dailykos--2020-06-29--WANTED: Guidance and advice to appeal to young voters

I have been an English teacher at an Oregon high school for 25 years , and am a life-long liberal Democrat who has voted in every election since 1986 .
My son is a freshman this year at the University of Oregon who has decided to double-major in Political Science and History , and this will be his first election in which to vote .
He has more of a socialistic-leaning than I do , so he is a fan of Bernie Sanders , while I ’ m a bit more moderate in comparison and am a devotee of Elizabeth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be the nominee ( obviously ) , but while I am content to vote for Joe Biden , my son is not as easily persuaded .
It is on his behalf that I am asking this question : Do you think Biden ( or supportive Democratic organizations ) should engage and persuade younger voters to a greater degree so that they will be more enthusiastic to vote for him based on what he will do FOR them ?
My son wants to vote for someone who will provide specific policies that will motivate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see it is in their self-interest to do so .
So , we came up with five proposals that Biden could use that would speak to the concerns of younger voters even if he doesn ’ t really communicate as effectively to them as they would prefer : 1 ) Expanding Medicare to cover all people from 1-25 years old .
2 ) Free tuition for students in public colleges and universities whose parents ’ total incomes are $ 250,000 and below .
3 ) Use of renewable energies to increase to 50 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ energy consumption by 2030 .
4 ) Increase federal minimum wage to $ 15 per hour by 2025 .
5 ) The legalization of marijuana as a first step in addressing criminal justice reform .
Do the savvy , politically-minded people on this forum see these proposals as viable for the Biden campaign or for the Democrats , in general ?
Would there be different , substantive proposals that you would suggest ?
I believe that political persuasion should be brief , easily understood and be repeatedly reinforced .
As a means to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you think that we should create a social media message that would continuously communicate and update 3-5 goals or achievements that the party has accomplished ?
Could this method be effectively tailored to other constituencies in the party , as well ?
Thank you for any consideration that you might give to these ideas and we would welcome any feedback that you have .

“Therefore I shall devote myself, my time, my energy, my talents, to the service of [my country]. I shall no longer ask myself if this or that is expedient, but only if it is right. I shall do this not because I am noble or unselfish, but because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie...Therefore I shall try to do what is right, and to speak what is true.”
This quotation is from Alan Paton’s Cry, The Beloved Country . Although the novel is set in South Africa at the onset of apartheid, it seems as if the situations and issues that are addressed in the book are still pertinent today. I would like to use that quote as a springboard toward asking the community in this forum if there is a means for us to more effectively reveal the truth of what we, the Democratic Party, are striving to achieve. While many of us are already familiar with the traditional values of our party, many young adults are uncertain if their emerging values align with ours. I was hoping that the Daily Kos members could help.
I have been an English teacher at an Oregon high school for 25 years, and am a life-long liberal Democrat who has voted in every election since 1986. My son is a freshman this year at the University of Oregon who has decided to double-major in Political Science and History, and this will be his first election in which to vote. He has more of a socialistic-leaning than I do, so he is a fan of Bernie Sanders, while I’m a bit more moderate in comparison and am a devotee of Elizabeth Warren. Neither of our candidates will be the nominee (obviously), but while I am content to vote for Joe Biden, my son is not as easily persuaded.
It is on his behalf that I am asking this question: Do you think Biden (or supportive Democratic organizations) should engage and persuade younger voters to a greater degree so that they will be more enthusiastic to vote for him based on what he will do FOR them?
My son wants to vote for someone who will provide specific policies that will motivate his generation to the polls because they see it is in their self-interest to do so. So, we came up with five proposals that Biden could use that would speak to the concerns of younger voters even if he doesn’t really communicate as effectively to them as they would prefer:
1) Expanding Medicare to cover all people from 1-25 years old.
2) Free tuition for students in public colleges and universities whose parents’ total incomes are $250,000 and below.
3) Use of renewable energies to increase to 50% of the nation’s total energy consumption by 2030.
4) Increase federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025.
5) The legalization of marijuana as a first step in addressing criminal justice reform.
Do the savvy, politically-minded people on this forum see these proposals as viable for the Biden campaign or for the Democrats, in general? Would there be different, substantive proposals that you would suggest? I believe that political persuasion should be brief, easily understood and be repeatedly reinforced. As a means to appeal to this young constituency, do you think that we should create a social media message that would continuously communicate and update 3-5 goals or achievements that the party has accomplished? Could this method be effectively tailored to other constituencies in the party, as well?
Thank you for any consideration that you might give to these ideas and we would welcome any feedback that you have.


dailykos--2020-06-30--BREAKING: Trump to Change U.S. Observation of Independence Day from July 4th to Putin's Birthday

As American citizens prepare to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th , President Donald Trump shocked the nation late Monday morning with a last minute White House press conference announcement proclaiming the holiday will be moved to October 7th , Russian President Vladimir Putin ’ s birthday .
The President Trump made the change after spending an hour and fifteen minutes demonstrating how he can drink water with his right hand followed by thirty-five minutes of indecipherable word salad .
Beginning to form sentences again , Trump stated the change , adding that October 7th @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are saying it ’ s a better day , the best day , really.
” He denied that the change was related to the Russian president ’ s birthday , repeating his claim in a tweet : As indicated in the tweet , the date switch comes just as the president has been criticized for doing nothing in the face of allegations that Russia has paid troops in Afghanistan to target American soldiers .
White House press sources have scrambled to explain the situation , reminding reporters that the president is unlikely to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ written down without pictures or a map maze to color and draw on .
When pushed to respond to Trump ’ s real reasoning for the date change , White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany criticized news outlets : “ We can not be blamed for the mainstream media ’ s factual reporting of the president ’ s irrational behavior.
” Communities nationwide may still hold their July 4th activities this year but are under orders to rename them “ Freedom Day ” celebrations .
They are also encouraged to add to their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pride like singing “ Happy Birthday , Vlad ” and staging community parades in which showers of confetti are replaced by shredded video tape of Russian prostitutes urinating on reality show billionaires .
