tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46450262429256209202024-03-13T08:08:07.784-07:00Peace Center, Spa, and Sports BarWorking on peace in our nation and the world. Drinks are to the left, Massage Cream to the right, Bring your own Peace and Herbs!Bill Lennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01034902311902467597noreply@blogger.comBlogger779125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-13066718591439583122016-06-17T23:07:00.003-07:002016-06-29T00:14:44.461-07:00I Was Slammed Into Virtual Voter Prison For Signing a Petition!
Prison cells in the closed San Quentin facility.*
Yes. This is happening and to some decent and well meaning folks. Beware and understand it's easy for them to do it to you too.
Tuesday I showed up in the earlier parts of the afternoon at our local polling place as usual in a nearby park. I went just before most get out of normal work hours to keep the lines down in the early Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-5187441303851965562016-06-10T18:36:00.001-07:002016-06-10T21:00:06.290-07:00Funniest Thing on the Internet Today. Affuent White Teen Burning Her Elizabeth Warren Shirt for #BernieSanders
Shell Beach (Just North of Pismo Beach) Sunset showing the beauty of the area not to mention the cool clean air that creates high house prices ( Used via Creative Commons License Attribution 2.0) Thanks to Flickr user Trish Hartman here
First of all as a young woman of the 70s my first reaction was "Really? Burning a T Shirt? Girl that's just not enough!" Try the bra, Sweetie, or Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-51607514464342458702016-04-29T17:42:00.000-07:002016-04-30T17:25:03.245-07:00Hillary Clinton Exposed. Her Closest Associate Blows Her Cover.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-27715048016004150512016-04-03T23:34:00.001-07:002016-04-03T23:34:28.285-07:00Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Border Wall (HBO)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-90653995536406024912016-04-01T23:13:00.001-07:002016-04-01T23:13:41.520-07:00What's So Wrong About #BernieSanders 's Program To Pay Off Student Debt?
Poor starving post-graduate students want to know.
Source: Pew Research Center
In words: It will increase inequality in our nation, and "We've had quite enough of that Bushie game, thank you" (to misquote Barbara Bush).
But wait! This is important since inequality is the biggest drag on our society, yes it is.
Learn:
There are many reason why a student cannot get through college and theUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-35409417956511075702016-03-16T17:49:00.000-07:002016-03-16T17:49:01.481-07:00Ask Veterans if Bernie Sanders is Better for America. His VA (In)action Shows How He'd MakeOver HealthCare.
Bernie Sanders is running hard for the Democratic nominations to the point of calling people in in states that have so far chosen Hillary Clinton "Red Staters, and therefore of no value to him and his wife. In fact their wording implies all states that will vote for Ms Clinton are damaged goods, "red staters" despite that fact that in California Hillary is running 15 percentage points above Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-28756401821555410722016-01-31T20:49:00.002-08:002016-02-04T18:48:27.920-08:00Donald Trump's Great Wall. It's Been Done Before. How That Turned Out.
This Long and Mighty Wall, Manned By Fierce Troops, Didn't Keep the Mongols Out of China
So, Trump, how's that "wall" supposed to work again?
(Attribution at bottom)
Donald Trump likes to point at immigrants and claim they are harming the US, and that's very questionable, But more importantly we have to ask if a wall however artfully crafted and strategically placed would do the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-59635085257044325192015-08-23T21:23:00.001-07:002015-08-23T21:30:31.512-07:00John Oliver: When Municipal Fines Go Bad
Many cities are funding their comfy salaries and stately buildings on the backs of poor people caught committing minor infractions by asking large fines, plus fees, plus even larger penalties when working class people, heck even middle class people can't pay the shake down charges.
So glad he has dealt with this, but will it get buried in 1000s of other issues that bloggers, Twittervists, and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-75980757652184091302015-05-28T23:49:00.000-07:002015-05-28T23:50:00.785-07:00Just a Quick Look Around Will Show Why Texas Is repeating It's Real Life Disaster Movie In the Face of Heavy Rains
The mind wanders to why Texas has repeated flooding problems and occasional massive flooding disasters. After all, the storm moving through isn't Katrina and Texas isn't partially below sea level like areas of New Orleans.
