a teenager from Antioch who said he came to Kenosha to provide security during the unrest, shot two men to death and wounded a third.

With Rittenhouse’s murder trial set to begin Nov. 1, the international spotlight promises to focus once more on this mid-sized, postindustrial city on the shore of Lake Michigan. Numerous opinions and concerns about the case could be heard around town last week, many of which were reflected by the Seips.

Scott Seip, 76, is a Democrat. He thinks Rittenhouse was in the wrong and needs to be held accountable for his actions. His wife Dee Seip, 63, is a Republican. She thinks Rittenhouse was defending himself and a local business and deserves to be acquitted.

But there is one thing they agree on: Trouble might flare once more after the verdict....

Interns beware.

It appears to me Wall Street is lined with savages looking for their next money fix. Basically, as evidenced by this event, they can be dressed up, but, they can't go anywhere.

October 13, 2021
By Isabella Khadem Hosseini

Patrick Blumenthal (click here) settled a proceeding filed in February 2020 against Goldman Sachs and his bank boss.

Goldman Sachs has settled a lawsuit filed by a former intern. He claimed that his boss had been so fooled that he left permanent damage to his brain.

Patrick Blumenthal interned at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco from September 2017 to February 2018.

The settlement, which Bloomberg first reported on Friday, took place a week before the hearing on the investment bank’s request to dismiss the proceedings.

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed in the submission to the San Francisco Superior Court.

“Goldman Sachs has not commented on the issue,” said Maeve Duvalley, a bank spokeswoman.

While working for the company, Blumental was assigned to “Team 007” under the leadership of Julius Elkimov, Goldman Sachs’ private financial asset adviser called “Fast Julie.”

On February 9, 2018, Blumenthal went out for a drink after working with about 12 colleagues....

Abortion is being used for large political donors.

This is an Letter to the Editor from Grand Forks, North Dakota. I was completely surprised to read such a thoughtful opinion supporting women seeking abortions from a very red state.

The abortion law in Texas is extremely radical and does not track with any other abortion provision in The West or other states of the USA. All this, no different than the judges out of The Federalist Society, is for money for politics. It is ALL quid pro quo. The Federalist Society and/or wealthy conservatives get what they paid for when promoting the election of a conservative Republican.

I sincerely believe this extremism that hurts women and removes their right to their own bodies is all about political monies from donors and the donors ambition to achieve a theocracy out of a democracy.

October 26, 2021

Women (click here) who are denied abortions are often in situations of domestic violence and having to keep the baby may force them to stay in contact with violent partners who put them and their baby at risk.

The Oct. 9 Grand Forks Herald letter to the editor, “Abortion is not a woman’s right,” discussed how women should not have the right to make decisions about carrying a fetus to term because life begins in the womb. The letter, however, made no mention of the limits already in place on abortions, such as prohibiting them after viability, or after 20-weeks, which is before the viability age.

This means that the vast majority of abortions, unless they are taking place due to circumstances that threaten the carrier’s life, happen before there is any chance that the fetus could survive birth. The argument that pregnant women are killing babies is unfounded and harmful.

The fact is, if legislatures strip women of the right to have safe abortions, then the rate of unsafe and potentially life-threatening abortions will rise (limiting abortions). Laws restricting access to safe and legal abortions disproportionately impact low-income women, women of color, and women in rural areas in incredibly harmful ways. It is a discriminatory restriction that has the worst effects on already marginalized women....

Women are receiving expanded rights for abortion everywhere else in the world, except, Texas.

October 26, 2021
By Isaac Nowroozi

The Northern Territory government (click here) has today introduced legislation to parliament to make it easier for women to access later-term abortions.

The proposed amendments would allow women to access a pregnancy termination between 14 and 24 weeks, with the support of one doctor instead of two.

They would also introduce an option for pregnant women to access termination after 24 weeks for medical reasons, with the support of two doctors.

Currently abortions after 23 weeks are prohibited in the NT, unless deemed necessary to save the pregnant person's life.

It is a move Family Planning NT has been calling for for years.

"This is similar legislation to other states and territories," Family Planning NT chief executive Robyn Wardle said.

Tom Cotton contributes to the insurrection.

An editorial in "The Epoch Times" written by Newt Gingrich, stated education from K - 12 was a Republilcan asset. In it Gingrich goes on to say that choice is a parents last hope for their child's education and it is a Republican winning asset.

Today, Tom Cotton attacked Attorney General Garland because he could but not because he should. There was no reason to attack AG Garland.

October 27, 2021
By Harper Neidig

Attorney General Merrick Garland (click here) on Wednesday clashed with Republican senators over the Justice Department's efforts to crack down on violent threats against school boards, with one GOP member telling the former judge, "Thank God you're not on the Supreme Court."

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) made the remark during a heated exchange in which the senator tried to tie the Justice Department's new school board policy to an incident in Loudoun County, Va., where a teenager was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student in a school bathroom.

