It's been a checkered history.....slow to arrive...
altered to suit cops....destroyed....redacted...
muted....turned off....denied...mis-used to
blame the victim....
& sometimes used to achieve real justice.
This is a nice read...
Bad enuf that Israel has brutalized & oppressed Palestinians
for most of a century. Even more heinous is the genocide
against Palestinians.
Now it's begun attacks in other countries...which will provoke
more attacks...which will provoke ever more attacks...& so on.
This is not about self...
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-gender-surrogacy-abortion-pope-3f84d8eb97f045b0cfb0ec1efa4e614e
Excerpted...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as...
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/earthquake-new-york-city-new-jersey-magnitude-1235961668/
Magnitude 4.8.
Daughter's house was shaking violently.
All are OK.
Un-named snooty sophisticates across the pond
(eg, @ChristineM) give us Yanks grief for corrupting
their language. Yet no one butchered it more than
Limeys.
They started with a nice Germanic Sprache, but then
& swooned under the spell of quasi-Frenchies, whose
French was corrupted by other...
In the news....
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/02/middleeast/iran-response-israel-damascus-consulate-attack-intl-hnk/index.html
Excerpted....
Iran has vowed to retaliate after it accused Israel of bombing its embassy complex in Syria on Monday, in a deadly escalation of regional tensions over the...
Why do so many cops do illegal things to civilians?
It turns out that it's not just their culture, & lack of
training....it's also the training itself. They're taught to
disrespect the public, to conduct illegal traffic stops,
shoot at fleeing cars, to abuse anyone recording them,
etc, etc...
On the way to pick up an antique drill press for an
out of state friend, a deer leapt in front'o me car.
I was already slowing down cuz I saw another.
Dint slow down enuf. Bang! Bump bump.
(At least the airbag dint deploy.)
But poor Sienna....looks like well over $10k damage.
Deer is dead...
With winds shifting against the "war", politicians
might be able to take real measures to influence
Israel to end apartheid, genocide, & now using
starvation as a weapon.
But Republican wins win look like continued
government support for genocide of Palestinians...
Israel continues using famine as weapon against Palestinian civilians.
Just heard this on BBC.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-unrwa-says-israel-block-food-convoys-reaching-north-gaza
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147916
If you don't wear a seatbelt, cops will ticket you.
They can even arrest you for it. But in their cars
& transport vans, there is typically nothing to
restrain arrested people.....no seatbelts.
And in the vans, all surfaces are hard steel, &
very dangerous to occupants in an accident or
hard...
As expected, Israel's brutality towards Palestinians
escalating to the level of genocide has inspired other
groups to attack Israel. Even if it were possible to
exterminate Hamas, Israel continues conducting
itself in the manner that created Hamas in the 1st
place.
So even before Hamas is...