Jun 272015
I’m still feeling quite ill.
J9ig Zone Puzzle:
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Overcoming Republican insaniTEA, one day at a time.
thinking of you, sending you wishes of rest, relaxation, happiness, and health
4:42 average (still?) 4:44. Feel up to catching fishies yet?
Of all the emails and things to sign on the marriage decision I find this one the most touching. It's a request from Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff, to say thank you to all the couples who fought alongside him but whose names were never recognized as his was.
https://action.aclu.org/secure/sign-our-thank-you-message
Oh, good God.
http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/DropTheFlagDropTheCharges/?sp_ref=129385914.176.14427.e.59021.2&referring_akid=.1638511.dpSwBn&source=em_sp
I agree–putting the flag back up for a white supremacy rally was especially horrific
signed
Totally disgusting! It would seem that South Carolina would prefer to be known as an apartheid pariah state. Too sad, too sad!
Petition in Joanne's box above signed.
Drop all charges against Bree Newsome immediately.
The confederate flag represents, hate, racism, slavery, anti-integration, inequalities, KKK, White Supremacists among the many bad and terrible negative associated with this flag. Remove the confederate flag from all state and public property at once.
There's also an IndieGoGo page to raise Bree's bail – and I'm sorry to be late, but when I got there this afternoon it was already at 250% of goal. I gave a pittance anyway but I won't say it's urgent right now.
Credo was raising funds for her, too, Joanne–maybe pointing to the same page.
Michael Moore is paying her legal fees.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/06/michael_moore_offers_to_pay_ba.html
Michael Moore is "Awesome".
Thanks, Joanne, signed the petition. Bail has been posted.
Thanks for letting us know–it sorta restores my faith in people that it was raised so quickly Edie.
It was pretty disgusting South Carolina had al sorts of "legal" excuses why the Confederate flag couldn't be taken down, but what is their excuse for putting it up within an hour, "coinciding" with a white supremacists race? All their made-up excuses can't cover up how systemic racism still is in SC.
Kudos to Bree Newsome, a very brave woman who has put herself up for some grave personal assault as a Black woman because she climbed the pole and took the flag down. She and the multiracial group of activists with her, must have been very aware of the significance and possible consequences of her doing that just an hour before the White Supremacists race.
I hope you've been released on bail by now, Bree.
that was indeed one of the most poignant
There is another petition on Care2 to drop the charges against Bree Newsome. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/538/684/680/
Her supporters have been extraordinary. The Republicans have been… Republicans.
The SCOTUS ruling being released with the anniversary of this genocide feels so appropriate.
more good news out of SCOTUS:
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/06/27/the-hidden-good-news-the-supreme-court-delivered-to-environmentalists-today/
JL, that IS good news! Thanks.
You are welcome Edie!
3:03 I'm still running to get into one of those canoes.
2:50 I know sick Puddy Tats need to eat so I let you beat me. Now you can catch fishies for dinner, but only this once.
3:11 I hope there is one left when I get there
Hoping the fishies catch me.
Cartoon ~ Appropriate that the ruling was issued on this day. Now there is no same-sex marriage, there is only marriage.
In hockey terms, Pres. Obama had a hell of a hat trick this week. The rulings on ACA, Marriage Equality and he sang Amazing Grace as part of Clementa's eulogy. He began it in E Flat. It doesn't get any bluesier than that.
Puzzle — 2:50 I know sick Puddy Tats need to eat so I let you beat me. Now you can catch fishies for dinner, but only this once.
Cartoon — Stonewall Inn? I thought this was a reference to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson and the South Carolina debacle. But I checked and it is a monument to the LGBTQ quest for rights and equality. How appropriate that the Stonewall Inn should be recognised as a landmark at the time of the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots, the SCOTUS marriage equality decision, and the 2015 NYC Pride Rally this weekend. http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/23/us/stonewall-inn-landmark-status/index.html
Time to celebrate!
Glad you chose to learn about Stonewall, which some historians label genocide
I always choose to learn . . . keeps one educated, and always keeps one young!
Wise words and good to follow. The research is also indicating the learning new things helps prevent memory loss and related cognitive issues.
I had to look it up too. There is always a method to TC's cartoons so anything I don't recognize I immediately Google. Well worth knowing.
I was too lazy to look it up, thanks to Lynn, I don't have to, but am glad to know this.
Thanks, Lynn, for the history lesson. Cartoon and lesson both were very appropriate.
I try to give you all an opportunity to learn whenewver I can. It really helps to have people areund here that wan t to make the effort to learn. I consider a day in which I learn nothing a wasted day!
I hope you have contacted your doctor by now, if you are still quite ill, you need medical help. We want you well.
And I hope the same doctor who gave the cortisone, just in case there is a connection.
I'm pretty sure my doctor is in vacation, but I am improving, A lot of the symptoms relate to extreme heat and high humidity. It almost alway sets off my COPD big time. I am not running a fever.
I thought you would be curled up round a couple of (well wrapped) hot water bottles TC! If you get a clean towel and wrap it round a hot water bottle then it lasts much longer and doesn't do the painfully hot to revoltingly cold thing that they can otherwise do. Cats do like them!
Listen to the others, and please don't let this turn into pneumonia! (Take your Vits and Mins – modern food is severely depleted in them, and to avoid viruses we need to get extra Vit C, zinc, Vits D3 and K2 [also vital combination for bone health and artery health], magnesium and B vits. We also need probiotics as our immune system starts in the gastro-intestinal system, amazingly enough).
Hot water in this weather?!!?
Sorry – forgot you have different weather – at the time I wrote that we had temps of around 13 degrees C or around 60 degrees F – and if you are ill and the weather is like that you do need a hot water bottle!
Take extra good care of yourself now, TomCat. With rising temperatures another bout of pneumonia is the last thing you need. Keep off of your paws as long as you need too; you'll be very much missed, but we can amuse eachother with links for a while, so not to worry.
SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2015
"This Flag Comes Down Today": Bree Newsome Scales Flagpole, Removes SC Capitol Confederate Flag
Update: Democracy Now! has confirmed Bree Newsome and James Tyson have been released.
VIDEO of Bree taking the confederate flag down:
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/6/27/this_flag_comes_down_today_bree
Thanks for the update Jim!
Thanks all! Hugs.