Congressional Democrats objected to the sudden change , explaining that only Congress can create holidays , but White House lawyers argue that that Independence Day is already a federal holiday and that presidents are allowed to declare one-time special days of observation , as when Ronald Reagan declared December 31 1988 to be National Not Being Held Accountable for Selling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Central American Death Squads Day .
Unsurprisingly , Fox News and conservative media have praised the new date as “ super duper patriotic , ” lauding the president for choosing a day that more accurately reflects the true leadership of the Republican Party .

As American citizens prepare to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, President Donald Trump shocked the nation late Monday morning with a last minute White House press conference announcement proclaiming the holiday will be moved to October 7th, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s birthday.
The President Trump made the change after spending an hour and fifteen minutes demonstrating how he can drink water with his right hand followed by thirty-five minutes of indecipherable word salad. Beginning to form sentences again, Trump stated the change, adding that October 7th is “a great day, people are saying it’s a better day, the best day, really.” He denied that the change was related to the Russian president’s birthday, repeating his claim in a tweet:
As indicated in the tweet, the date switch comes just as the president has been criticized for doing nothing in the face of allegations that Russia has paid troops in Afghanistan to target American soldiers. White House press sources have scrambled to explain the situation, reminding reporters that the president is unlikely to have read the information if it was written down without pictures or a map maze to color and draw on.
When pushed to respond to Trump’s real reasoning for the date change, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany criticized news outlets: “We cannot be blamed for the mainstream media’s factual reporting of the president’s irrational behavior.”
Communities nationwide may still hold their July 4th activities this year but are under orders to rename them “Freedom Day” celebrations. They are also encouraged to add to their October 7th festivities new displays of civic pride like singing “Happy Birthday, Vlad” and staging community parades in which showers of confetti are replaced by shredded video tape of Russian prostitutes urinating on reality show billionaires.
Congressional Democrats objected to the sudden change, explaining that only Congress can create holidays, but White House lawyers argue that that Independence Day is already a federal holiday and that presidents are allowed to declare one-time special days of observation, as when Ronald Reagan declared December 31 1988 to be National Not Being Held Accountable for Selling Weapons to U.S. Enemies to Fund Central American Death Squads Day.
Unsurprisingly, Fox News and conservative media have praised the new date as “super duper patriotic,” lauding the president for choosing a day that more accurately reflects the true leadership of the Republican Party.


dailykos--2020-06-29--Flip Everything: Help Turn the Country Blue!

It ’ s been a while since I ’ ve written diaries for both personal and other reasons , but in my lurking across different Democratic supportive websites I ’ ve always seen the same question over and over asked by those newly activated and long time activists alike : What are the competitive races that need support ?
This question lead me on a search to find a resource that could be easily digested and shared among friends/family and social networks for competitive races down ballot .
There was nothing even close .
And if there was anything down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So I decided to create a project to make it a bit easier for people to both understand and support the races that are an after thought of the presidential election .
It started with Senate seats and an idea to create an ActBlue fund with multiple races splitting every donation .
It just crossed $ 150,000 !
The congressional fund launched later .
The other question I saw frequently asked : What state legislative chambers can flip to Democrats ?
This led to the research and creation of Break The Gerrymander @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Figuring out which state legislative chambers by the data could be flipped and then also which races we would have to win in order to do so .
After completing that tall task I figured I was done , but then the thought occurred to me : What about all the other voters who live in states without flippable chambers ?
So I guess I took some crazy pills because I decided to do down ballot data research for every non Democratic governed state legislative chamber from Alaska to Wyoming and everything in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I ’ d ever get this far and the small project has turned into a massive one .
I ’ m happy to say the project is now complete .
- Data from every election possible of potentially winnable races from Senate to state legislature across the country .
- Funds to support all these down ballot candidates .
- A volunteer from home weekly updated spreadsheet for activism opportunities ( Thanks to mtlebanonriseup for always updating it on a different website for that part ! )
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Anything anyone could possibly want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are , from the seasoned professional to the newly political .
This project took over a year to complete from start to finish , so I hope people find use in it to help make a blue wave hit every state !
In the 2020 election let ’ s do all we can to Flip Everything !
Thanks everyone for reading , please feel free to bookmark and/or share !

It’s been a while since I’ve written diaries for both personal and other reasons, but in my lurking across different Democratic supportive websites I’ve always seen the same question over and over asked by those newly activated and long time activists alike:
What are the competitive races that need support?
This question lead me on a search to find a resource that could be easily digested and shared among friends/family and social networks for competitive races down ballot. There was nothing even close. And if there was anything down ballot it was only about 1 state. So I decided to create a project to make it a bit easier for people to both understand and support the races that are an after thought of the presidential election. It started with Senate seats and an idea to create an ActBlue fund with multiple races splitting every donation. It just crossed $150,000! The congressional fund launched later.
The other question I saw frequently asked:
What state legislative chambers can flip to Democrats?
This led to the research and creation of Break The Gerrymander, another piece of the project. Figuring out which state legislative chambers by the data could be flipped and then also which races we would have to win in order to do so. After completing that tall task I figured I was done, but then the thought occurred to me: What about all the other voters who live in states without flippable chambers?
So I guess I took some crazy pills because I decided to do down ballot data research for every non Democratic governed state legislative chamber from Alaska to Wyoming and everything in between. I didn’t think I’d ever get this far and the small project has turned into a massive one.
I’m happy to say the project is now complete.
- Data from every election possible of potentially winnable races from Senate to state legislature across the country.
- Winnable Supreme Court seats that could stop gerrymandering.
- Democratic nominee names and campaign websites.
- Funds to support all these down ballot candidates.
- A volunteer from home weekly updated spreadsheet for activism opportunities (Thanks to mtlebanonriseup for always updating it on a different website for that part!).
Anything anyone could possibly want or need to do activism wherever they are, from the seasoned professional to the newly political.
