The power of WE must take over the current power of I. We must come together as a people of the earth. We are earth citizens - not American citizens, not European citizens, not middle eastern citizens, etc. We are citizens of the earth and the sooner we adopt that mantra, the better off our world will be.

Send positive messages all around, everyday. The positivity of that video of the ballerina is tremendously inspiring. Let's keep a positive outlook in all we do, in all we say, in all we are.

Enjoy the day!

Funny how the pertinence does not change much with time.
Like the bit about Rhode Island... blow in their ears and they'll vote for anyone.
Ha! 'I resemble that statement' as Archie Bunker might say.

Recently read a passage in Ursula Le Guin's the wave in the mind
which made me think of your composting projects.

She refers to the poet Gary Snyder's description of a writer's similarity
to composting. Garbage in -- goodness out. Fertile imagery.
Specifically parsing the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

Cheerios!

From the golden age of television. Brilliant stuff and some very subtle innuendo at times.

Anybody remember the show "Turn-On"? It was supposed to be ABC's Laugh-In killer. It aired only one episode and immediately got the axe- some eastern ABC affiliates didn't even go back to it after the first commercial break, choosing to run dead air instead. Some affiliates in the western states got the word ahead of time and didn't air it at all. I remember watching it with my parents, and watching them basically freaking out- but not changing the channel...

Their reaction was far better television than the show, believe me. "The world's first programmed program", indeed...

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled they are unlikely to strike down the entire Obamacare health care law in a legal challenge brought by Texas and other Republican-governed states and backed by President Donald Trump's administration.

The justices heard about two hours of arguments by teleconference in an appeal by a coalition of Democratic-governed states including California and New York and the Democratic-led House of Representatives to preserve the Affordable Care Act, as Obamacare is formally known.

Chief Justice John Roberts and fellow conservative Brett Kavanaugh both asked questions that suggested they were skeptical of Republican arguments that all of Obamacare must fall even if one key provision, known as the individual mandate, is found to be unconstitutional. That provision originally required people to obtain insurance or pay a financial penalty.

"It's hard for you to argue that Congress intended the entire Act to fall if the mandate was struck down," Roberts said, noting that Congress did not repeal the entire law in 2017 when it eliminated the mandate's financial penalty.

David Sirota has been pointing out that democrats could put a halt to the SC lawsuits if she rewrites the part about the mandate. Take that out and woahla the hideously flawed ACA is saved by the bestest, oldest speaker of the house. He says that it is this simple. And Pelosi is not worried about it. She told Jake Yapper that the GOP had years to overturn the ACA and do something better. That they didn't even try was their tell according to her.

They also could have made abortion illegal through Trump's many executive orders or by the senate bringing a bill to do it. She says that abortion, the ACA, gay rights and guns have just been the carrot they've held over their voters heads for decades. Greenwald points out in his excellent article on how Bush/Darth Vader were much worse than Trump that Rove put gay rights on the ballot in as many states as he could to get evangelicals to get them voting GOP.

But wouldn't that just make some necks get whiplash if the Kav saved it ?

The stupidity & arrogance is breathtaking. https://t.co/MlevmdIy8Y

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