This post marks a return to one of my favorite themes - that just about anything can be the subject of an interesting photograph.
This weeks assignment is: Boring (yup you read that right).
More money! More money!
[T]he department’s total budget (increased) to more than $10.7 billion. That will make it the fourth highest budget in the state after K-12 education, health and human services and higher education.
California's prison house more than 100,000 people. The population has gotten so large more than 4,000 are housed out of state in Mississippi and Arizona.
Of course you are aware that around the country there are legislative efforts to force transgender people to use the bathroom and locker rooms reserved for the sex we were assigned at birth. In some places, it is phrased rather as requiring those facilities to be segregated by chromosomes.
Awkward, that. As a society, we have never determined assignment of sex at birth by a test of chromosomes. I'm 68 years old and, as far as I know, I have never had my chromosomes tested. Ever.
I find it stranger still that the forces calling for this anti-transgender discrimination have such little regard for science in general. These are people who believe the universe was created between 6000 and 7000 years ago, that a woman was created from the rib of a man, and that Jesus rode to Sunday School on the back of a dinosaur.
It seems like every time there's a mass shooting or similar tragedy, there's always some asshole with a youtube channel and Windows Movie Maker ready to trivialize it by screaming about how it was a hoax. You can find all sorts of videos like this on virtually every subject, but in the last few years, it's gotten particularly bad from Sandy Hook onward. It's gotten so bad that these folks don't even try to sound reasonable anymore.
I am appalled how Ms Wasserman Shultz has been treated by the Democratic Party, how can someone so loyal to the Party now be pilloried for doing exactly what she was selected to do? If anyone in this campaign has borne the brunt for the failure of the Democratic Party to convince it is her, the primaries were organized to ensure that the Party program would progress as foreseen.
This from a CounterPunch article dated July 7, 2011, by Margaret Kimberly:
From top. Permission from author to post in full here.
Jun 17, 2016
by Cab
Dear good guy with a gun.
Breaking news!
A week after Obama declared that he’s “down with TPP” on the “Tonight Show,” a group of rock musicians and Hollywood actors is launching a “Rock Against the TPP” road tour to rally the public against the 12-nation trade
Tom Morello steps up!
We've got the perfect opportunity to show how it works. On Monday, the Senate will vote on four gun control measures. Democratic senators filibustered for 14+ hours in order to convince the stupid Repukes that it's okay to have some restrictions on the Second Amendment.
Per Reuters