I was wondering if anyone else noted that maybe this years tragedy didn't have to happen. Besides a damn breaking (yes, LA had a big dam break but that was the dark Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-55214638889032647042015-05-16T10:38:00.001-07:002015-05-16T10:38:45.168-07:00Was The Pennsylvania Crash of #Amtrak188 Set Up? Projectiles Shot at It and Two Other Trains Using Tracks in Same Area Just Before Crash
It has been established that the front windshield of the train running the Amtrak 188 has the typical break pattern found when projected objects hit glass at great force.
But the news was released yesterday "two other trains were hit by projectiles along the same line" (1) in the minutes before the deadly derailment.
Someone was apparently deliberately hoping to disturb a train.
Who Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-21740484436415679912015-03-15T18:31:00.004-07:002015-03-15T18:31:53.155-07:00John Oliver: Last Week Tonight (March 7, 2015) on Racism Towards the People of US Territories
Yeah, it's a bit old, but important to remember. Basically I think current powerful parties fear what territory citizens might vote for. So the centuries old prejudicial game goes on.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-39672064451582975772015-03-01T23:04:00.000-08:002015-03-01T23:04:39.066-08:00Last Week Tonght (last week's) How Elected Judgeships May Skew Judicial Decisions: John Oliver's Hilarious ExplanationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-68090901321557567822015-02-25T22:46:00.000-08:002015-02-25T22:46:18.437-08:00Bingo: We Can Stop Blaming California for the Anti-Vaxxer Movement in the Nation
Big Sur: California likes to export pictures of purple sage, green trees and sparkling blue water, not diseases and dangerous anti-vaccine philosophy. (Attribution at bottom)
After a month or more of us West Coast dwellers being punched around by the media over "California's elitist anti-vaxxer movement" screwing up the nation's "herd immunity", one Twitter poster (who does a lot of this kindUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-53651953791383295712015-02-22T13:47:00.000-08:002015-02-22T13:47:36.605-08:00Pre-term Birth Subtly Affects Memory Function. Why this is important in the Fight Against Racism
What if we held a cute pig race, but some of the racers had 10lb weights strapped to their hind legs. Would that be fair?
A recent study found that preterm births affect a person's memory functions.
“Our study provides evidence that prematurity can result in problems
with a particular subprocess of recollection,” according to Kerstin H.
Kipp, principal investigator of the research Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-86755580585950197202015-02-01T14:48:00.000-08:002015-02-02T11:37:46.610-08:00Did The Bush Administration Cause Widespread Distrust in Vaccines?
Americans used to feel they could trust their government to be working for them, not high end political donors. Where did that break down into a feeling that powerful people are only using Americans to enrich and further empower themselves and their big financial backers? Maybe somewhere in the harsh lands of Iraq and Afghanistan during a couple of wars in which our government abandoned our Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-39106204017154082002015-02-01T13:08:00.000-08:002015-02-01T13:08:00.442-08:00Video: Anti-vaccine movement is giving diseases a 2nd life
Also see here for more information
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-79184990669814654012015-01-21T18:55:00.001-08:002015-01-21T20:41:29.103-08:00The History of Subsidies Shows Why Joni Ernst is Wrong On Her Farm Belt "Self Reliance" Stance
Iowa cornfields in all their subsidized glory. Thanks to you, Taxpayer! (And thanks to flicker user Carl Wycoff for picture. See permissions, full attribution, at bottom of page.)
I'm a little older than Senator Ernst though I dress younger, but that's not hard to do.
I remember the 70s though as a teen watching the horror stories coming out from the heartland on the news. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-23385784126135664442015-01-15T22:37:00.000-08:002015-01-15T22:37:01.683-08:00Former Right Wing Blogger, Now Working Fox, Admits She Was Doing it for Hidden Contributions
Lets say Blogger Heaven is somewhere out there in the sky.
