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Showing posts with label riots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label riots. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2020

August 30, 2020

 Right now, on this day, people are just too screwed up for anything to work.  Why would anyone say it is ok for a 17 year old who is not old enough to vote to go to another state with a rifle to protect property.  It is not his job.  His job is to be in school as a student and graduate.  If the police in a city cannot get things in control on their own then the police should reach out to the county or/and governor for assistance.  No sent out a call for anyone with a gun.  A well regulated militia is not 17 year old kids with a bunch of other untrained individuals.  That right to own a gun is not covered by the second amendment.

As for the protesters.  Get a permit.  Do the protests in the time limits then go home.  Anything else is just assisting the Idiot far right re elect notably the absolute worst president in my life time.  Trump is nothing but a con artist with rich friends.  Trump proved to be too fu#&ing crooked for any US bank to even deal with him after a certain point.  That a known fact in the banking circles of New York City.  My family friend, Ruth Pittman, worked in the financial circles of New York City for decades.  That is the source of the information.

Rules and regulations within a nation are not some sort of Deep State conspiracy.  I can just hear people saying, "but it goes too far, Janice."  Hmmm let me think.  Of course people will all be honest and do what is best for the protection of the environment, NOT.  People will save money by dumping chemicals because $$$ is god in this nation.  Yes, I am on a rant and it is my blog on which to rant.  Circuit board builders polluted the ground so badly in the Springfield, MO, area that the cave systems are becoming polluted 40+ years later.

The President chose not to use the power he had to force companies to make the PPE items needed. He just knew the manufactured would do it voluntarily.  Nope.  Maybe one or two but insufficient to actually have an impact.  While many people are good at the center we all become distracted with the temptations of life.  Money, success, our own egos needing to be right all the time.  Before we realize it we have left behind the basic goodness within ourselves.  

With the goodness removed we start not caring about anyone beyond like minded people.  We start humans start losing that which sets apart from a hungry bull or rogue tiger.  We start thinking that stuff is more important than people.  We forget the ten rules set out for humans:

10 Commandments List

In no way do the looters get off any better than the murderers.  As for racism and you who read this that say you are not racist I ask one question.  How do you feel when you encounter a group of black or Hispanic boys or men?  How does that compare to how you feet when you encounter a group of white boys or men?  I have to admit there is a difference for me.  I work at being antiracist but it is a hard habit to break.  But break, I must.  And so must law enforcement.

Things are just messed up and I am worn down by people thinking guns are gonna solve the problem.  That 17 year old is a murdered.  Protesters tried to stop him after he shot the first person.  The protesters giving chase were no different that the man that gave chase to the church shooter in Texas.  The only difference was the protesters had skate boards and their hands.  The 17 year old murderer was armed to kill to protect property, stuff.  No stuff is worth killing to keep.

Janice  


Saturday, May 30, 2020

May 30, 2020

It has been mostly quiet here at 2114.  We did get a grocery delivery.  Hubby washed the Jeep.  The soft top is worn out so a new one will arrive next week.  That means online shopping was in the mix. 

I have no words of wisdom as cities in our nation are burning.  With persons of color dying in police encounters about 6 times the number of whites.  Selling cigarettes with paying taxes, possibly passing a bogus $20 bill, jogging through a neighborhood should not be a death sentence.  Unfortunately some groups choose to use violence in response.  Living with the idea that the color of one's skin in the wrong person's mind puts a target on one's back.  I can see how that pressure could erupt in a violent manor.  I have that kind of fuse in me.

No words as Covid continues to spread and claim lives.  Our nephew in California had quintuple bypass surgery on April 28.  He was alone in the hospital with only health professionals.  May 5 he was released to home with at home PT.  Yesterday he received his PT person had tested positive for Covid.  Immediately tests were given to him, wife and son.  Today while I am writing the post the tests came back negative.  Nephew said the PT had always worn a mask and gloves.  Looks like the preventative measures worked for nephew et al.  The question becomes where the PT person was initially exposed.

Latest Texas stats for testing vs. positive results lands at 6% which is not fluctuating much.  I have been following for the last two weeks.  6% basically says to me that 1 in 17 people are infected.  I am not sure at what ratio I want to see that before venturing out to eat at a restaurant.  Any thoughts?

Enough for hard thinking.  I'll just share a few random photos from the patio one early morning.



White winged dove greets the sun.



Even the mundane become a thing of beauty in the morning light.   I noticed the sun over the angel hanging on the wire of the patio fence.  I wanted to capture the sun behind her head.  Sun and my recent surgery did not want to position in alignment with my vision.  Oh, well.  In an instant alignment changes and a few snaps.  Sun through angel wing!  This photo is SOC.


























Wishing you all good health and peace.

Janice