This project took over a year to complete from start to finish, so I hope people find use in it to help make a blue wave hit every state!
In the 2020 election let’s do all we can to Flip Everything!
Thanks everyone for reading, please feel free to bookmark and/or share!


dailykos--2020-06-30--There's Something Happening Here, It's Getting Clear - Good News Roundup, Bluesday June 30th, 2020

The election is fast approaching .
We are just a few months short of our opportunity to stand up and make our desire for sanity and justice into reality for our country .
I ’ m not talking about the alternate reality of lies and denial and corruption .
I ’ m talking about something substantial and good .
It is within our grasp .
We must reach out and grab the future .
Still , while we chafe and fidget , waiting for our nightmare to end , we face new outrages almost every day .
Whether it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the many times failed response to the novel coronavirus , or an inexplicable non-response to a Russian bounties for bodies scheme , the emotional and spiritual toll on us is staggering .
We ask ourselves : How can they do this ?
What is wrong with these people ?
We don ’ t have answers to our questions because it is hard to imagine people so callous , so heartless and so shallow as to be comfortably complicit with this kind of abhorrent behavior .
They ’ ve worked very hard to normalize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They call the indiscriminate slaughter of unarmed citizens a cost of doing business ( actually , they are very discriminating about that ) .
Rather than making adequate health care a right for all Americans , they insist on backing the people who get rich off of our suffering .
That ’ s not what my country is about .
History ’ s meat-grinder will not be kind to tRump .
No matter how finely he gets minced , the verdict will be condemnation for corruption , smallness , stupidity , deceit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no soaring vision for what the United States can be ; for what we can accomplish together .
Instead , they choose to focus on grabbing as much as they can for themselves , irrespective of merit or need .
Well folks , crunch time is here .
For the next four months , we can sit on our couches and watch the world go by or we can jump up , get inspired and get involved .
Your planet needs you .
Your country needs you .
Your state needs you .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ need you .
I need you .
Let ’ s get together ( virtually ) and kick those who are perverting the soul of our country right back into the gutter out of which they crawled .
And it ’ s on to the news , Relying on stare decisis , Roberts sided with the liberals and struck down an abortion law .
Heads in the Federalist Society could be heard popping all the way from Anacostia .
His presidency is unraveling .
The Russian bounties are just one part of it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers , Trump 's phone calls alarm US officials ( CNN ) In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state , President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues , so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan , and so abusive to leaders of America 's principal allies , that the calls helped convince some senior US officials -- including his former secretaries of state and defense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ longest-serving chief of staff -- that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States , according to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of the conversations .
The calls caused former top Trump deputies -- including national security advisers H.R .
McMaster and John Bolton , Defense Secretary James Mattis , Secretary of State Rex Tillerson , and White House chief of staff John Kelly , as well as intelligence officials -- to conclude that the President was often `` delusional , '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his dealings with foreign leaders .
The sources said there was little evidence that the President became more skillful or competent in his telephone conversations with most heads of state over time .
Rather , he continued to believe that he could either charm , jawbone or bully almost any foreign leader into capitulating to his will , and often pursued goals more attuned to his own agenda than what many of his senior advisers considered the national interest .
These officials ' concerns about the calls , and particularly Trump 's deference @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with reports the President may have learned in March that Russia had offered the Taliban bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan -- and yet took no action .
CNN 's sources said there were calls between Putin and Trump about Trump 's desire to end the American military presence in Afghanistan but they mentioned no discussion of the supposed Taliban bounties .
The Online Folks Are Getting Serious This is all over the news in the US .
It ’ s also all over the news in the rest of the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a difference insisted we needed to open early .
He did it because he refuses to listen to experts .
He knew better .
Now he owns it .
The Atlantic : David Frum : This Is Trump ’ s Plague Now The first coronavirus spike , in late April , can be blamed on the president ’ s negligence .
The second spike , in June , is his own doing .
COVID-19 infections peaked on April 24 , or so Americans assumed .
State health authorities reported 36,738 new cases that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the United States had reduced that rate of infection by nearly half , to 17,618 on May 11 .
The accomplishment had come at a tremendous cost : the lockdown of much of the national economy , Great Depression levels of unemployment , the shift to online schooling for millions of children , families denied final visits to dying loved ones .
Still , these sacrifices had delivered the desired result .
Had that progress continued , the American people—and the American economy—could have likely foreseen a further decline in cases and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , even before a vaccine .
But that ’ s not what happened .
On June 24 , the number of infections surpassed the April 24 peak .
On June 25 , the number surpassed that of June 24 .
On June 26 , the country suffered almost 46,000 new infections—nearly 10,000 more in one day than on the worst day in April .
All of the sacrifices of the past weeks have been thrown away .
On tRump being a loser — CNN : Trump is facing the thing he dreads most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ makes sense .
The New Yorker : The Borowitz Report : Trump to Retaliate Against Russia by Sending Jared Kushner to Advise Kremlin on Coronavirus Response Even statues are doing the right thing during the pandemic .
Huffington Post : New York Public Library ’ s Lions Are A Roaring Reminder To Mask Up More on the Legal Front Unlike those filed by tRump and Nunes , there are lawsuits that aren ’ t frivolous or attempts to obstruct justice .
Rolling Stone : Minnesota Sues Exxon and Koch Industries for ’ 30-Year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doesn ’ t really qualify as good news .
The tone is dark .
It ’ s also a couple of weeks old , so it ’ s not even news anymore .
But , it does aim and land a full-footed kick right in the Angry Cheeto ’ s ( fiscal ) tender bits .
Mother Jones : The Cruise Industry Is Donald Trump Personified : Decadent , exploitative , and totally full of shit .
If Donald Trump could build a city from scratch , it would have a casino and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you could eat .
The city ’ s residents would be old , with money to spend and nothing but free time .
The workers would be poor , foreign , and always on the clock .
They would literally live beneath you .
There would be doctors , but not very many , and there would be cops , sort of , but who exactly they were there to protect and serve would remain ambiguous .
