Category Archives: National politics

Don’t mess with the Easter bunny …

Bookmarks:
Don’t mess with the Easter bunny …Anarchy in the streetsWhy Trump is winningThe stewardess took her shoes off and ranReturn of the drama queenAnd if he’d been white?

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Wolves in sheep’s clothing

I am at a difficult juncture.

My immediate material situation requires that, like never before in my life, I practice what I preach; care for myself; work in my own self-interest; be “here-now-can;” “keep the focus on me;” live by the Serenity Prayer.  These are what I counsel any poor person to do.  These are what I most emphatically now must do myself.

This entails dis-attending to all the current social turmoil.

It entails turning a deaf ear and blind eye to many messages, insistent messages, particularly coming from those who claim to have the best interests of the poor (like me) at heart.

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Hate speech is normally protected.

That’s the law.

Accordingly, this speech I just heard a mother direct to her one-year old:

“Shut the fuck up.  Yo’ little punk ass always cryin’ an shit.”

First point:  Do I have a right to be offended by that?  Do I have a right to say it offends me?

Second point:  Look at the exact words used.  As with many people I meet from day to day, the words they use indicate conclusively that their lives revolve around their privates.

Related:  The Word of the Day
Related:  The self-loving reptile

Originally posted 2016-04-04.

Churches Could Fill Their Pews With Millennials If They Just Did This

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Churches and millennialsTexas mom charged with neglecting 5 kids; 1 near deathHe spilled the beans about Benghazi.Mike Huckabee, Kim Davis, and the PopeUneasy with Planned Parenthood

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This teen won’t go to prison, even after he hacked 50,700 computers

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This teen won’t go to prisonNo one cares what black folk think.A thumbs-up for HilaryMaryland mom ditches baby — literally
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