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February 23rd, 2021

2/23/2021

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                                           if you cahn't be calm be Sccootttish. 
                             (From the movies: The Stepford Wives and Braveheart)

The author is the figure to the left...
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3/2:  The content of this post was changed from a blog to a cartoon after the 2/23.


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February 18th, 2021

2/18/2021

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                                                               Klansman in tie.


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February 07th, 2021

2/7/2021

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A fictional occurrence at the MIdtown Boxing Gym, Sacramento, California:
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"Conor, if your butt gets any bigger you're gonna hafta get all your pants at the African-American store."


I got permission from an African-American boxing trainer, Rubin, at Midtown to print this cartoon. 




Please give to the Volunteers of America: 1660 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia  22314/ 703-341-5000/ 800-899-0089
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February 05th, 2021

2/5/2021

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                                            Nine people hiding in plain sight.




This is African-American History Month:

“Negro History Week”, “the precursor to Black History Month”, was “created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History” designated the second week of February as such.  - Wikipedia


"Each year since 1976, the President of the United States has officially designated February Black History Month.”  - Independent.

In 2017, former President Trump changed "the designation of celebration to African-American History Month."   - 7 Eyewitness News Chicago 

Please see Carbuncle Moon blogs: 2/20/16 and 12/9/15...

(posted earlier, edited 2/5/21) 
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Please give to the NAACP: 4805 Mt. Hope Drive/ Baltimore, Maryland  21215/ 410-580-5777
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January 31st, 2021

1/31/2021

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                                                                                                          O'Kendley c. 2021
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                                   It's one person at a time until you got people.


edited 2/5/21
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January 27th, 2021

1/27/2021

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Today is the Holocaust Remembrance Day:
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​                                 "Our future is in the rear-view mirror and gaining on us."


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posted earlier:


Today is the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army.  1.1 million people, primarily Jewish, were gassed and incinerated by the Nazis in the prison camp. 
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Approximately six million Jews were systematically murdered in Nazi concentration camps in efficient factory-precision during World War ll, between 1939 and 1945.

Before the Holocaust, the pre-war Jewish population (and as early as 1933) in Europe was approximately 9.5 million.  By 2012, Europe's Jewish population was approximately 1.4 to 1.6 million. 

The world's Jewish population in 2016 was approximately 14.2 million people.  About half of the world's surviving Jews live in the U.S. 


- Sources: BBC/ NerLeElef-Judaism Online/ Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum web site/ Wikipedia/ Jewish Virtual Museum.

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The second largest number of prisoner deaths/murders committed by the Nazis were inflicted by starvation, disease, executions: 
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     …“at least 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in Nazi custody,” as part of the overall 5.7 million POW deaths in WW-2 in the Pacific, the European, African, and other theaters.  “This figure represents a total of 57% of all Soviet POWs" that were imprisoned in Nazi camps.  
    - Wikipedia




Please give to the Jewish World Service: 45 West 36th Street, 11th Floor/ New York, New York 10018/ 212-792-2900  ​ 
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December 25th, 2020

12/25/2020

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Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza...

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                Yeah, Jesus was born in a barn -- to impoverished, migrant parents.





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November 11th, 2020

11/11/2020

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              A hero can be a migratory cheer of the heart before being shot down in flight                                  by second thoughts, a hero one day a dead duck the next. 



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Please give to the VFW (Veteran's of Foreign Wars): 406 West 36th Street/ Kansas City, Missouri  64111/  816-756-3390/ and:
34 Field Street/ Belfast, Maine  04915/ 207-338-2358.
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October 06th, 2020

10/6/2020

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"In Washington DC, Ernesto passed a variety of women and men wearing plastic inverted cones on their heads.  Curious, he asked a bartender at the Dubliner why these folks were wearing inverted cones on their heads.  The Ethiopian-American lady replied: “To keep Congress from scratching their ears.” (edited 10/7)
 

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A conversation about the Guvmint and coyotes on a rural back road that took place between my daughter, Cait, and myself resulted in the following:

The white lines, bordering the shoulder, painted on the outside of American highways are to keep coyotes from entering into the roadway.  The Guvmint forbids coyotes to cross the white line.  So, some of us believe coyotes stay off remote highways impressed by the Guvmint’s pragmatic sense of policy.   (edited 10/7)
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September 25th, 2020

9/25/2020

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         Ruth Bader Ginsburg    Born: 3/15/33  Died: 9/18/20    Made in the image of God.
                                                  (Had some help with this one)
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