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Sunday, May 31, 2020

Biden's VP



On Meet The Press today they were talking about who Biden should pick as his vice presidential running mate. My own personal favorite choice so far is Susan Rice, National Security Advisor to President Obama and also his US Ambassador to the United Nations.

Why her? She's smart (a Rhodes Scholar), she's tough, she's competent. If Biden were to die in office, she would have the political experience (worked for Clinton and Obama) and personal capability to be a good president. And I guess I just like her, based on the times I've seen her speak.

Here she is on Rachel Maddow's show at the time of the Ukraine scandal ...


Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Pro-life lies

How many times has the pro-life movement harped on the woman in the landmark Roe v. Wade case becoming anti-abortion? Now it has come to light that the notorious pro-life organization, Operation Rescue, lied. Again.

The woman behind ‘Roe vs. Wade’ didn’t change her mind on abortion. She was paid

When Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in the landmark Roe vs. Wade case, came out against abortion in 1995, it stunned the world and represented a huge symbolic victory for abortion opponents: “Jane Roe” had gone to the other side. For the remainder of her life, McCorvey worked to overturn the law that bore her name.

But it was all a lie, McCorvey says in a documentary filmed in the months before her death in 2017, claiming she only did it because she was paid by antiabortion groups including Operation Rescue ...


Personally, I don't see how one person's opinion changing would make a difference about anything, but this news just brings to the public's attention once again how morally bankrupt the pro-life movement actually is. Operation Rescue has lied, harassed clinic workers, bombed clinics, and murdered doctors. Why anyone would give credit to anything they promote is beyond me.

If I sound partisan, I am. When I was a volunteer at a local Planned Parenthood one summer during college, it was about the same time when anti-abortion violence was really taking off ...

[...] Incidents of violence have included destruction of property, in the form of vandalism; crimes against people, including kidnapping, stalking, assault, attempted murder, and murder; and crimes affecting both people and property, including arson and bombings. Anti-abortion extremists are considered a current domestic terrorist threat by the United States Department of Justice ...

That's what I think of when I hear the term "pro-life movement".

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Death threats



The "party of life" makes death threats against governor Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan.

Friday, May 08, 2020

Bernie

Bernie was on Chris Hayes' show tonight. He commented on the pandemic. How I wish he was president ...



Wednesday, May 06, 2020

First cell phone



For the first time in my life I have bought a cellular phone. I never got one earlier because I worried it was too expensive and that I would have trouble reading the tiny screen, but when I began having trouble with my landline I decided to look into a change. It *is* hard to see and I have to use a magnifying glass to read it, but I found that a used phone is less expensive and that I could get a plan that was not bad. Now all I have to do is learn how to use it ;) I am so looking forward to making videos with it that I can post here.

Monday, May 04, 2020

May the fourth

be with you :)

Friday, May 01, 2020

Grand portico



Fuzzy photo of Yoda napping under Grand Portico of the Temple of Philae, Nubia, a print of a lithograph of a drawing by David Roberts.