There would be no proper government to speak of .
The city and its services would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you would sign away your rights to a billionaire in his 70s with a tan and bad hair , in exchange for a promise of a good time—art auctions , live music , waterfalls of champagne .
The city would pay no taxes but avail itself of the services funded by those who do .
It would look , in other words , a lot like the Carnival Corporation ’ s 18-story , 952-foot-long Diamond Princess as it entered Yokohama Bay in early February after a voyage through Southeast Asia for the Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this city tacky .
But it would be an altogether pleasant place for many people , much of the time .
However , you would not want to be there during a pandemic .
As the cruise approached port , the coronavirus was confined almost entirely to the Chinese city of Wuhan .
Trump ’ s top public health concern was vaping .
But on February 1 , a passenger who had disembarked from the Diamond Princess tested positive for the virus .
Three days later , passengers quarantined .
While customers took @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vessel ’ s crew—more than 1,000 people from 48 countries—continued to go about their work .
The number of cases onboard would ultimately grow to 712 , and 14 people would die .
The ship , flying the flag of the United Kingdom and owned by a company—registered in Panama—that ’ s chaired by one of the richest men in Miami , saw the first major outbreak of COVID-19 outside of Wuhan .
The pandemic has penetrated nearly every corner of the globe .
It has burned through nursing homes and choir practices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the immunocompromised , people without access to reliable health care , and the young and perfectly healthy who never saw it coming .
It ’ s killed more than 100,000 people in the United States in big cities and small towns .
But for several weeks , before life as we know it shut down , you could turn on CNN and watch your own dismal future , adrift at sea .
We ’ ll end today ’ s news section with something the bodes well for our future .
Good News @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Air Battery – ‘ The Climate Emission Killer ’ – is Now Under Construction in England Playing for Change is always good news .
Bonus song .
By now you have probably seen this .
It ’ s already shown up in two GNRU ’ s .
The Chicks deserve all the eyes we can give them .
This space is reserved for WineRev ’ s history lesson which will magically appear after he posts it in the comments .
And here it is .
Thanks , WineRev .
I have to say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election will be one of those rare , nearly-but-not-quite- fabled things ( a “ realigning election ” ) there are still cross-currents .
People are working hard and there are GOTV efforts not only on a large scale but at the micro level too and between them I am very hopeful .
In that vein , though , I woke up to a disturbing thought , so disturbing that I went to a couple websites to try to get a message to the Biden campaign at some mid-level or higher .
It goes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ uses voter suppression techniques : gerrymandering , inconvenient polling places and locations and times of operation , voter purges , etc .
This spring when the CARES Act passed ?
The one that gave everybody $ 1200 and added a $ 600 lifeline to unemployment benefits , among many other things ?
One of those Other Things was a freeze on evictions and legal steps re : delinquent mortgages .
THESE provisions , like the $ 600 UI kicker , expire in a few weeks .
So then what ?
Well , several @ @ @ @ @ @ @ housing crisis and a big batch of them are going to have to move/relocate/downsize….do something with where they live .
Now every state has a residency requirement for voting ; good enough .
You need to live where you vote .
But each state has a requirement that you have to live at a certain address a certain number of days BEFORE an election to be eligible to vote in that election .
What if you just moved ?
What if you just moved for hard or desperate reasons ?
Are You NOW @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Have you met the deadline ( 30 , 45 , 90 days ... whatever state law requires ? )
I don ’ t know what to do about this but I am hoping someone is aware this is about to unfold .
It has a sinister air to it although in a lot of ways it really is coincidental , I can see that .
But given all the other crapola the GOP/KGB pulls around voting , I am suspicious and wary and a bit worried .
( If things end up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all exhale ; but if these sorts of suppressive activities make certain races “ close enough to steal… ... ” ) Thank you all for listening to me and I hope you can talk me down a bit .
Oddly enough I slept well last night so this is a hell of thought to wake up to…..sheesh !
June 30ths ( and another leaf falls from the Book of Doom to cover the crumbling House of Trump ) we have had before us , full of the Good and the Goofy , that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) to read about on this June 30th 1722 Benatky , Bohemia ( now Czech Republic ) Birth of Jiří Antonín Benda ( German : Georg Anton Benda ) violinist and composer .
In his early 20s summoned by to be part of his court orchestra at Potsdam , and also to assist his older brother as court composer and arranger .
Jirri made the most of his chance , producing dozens of concertos and ensemble pieces .
Noted for writing several German melodramas ( sort of halfway between opera and theater ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ call a ‘ musical.
’ ) Proved very popular all across Europe .
As an odd sideline , also noted for composing several pieces of music for use in Masonic Rituals ( ! )
1859 Niagara Falls , US and Canada French acrobat Jean François Gravelet ( stage name Charles Blondin ) is the 1st person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope .
An absolute sensation in its day to the point that 5 years later , President Lincoln answered his critics on how the Civil War was going in a written @ @ @ @ @ @ @ property you were worth was in gold , and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara River on a rope , would you shake the cable , or keep shouting out to him— “ Blondin , stand up a little straighter—Blondin , stoop a little more—go a little faster—lean a little more to the north—lean a little more to the south ?
” No , you would hold your breath as well as your tongue , and keep your hands off until he was safe over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weight .
Untold treasures are in their hands .
They are doing the very best they can .
Don ’ t badger them .
Keep silence , and we ’ ll get you safe across .
1870 Chicago .
Ada Kepley becomes 1st American female law college graduate ( Old University of Chicago , later Northwestern ; in honor of WineRev ’ s First Daughter alma mater : “ Go ‘ Cats !
” ) 1897 New York City .
William Hadaway receives a patent for an “ Automatically Controlled Electric Oven ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and frying : the electric stove .
Slow to catch on since cities were only beginning to be electrified , with private homes lagging public buildings and commercial establishments .
Wood and natural gas were both more popular until the 1930s .
The REA ( Rural Electrification Administration ) wired up the countryside and appliances sold briskly , with electric stoves finally catching up with gas ones .
