There was a vigil last evening for Annabel Montoya, the East Los Angeles transgender teen who was intentionally run down by a vehicle in Monterey Park on around 2:30 am on Saturday April 2. Police have said that Annabel may have been beaten before being run down.
The 16-year-old Annabel is currently in a medically induced coma in the ICU at County-USC Medical Center.
WHY should not old men be mad?
Some have known a likely lad
That had a sound fly-fisher's wrist
Turn to a drunken journalist....W. B.Yeats
Anyone who doesn't recall, or needs to refresh their memory and refuel their resentment, should view Howard Dean's speech at the California Democratic Convention in '03.
Remember when Ted Cruz promised to carpet-bomb ISIS?
Tuesday April 10, 1906
San Francisco, California - Police Attack Protest of Workingmen
Ebola was a horrible emergency, so the GOP response was to ban travel, arrest and hold travelers to this country, and to harass and embarrass medical workers who did their best to stop the pandemic.
With a few exceptions, the Democratic response, led by President Obama, was to work with other countries, apply the best science and medicine, and eventually stop the spread of this killer disease.
I am not a young person, but, in my entire voting life I have never, ever voted for a candidate in which I had virtually no qualms about whatsoever. To be honest, I think I just shut off the part of my brain that used to say, "this isn't nearly enough" and just lived with it. So, about the title. Yeah, I know Obama used 'audacity', but he has long relinquished any form of boldness (as in,the day he was elected), so I'm claiming it for Bernie Sanders. It fits.
I was watching YouTube videos just before falling asleep last night, and this video came up in the feed. It struck me as the most well rounded, complete discussion of the coming impacts of climate change and what must happen in the political arena to be able to address this crisis.
Here is the description:
This one has nothing to do with politics but it does hit my own personal trifecta in that it has a biology element, a photography element and a big nerd element.
Technology companies routinely build sprawling data centers to store all the baby pictures, financial transactions, funny cat videos and email messages its users hoard.
~Emma Goldman
Sigh. Often I get to feelin' overwhelmed and dismayed when I think of the battles that we, and our younger comrades at arms, face. One of the best elixers for me is music.
I'm a recent refugee here from DK. I had relegated myself to lurk status over there, not commenting since 2013 and not posting a diary since 2011. I enjoy a political argument as much (if not more) than anybody, but I enjoy principled debate, where the exchange of ideas is paramount, not the exchange of personal insults, which is what DK has degenerated into over the years.