"This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful," Cotton said. "Thank God, you're not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge."...

Cotton was plugging into the fear of COVID-19 among parents. Tom Cotton, all of a sudden, doesn't believe in the Rule of Law.

AG Garland wrote a regulation stating that if School Board Members are threatened it can and should be considered a crime. The issue at hand is that School Board members are elected by the people and while a minority of people may not like the election outcome they have no right to threaten School Board members if they open schools while the virus is still a problem in the community.

The way the USA handles such issues is that elections can change the way a school board decides it's regulation of schools.

I understand that some parents want the schools open and diminishes the problem with the virus and some parents are more protective and want their children home, safe from COVID-19, and on zoom for classes. School boards have it tough. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't. So, the idea AG Garland is a crackpot of some kind in regard to protecting elected officals of School Boards is nothing but pandering to the extremist voters of the USA that receive their news through crackpot news organizations.

Attorney General Garland is doing the right thing and is upholding the Rule of Law. Lord only knows what sort of order Cotton is expecting anyone to abide by, probably anarchy. Live by the gun, die by the gun. 

What are we paying people like Cotton for anyway?

Have there been enough tears in the entertainment industry over guns in the work place?

To begin, guns are deadly and belong nowhere near human life. I don't care what kind of industry it is, there is no room for guns. There are digital enhancements that can be used without the requirements of actual guns on the set of any movie. GET IT DONE! If Star Wars and Star Trek didn't need guns then no one does.

Additionally, SOCIALIZING brings down the brevity of guns anywhere. We are all used to seeing guns hanging on the hips of movie stars as they strut into a bar scene that ultimately ends in a death of someone, usually the bad guy with a gun. But, the idea socializing is normalized with guns that are within "killing distance" is completely incorrect. 

Anyone ever attend a gun meet? A competition for shooting enthusiasts. There is no major noise at the ones I attended and everyone is aware they are in a dangerous but controlled environment. Do yourself a favor and attend one gun competition and observe the atmosphere and the SAFETY involved at these events. The competition makes it serious, but, the underlying understanding that a misfire or a wrongful handling could end up with a wound or worse is always apparent. The ones I attended didn't have children playing in the background either. The socializing that obviously exists among these competitors takes place at a restrauant afterwards and not at the tailgate of any truck, SUV or car. 

Guns and socializing is not a good thing, it is negligence.

October 26, 2021

By Andy Rose and Susannah Cullinane

The shot that killed a cinematographer (click here) on a New Mexico film set last week was fired as actor Alec Baldwin was practicing drawing his gun, according to the director who was injured in the shooting, an affidavit for a search warrant shows.

Joel Souza, director of the film "Rust," was shot in the shoulder and director of photography Halyna Hutchins, 42, was killed when the prop gun went off during a rehearsal at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe on Thursday....

Would the USA exist without Bob Woodward and his influence and examples?

It is obvious that Steve Bannon was the driving force behind the overturn of the USA Constitution. Interestingly and rarely said, is the fact Trump was Bannon's puppet.

I think the USA media needs to police it's members. Facebook is part of that. The players of the One America media and all the right wing extremist sites need to be held responsible for carrying Bannon's messages to the world as well as the American people. Is Bannon's aspirations any different than that of China in controlling the content of the media on a daily basis? Is China and Russia, Bannon's models for media? I think so. 

Bannon is a power player. He has been since his entrance into media services. He needs puppets. I can honestly say he has assaulted the US Constitution and the social freedoms of this country to remove "the norms." There is absolutely nothing wrong with "the norms" of the USA. It is a great society as well as a great country. Family focused, freedom of expression in enthusiasm of rights including that of children. Children and the natural world are eliminated in Bannon's rhetoric and power struggles.

The USA and The West are the few societies that value and elevate children as important to a stable and prosperous future. The idea of diversity will die with Bannon and his aspirations. He has to be recognized as a danger to democracy and made part of the record of this country.

 

US Rep. Elizabeth Cheney is the ONLY voice the Republican Party should embrace.

There are vast numbers of people behind her. The media does not reflect that. She is so powerful in her analysis that the extremists fear her and are working overtime to defame her and bring her power to an end. Her voice is vital to our Constitution and she is the ONLY voice that should be speaking for the Republican Party.

October 22, 2021 

By Victoria Eavis

An unprecedented amount of out-of-state money (click here) is pouring into Rep. Liz Cheney’s reelection effort, as she campaigns in one of the nation’s highest-profile congressional races.

The third quarter was the second-biggest fundraising period ever for Cheney, who is facing a tough reelection fight after her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump. She raised just over $1.7 million during that period, which runs from July to September.

These hefty donations came on the heels of Cheney’s all-time fundraising record, $1.9 million, which occurred one cycle earlier....

 

"Good night, Moon"

The waning gibbous

18.8 day old moon

84.4 percent lit

These coming weeks are about Earth. The moon has it's place in the sky.