1898 magazine has been in continuous monthly publication since 1845 .
Like any journal they accept advertising of a certain character for their readers as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ July edition that published this day in 1898 the magazine carried an advertisement for the the first known published automobile ad , using the headline “ dispense with a horse.
” ( Not exactly “ See the USA in a Chevrolet ” -- -maybe why you don ’ t see any Wintons anymore -- -but you got ta start somewhere .
Now what do we have to do to put You in a car TODAY !
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Here at the Good News RoundUp Used Car lot ! )
1906 Author expose journalism in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a sensation nationwide , and NOT in a good way , as he ripped the cover off of meat processing and the drug industry .
In response on this day the US Congress gives final passage to the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act , the cornerstones of US consumer protection laws .
Meat Inspection was handed over to the Agriculture Department ; the other act established the .
1908 Tunguska River , Siberia , Russia .
A giant fireball , most likely caused by the air burst of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tunguska River .
It is generally thought to be the largest impact event in recorded human history .
( Or , if the movie “ Ghostbusters ” was ACTUALLY a documentary , then , as Dr. Stantz ( played by Dan Ackroyd ) put it to “ the little guy ” : : “ You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1908 !
” Louis : “ Felt great.
” ) 1936 Margaret Mitchell ’ s novel `` Gone with the Wind '' hits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ later by an epic movie version in dripping Technicolor .
BUT both novel and movie have not aged well and recently have actually been dropped or shelved by Amazon , Hulu and other streaming services -- -- and THAT is Good News that this dreck and all it represents is on the run .
1938 Speaking of hitting the shelves : on this day at every drugstore in America , on that rotating wire rack for kids , introduces a new series of comic books .
Issue # 1 features a hero who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planet , with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men .
More powerful than a locomotive , able to leap tall buildings in a single bound… ” The debut of Superman ( who HAS aged well and given rise to other super heroes , TV shows , movies , Halloween costumes , Cape Care Columns in Newspapers and Magazines , and an entire genre of illustrated storytelling and Com Con Conventions . )
1940 Chicago .
The , obviously emboldened by DC Action Comics and feeling their own super power , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1st cartoon strip drawn by a woman , Dalia Messick , who , because of the sexism of the times , has to publish as “ Dale ” Messick .
( But alongside Lois Lane , another crack in the wall for women getting into wider job opportunities . )
1952 The long-running ( starting on NBC in 1937 ! )
radio soap opera `` Guiding Light '' , much to my mother ’ s endless , five-day-a-week delight and loyalty .
( Finally ended in September of 2009 !
74 years on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . )
1971 My home state of Ohio this day become the 38th state to ratify the 26th Amendment , making it part of the Constitution .
It was just in time for this 17-going-on-18 year old to get the right to vote at my new age in the 1972 Presidential Election .
( Of course , the choice was McGovern vs. Nixon , which was a major systemic failure all around , I thought at the time . )
May all your News be Good , comforting and inspiring .
What does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some Viagra ?
— a rigged erection .
Horses are measured in hands — Donald has recently located the biggest horses in the world .
tRump has been notorious for giving dictators the upper hand .
It ’ s a good thing it ’ s so small .
Anything is better than lies and deceit !
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud .
― DaShanne Stokes Silence is a lie that screams at the light .
― Shannon L. Alder Psychobabble attempts to redefine the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ correct statement incorrect .
Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this .
― Criss Jami , Killosophy I made it up onto this soap box .
Now I have to think of something to say .
I ’ m only 3 weeks old .

The election is fast approaching. We are just a few months short of our opportunity to stand up and make our desire for sanity and justice into reality for our country. I’m not talking about the alternate reality of lies and denial and corruption. I’m talking about something substantial and good. It is within our grasp. We must reach out and grab the future.
Still, while we chafe and fidget, waiting for our nightmare to end, we face new outrages almost every day. Whether it’s another demonstration of malicious incompetence during the many times failed response to the novel coronavirus, or an inexplicable non-response to a Russian bounties for bodies scheme, the emotional and spiritual toll on us is staggering. We ask ourselves: How can they do this? What is wrong with these people?
We don’t have answers to our questions because it is hard to imagine people so callous, so heartless and so shallow as to be comfortably complicit with this kind of abhorrent behavior. They’ve worked very hard to normalize the barbarism of putting children in cages. They call the indiscriminate slaughter of unarmed citizens a cost of doing business (actually, they are very discriminating about that). Rather than making adequate health care a right for all Americans, they insist on backing the people who get rich off of our suffering. That’s not what my country is about.
History’s meat-grinder will not be kind to tRump. No matter how finely he gets minced, the verdict will be condemnation for corruption, smallness, stupidity, deceit and just plain rottenness. Republicans have no soaring vision for what the United States can be; for what we can accomplish together. Instead, they choose to focus on grabbing as much as they can for themselves, irrespective of merit or need.
Well folks, crunch time is here. For the next four months, we can sit on our couches and watch the world go by or we can jump up, get inspired and get involved. Your planet needs you. Your country needs you. Your state needs you. Your city/town needs you. Your neighbors need you. I need you. Let’s get together (virtually) and kick those who are perverting the soul of our country right back into the gutter out of which they crawled.
GOTMFV
Up the Resistance!
Randy Rainbow has a new song.
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And it’s on to the news,
The Big Breaking News
Relying on stare decisis, Roberts sided with the liberals and struck down an abortion law. Heads in the Federalist Society could be heard popping all the way from Anacostia.
Politico: Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion law
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law that critics said could have forced all but one of the state’s abortion providers to close, granting a major victory for abortion rights supporters and signaling that the more conservative court isn’t ready to overthrow precedent on the divisive issue. In a 5-4 ruling, with Chief Justice John Roberts casting the deciding vote, the court said the Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at local hospitals created an unconstitutional undue burden for patients seeking an abortion. Justice Stephen Breyer, in an opinion joined by rest of the court's liberal wing, wrote that the Louisiana law would make it "impossible for many women to obtain a safe, legal abortion in the State and [impose] substantial obstacles on those who could." Roberts, in a separate concurring opinion, disagreed with the liberal justices' reasoning but said he was bound by the precedent the court set just four years ago when it rejected a similar law in Texas.
