The opening quote is an understatement. (love the mural, too)
Of course, the people want peace–it’s the politicians and war profiteers who want war. Most of the people in the world just want to live in peace…raise their families…earn a living…follow their own paths….
…but then you get to the end of the article…<sigh>….well, baby steps towards Peace…but I’ll take it.
Break a woman’s head in three spaces? Hey, that’s okay…I’m sure you didn’t mean to hit her with such force that you broke the bone.
From the link on the sentencing:
Chief Deputy Yellowstone County attorney Juli M. Pierce said after the hearing that she respects the two sentences the judges gave Ferguson.
“We’ll continue to prosecute domestic violence cases no matter what the outcome is,” she said, shortly after Ferguson was taken into custody. “We’ll continue to fight that fight because that’s why we’re here – for the protection of the community.”
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You call *that* prosecution? God help the women of Yellowstone County.
<sigh> Well, folks, if you were feeling a little more secure about our Constitution with the last court ruling on NSA surveillance...think again.
As the commenters said, I wonder what kind of dirt the NSA has on Judge William Pauley. There is no way on Earth that this is in keeping with the Fourth Amendment:
Fourth Amendment
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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This bears repeating: No warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
Probable cause is required for searching a person, their houses, papers, and effects. A court must agree that there is probable cause in order for the agency to violate someone’s privacy.
This amendment protects a person from a government abusing its power, as we saw in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and China. People who are not doing anything wrong have a right to be let alone.
You might remember this post with a quote that says the words “third way”. Not long after I posted it, Ed on the Ed Show (MSNBC) mentioned the Third Way. I can’t remember exactly what he said, but it was negative and the segment intrigued me.
I’ve just now gotten around to doing a bit of research on Third Way. Whew…do you smell a rat?? Me, too.
Red flags are going off with Elizabeth Warren being attacked by supposed Democrats for…speaking out against selling us out to the 1% by cutting Social Security and other social programs….calling them “populist”. Um-hmmm…that and the word “entitlement” are key words for the “I’ve-got-mine-screw-you” crowd.
Now, getting back to the previous post with Hillary Clinton’s religious leader saying those words: third way…and how they wanted to do away with New Deal programs:
It emerged, he [Reverend Don Jones] says, as a third way, a reaction against both separatist fundamentalism and the New Deal’s labor-based liberalism.
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Social Security. Public Schools. Medicaid. Medicare. Public employees like fire fighters, police. Public Libraries. A decent living wage.
I know that it’s hard to believe they want to destroy it all, but all signs are pointing towards that very end.
Elizabeth Warren stands in the way of that.
Here’s a humorous video up on it:
Please, please run for President, Elizabeth. Please!! I’ll go knocking on doors…whatever needs done to help get you votes. Hillary Clinton is nothing but a Goldwater Girl doing the dirty work of the bankers, warmongers, education profiteers, Big Oil, Monsanto, and no doubt countless other organizations that don’t give a crap about Americans or America, the poor, the elderly, the children, the environment, nor the middle class.
Please run, Elizabeth.
First, the legal stuff: Statements posted on this blog are for information only, and should NOT be taken as medical advice. If you need medical advice, you should seek it from those who are licensed to give medical advice. You are responsible for any decisions you make, or actions you take (or do not take).
(It is sooo stupid that I have to say that when I have had more harm done by licensed medical professionals than by non-professionals. Pshaw.)
Okay—I was doing research on herbs used to rid the body of xenoestrogens, and came across several helpful sites. (xenoestrogens are plastics/chemicals that match the body’s estrogen receptors, taking the place of the real hormones).
One of the sites mentioned the connection between xenoestrogens and breast lumps. I had tried this product, Estrosense, many years ago, but stopped taking it because of an adverse reaction. I was unaware of that I was full of mercury at the time, and since turmeric is sulfuric, it made me miserable….being that I was sulfur dominant from the mercury.
I tried it again the last two months, and had a successful go of it this time around.
And guys, if you think this is *just* a woman’s concern…think again. Signs are out there that these stupid fake hormones are affecting men, as well. So ixnay on the hormones-only-affect-women-bit.
More here on the connection to breast cancer and xenoestrogens.
Here’s a good blog on what to do to avoid them. I think it is always better to avoid them in the first place rather than trying to remove them afterwards.
While doing that research, I came across a blood purifer using plants, called Kroeger blood toner. I researched the ingredients, one by one, and found a fairly helpful site on herbs here. It just never gets old discovering all the neat stuff that plants can do for us. Like I’ve said a zillion times before–we’ll discover that all the stuff we called “weeds” were the cure for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc….
Milkweed being one of those undervalued plants….as shown by the site. Now we see the damage that herbicides are doing through the chain of nature…first the milkweed, then the butterflies:
A major cause is farming with Roundup, a herbicide that kills virtually all plants except crops that are genetically modified to survive it. As a result, millions of acres of native plants, especially milkweed, an important source of nectar for many species, and vital for monarch butterfly larvae, have been wiped out.
