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UTUSN's JournalHe's (Gavin NEWSOM) slick and tough. Here's about Bill (MAHER) :
Coming up every week on Real Time with Bill Maher:
* Pot good.
* Religion bad.
* Wokeism worse.
* People are fat.
* Vaccines & doctors are stupid.
* Masks are dumb.
* Marriage is for fools.
* Kids suck.
* If it’s not about me, then I don’t care.
* I haven’t changed, you’ve changed.
* I'm a real Lib in the old way.
* I grew up with father/mother, man/woman, perfect (MAGA).
* Have I told you my ABC network show, Politically Incorrect, was cancelled?
* Let's go to Vegas if you're a special guest.
ON EDIT: * (mocking/shaming/giggling) I accept Gays but it's all about anal repulsing me.
Me out, too. My lesson from the Bill-Monica thing was that it's the Democratic AGENDA, not individuals.
I'm guessing I was one of many Dems at all levels (my level being down here) who privately were repulsed by the utter SELFISHNESS of both him and her but who went to the mat personally defending against the wingnut onslaught. It is so hard to jump all the hoops to attain the opportunity to wield power to advance our AGENDA, and those two threw it all aside for us to defend him, only individual him.
When it was over, I for myself decided that never again would I put one individual above the Dem AGENDA. We are not cultists to worship/idolize an individual at the expense of our AGENDA. We can admire an/some figures, even allowing for idiosyncratic failings, but if their failings are severe enough to derail the work on the AGENDA, nope. My do-over-wish of today is that Bill should have resigned and GORE take the baton, which would have also averted Coup-2000 and LIEBERMANN.
That said, besides, Hunter is not a political leader. He is on his own.
My KISSINGER dance card ain't filled up. I don't wish Death on anybody.
My 83 yr old sister has a list of our relatives in birth order, which some of our relatives think is a Death order. I believe her that it's not, just a who-got-here-first thing.
I keep a list, maybe it's a thing with us. As I say, I don't wish Death on others, BUT when I hear somebody died who DID ME WRONG *then* I put them on my list/more like a record.
So this applies to KISSINGER.
Well, shipmate, granted that no group is monolithic, but it's charitable at best
to give the segment of his Latino supporters credit on the basis of being "conservative" since Drumpf has no ideology beyond his narcissism, much less any supposed Conservative convictions re "family values" or institutional/societal norms that have never crossed his mind.
Even crediting Catholicism is not convincing since this would put them in the same cynical pocket of hypocritical evangelicals, which leaves the strongest rationale being the ugly resentment towards new immigrants. The first generation Cuban/CIA exiles are the spearhead of his Latino supporters that would be the link in this Univision incident, no?
Yes, I've heard some of his Latino supporters in the early phase give their reasons as: Businessman (hah); hatred of Hillary; their own small business hard work resentful of "lazy welfare and food stamps cheats"; and their liking his bullying "realism."
None of it comes from the better side of humanity. On that basis, they are, indeed, "monolithic" with the rest of his non-Latino Deplorables.
*** But the ugliness comes from the Mexican-American segment resenting immigrants and social programs and the Cuban segment of roots in wingnut dictatorship - ending up in ignoring the racism and their own self pride. Greed of the Univision executives is the rest of the puzzle, willingness to be collaborators with him who threw their star anchor Jorge RAMOS to be dragged out of his rally and have another anchor now quitting them in protest.
There's always *that* one
The 1st love of ur life
That u'r over
And half a century is over
And u've move on long ago
And so has that other
But they always think
they were really really quality
for being loved quality.
*** Previously, 11-03-2023:
Do you wonder, first love o'mine,these 50 years after,
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how I am, what my morning fiber is, etc., etcetera, et f cetera?
Neither do I about you.
FYI, my second love was better in every way,
Just so you know.
I still remember you told me how
You flinged with somebody who
Reminded you of me,
Like I was supposed to be flattered.
CBS boldly takes a moderate stand re Choice/abortion with ex-ABC's doctor Tim JOHNSON
It's been noted here at DU how the label "abortion" has overrun "Choice" in reporting over the recent election. Even Hillary used it almost exclusively on The View last week.
So his "middle ground" started off with the personal distaste for abortion, then hit all the right notes about considered Choice, and especially not dictated by men in power imposing according to their theocratic beliefs.
In the scorched earth divide that reigns, a common sense middle ground seems unreachable, as with gun control middle ground (i.e., a Drivers License type system).
