altered on 12/15: “I was drinkin with Harry Lu. It was rainin -- we were dry in a Port Moresby bar under a tin roof that had been patched up more times than any theoretical marriage between Tanya Harding, Madonna, Ann Coulter, and Hillary Clinton to Prince Faisal. I was thinkin maybe it was time to leave New Guinea -- go back to Maine. But, uh, what would I do if I went home? Open my own Foster’s bee-ah dealership? Sell pencils to drivers at stoplights? Rent out half a cardboard box to a roommate? I should’ve done my twenty in the Marine Corps or, ah, at least learned how to type -- Semper Fi.” - See Port Moresby at Three a.m. by Kevin O’Kendley (short story section this blog site)
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Kim Jong Un's hair on the side of Route 141, Waldo, Maine.
Today is International Human Rights Day: "It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V), inviting all States and interested organizations to observe 10 December of each year as Human Rights Day." - un.org/events/humanrights Please give to Breast Cancer Research Foundation, 60 East 56th Street, 8th Floor, New York, New York, 10022/ bcrf@bcrf.org/ 866-346-3228 Kim Jong Un's page boy and Donald Trump's semi-bufont in hair
fight over Seoul, Korea. (toon was created with source) Please give to Children's Leukemia Research Association: PMB 369 Donation Center/ 6632 Telegraph Road/ Bloomfield, Michigan 48301/ and: 585 Stewart Avenue #18, Garden City, New York, 11530, 516-222-1944. “Me and my ex-girlfriend were walkin around naked on the lanai: I stepped on a scale to prove somethin to her -- 'How’d you do that?' Blog asked me, 'You lost 8 pounds in an hour.' I smiled with honest anticipation, asked her to grab my hummerhonger -- she did. And, as a mystical-magical woman might; she instantly built a full-size woody. I stepped back onto the scale and said, 'This is how' -- I was 8 pounds heavier. Blog checked the scale. 'Huh?' she smiled as a mystical-magical woman might. An hour later, dwindled, I was 8 pounds lighter…”
Please give to the Diabetes, Nutrition and Endocrine Center/ 905 Union Street #11/ Bangor, Maine, 04401/ 207-973-7334 Today is Pearl Harbor Day: "Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, 75 years ago, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress approved his declaration with just one dissenting vote. Three days later, Japanese allies Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States, and again Congress reciprocated. More than two years into the conflict, America had finally joined World War II." - History.com 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 wounded during the Pearl Harbor attack. - Wikipedia Unlike German-Americans and Italian-Americans, a massive round-up of Japanese-Americans, between 110,000 and 120,000 children, women, and men, primarily in California and on the West Coast, were held in relocation/intenment camps throughout World War II. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. - various sources including Wikipedia Please give to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association: 4105 Naomi Drive/ Louisville, Kentucky, 40219/ pearlharborsurivorsonline.org November 20, 2016: Syrian regime forces pounded eastern Aleppo Sunday with airstrikes killing around 300 people. It was the heaviest bombardment since the war began. - CNN
December 6, 2016: “Syria's army and allies closed in on areas near Aleppo's Old City on Tuesday, looking closer than ever to achieving their most important victory of the five-year civil war by driving rebels out of their last urban stronghold.” - Angus McDowall, John Davison, Stephanie Nebehay/ Reuters February 11, 2016: The death toll from the civil war in Syria (which began in 2011, was at approximately) 470,000 (children, women, and men). -- New York Times Please see 8/7/16 blog: "Barrel bombs reportedly used by the Syrian Air Force..." "Near Cannon Ball, North Dakota: Celebrations, tears of joy, chanting and drumming rang out among thousands of protesters at the Standing Rocksite after the Army Corp of Engineers announced it will look for an alternate route for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota." - Caroline Kenny, Gregory Krieg, Sara Sidner, Max Blau/ CNN "For months, members of the Sioux tribe and their supporters have camped out, fighting the pipeline they say could be hazardous and damage the water supply of their reservation nearby." - Reuters Change the route of the pipeline through Lakota territory, the Sioux were there first. 12/10: Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865." - - ourdocuments.gov Please see blog of 12/9/15 (carbuncle moon) Please give to the Samaritans Purse, U.S. and International Disaster Relief, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, NC, 28607/ 828-262-1980 Sometimes definition is just perspective and perspective just experience all dressed up for court. (edited 12/28/18)
"While Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by at least 2.5 million votes, Trump won more than 2,700 out of 3,143 counties across the United States. "In its latest update, the Cook Political Report" states "Clinton won 65,152,310 votes, while Trump netted 62,626,216. "Trump, however, won the Electoral College by 74 votes, with Trump winning 306 to Clinton’s 232." - Epoch Times The Electoral College was established by Article Two of the Constitution to select the president and the vice president. Voters "choose a slate of electors pledged to vote for a party's candidate. The 12th Amendment requires each elector to cast one vote for president and another vote for vice president" "(i)n each state and the District of Columbia." "The candidates who receive an absolute majority of electoral votes among the states are elected President and Vice President of the United States." - Wikipedia If the U.S. had only two states -- Predicated on population, Texas has 38 electoral votes and California has 55. If Claus wins the popular vote in Texas 4 million to one and Nurse Ratchet wins the popular vote in California 4 million to 3 Nurse Ratchet has five million votes and Claus has seven but Nurse Ratchet has 55 electoral votes and Claus only has 38 so Nurse Ratchet wins the Electoral College vote. Nurse Ratchet is elected president and has the legal mandate to govern. Today is World Aid's Day...
2015: 36.9 million people worldwide had AIDs, including 2.6 million children. 25.3 million people have died of AIDs-related illnesses since 2000. - Avert and AIDs.gov 2016: 78 million people have become infected with HIV, 35 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the first cases of HIV were reported. - UNAIDS “In 2015, there were roughly 2.1 million new HIV infections, 150,000 of which were among children. Most of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa and were infected via their HIV-positive mothers during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding.” - Avert Please give to Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDs Foundation: 1140 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 200/ Washington DC, 20036/ 202-296-9165 |
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