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Monsanto, milkweed, and the monarch butterfly. A 59% decline!!
Gah, I remember when we saw milkweed *everywhere* we went. Now you’re lucky if you see a few plants scattered here and there. Same with burdock. Our dog rarely came home without burrs on him (this was back in the day when you let your dogs run loose.)
Nope…now we need manicured lawns with nary a weed on them. Got to be perfect.
I used to allow a small (24 x 24) patch of my lawn go to weed…much to the irritation of my neighbors who thought of me as the local hippie of the neighborhood. It.just.was.not.done. It was like I was letting the whole neighborhood go to hell. And the thing was–my little overgrown patch was off the road behind a line of private evergreens. Only two neighbors could actually see the *jungle* (said with a grin).
Anyway….I’m all for allowing more manicured space go back to its natural habitat.
There’s a certain peace, tranquility, and restfulness when nature is allowed to be…nature. There’s nothing like bending over to admire a plant when a butterfly comes floating by and lands on a plant near you….as if to say hello…
…and *thanks* for not messing with my nourishment and my home…
Yeah, I didn’t know what “colocation” meant, either. The former post on Bloomberg at Diane Ravitch’s has led to a great discussion on it and there is a charter school troll there advocating Success Academy, a charter. A poster supplied a link to an insightful post here.
This is just absolutely wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Another link provided a report on Eva Moskowitz and Success Academy receiving preferential treatment from the DOE. Good Grief, can they be any more of an enabler?
More here,
The preceding also has a link to Juan Gonzalez’s column on the sardine-like atmosphere in the colocation schools. Shocking cannot even describe the overcrowded conditions that led to an autistic child disappearing. Good God.
…and $1300 on marketing…per child….are you kidding me?? That money could have been used for public schools in more education-oriented ways. It’s just mindboggling how dense and misguided this misuse of funds is…
…and how the public is being ignored:
Moreover, it is also clear from the abundance of comments at public hearings that the vast majority of parents oppose these proposals – and these parents’ choices are being ignored. Just check any of the Public comment analyses on the DOE webpage. In many of these summaries, every single parent who spoke opposed the co-location, as well as representatives of the Community Education Councils and elected officials.
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The public, that pays the taxes for the public schools, is…ignored.
DS Wright has this up on the pushback towards Robert Menendez for his efforts to destroy ongoing talks with Iran. It’s beyond comprehension.
Warrior Publications has a blog up on the ruling that it’s okay to allow a repeat offender access to its victims…
Part of the problem with the conditions set is that even though Enbridge must carry $950 million in insurance…one cannot replace what is lost with…money. You can’t eat money. You can’t breathe money. You can’t drink money. It won’t make a bit of difference if you have billions upon billions of dollars if you are made ill by breathing particulate, eating food grown in polluted soil, or trying to cleanse your kidneys and liver with petrochemically poisoned water.
(said very snarkily)
Jan Ressenger has this up on the recent nominee to the Dept of Education. Yeah, if you were hoping that President Obama had somehow seen the light about the U.S. education fiasco, well, you (and I) were sadly mistaken, because he’ s nominated another corporate takeover twerp.
Be sure to click on the link to the Nation’s report:
In addition, [Ted] Mitchell serves as an adviser to Salmon River Capital, a venture capital firm that specializes in education companies. Mitchell sits on the board of Parchment, an academic transcript start-up that is among Salmon River Capital’s portfolio. Salmon River Capital helped create one of the biggest names in for-profit secondary education, Capella University.
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Italics mine.
That, my friends, should read as a rap sheet.
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In other Education News, School Matters has this blog on the lack of transparency for the State of Indiana….so what else is new?
I agree that individuals should probably not be named, but there absolutely needs to be an accounting of how many students went to school B, and how much money was diverted from School A.
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School Finance 101 has a good report on the lies and statistics of mis-edumucation. One can make statistics say anything you want, if you know how to skew the data…or leave out the data that doesn’t agree with your goals.
A self-fulfilling prophecy by AT&T.
This article must have been written by AT&T….or perhaps it’s *cough* nooz placed by their PR dept.
AT&T has failed to maintain the land lines in a way that we were accustomed to before the push for cell phones.
This article barely touches on the problems rural folks would face if land lines are phased out. The service where I’m at is spotty at best. It is in no way as reliable as land lines are. I’ve wondered how many calls I’ve missed. What if an employer tried to call for an interview and kept getting “service not available”?
The elephant in the room that the article fails to mention is the devastating effects of Electro-Magnetic Fields (EMF) on people. As I’ve stated before, mercury poisoned folk are especially sensitive to them. When I was really sick, I could not talk on a cell phone for any length of time without getting a migraine the next day. I can now talk on them for longer periods, but knowing how it impacts me, why would I want to risk that exposure?
Mercola has an article on it here.
Links from the references —
Effects of EMF on rat brains
Cell phone effects on the young.
Europeans take stance on EMF technology.
The truth about wireless technologies.
Cell phones affect neuological and behavioral aspects of mice.
**edited to correct glaring spelling error. Stupid dyslexia.
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