A police officer who kills a young black man not resisting arrest must not look enough like a ham sandwich to get indicted in New York City.
2,000 Palestinian and Jewish Israelis marching peacefully in
Jerusalem after an Arab-Jewish school is attacked. Moshe Kahlon for Prime Minister? Could someone in the early 21st century actually compromise? Not in America.
Guantanamo still open, hunger strikers force fed. I signed another petition. One, two many petitions. Obama – Yes, We Can - keep Guantanamo open -
expand spying on American citizens by the NSA - renew and extend the Patriot
Act .... etc. etc. etc.
Syria - 50% of the population displaced, outright refugees or home abandoned. 3
million Syrian children not in school.
What are they learning instead? Who to blame? I try to imagine 50%
of the American population being displaced, even 10%. Why
can we never put ourselves in anyone else’s shoes. Someday, someone is going to rise up and take
our shoes away and we’ll be walking in bare feet on broken glass in this country.
Ebola - 6,000 dead in Africa. Gay men still not to be allowed to donate blood. To the Red Cross - who appears to have exaggerated or outright lied in their endless harping on how 91% of every dollar donated goes to programs. It turns out 91% of every dollar SPENT goes to programs. Why is the Red Cross making money and what are they doing with it? Hey, worthless piece of shit Congress, how about investigating that?
Two sad pieces of news lately - a lovely woman, Tamara, finally lost her battle with cancer after a long hard fought battle. Fifty years old and gone a year after diagnosis - if you can call it a diagnosis when they never determined what kind of cancer it was. A woman beloved by her family, her friends, her synagogue, her community and basically anyone whose life her life touched. You will be missed, Tammi. This week I learned that the 23 year old son of a co-worker complained of knee pain over the Thanksgiving holiday, couldn't figure out when he strained it. It was swollen and really hurt. Visit to the hospital - bone cancer, requiring surgery and chemo at least. Still don't know what stage it is. Will someone tell me how a person who has a lucky break in life can say "I owe it all to God"? Hey, God! Why Tammi? Why a 23 year old young man? In fact, why cancer? And I'm not even warmed up or looking back at history... Maybe we all need to read The Sixth Extinction. Dinosaurs were on this planet for 10's of MILLIONS of years. We've had 50,000 and we're really screwing things up.
In this world, in the darkness swirling all around us, if you find the slightest glimmer of light, of hope, of love, of joy, of peace - hang on tight.
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