Environmentalists are the Ultimate Pragmatists.
                                                         (posted earlier)


“Global temperatures have continued to rise, making 2016 the hottest year on the historical record and the third consecutive record-breaking year, scientists say. Of the 17 hottest years ever recorded, 16 have now occurred since 2000.”   - Jugal K. Patel/ New York Times
 
“Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
“Globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit (0.99 degrees Celsius) warmer than the mid-20th century mean. This makes 2016 the third year in a row to set a new record for global average surface temperatures.”   - NASA

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Please see Carbuncle Moon post: 8/22/16



Please give to the Natural Resources Council of Maine: 3 Wade Street/ Augusta, Maine 04330/ 207-622-3101

Today is John F. Kennedy's 100th birthday...

Ich bin ein dysfunktionale Americkanishe mutt.

Happy Memorial Day.


​Please see Carbuncle Moon blog: 5/26/16.

Happy Memorial Day (5/29):

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"He did not understand the war --
He understood the blistering injustice of it; the stroke-like fear in the faraway sight of the raped as they blamed him for not being there; the accusing eyes of the children that leered from atop distended bellies even as they starved; the seeping lines of grief lacerated into the faces of fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, husbands and wives who had lost all they loved; the tortured and the maimed becoming in part or in whole separate from who they once were; and the Dali-draped carcasses of the dead…
The evil of the war bored into his heart, twisted with agony until he learned to ignore it --
Until he could ignore it no longer."   - from The Invisible War aka The Forgotten War, a short story by Kevin O'Kendley
   
"He’d seen a lot of death in his life but it hadn’t inured him to the pain of it, the tragedy, the loss, the suffering.  On the contrary, it had a cumulative effect; on darker days this effect swamped him in a Tsunami of emotion: after all the smaller waves passed, a big one threatened.  He would watch it nearing shore with a rising dread…"  - from Chandler's Bar, a novel by Kevin O'Kendley


Please give to The Paralyzed Veterans of America: VA Palo Alto Health Care System/
3801 Miranda Avenue/ Palo Alto, California  94304/ 650-858-3936/ And:
The Wounded Warrior Project: National Processing Center/ P.O. Box 75840/ Topeka, Kansas  66675/ 877-832-6997

Hey, is this the same guy that the security crew at El Al refused to check for an underwear bomb?  (posted earlier)



Please give to Make-A-Wish Foundation: 4742 North 24th Street, Suite 400/ Phoenix, Arizona  85016/ 800-7229497

"Monday's (5/22) attack outside an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena (Manchester, UK) killed at least 22 people, including children, and was carried out by a lone suspect carrying a bomb, Manchester Police said.
"'The attacker, I can confirm, died at the arena. We believe the attacker was carrying an improvised explosive device, which he detonated, causing this atrocity,' said Chief Constable Ian Hopkins."  - CNN, Euan McKirdy, Zayn Nabbi, Samantha Beech, Darran Simon.

It is nearly unbelievable that any person could murder innocent children, women, men, in such a way...


Today is my son's 16th birthday, he has been places where all those around him have been innocent, too...   Happy birthday Conor.



Please give to the British Red Cross Centre: 10 Brindley Road, City Park, Cornbrook/ Manchester/ M16 9HQ, United Kingdom 


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"In the debris and rubble of war I see a woman caked in heavy dust, face wiped clean in streaks, tear stains sacrificing grief to gravity.  She has long black hair, um, covered in gray powder.  The woman is holding the empty body of a small child with her head unsupported, small legs and arms drape boneless from outstretched hands and fingers.  The toddler is barefoot, dirty, bloody, broken.  Sobbing, the woman’s dark inset eyes are, uh, focused on her child.  The mother and child have the same desert-brown coloring of Moses, Jesus, Mary, Mohammed.  We don't know if the mother and child are Israeli or Palestinian: we can’t tell -- the camera pans and we move on…"


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​Please give to the Palestine Red Crescent Society HQ: Palestine, Al-bireh/ (972) (2) 297-8520/ info@palestineres.org/  And:
Magen David Adom: 60 Yigal Alon Street/ Tel Aviv, Israel  67062/ (972) (3) 630-1460 1/ rc@mda.org.il

 Happy Mother's Day:
        Tina, Colleen, Lindy, Tila, Debbie, Michelle, Patty, Shelley, Yvonne, Denise G., Denise H., Anita B., Anita W., Lael, Mickey, Marilyn F., Denise J., Linda, Elizabeth, Rachael, Susan, Cassie, Aunt Ruth, Aunt Beth, Aunt Donna, my cousins, my old friends, and in memory of 
Rita, Olive, Betty, Greta, Lida Mae...

       Lilith, Adam's first wife, made of the same stuff Adam was and in the image of God.

Lilith was demonized by either a second wife, her first husband -- maybe even God -- or just gossips, because she was Adam's equal.  (edited: 5/19) (posted earlier)



Please give to the March of Dimes: 1755 Creekside Oaks Drive, #130/ Sacramento, California  95833/ 916-922-1913

“We were at Kings Beach, one of those places with our own kitchen.  I was takin a shower.  I smelled smoke.  I heard Celeste yellin grease fire but it was really Mel Gibson yellin cease fire on TV -- remember Celeste had that deep voice.  So I ran outside without dryin off.  It was about ten below.  My thing, uh, my dingaling froze.  I came back in, Celeste thought I had a woody and she friggin attacked me -- it was a savage attack too.  As soon as I warmed up, uh, I thawed out and my hummamonger went flat. So, she punched me in the nose -- this proves that some domestic abuse victims are straight men."  (had some input on this toon)

​Please see Carbuncle Moon post: 11/4/16