We've all heard of blogger heaven, but few of us ever see it. Is that fair?
At least one blogger has acknowledged that blogging without extra C notes (beyond the small amounts creepy Internet ads bring) in are just not worth it.
I've heard about groups who fund bloggers and Internet news sites without ads showing up. It seemsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-83146338038524601102014-11-18T17:11:00.000-08:002014-11-18T17:11:44.381-08:00New Revelations Show that Citizens United Decision is Unenforceable and Should be Discarded
What's wrong with a little deception? She could be a beautiful young woman at the bar or somebody's grandpa.
More coordination between political candidates' campaign staff and groups that want you to believe they're covered by Citizens United (and therefore are not required to expose their donors) have appeared.
The whole premise of Citizens United was that there would be no coordination Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-24193425205992193462014-10-26T16:58:00.002-07:002014-11-01T10:46:23.193-07:00Rocky Mountians being Under Threat From Climate Change. Why Would Coloradoans Vote for the Candidate Favored by the Koch Bros, the Rockies' Destroyers?
Photo: Colorful Dawn by John Fowler (snowpeak)
The good folks of the Rocky Mountains love their homes in the grand scenery of the state. But evidence shows that Old Energy is destroying many of its wonderful aspects.
The Denver Post published are report the other day on the fact that Front Range Flows in Colorado's Rockies did major damage to the area and caused deaths last yearUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-79771515238218127222014-10-25T09:38:00.002-07:002014-10-25T20:24:07.657-07:00The Truth About the Muslim Prayer Rug Dropped by the Border.
Behold a "Flying Carpet"! Yeah, right!
Republicans are saying that a Muslim prayer rug was dropped on the US side of the Mexican border and that proves that "Islamists" are infiltrating the United States. That is as much fantasy as stories about a flying carpet ride and now we have proof.
Before the Bush Administration the way I, like you maybe, saw most people who seemed to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-76980083074166607692014-10-22T17:54:00.000-07:002014-11-01T13:22:14.446-07:00Why You Need a "Democrat" Senator to Bring Aid to Your State in Next Few Years
An analyst writing in the Anchorage Daily News (article has disappeared from online) revealed that states who have a senator from the same party as as the national administration, always attract more aid from the federal government.
You may sneer at aid, but it is beneficial to your state and often vital in boosting the economy.
Now I know that many states, like Kansas and Tennessee, no Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-66377168593116905682014-10-04T20:46:00.001-07:002014-10-21T10:52:53.547-07:00As it Happened One Month Ago: GOP Cut Spending On Ebola Fight in Half, Then pretended it didn't happen
Ebola Treatment Unit, Liberia.
A very interesting thing happened about a month ago as Congress was asked to provide funding to fight Ebola, you know the biggest immediate threat to world health these days.
As usual the GOP took out the paring knife er ok the chopping ax, sliced off over half the funding the WH requested for fighting Ebola, now recognized as the biggest new threat to life Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-76024836929228106642014-09-18T15:51:00.000-07:002014-09-18T15:51:10.739-07:00Blacks and Hispanics Are Not Happy With How Media Portray Their Communities #Ferguson
Paper wasps are lucky. They have no media defining them in their world. They can be what they are.
Excerpt AP report at Yahoo.com Blacks, Hispanics have doubts about media accuracy
A new study shows a large
majority of African-American and Hispanic news consumers don't fully
trust the media to portray their communities accurately, a statistic
that could be troubling for the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4645026242925620920.post-14942436491650307522014-09-12T16:45:00.000-07:002014-09-14T17:31:56.789-07:00George Zimmerman Threatens Another Person in Florida
The News Media should talk to Z'man's cousin pictured here (not the guy on the swing) concerning the out of control former phony neighborhood watch captain. (Attribution for picture at bottom.)
George Zimmerman has another run-in with the law
The news site seemed to offer an embed on this, but using their code we got just a less accurate link instead. The video is available at the linked Unknownnoreply@blogger.com