The Other Big Breaking News
His presidency is unraveling. The Russian bounties are just one part of it.
CNN: From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials
(CNN)In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and so abusive to leaders of America's principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials -- including his former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff -- that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States, according to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of the conversations. The calls caused former top Trump deputies -- including national security advisers H.R. McMaster and John Bolton, Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and White House chief of staff John Kelly, as well as intelligence officials -- to conclude that the President was often "delusional," as two sources put it, in his dealings with foreign leaders. The sources said there was little evidence that the President became more skillful or competent in his telephone conversations with most heads of state over time. Rather, he continued to believe that he could either charm, jawbone or bully almost any foreign leader into capitulating to his will, and often pursued goals more attuned to his own agenda than what many of his senior advisers considered the national interest. These officials' concerns about the calls, and particularly Trump's deference to Putin , take on new resonance with reports the President may have learned in March that Russia had offered the Taliban bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan -- and yet took no action. CNN's sources said there were calls between Putin and Trump about Trump's desire to end the American military presence in Afghanistan but they mentioned no discussion of the supposed Taliban bounties.
The Online Folks Are Getting Serious
This is all over the news in the US. It’s also all over the news in the rest of the world.
Dhaka Tribune: Reddit bans 'The_Donald' forum amid broad social media crackdown
Social media site Reddit on Monday shut down r/The_Donald, a forum which long served as a popular online home base for fans of President Donald Trump, saying it violated the site’s hate speech rules. Other sites also conducted high-profile sweeps: Amazon.com Inc’s live-streaming platform Twitch temporarily banned Trump’s official channel, saying it violated Twitch’s policy on hateful speech, while Google’s YouTube suspended six leading white nationalist accounts. Reddit Chief Executive Steve Huffman said in a post detailing changes to the company’s content policies that communities and users promoting hate would be barred. Reddit was banning about 2,000 subreddits, the majority of which were inactive, he said.
Some Blame Can’t Be Shifted
The one person who could make a difference insisted we needed to open early. He did it because he refuses to listen to experts. He knew better. Now he owns it.
The Atlantic: David Frum: This Is Trump’s Plague Now
The first coronavirus spike, in late April, can be blamed on the president’s negligence. The second spike, in June, is his own doing. COVID-19 infections peaked on April 24, or so Americans assumed. State health authorities reported 36,738 new cases that day, a record. By mid-May, the United States had reduced that rate of infection by nearly half, to 17,618 on May 11. The accomplishment had come at a tremendous cost: the lockdown of much of the national economy, Great Depression levels of unemployment, the shift to online schooling for millions of children, families denied final visits to dying loved ones. Still, these sacrifices had delivered the desired result. Had that progress continued, the American people—and the American economy—could have likely foreseen a further decline in cases and perhaps a near end to the pandemic, even before a vaccine. But that’s not what happened. On June 24, the number of infections surpassed the April 24 peak. On June 25, the number surpassed that of June 24. On June 26, the country suffered almost 46,000 new infections—nearly 10,000 more in one day than on the worst day in April. All of the sacrifices of the past weeks have been thrown away.
On tRump being a loser — CNN: Trump is facing the thing he dreads most
Snarking on the Bad Guys
The worst part about this is it makes sense.
The New Yorker: The Borowitz Report: Trump to Retaliate Against Russia by Sending Jared Kushner to Advise Kremlin on Coronavirus Response
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In an act of retaliation against the Russians for sponsoring Taliban attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Donald J. Trump is sending Jared Kushner to the Kremlin to offer advice on its coronavirus response, the White House confirmed on Monday. “To all those who thought that this President was not taking the Russians’ actions seriously, this response should speak for itself,” the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said. “The President had an array of responses to choose from, and the one he selected is by far the most punishing.” According to White House insiders, Trump and his advisers debated the response to the Russians for hours before finally settling on the Kushner option late Sunday night.
The Mask Wars
Even statues are doing the right thing during the pandemic.
Huffington Post: New York Public Library’s Lions Are A Roaring Reminder To Mask Up
Different lion, same idea The New York Public Library’s beloved lion sculptures have stood watch in the city during countless historic moments, including the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak. Now, they’re offering some helpful guidance for the current coronavirus pandemic. For the first time in 109 years, the two lion statues will wear face masks. The 3-foot wide and 2-foot tall face coverings are meant to set an example for New Yorkers, reminding them to stay safe and follow public health advice to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the library said in a press release Monday. New York Public Library President Anthony W. Marx said the lions, named Patience and Fortitude, are symbolic reminders of New York’s resilience: “Like them, New Yorkers are strong and resilient and can weather any storm. We will get to the other side of this public health crisis together. But to do so, we must remain vigilant, we must have patience and fortitude, and we must follow what experts tell us, especially as we continue to reopen our cities. The lions, protectors of knowledge and truth who have seen 109 years worth of history, are setting that example.”
More on the Legal Front
Unlike those filed by tRump and Nunes, there are lawsuits that aren’t frivolous or attempts to obstruct justice.
Rolling Stone: Minnesota Sues Exxon and Koch Industries for ’30-Year Campaign of Deception’ on Climate
The oil and gas industry was hit with yet another lawsuit when Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced this week that his office is suing two of the nation’s largest oil companies, and the oil industry’s trade group, for a “30 year campaign of deception” about the impacts of climate change. At a press conference in Saint Paul, Ellison stated that Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, and the American Petroleum Institute “knowingly directed, conducted and funded a campaign to deceive and defraud Minnesotans and Americans” about the effects of fossil fuels on the environment. The state’s charges include fraud, failure to warn, and false statements in advertising. Minnesota follows at least 15 progressive cities and states — from San Francisco to Rhode Island — that have filed suits against oil companies in the wake of a 2015 series by Inside Climate News, which uncovered internal Exxon documents that showed the company understood the science of climate change and the severity of its consequences more than 30 years ago, yet spent millions of dollars on a campaign to sow doubt in the science.
