Hi Folks, I've been away. (You've all been real busy here! w00t!) Only to return with shocking news on global temperature records in 2016. You may well ask, "WTF, G! We're not even three months into 2016 and winter just ended last week (although tell that to the Great Lakes region, eh)?"
Well, dear friends, it is pretty bad. How bad? See more below.
Quartney Davia Dawsonn-Yochum lived in Gateway Apartments, also known as Gateway Homeless Services, a 107-unit "permanent supportive housing project" for formerly chronically homeless people. The apartment complex is near Los Angeles' Skid Row.
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Saturday March 24, 1906
Boise, Idaho - Wife of Charles Moyer Believes He May Die in Ada County Jail
Dear Media,
Shall we start a war? How easily you ask that question.
Do you realize what you are asking? Do you have any idea? No, you do not, because it will not personally affect you. You might get some more ratings out of it. You might get an award for talking about it. You might get paid for your memories of the event that you watched through heavy glass.
Allow me, to explain to you, what you are asking.
I have noticed recently that a fundamental economic principle, ROI (Return on Investment) is fast becoming the underpinning of our national political and legislative debate. Simply put: Anything that provides a good return on investment is a thing worth doing, anything that doesn't provide a good return is not.
That leads us to our first question - Good return for who?
In today's Think Progress website, they report on the published study that looked into the causes of Flint's water woes.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/23/3762859/flint-investigation-s...
To say that it is breathtaking would be an understatement.
This evening's music features r&b and doo wop singer, Ben E. King. Enjoy!
Ben E. King - Stand By Me
Found the following email exchanges from Aisha Dew to Linda Watson on DFQ2 blog. They are consistent with the mass email sent out on February 11th by Aisha Dew to 12 staffers and volunteers. Here is the screenshot of them (sorry of the quality is poor):
A bill which would have forced Tennessee's transgender youth to use restrooms matching the sex assigned to them at birth failed in a House committee yesterday.
Religious conservatives had pushed the legislation, which was sponsored by Rep. Susan Lynn, R-Mt. Juliet, and Mike Bell, R-Riceville. But there was concern that the proposal might create more confusion — local schools already have their own policies on transgender students' bathroom use.
The bill died in a House Education Administration and Planning Committee meeting that was packed by transgender youth who opposed the measure.
