The US recognizes but no longer really celebrates JV Day, and recognizes National Blueberry Popsicle Day, but not the queen we overthrew (by proxy) in order to seize Hawai'i.
and it is also Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 26, 3184 YOLD
(for you Discordians out there)
Doubt if many here are going, but we'll be there along "Radio Row" - I guess they now call "Media Row," so stop by and say hello if you go! I won't be there this year - got a wedding this weekend - but theRoaringGirl - aka Kelly Lincoln - will be there holding the fort for us, our sixth straight trip to Netroots Nation, beginning in Providence, RI back in 2012.
On Monday Tee Tee Dangerfield, a 32-year-old Atlanta resident became the sixteenth transgender person known to be murdered this year. Dangerfield was found in her car near an apartment complex in College Park suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital but did not survive.
Please watch the embedded video from Storm Clouds Gathering.
I spent Thursday and Friday night watching live feed of the protest in Charlotte and the supporting protests in Atlanta, also following twitter, and FB feeds of supporters of the protests and the general flow of "commentary" on twitter, you-tube and so on. I would like to share my observations:
