“The mind should be a sanctuary of reason, unfettered, free for flights of fancy, a cheerin section for the ideas of others, love or what not, uh, and a pilot of your soul. It should not be invaded, occupied, or put under martial law. There shouldn’t be tanks rollin through your Limbic system or barricades in your cerebral cortex. Your sanity should be yours to lose; it shouldn’t be carjacked by brainwashin, mind control, or electronic torture: an evil shade of things to come, a gray miasma where sociopathic technology rules the heart, where slavery or murder can be a minor choice on a keyboard, the end of all good things -- freedom, justice, and liberty for all -- though, of course, the good things won’t end for the right people.”
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo. Viva la Mexico.
"Cinco de Mayo (pronounced: [ˈsiŋko ðe ˈmaʝo]; Spanish for "Fifth of May") is a celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican Army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza." - Wikipedia Please give to Farmworker Justice: 1126 16th Street NW #270/ Washington DC 20036/ 202-293-5420 (Edited: 5/7) “In a major victory for President Donald Trump, the House has voted to dismantle the pillars of the Affordable Care Act and make sweeping changes to the nation's health care system. “The bill now heads to the Senate where it faces daunting challenges because of the same ideological splits between conservative and moderate Republicans that nearly killed it in the House.” - MJ Lee (Phil Mattingly, Lauren Fox, and Tami Luhby/ CNN “The bill would block federal payments to Planned Parenthood for a year, considered a triumph by many anti-abortion Republicans.” - Chicago Tribune Some facts about Planned Parenthood: “The overwhelming majority of federal funding to Planned Parenthood comes from Medicaid — 75 percent, according to a Planned Parenthood spokesman.” …“3 percent of the services (Planned Parenthood) provided last year were abortion-related, according to the organization's annual report. (For a sense of the scope of that, abortions accounted for about 328,000 of the group's nearly 10.6 million services provided last year.)" (According to a graph, used by NPR, dated 2013-14) 97% of Planned Parenthood's services involve a variety of other women's health services. - NPR Maine Public News/ Danielle Kurtzleben “Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has blocked federal Medicaid funding for abortion services (since 1994, there have been three extremely narrow exceptions: when continuing the pregnancy will endanger the woman’s life, or when the pregnancy results from rape or incest). This means Medicaid cannot cover abortion even when a woman’s health is at risk and her doctor recommends she get an abortion.” - Planned Parenthood Under the rule of law -- given the tragic and brutal history of abortion as an underground necessity -- there are narrow legal definitions that provide a woman with choice. Abortion is a traumatic ordeal for most women. Please see Carbuncle Moon post: 3/9/17 Please give to Planned Parenthood Federation of America: 123 William Street/ New York, New York 10038/ 800-430-4907/ fax: 212-245-1845 "In America they have somethin called a national pastime or baseball -- Yank baseball is somethin like British cricket, except they have flies instead of crickets. There is an irrefutable law in baseball, a universal law, and it goes a lot like this: 'Reich one! Reich two! Reich Three! Three Reich’s yer rout! No Fourth Reich, boys, not now, not friggin ever.'" “I witnessed French, German, Italian fellas in the South of France wearin bikini bottoms, a kind of Speedo. I once saw a hairy Irishman in Galway wearin one of the European marble-bag things too. The collective memory is -- to say the least -- very unsettling and extremely alien to the San Joaquin Valley chic whereupon I was weaned, um, in Libya. The memories are difficult -- painful -- to live with…” “To downplay the massive separation of brow and hairline, President Trump wears an early Beatles’ hair style with long bangs. He’s trained his eyebrows to grow in a wider swatch above his miniscule eyeballs by rigorously brushing his brows sideways -- or from brow-line upwards and towards his bangs -- I’ve heard he does this five hundred times before goin to bed every night as he is no quitter. Of course, some people think cuz of the eyebrow-hair-thing that President Trump is hidin somethin or appears to be hidin something, which is okay with him as long as WE don’t know that it’s his forehead he’s hiding, or what’s the point of the whole hiding-the-forehead-thing anyway?”
Please give to the Shriner's Hospitals: 3551 North Broad Street/ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140/ 215-430-4000/ And: 2425 Stockton Boulevard/ Sacramento, California 95817/ 916-453-2000/ Happy May Day...
Kim Sang-duk became the third U.S. citizen to be imprisoned in North Korea “after police arrested him as he prepared to board a flight at Pyongyang International Airport.” Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, was sentenced to 15 years hard labor in March for removing a sign from a wall. “Human Rights Watch called the sentence ‘outrageous and shocking.’” 62-year-old, Kim Dong-chul, reportedly a missionary, was sentenced to ten years hard labor last April (2016) for supposedly spying. “…The majority of foreigners detained in North Korea have been U.S. citizens, with 15 arrested in total since 1995.” -Tom Porter/ Newsweek (4/25/17) Kim Jong Un: Let the three come home... Please see 5/1/16 post on Carbuncle Moon... Please give to Amnesty International, USA Headquarters: 5 Penn Plaza, 16th Floor/ New York, New York 10001/ 212-807-8400/ aimember@aiousa.org Please give to Human Rights Watch: 350 Fifth Ave., 34th Floor/ New York, New York 10118/ 1-212-290-4700 |
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