Some Gratuitous tRump Bashing
This doesn’t really qualify as good news. The tone is dark. It’s also a couple of weeks old, so it’s not even news anymore. But, it does aim and land a full-footed kick right in the Angry Cheeto’s (fiscal) tender bits.
Mother Jones: The Cruise Industry Is Donald Trump Personified: Decadent, exploitative, and totally full of shit.
If Donald Trump could build a city from scratch, it would have a casino and a golf course and all the cheeseburgers you could eat. The city’s residents would be old, with money to spend and nothing but free time. The workers would be poor, foreign, and always on the clock. They would literally live beneath you. There would be doctors, but not very many, and there would be cops, sort of, but who exactly they were there to protect and serve would remain ambiguous. There would be no proper government to speak of. The city and its services would be run by a corporation, and you would sign away your rights to a billionaire in his 70s with a tan and bad hair, in exchange for a promise of a good time—art auctions, live music, waterfalls of champagne. The city would pay no taxes but avail itself of the services funded by those who do. It would look, in other words, a lot like the Carnival Corporation’s 18-story, 952-foot-long Diamond Princess as it entered Yokohama Bay in early February after a voyage through Southeast Asia for the Chinese New Year. Some people would find this city tacky. But it would be an altogether pleasant place for many people, much of the time. However, you would not want to be there during a pandemic. As the cruise approached port, the coronavirus was confined almost entirely to the Chinese city of Wuhan. Trump’s top public health concern was vaping. But on February 1, a passenger who had disembarked from the Diamond Princess tested positive for the virus. Three days later, passengers quarantined. While customers took their meals in their cabins, the vessel’s crew—more than 1,000 people from 48 countries—continued to go about their work. The number of cases onboard would ultimately grow to 712, and 14 people would die. The ship, flying the flag of the United Kingdom and owned by a company—registered in Panama—that’s chaired by one of the richest men in Miami, saw the first major outbreak of COVID-19 outside of Wuhan. The pandemic has penetrated nearly every corner of the globe. It has burned through nursing homes and choir practices. It has preyed on the elderly and the immunocompromised, people without access to reliable health care, and the young and perfectly healthy who never saw it coming. It’s killed more than 100,000 people in the United States in big cities and small towns. But for several weeks, before life as we know it shut down, you could turn on CNN and watch your own dismal future, adrift at sea.
The Palate Cleanser
We’ll end today’s news section with something the bodes well for our future.
Good News Network: World’s Biggest Liquid Air Battery – ‘The Climate Emission Killer’ – is Now Under Construction in England
One of the biggest challenges with widespread implementation of renewable energy is storage—but now in England, a trailblazing company is developing the world’s first liquid-air battery storage facility for renewable energy. And the zero-emission concept costs half as much to produce as lithium-ion batteries. Capable of powering 200,000 homes for a whole day and storing renewable energy for weeks on end, the facility is slated for operation in 2022.
Musical Interlude
Playing for Change is always good news.
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Bonus song. By now you have probably seen this. It’s already shown up in two GNRU’s. The Chicks deserve all the eyes we can give them.
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WineRev’s History Lesson This space is reserved for WineRev’s history lesson which will magically appear after he posts it in the comments. And here it is. Thanks, WineRev. 18 weeks from today…...126 days. I have to say that while I am increasingly confident this election will be one of those rare, nearly-but-not-quite- fabled things (a “realigning election”) there are still cross-currents. People are working hard and there are GOTV efforts not only on a large scale but at the micro level too and between them I am very hopeful. In that vein, though, I woke up to a disturbing thought, so disturbing that I went to a couple websites to try to get a message to the Biden campaign at some mid-level or higher. It goes like this: we know the GOP uses voter suppression techniques: gerrymandering, inconvenient polling places and locations and times of operation, voter purges, etc. This spring when the CARES Act passed? The one that gave everybody $1200 and added a $600 lifeline to unemployment benefits, among many other things? One of those Other Things was a freeze on evictions and legal steps re: delinquent mortgages. THESE provisions, like the $600 UI kicker, expire in a few weeks. So then what? Well, several million Americans will wake up to a housing crisis and a big batch of them are going to have to move/relocate/downsize….do something with where they live. Now every state has a residency requirement for voting; good enough. You need to live where you vote. But each state has a requirement that you have to live at a certain address a certain number of days BEFORE an election to be eligible to vote in that election. What if you just moved? What if you just moved for hard or desperate reasons? Are You NOW registered to vote? Did you re-register? Have you met the deadline (30, 45, 90 days...whatever state law requires?) I don’t know what to do about this but I am hoping someone is aware this is about to unfold. It has a sinister air to it although in a lot of ways it really is coincidental, I can see that. But given all the other crapola the GOP/KGB pulls around voting, I am suspicious and wary and a bit worried. (If things end up in a landslide, then we can all exhale; but if these sorts of suppressive activities make certain races “close enough to steal…...”) Thank you all for listening to me and I hope you can talk me down a bit. Oddly enough I slept well last night so this is a hell of thought to wake up to…..sheesh! June 30ths (and another leaf falls from the Book of Doom to cover the crumbling House of Trump) we have had before us, full of the Good and the Goofy, that does us good (and maybe goofy) to read about on this June 30th 1722 Benatky, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) Birth of Jiří Antonín Benda (German: Georg Anton Benda) violinist and composer. In his early 20s summoned by Frederick the Great to be part of his court orchestra at Potsdam, and also to assist his older brother as court composer and arranger. Jirri made the most of his chance, producing dozens of concertos and ensemble pieces. Noted for writing several German melodramas (sort of halfway between opera and theater; perhaps closest to what we would now call a ‘musical.’) Proved very popular all across Europe. As an odd sideline, also noted for composing several pieces of music for use in Masonic Rituals (!) 