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dr-tim-johnson-on-finding-a-middle-ground-in-the-abortion-debate/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8c&linkId=247810968
Dr. Tim Johnson on finding a middle-ground in the abortion debate
.... Being pro-choice is far more complicated. It involves the emotional issue of when life begins, and what choices are accordingly morally acceptable. When does life in the womb reach a stage when abortion would be more logically thought of as "murder" or "evil," and therefore prohibited? For many of us, that stage occurs when the developing fetus is capable of living on its own outside the womb.
And I do support women who, before that stage, thoughtfully conclude that another life to support will be destructive to her and/or her family. ....
I also vigorously disagree with those who would force a woman to experience the terrible trauma of completing a pregnancy caused by incest or rape.
Finally, I do believe that abortion is a decision best made by a woman and her family – not by a group of strangers (usually men) making legislative or legal decisions. Under our clear constitutional separation of church and state, it certainly should not be made by those in power based on their own religious beliefs. We are all entitled to our own religious considerations, but we should not impose them by law on others who may believe very differently. ....
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Inhumanity writ SMALL. For the purpose of seeing it LARGE.
Please: In NO/ZERO way is this post positing an equivalence of a small example with the mass events going on in many different levels and venues that we are witnessing or have seen in world events before or have learned about from history.
So, there is this busy street near me. In their wisdom the City honchos launched a long range plan to open up crosstown thoroughfares for the efficiency of, uh, crossing town. The unforeseen consequences along with the population booming are that my fellow denizens have taken it as license to breakneck *speed* and ROAR their motors and blasting music. Now, there's this strip alongside my part of the street that falls to me to maintain (mow, weedeat) - all with the speeding and roaring a couple of feet away. In some parts this is called The Devil's Strip.
Where the rub comes in: Fairly often, some of my fellow denizens of the universe take it upon themselves to loose bits of inner evil at my hapless self. Forget the mighty torrent of Ben Hur chariot congestion. Some *HONK* with blasting horns, when upon me in my face or, for better amusement, at my BACK to watch me trampoline. And with their speeding by, are long gone without any possibility of response by cussword, flying finger, or noting the identifying models or license plate. Not to mention having a beer can flung out their window in front of my mower. Granted, almost never, it might be somebody who knows me honking a hello, who later in person tells me I didn't acknowledge them, like I would know them or their vehicle.
*** But on to the point. Yesterday/Sunday, pre-dusk, taking advantage of the least travelled day, I was there doing the thing, blithely taking for granted those named evils would not happen. But one did. In the mid part of the session without hap, the street empty, a extra large pick-up in the lane closest, came roaring up and *BLASTED* the horn in my face. Now, the back of the truck was filled with equipment and tools. It was a working, laboring truck and driver. Perhaps he had worked on a Sunday, as commonly happens and in the near dusk was heading to his well deserved rest and relaxation. What he saw was somebody doing a laboring little chore while most people are relaxing. Despite the imbalance of my little labor compared to his heavy duty labor, he didn't show a little empathetic fellowship by just passing by without blasting, just go the way. No, as he sped off knowing I was sputtering with detestation, he must have been chortling.
*** Then, bringing it down from the impersonal to the personal: My 76 years have been chock full of piddling negativity from some relatives - passive aggression, withholding, lack of support. Another trait, the always-taking-the-other-side. And there I am, always falling for the inevitable grinding-down. So in the Sunday night "keeping in touch," I did my story telling about the day's horn blasting. And here's the kicker: She asked, "Were you in the street?" Stop here; get it? She automatically assumed that I was in the wrong, that the horn blaster did it for a reason. She could not even imagine or recognize the existence of MALIGNANCE.
*** Magnify this to the universal and atrocity is seen.
A poisonous litany for a family Petri dish
Negativity
Criticism
Judgment
Withholding
Passive aggression
Lack of guidance
Denial
Emotional neglect
Guilting
*** (from a poem of mine, 1981: )
.... ...shriek uncomprehendingly,
like a babe rejecting
a mother's tense and frigid teat.
Note to MucketyMagaMike, re the Bible: The free YouTube has hundreds, thousands
of clear-eyed, scholarly-in-quality videos on the sources of everything under the sun, in this case, that compilation of books (the Bible), its humanly cultural sources - think: Indo-European lore, Homer and Greek myths, the Sumerians, the Egyptians, how the Flavians invented Christianity as a gateway counterweight to Judaism and way more than I can cite. Highly recommended are the Mythvision videos. By the time the Bible was put together, lots of ideas - and the evolution of gods - from all those places and others/lost were "in the air" and put to use in endless reformulations and "creations" of later inspirations.
Any rationale to societal problems that begins with, "Because the Bible says so... " is not a thing.
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