Earlier this year the NFL owners caved to pressure from President Trump regarding football players' silent protests against racial injustice.
Yesterday the billionaire owners flip-flopped.
Bakersfield? Buck Owens? What?
It is rare indeed that a man is named for his mother.
For in all ways save birth, my mother did
cause me to flourish. Each hurdle a step
higher than the last, but all within the reach of my stride.
A mortal life is short indeed. A labor thought
long and arduous. But as soon as it is done
another labor rose to challenge me.
For it is in my greatest triumphs
Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.
Good morning good people,
Simple
told in norms from long ago
skipping depths as flat rocks go
Well at least one segment of our economy is making money.
I suppose this probably puts the squelch to any “peace on Earth by Christmas’ fantasies I may have had. I doubt there’s going to be a whole lot of peace in many of the places those armaments went.
Lobbyists rejoice as US sells more arms in 6 months than in whole of 2017
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So I'm listening to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjT5siofJHk
and I thought of Hendrix, as I often do (OK you have Jesus, I have Hendrix, a problem? OK than.)
This represents a clash of cultures: white and black its real.
This means war!! How dare he do infrastructure projects funded by the government!! How will he find time between hacking US elections?!?!
About 9,000 kilometers of highways and roads in Russia will be transferred to federal ownership by 2021 before a major rebuilding project to boost the country's road infrastructure and the national economy.
From the very beginning Israel had two classes of citizens - Arabs and Jews.
But it wasn't until recent years that the divide was noticeable from the outside.
I have been in the air and on the road. The highlight of my travels so far was Vancouver Island, where the light shines luminously and long, and where I met the Sitka Spruce …