1859 Niagara Falls, US and Canada French acrobat Jean François Gravelet (stage name Charles Blondin) is the 1st person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope. An absolute sensation in its day to the point that 5 years later, President Lincoln answered his critics on how the Civil War was going in a written piece: Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable, or keep shouting out to him—“Blondin, stand up a little straighter—Blondin, stoop a little more—go a little faster—lean a little more to the north—lean a little more to the south?” No, you would hold your breath as well as your tongue, and keep your hands off until he was safe over. The Government are carrying an immense weight. Untold treasures are in their hands. They are doing the very best they can. Don’t badger them. Keep silence, and we’ll get you safe across. (Very few acrobats get cited by Presidents!) 1870 Chicago. Ada Kepley becomes 1st American female law college graduate (Old University of Chicago, later Northwestern; in honor of WineRev’s First Daughter alma mater: “Go ‘Cats!”) 1897 New York City. William Hadaway receives a patent for an “Automatically Controlled Electric Oven” complete with coils on top for boiling and frying: the electric stove. Slow to catch on since cities were only beginning to be electrified, with private homes lagging public buildings and commercial establishments. Wood and natural gas were both more popular until the 1930s. The REA (Rural Electrification Administration) wired up the countryside and appliances sold briskly, with electric stoves finally catching up with gas ones. 1898 Scientific American magazine has been in continuous monthly publication since 1845. Like any journal they accept advertising of a certain character for their readers as a source of revenue. In the July edition that published this day in 1898 the magazine carried an advertisement for the Winton Motor Carriage Company, the first known published automobile ad, using the headline “dispense with a horse.” (Not exactly “See the USA in a Chevrolet”---maybe why you don’t see any Wintons anymore---but you gotta start somewhere. Now what do we have to do to put You in a car TODAY!? Here at the Good News RoundUp Used Car lot!) 1906 Author Upton Sinclair’s expose journalism in his novel ‘The Jungle’ caused a sensation nationwide, and NOT in a good way, as he ripped the cover off of meat processing and the drug industry. In response on this day the US Congress gives final passage to the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, the cornerstones of US consumer protection laws. Meat Inspection was handed over to the Agriculture Department; the other act established the Food and Drug Administration . 1908 Tunguska River, Siberia, Russia. A giant fireball, most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet flattens 80 million trees near the Tunguska River. It is generally thought to be the largest impact event in recorded human history. (Or, if the movie “Ghostbusters” was ACTUALLY a documentary, then, as Dr. Stantz (played by Dan Ackroyd) put it to “the little guy”: Raymond Stantz : “You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1908!” Louis : “Felt great.”) 1936 Margaret Mitchell’s novel " Gone with the Wind" hits the shelves today, followed three years later by an epic movie version in dripping Technicolor. BUT both novel and movie have not aged well and recently have actually been dropped or shelved by Amazon, Hulu and other streaming services----and THAT is Good News that this dreck and all it represents is on the run. 1938 Speaking of hitting the shelves: on this day at every drugstore in America, on that rotating wire rack for kids, DC Comics introduces a new series of comic books. Issue #1 features a hero who is a “strange visitor from another planet, with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. More powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…” The debut of Superman (who HAS aged well and given rise to other super heroes, TV shows, movies, Halloween costumes, Cape Care Columns in Newspapers and Magazines, and an entire genre of illustrated storytelling and Com Con Conventions.) 1940 Chicago. The Sunday Tribune , obviously emboldened by DC Action Comics and feeling their own super power, starts carrying a new strip today, "Brenda Starr, Reporter", 1st cartoon strip drawn by a woman, Dalia Messick, who, because of the sexism of the times, has to publish as “Dale” Messick. (But alongside Lois Lane, another crack in the wall for women getting into wider job opportunities.) 1952 The long-running (starting on NBC in 1937!) radio soap opera "Guiding Light" moves to TV , much to my mother’s endless, five-day-a-week delight and loyalty. (Finally ended in September of 2009! 74 years on the air, 57 of them televised.) 1971 My home state of Ohio this day become the 38th state to ratify the 26th Amendment, making it part of the Constitution. It was just in time for this 17-going-on-18 year old to get the right to vote at my new age in the 1972 Presidential Election. (Of course, the choice was McGovern vs. Nixon, which was a major systemic failure all around, I thought at the time.) May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring. Shalom. The Lighter Side What does Melania call it when Donald throws back some Viagra? — a rigged erection. What are Donald’s favorite sartorial accessories? — Russian ties. Horses are measured in hands — Donald has recently located the biggest horses in the world. tRump has been notorious for giving dictators the upper hand. It’s a good thing it’s so small. Quote(s) of the Day Anything is better than lies and deceit! ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud. ― DaShanne Stokes Silence is a lie that screams at the light. ― Shannon L. Alder Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this. ― Criss Jami, Killosophy Required Pet Photo My neighbors have baby goats. I made it up onto this soap box. Now I have to think of something to say. I’m only 3 weeks old. Closing Notes
To all of our fellow resisters, rounderuppers and gnusies recovering from illness or injury lots of hugs, including {{{{oldhippiedude}}}}, {{{{Msdude}}}}, our Tuesday partner {{{{niftywriter}}}}, {{{{karij}}}}, {{{{ElizabethinNYC}}}}, {{{{Arel1}}}}, {{{{Crankylib}}}} and to our entire {{{{Gnuville}}}} community during this time of uncertainty. Last night’s Shade went all psycho(logical): Evening Shade: There's a Republican Problem in This Country - We've Got a Diagnosis Ways to help from Yosef 52: If You Share My Stuff, I Think It Could Help Us Win. Will You? We’ll let the lads play us out with some thing more recent today. This is the Empire State Building light up from July 4, 2015 when it was synchronized with the 'U.S. Blues' encore at the 2nd 'Fare Thee Well' 50th Anniversary show at Soldier Field. x YouTube Video
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